Livestock Genomics and Community-based Breeding Strategies in Low-and-Middle-Income Countries: Challenges, Opportunities and Future Perspectives

Original Research

16 May 2024

Community-based breeding programs can realize sustainable genetic gain and economic benefits in tropical dairy cattle systems

Direba Hunde

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Tesfaye Getachew

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Original Research

13 March 2024

Genetic architecture of body weight, carcass, and internal organs traits of Ghanaian local chickens

Roland A. Kanlisi

, 8 more and

Boniface B. Kayang

1,701 views

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Original Research

06 March 2024

Hybrid de novo and haplotype-resolved genome assembly of Vechur cattle — elucidating genetic variation

Poorvishaa V. Muthusamy

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Nongmaithem Sadananda Singh

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Original Research

23 October 2023

Transcriptome analysis of divergent residual feed intake phenotypes in the M. longissimus thoracis et lumborum of Wannan Yellow rabbits

Dongwei Huang

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Huiling Zhao

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Original Research

09 October 2023

Transcriptomic and metabolomic analyses of the ovaries of Taihe black-bone silky fowls at the peak egg-laying and nesting period

Xin Xiang

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Zhaozheng Yin

1,608 views

1 citations

Original Research

25 September 2023

The effect of the proportion of Modern European ancestry on grower and sow performance of pigs in smallholder systems in Uganda

Brian Martin Babigumira

, 7 more and

Karen Marshall

1,325 views

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Review

06 September 2023

A review of machine learning models applied to genomic prediction in animal breeding

Narjice Chafai

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Bouabid Badaoui

5,683 views

3 citations

Original Research

06 September 2023

Using the community-based breeding program (CBBP) model as a collaborative platform to develop the African Goat Improvement Network—Image collection protocol (AGIN-ICP) with mobile technology for data collection and management of livestock phenotypes

M. Jennifer Woodward-Greene

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Curtis P. Van Tassell

2,506 views

1 citations

Policy and Practice Reviews

29 August 2023

The African Goat Improvement Network: a scientific group empowering smallholder farmers

Curtis P. Van Tassell

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Tad S. Sonstegard

2,492 views

1 citations

Original Research

28 July 2023

Genome-wide diversity and admixture of five indigenous cattle populations from the Tigray region of northern Ethiopia

Tsadkan Zegeye

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Olivier Hanotte

2,459 views

2 citations

Original Research

28 July 2023

Meta-analysis of heritability estimates and genome-wide association for tick-borne haemoparasites in African cattle

Valentina Riggio

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Liam J. Morrison

1,908 views

1 citations

Original Research

19 July 2023

Muscle transcriptome analysis provides new insights into the growth gap between fast- and slow-growing Sinocyclocheilus grahami

Yanhui Yin

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Xiaoai Wang

2,120 views

1 citations

Original Research

08 June 2023

Livestock phenomics and genetic evaluation approaches in Africa: current state and future perspectives

Isidore Houaga

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Appolinaire Djikeng

3,698 views

1 citations

Original Research

03 April 2023

Performance of crossbred pigs with indigenous and Hampshire inheritance under a smallholder production system in the Eastern Himalayan hill region

Govindasamy Kadirvel

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Chamniugongliu Gonmei

2,467 views

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Original Research

20 March 2023

How to succeed in implementing community-based breeding programs: Lessons from the field in Eastern and Southern Africa

Aynalem Haile

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Barbara Rischkowsky

2,337 views

3 citations

Original Research

17 March 2023

Pedigree and genome-based patterns of homozygosity in the South African Ayrshire, Holstein, and Jersey breeds

Carina Visser

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Esté van Marle-Köster

1,837 views

3 citations

Original Research

17 March 2023

Going to scale—From community-based to population-wide genetic improvement and commercialized sheep meat supply in Ethiopia

Joaquin Mueller

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Barbara Rischkowsky

1,550 views

1 citations

Original Research

17 March 2023

Genetic diversity assessment of the indigenous goat population of Benin using microsatellite markers

Habib Rainier Vihotogbe Whannou

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Luc Hippolyte Dossa

3,622 views

5 citations

Original Research

10 March 2023

Genetic diversity and population structure of a Peruvian cattle herd using SNP data

Flor-Anita Corredor

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Carlos I. Arbizu

4,230 views

3 citations

Original Research

Frontiers in Genetics

Genetic diversity and breed-informative SNPs identification in domestic pig populations using coding SNPs

Ichrak Hayah

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Bouabid Badaoui

1,527 views

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