Search Results - Xi-quan ZHANG
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Determination of Residual Feed Intake and Its Associations with Single Nucleotide Polymorphism in Chickens
Published 2014-01-01Get full textMarker assisted selection (MAS) for residual feed intake (RFI) is considered to be one of the powerful means to improve feed conversion efficiency, and therefore reduce production costs. To test the inner relationship among body compositions, growth traits and RFI, four models were proposed to asses...
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Effect of the C.–1 388 A>G polymorphism in chicken heat shock transcription factor 3 gene on heat tolerance
Published 2015-09-01Get full textHeat stress is one of the main factors that influence poultry production. Heat shock proteins (HSPs) are known to affect heat tolerance. The formation of HSPs is regulated by heat shock transcription factor 3 (HSF3) in chicken. A DNA pool was established for identifying single nucleotide polymorphis...
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The SNPs C.513A>T in the MHC B-F gene and rs15001532 in the SPOCK1 gene are associated with Salmonella pullorum disease resistance in chickens
Published 2016-08-01Get full textThis study was designed to identify molecular markers single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) of MHC B-F gene and SPOCK1) associated with Salmonella pullorum disease susceptibility/resistance. A two-stage case-control association study was used. In the first study, a small population comprising 401 P...
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The Effects of Different Sex-Linked Dwarf Variations on Chinese Native Chickens
Published 2012-09-01Get full textVariants in chicken growth hormone receptor (GHR) gene lead to sex-linked dwarf (SLD) chickens, but effects of different variants are distinct. In this study, 11 SLD chicken breeds or strains including 3 Chinese native breeds and 8 breeding strains were studied in order to investigate the effects of...
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Characterization of MicroRNA* Species in Peking Duck Skin
Published 2013-09-01Get full textA substantial fraction of miRNA* species are conserved in animals and can repress activities of target genes. This study aims to investigate the miRNA* species in duck skin by using Solexa sequencing. We obtained a total of 96 miRNA* species in two skin small RNA libraries and identified 56 miRNA/mi...
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An efficient and rapid method to detect and verify natural antisense transcripts of animal genes
Published 2016-09-01Get full textHigh-throughput sequencing has identified a large number of sense-antisense transcriptional pairs, which indicates that these genes were transcribed from both directions. Recent reports have demonstrated that many antisense RNAs, especially lncRNA (long non-coding RNA), can interact with the sense R...
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Incorporating genomic annotation into single-step genomic prediction with imputed whole-genome sequence data
Published 2022-04-01Get full textSingle-step genomic best linear unbiased prediction (ssGBLUP) is now intensively investigated and widely used in livestock breeding due to its beneficial feature of combining information from both genotyped and ungenotyped individuals in the single model. With the increasing accessibility of whole-g...
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