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Future livestock breeding: Precision breeding based on multi-omics information and population personalization
Published 2017-12-01Get full textWith the rapid development of molecular biology and related disciplines, animal breeding has moved from conventional breeding to molecular breeding. Marker-assisted selection and genomic selection have become mainstream practices in molecular breeding of livestock. However, these techniques only use...
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The Effects of Six <i>Brassica napus</i> Cultivars on the Life Table Parameters of the Green Peach Aphid <i>Myzus persicae</i> (Sulzer) (Hemiptera: Aphididae)
Published 2025-07-01Get full textThe contents of glucosinolates and erucic acid clearly vary in <i>Brassica napus</i> seeds, but a few studies still focus on the effects of <i>B. napus</i> cultivars on the life table parameters of <i>Myzus persicae</i>. In this study, the life history parameters...
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Discover QTLs for the level of blood components in Shaoxing duck using GWAS and haplotype sharing analysis
Published 2024-12-01Get full textBlood composition is indicative of health-related traits such as immunity and metabolism. The use of molecular genetics to investigate alterations in these attributes in laying ducks is a novel approach. Our objective was to employ genome − wide association studies (GWAS) and haplotype − sharing ana...
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Use of the N-alkanes to Estimate Intake, Apparent Digestibility and Diet Composition in Sheep Grazing on Stipa breviflora Desert Steppe
Published 2014-05-01Get full textThe application of n-alkane as markers to estimate herbage intake, apparent digestibility and species composition of diet consumed by grazing sheep was studied. Six local Mongolian sheep were used to determine dry matter (DM) intake, apparent DM digestibility and species composition of diet during s...
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Association of CYP19A1 gene polymorphisms with reproductive traits in pigs
Published 2017-07-01Get full textPorcine reproductive traits are characterized by low heritability, making improvement by traditional selective breeding rather difficult. Molecular breeding offers powerful approaches to overcome previous limitations and is expected to generate economic benefits via progress in pig breeding. Cytochr...
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Effect of Beak Trimming Stress on the Apoptosis and Its Related Protein Expression of Chicken Spleen
Published 2012-04-01Get full textBeak trimming was a part of routine husbandry for poultry industry, which was the most efficient and economic way to reduce the incidence of cannibalism. However, the controversy about young chicken trimming still exits and it was drawing more concern recently along with the popular of animal behavi...
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SFRP2 affects prenatal muscle development and is regulated by microRNA-1/206 in pigs
Published 2016-01-01Get full textSecreted frizzled-related protein 2 (SFRP2), a member of the SFRPs family, is associated with cell growth and differentiation in myogenesis. Our previous study suggested that SFRP2 was a potential target of microRNA (miRNA)-1/206, which was considered as myomiRs. To further explore the biological fu...
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Chromosome Mapping, Expression and Polymorphism Analysis of CRABP1 Gene in Pigs
Published 2014-05-01Get full textCellular retinoic acid-binding protein 1 (CRABP1) is a well-conserved member of cytosolic lipid-binding protein family. It is an important modulator of retinoic acid signaling. Long serial analysis of gene expression (LongSAGE) analysis suggested that CRABP1 gene was differentially expressed during...
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Comparative analysis of linear and angular forces in traumatic brain injury: Experimental evidence and mechanistic insights
Published 2025-09-01Get full textHead injuries from vehicle collisions, falls, and sports are often the result of complex mechanisms involving both linear and angular forces. This study aims to quantitatively assess the effects of linear and angular force on the severity of traumatic brain injury in rats during collisions. An ortho...
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PNPLA5-knockout rats induced by CRISPR/Cas9 exhibit abnormal bleeding and lipid level
Published 2017-01-01Get full textPatatin-like phospholipase domain containing 5 (PNPLA5) is a neotype neutral lipase with dual activity of anabolism and catabolism in vitro and in vivo, which has a low mRNA expression level in humans and mice. PNPLA5, which is localized to lipid droplets and required for efficient autophagy by opti...
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The Establishment of Double-Transgenic Mice that Co-Express the appA and MxA Genes Mediated by Type A Spermatogonia In vivo
Published 2014-12-01Get full textType A spermatogonial stem cells are the only immortal diploid cells in the postnatal animal that undergo self-renewal through the lifetime of an animal and transmit genes to subsequent generations. In this paper, the generation and characterization of double-transgenic mice co-expressing the Escher...
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Dynamic Expression of MicroRNA-127 During Porcine Prenatal and Postnatal Skeletal Muscle Development
Published 2014-06-01Get full textMicroRNAs (miRNAs), evolutionarily conserved non-coding RNAs in length 21-24 bp, play a critical role in skeletal muscle development. In this study, to explore the function of mircoRNA-127 in porcine skeletal muscle development, eight tissue samples from adult pigs and longissimus muscle samples at...
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Pig macrophages with site-specific edited CD163 decrease the susceptibility to infection with porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome virus
Published 2023-07-01Get full textPorcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome (PRRS) is recognized as one of the most infectious viral diseases of swine. Although Cluster of differentiation 163 (CD163) is identified as an essential receptor for mediating PRRS virus (PRRSV) infection, the important residues involved in infection on...
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The collagen type I alpha 1 chain gene is an alternative safe harbor locus in the porcine genome
Published 2023-01-01Get full textEfficient and stable expression of foreign genes in cells and transgenic animals is important for gain-of-function studies and the establishment of bioreactors. Safe harbor loci in the animal genome enable consistent overexpression of foreign genes, without side effects. However, relatively few safe...
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Insights into the X-Ray Burst Pulse Morphology from SGR J1935+2154
Published 2025-01-01Get full textSGR J1935+2154 is an extremely active magnetar and the source of the first fast radio burst in the Milky Way, characterized as a magnetar X-ray burst, but whether the temporal features of this magnetar are specific or not is not well known. Based on data from the Fermi Gamma-ray Burst Monitor (GBM),...
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Identification of the miniature pig inbred line by skin allograft
Published 2015-07-01Get full textSkin grafting has been used as one of the most reliable tests to determine the genetic stability of laboratory animal such as mice and rats inbred line, but no identification of swine inbred lines by skin grafting has been reported. At present, Wuzhishan miniature pig (WZSP) inbred line has acquired...
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Multi-instrument Search for Gamma-Ray Counterpart of X-Ray Transients Detected by EP/WXT
Published 2025-01-01Get full textAs a soft X-ray imager with an unprecedentedly large field of view, Einstein Probe (EP)/Wide-field X-ray Telescope (WXT) has detected many (fast) X-ray transients, whose nature is very intriguing. Whether there is a gamma-ray counterpart for the X-ray transient provides important implications for it...
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Haplotype‐Resolved Genotyping and Association Analysis of 1,020 β‐Thalassemia Patients by Targeted Long‐Read Sequencing
Published 2025-03-01Get full textAbstract Despite the well‐documented mutation spectra of β‐thalassemia, the genetic variants and haplotypes of globin gene clusters modulating its clinical heterogeneity remain incompletely illustrated. Here, a targeted long‐read sequencing (T‐LRS) is demonstrated to capture 20 genes/loci in 1,020 β...
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EP240801a/XRF 240801B: An X-Ray Flash Detected by the Einstein Probe and the Implications of Its Multiband Afterglow
Published 2025-01-01Get full textWe present multiband observations and analysis of EP240801a, a low-energy, extremely soft gamma-ray burst (GRB) discovered on 2024 August 1 by the Einstein Probe (EP) satellite with a weak contemporaneous signal also detected by the Fermi Gamma-ray Burst Monitor (GBM). Optical spectroscopy of the af...
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