[EN] In plants, RNA silencing functions as a potent antiviral mechanism. Virus-derived double-stranded RNAs (dsRNAs) trigger this mechanism, being cleaved by Dicer-like (DCL) enzymes into virus small RNAs (vsRNAs). These ...
[EN] Selection of functional traits is a challenge for researchers, but an increasingly necessary objective due to the growing concern regarding animal welfare and overcoming the problems of reducing antibiotic use in ...
Muñoz Fambuena, Natalia; Nicolas-Almansa, M.; Martinez Fuentes, Amparo; Reig Valor, Carmina; Iglesias, D. J.; Primo-Millo, Eduardo; Mesejo Conejos, Carlos; Agustí Fonfría, Manuel(Oxford University Press, 2019-02-15)
[EN] Background and Aims In woody species, the juvenile period maintains the axillary meristems in a vegetative stage, unable to flower, for several years. However, in adult trees, some 1-year-old meristems flower whereas ...
[EN] Plant domestication is the process of adapting plants to human use by selecting specific traits. The selection process often involves the modification of some components of the plant reproductive mechanisms. Allelic ...
Variance components of sperm production traits (volume in ml, V; concentration in ×10 6 sperm/ml, CN; sperm production in ×10 6 sperm, PROD) were estimated in a paternal line of rabbit selected for 25 generations based on ...
[EN] Objective: This study aimed to estimate the genetic parameters and genetic correlations for related feed efficiency, growth, and carcass traits in Hanwoo cattle.
Methods: Phenotypic data from 15,279 animals born ...
Ibañez Escriche, Noelia; Magallón, E.; Gonzalez, E.; Tejeda, J.F.; Noguera, J.L.(American Society of Animal Science, 2016-01)
[EN] The aim of this study was to estimate the genetic and environmental parameters and crossbreeding effects on fatty acid and fat traits in the Iberian pig. Our final goal is to explore target selection traits and define ...
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The Iberian pig is one of the pig breeds that has the highest meat quality. Traditionally, producers have bred one of the available varieties, exclusively, and have not used crosses between them, which has contrasted ...
[EN] Data from a divergent experiment for birthweight (BrW) environmental variability were used to estimate genetic parameters for BrW trait and its environmental variability by fitting both homoscedastic (HO) and ...
[EN] The aim of this research was to explore the genetic parameters associated with environmental variability for litter size (LS), litter weight (LW) and mean individual birth weight (IW) in mice before canalisation. The ...
[EN] Data of 122 males rabbits, randomly sampled
from 19 sires of New Zealand White breed raised on two
farms in Sharkia Governorate, Egypt, were analysed to
provide estimates of heritabilities for non carcass
components ...
Kouassi, Abou Bakari; Kouassi, Koffi Brice Aymar; Sylla, Zakaria; Plazas Ávila, María de la O; Fonseka, Ramya Malkanthi; Kouassi, Auguste; Fonseka, Hemal; N'Guetta, Assanvo Simon-Pierre; Prohens Tomás, Jaime(Crop Science Society of America, 2021-01)
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Crop wild relatives (CWRs) have barely been used in eggplant (Solanum melongena) breeding. However, introgression breeding may help in coping with the challenges posed by climate change. During the rainy and dry ...
[EN] Genetic parameters for average daily gain between the age of 5 and 10 weeks (ADG), the average cross-sectional area of the m. Longissimus dorsi (L) (between the 2nd-3rd and 4th-5th lumbar vertebrae-based on in vivo ...
[EN] Data from an experimental mice population selected from 18 generations to increase weight gain were used to estimate the genetic parameters associated with environmental variability. The analysis involved three traits: ...
Jimenez-Sousa, Mª Angeles; López, Elisabeth; Fernandez-Rodriguez, Amanda; Tamayo, Eduardo; Fernández-Navarro, Pablo; Segura Roda, Laura; Heredia, Maria; Gómez-Herreras, José I.; Bustamante, Jesus; García Gómez, Juan Miguel; Bermejo-Martin, Jesus F.; Resino, Salvador(BioMed Central, 2012)
Background
Chronic kidney disease progression has been linked to pro-inflammatory cytokines and markers of inflammation. These markers are also elevated in end-stage renal disease (ESRD), which constitutes a serious ...
Alfaro Cid, Eva; Sharman, Kenneth Charles; Esparcia Alcázar, Anna Isabel(Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press (MIT Press), 2014-06)
This work describes an approach devised by the authors for time series classification. In our approach genetic programming is used in combination with a serial processing of data, where the last output is the result of the ...
Rodrigo Tarrega, Guillermo; Poyatos, Juan F.(Public Library of Science, 2016-10)
[EN] Cellular decision making is based on regulatory circuits that associate signal thresholds to specific physiological actions. This transmission of information is subjected to molecular noise what can decrease its ...
Todea Morar, Irina Maria; Rensen, Stephanie; Vilanova Navarro, Santiago; Boscaiu, Monica; Holonec, Liviu; Sestras, Adriana F.; Vicente, Oscar; Prohens Tomás, Jaime; Sestras, Radu E.; Plazas Ávila, María de la O(MDPI AG, 2020-05)
[EN] Assessment of the diversity of reproductive traits and genetic variation is of great relevance to the conservation of genetic resources and management of silver fir (Abies alba) populations. We have evaluated reproductive ...
[EN] An evaluation of genetic response on reproductive
traits was carried out in a line of rabbits selected for litter size at
weaning. The evaluation was performed comparing contemporary
does of generation 17 and 26, ...
Ziadi, Chiraz; Mocé Cervera, María Lorena; Laborda Vidal, Patricia; Blasco Mateu, Agustín; Santacreu Jerez, María Antonia(American Society of Animal Science, 2013-07)
The aim of this work was to estimate direct and correlated responses in survival rates in an experiment of selection for ovulation rate (OR) and litter size (LS) in a line of rabbits (OR_LS). From generation 0 to 6 (first ...