Animal reproductive biotechnology is continually evolving. Significant advances have been
made in our understanding of early embryonic mortality and embryo development in …

A current challenge in genetic improvement of cattle is to identify genomic selection
strategies that could work across breeds. Breed differences, scarcity of data, and lack of …

We describe a systems biology approach for the genetic dissection of complex traits based
on applying gene network theory to the results from genome-wide associations. The …

We evaluated 69 SNP s in genes previously related to fertility and production traits for their
relationship to daughter pregnancy rate (DPR), cow conception rate (CCR) and heifer …

Background In the pig production industry, artificial insemination (AI) plays an important role
in enlarging the beneficial impact of elite boars. Understanding the genetic architecture and …

The decline in the reproductive efficiency of dairy cows, especially those with high producing
potential, has become a challenging problem. In this study, a selective DNA pooling …

Background Cattle are ideally suited to investigate the genetics of male fertility. Semen from
individual bulls is used for thousands of artificial inseminations for which the fertilization …

Artificial selection towards a desired phenotype/trait has modified the genomes of livestock
dramatically that generated breeds that greatly differ in morphology, production and …

Fertilization and development of the preimplantation embryo is under genetic control. The
present goal was to test 434 single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) for association with …

Increasing fertility in dairy cattle is an important goal. Male infertility represents a part of the
overall infertility in dairy cattle and can be partitioned into compensatory and …