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ILRI News on Animal breeding

10 Nov 2020

Community engagement a key to success in livestock systems transformation project in Northwest Vietnam

In the misty rural highlands in Northwest Vietnam, Li-chan means ‘beautiful’ or ‘true’ in the local Thai dialect. It is also the short form name of the systems-focused priority country program in Vietnam – ‘Livestock-led interventions towards equitable livelihoods and improved environment in the...

Chi NguyenRegional Communications Officer for East and Southeast Asia

ILRI News

20 Oct 2020

Excursions of a biochemical kind: ILRI hosts CUNY–Regeneron ‘power couple’ working to improve the health of African cattle and COVID-19 patients

ILRI’s cloned Boran bull named ‘Tumaini’ (photo credit: ILRI/Susan MacMillan) Written by Susan MacMillan & Ekta Patel Part 1 For two months at the start of this year, Jayne Raper, a professor of biological sciences at the City University of New York’s Hunter College (CUNY), in Manhattan, took a...

ILRI clippings

03 Oct 2020

‘Genomic time travel’ for better African cattle—New paper describes a ‘rich mosaic of traits’ and an ‘evolutionary jolt’

Scientists from ILRI, Korea and other partners have discovered a new set of genetic markers in African cattle that signal beneficial characteristics, with a view to harnessing them for future generations. ‘In a multi-national collaborative effort, scientists have announced the discovery of a new...

Susan MacMillanTeam leader, Communications, awareness and advocacy

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Publications on Animal breeding

Book Chapter

Published2020

Livestock genetics and breeding

Journal Article

Published2020

On-station performance evaluation of improved tropically adapted chicken breeds for smallholder poultry production systems in Nigeria

Journal Article

Published2020

Identification of novel lncrnas differentially expressed in placentas of Chinese Ningqiang pony and Yili horse breeds

Journal Article

Published2020

A Global Analysis of Y-STR INRA189 Polymorphism in Chinese Domestic Yak Breeds/Populations

Journal Article

Published2020

Whole-genome resequencing of wild and domestic sheep identifies genes associated with morphological and agronomic traits

Journal Article

Published2020

Genomic diversity, population structure, and signature of selection in five Chinese native sheep breeds adapted to extreme environments

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ILRI Projects on Animal breeding

Improving village chicken protection to elevate the livelihoods of poor people in Ethiopia

Chickens are the only affordable livestock for the poor and improving their production level can improve the livelihood of the village farmers, and thus serve as a stepping stone out of extreme poverty. Production levels of indigenous chicken can be improved by organised breeding A participatory...

A system to cost effectively create a continuous supply of F1 heifer via sexed embryos

Many of Heifer Project International’s projects are centred on the provision of improved animals to and training of low income families. In relation to dairy cattle in a number of sub-Saharan African countries, HPI has indicated that they are unable to meet the demand for high quality animals from...

Animal breeding

Jan 2011Dec 2013

Comparative genome sequence analysis to identify disease and traits related genes under different selection pressures during chicken domestication

Objectives: • To identify candidate genes associated with disease resistance and economic traits through an analysis of signature of selection (SOS) between Asian and African lineage poultry. • To conduct statistical modeling of marker-assisted gene introgression (MAI) based on disease...

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