Cattle production faces new challenges regarding sustainability with its three pillars–
economic, societal and environmental. The following three main factors will drive dairy cattle …

This review describes the formation, structure, and function of bony compartments in antlers,
horns, ossicones, osteoderm and the os penis/os clitoris (collectively referred to herein as …

Ruminants are the only extant mammalian group possessing bony (osseous) headgear. We
obtained 221 transcriptomes from bovids and cervids and sequenced three genomes …

The persistent horns are an important trait of speciation for the family Bovidae with complex
morphogenesis taking place briefly after birth. The polledness is highly favourable in …

Despite massive research efforts, the molecular etiology of bovine polledness and the
developmental pathways involved in horn ontogenesis are still poorly understood. In a …

The molecular regulation of horn growth in ruminants is still poorly understood. To
investigate this process, we collected 1019 hornless (polled) animals from different cattle …

Sheep breeds show a broad spectrum of different horn phenotypes. In most modern
production breeds, sheep are polled (absence of horns), whereas horns occur mainly in …

Horns are the most obvious common feature of Bovidae. The naturally occurring absence of
horns in these species, also known as polledness, is of surprisingly heterogeneous nature …

Background The absence of horns, called polled phenotype, is the favored trait in modern
cattle husbandry. To date, polled cattle are obtained primarily by dehorning calves …

In this review, the history of breeding for polled cattle is compiled from literature as well as
graphic representations of cattle in art and science. Domesticated taurine cattle originated …