Functional food products remain the focus of current market trends toward healthier nutrition.
The consumption of meat-based functional foods has been a topic of interest in food …

Heterozygosity-rich regions (HRR) are genomic regions of high heterozygosity, which may
harbor loci related to key functional traits such as immune response, survival rate, fertility …

Feed efficiency, the relative ability to convert feed nutrients into growth, is an important factor
in the primary production of animals. Farming fish with improved feed efficiency is necessary …

Residual feed intake (RFI) is one of the preferred traits for feed efficiency animal breeding.
However, RFI measurement is expensive and time-consuming and animal ranking may …

Carcass merits are widely considered as economically important traits affecting beef
production in the beef cattle industry. However, the genetic basis of carcass traits remains to …

Analyses of livestock genomes have been used to detect selection signatures, which are
genomic regions associated with traits under selection leading to a change in allele …

Background Feed efficiency (FE) related traits play a key role in the economy and
sustainability of beef cattle production systems. The accurate knowledge of the physiologic …

The Tigray region, where we found around eight per cent of the indigenous cattle population
of Ethiopia, is considered as the historic centre of the country, with the ancient pre-Aksumite …

Long non-coding RNA (lncRNA) can regulate several aspects of gene expression, being
associated with complex phenotypes in humans and livestock species. In taurine beef cattle …

Residual feed intake (RFI) is an important measure of feed efficiency for agricultural animals.
Factors associated with cattle RFI include physiology, dietary factors, and the environment …