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ILRI News on Animal breeding

15 Apr 2021

Building a sustainable livestock genetics improvement system for a food-secure Ethiopia

The African Dairy Genetics Gains (ADGG) project, which is led by the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) and implemented by multiple partners in Ethiopia and Tanzania, is addressing livestock productivity challenges to improve dairy production in the two countries. To celebrate key...

Beamlak TesfayeKnowledge management and communications expert

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

Written by Susan MacMillan and Ekta Patel ILRI’s cloned Boran bull named ‘Tumaini’ (photo credit: ILRI/Susan MacMillan) . 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

Journal Article

Published2021

Inference of ancestries and heterozygosity proportion and genotype imputation in West African cattle populations

Report

Published2020

Training of women and men smallholder pig keepers on pig artificial insemination in northwest Vietnam

Report

Published2020

Training of women and men veterinarians on cattle artificial insemination in northwest Vietnam

Report

Published2020

Training of women and men smallholder livestock keepers on cattle and pig breeds, breeding and artificial insemination in northwest Vietnam

Report

Published2020

Training of village boar keepers and veterinary workers on Ban boar semen collection and semen quality evaluation in northwest Vietnam

Extension Material

Published2020

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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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