[EN] Uterine capacity (UC), defined as the total number of kits from unilaterally ovariectomized does at birth, has a high genetic correlation with litter size. The aim of our research was to identify genomic regions ...
Blasco Mateu, Agustín; Toro, Miguel Angel(Elsevier, 2014-08)
[EN] Two scientific schools have been in coexistence from the beginning of genetics, one of them searching for factors of inheritance and the other one applying biometrical models to study the relationships between relatives. ...
Zomeño, Cristina(Universitat Politècnica de València, 2013-07-15)
En esta tesis se aborda el estudio de la grasa intramuscular como característica determinante de la calidad de la carne para ser utilizado en programas genéticos. El conejo se plantea no sólo por su interés como especie ...
Zubiri-Gaitán, Agostina; Martínez-Álvaro, Marina; Blasco Mateu, Agustín; Hernández, Pilar(American Society of Animal Science, 2024-12-03)
[EN] The gastrointestinal microbiota plays a key role in the host physiology and health through a complex host-microbiota co-metabolism. Metabolites produced by microbial metabolism can travel through the bloodstream to ...
Pascual, M.; Calle Ayma, Eddy Wilfredo; Blasco Mateu, Agustín(Editorial Universitat Politècnica de València, 2015-09-30)
[EN] The aim of this work was to study whether commercial nucleus lines of rabbits selected for different traits, and experimental lines having commercial purposes, have the same degree of maturity when compared at the ...
Greenacre, Michael; Martínez-Álvaro, Marina; Blasco Mateu, Agustín(Frontiers Media SA, 2021-10-11)
[EN] Microbiome and omics datasets are, by their intrinsic biological nature, of high dimensionality, characterized by counts of large numbers of components (microbial genes, operational taxonomic units, RNA transcripts, ...
[EN] Our study provides an exhaustive comparison of the microbiome core functionalities (captured by 3,936 microbial gene abundances) between hosts with divergent genotypes for intramuscular lipid deposition. After 10 ...
Mnassri, Oussema(Universitat Politècnica de València, 2024-07-30)
[ES] En vacuno de carne, los caracteres de la valoración morfológica se registran en animales vivos, y pueden proporcionar información relevante para la predicción del mérito genético de los caracteres de interés económico ...
[EN] A divergent selection experiment on litter size variability (high and low lines) was performed in rabbits over seven generations. The aim of this study was to evaluate the correlated responses to selection in body ...
Argente, M. J.; Calle, E. W.; Garcia, M. L.; Blasco Mateu, Agustín(Blackwell Publishing, 2017)
[EN] A divergent selection experiment for the environmental variability of litter size (Ve) over seven generations was carried out in rabbits at the University Miguel Hernandez of Elche. The Ve was estimated as the phenotypic ...
[EN] Simple Summary A successful response was obtained after selection for ovulation rate during 10 generations in rabbits. However, no correlated response in litter size was observed due to an increase in prenatal mortality. ...
ARGENTE, M.J.; GARCIA, M.L.; ZBYNOVSKA, K.; PETRUSKA, P.; CAPCAROVA, M.; Blasco Mateu, Agustín(Cambridge University Press, 2019-10)
[EN] Resilience is the ability of an animal to return soon to its initial productivity after facing diverse environmental challenges. This trait is directly related to animal welfare and it plays a key role in fluctuations ...
Agea, Iván; García, María de la Luz; Blasco Mateu, Agustín; Massanyi, Peter; Capcarová, Marcela; Argente, María-José(MDPI AG, 2020-12)
[EN] Selection for decreasing litter size residual variance has been proposed as an indirect way to select for resilience. Resilience has been directly related to welfare. A good body condition and efficient body fat ...
Peiró Barber, Rosa Mª; Yehia-Badawy Elmoghazy, Ahmed; Blasco Mateu, Agustín; Santacreu Jerez, María Antonia(Cambridge University Press, 2019-11)
[EN] Rabbit commercial maternal lines are usually selected for litter size (LS) and paternal lines for growth rate (GR). Line OR_LS was selected by ovulation rate (OR) and LS to improve LS more efficiently. In this study, ...
Badawy Elmoghazy, Ahmed Yehia; Peiró Barber, Rosa Mª; Blasco Mateu, Agustín; Santacreu Jerez, María Antonia(Cambridge University Press, 2019-03)
[EN]
Farmer profit depends on the number of slaughter rabbits. The improvement of litter size (LS) at birth by two-stage selection for ovulation rate (OR) and LS could modify survival rate from birth to slaughter. This ...
[EN] The aim of this study was to evaluate the effect of six generations of selection for intramuscular fat (IMF) in
muscle Longissimus thoracis et lumborum (LTL) at 9 wk. in IMF and fatty acid (FA) composition of muscles ...
[EN] Intramuscular fat (IMF) content is important for meat production and human health, where the host genetics and its microbiome greatly contribute to its variation. The aim of this study is to describe the consequences ...
Zomeño, Cristina; Hernández, Pilar; Blasco Mateu, Agustín(American Society of Animal Science, 2013-09)
[EN] The aim of this study was to evaluate the selection response on intramuscular fat (IMF) content of LM after 3 generations of divergent selection. Heritability and genetic means for IMF content were also analyzed. ...
Zomeño, Cristina; Blasco Mateu, Agustín; Hernández, Pilar(American Society of Animal Science, 2013-09)
[EN] Correlated responses on carcass and meat quality characteristics after 3 generations of divergent selection for intramuscular fat (IMF) content were assessed by comparing the high and low lines. Selection was based ...
Martínez Álvaro, Marina(Universitat Politècnica de València, 2014-09-24)
[EN] The aim of this study was to carry out a divergent selection experiment directly by residual variance of litter size in rabbits, as an observed trait, and to study the existence of a genetic component controlling the ...