For more than a quarter of a century, sequencing technologies from Sanger's method to next-
generation high-throughput techniques have provided fascinating opportunities in the life …

Background Breeding for enhanced immune response (IR) has been suggested as a tool to
improve inherent animal health. Dairy cows with superior antibody-mediated (AMIR) and cell …

Background Previous research programmes have described muscle biochemical traits and
gene expression levels associated with beef tenderness. One of our results concerning the …

Examination of bovine pituitary gland transcriptome by strand-specific RNA-seq allows
detection of putative single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) within potential candidate …

Background Genome sequencing and subsequent gene annotation of genomes has led to
the elucidation of many genes, but in vertebrates the actual number of protein coding genes …

The aim of the research was to investigate the variation of gene expression in the blood of
lactating cows in relation to the genetic merit for productive traits. For the study, 24 Italian …

Since it was first proposed in 2001, genomic selection (GS) has been successfully
implemented in several major livestock species and has had a major impact on livestock …

Livestock production is a fundamental source of revenue and nutrition, wherein cattle-
farming constitutes one of the major agricultural industries. Vectors and vector-borne …

Traditionally, research of transition cow immunity has focused on a reductionist approach
trying to pinpoint a single factor that causes periparturient immunosuppression. Both …

The potential for cloning to improve dissemination of elite genetics has been a goal of
livestock scientists for many years. However, efficiency of this technique has remained low …