Goats are important livestock species worldwide, due to their valuable commodities,
including meat, milk, dairy products, fleece, and skin. Most of the economically important …

Milk is rich in a variety of essential nutrients, including fats, proteins, and trace elements that
are important for human health. In particular, milk fat has an alleviating effect on diseases …

We performed genome-wide association analyses for milk, fat, and protein yields and
somatic cell score based on lactation stages in the first 3 parities of Canadian Ayrshire …

Background Reproductive traits such as number of stillborn piglets (SB) and number of teats
(NT) have been evaluated in many genome-wide association studies (GWAS). Most of these …

Background Urinary nitrogen leakage is an environmental concern in dairy cattle. Selection
for reduced urinary nitrogen leakage may be done using indicator traits such as milk urea …

Since domestication, the genome landscape of cattle has been changing due to natural and
artificial selection forces resulting in several general and specialized cattle breeds of the …

Advances in DNA-based marker technology have enabled the identification of genomic
regions underlying complex phenotypic traits in livestock species. The incorporation of …

Milk urea content is receiving growing interest from science and industry as a tool to infer the
protein adequacy of dairy cows' diets, nitrogen excretion and its environmental impact, and …

Objective The aim of the study was to evaluate the influence of polymorphic loci and other
factors on milk performance and the technological properties of milk. Methods The analysis …

Background Commercial sheep raised for mutton grow faster than traditional Chinese sheep
breeds. Here, we aimed to evaluate genetic selection among three different types of sheep …