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ILRI News on Animal breeding

12 May 2021

Scientists in Africa explore use of surrogate sires to improve small ruminant breeds

In Pullman, Washington, the director and reproductive biologist at the Center for Reproductive Biology, Jon Oatley, and his team have generated a gene-edited goat, known as surrogate sire—a goat that is capable of ‘hosting’ sperm from a different buck. Oatley believes that this technology is the key to unlocking the growing demand for food and nutritional security and has paired up with scientists at the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) and the University of Nairobi to apply the technology in Africa.

Ekta PatelScientist & Communications Manager - Biosciences

ILRI News

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...

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Publications on Animal breeding

Presentation

Published2021

Genetics and genomic approaches for sustainable dairy cattle improvement

Presentation

Published2021

Application of nuclear and genomic technologies for improving livestock productivity in developing world: Challenges and opportunities

Brief

Published2021

Developing community-based breeding programs to improve productivity of sheep and goats in Turkana, Isiolo and Marsabit counties of Kenya

Journal Article

Published2009

Capacity building for sustainable use of animal genetic resources in developing countries

Journal Article

Published2021

A mix of old British and modern European breeds: Genomic prediction of breed composition of smallholder pigs in Uganda

Journal Article

Published2021

Values and beliefs that shape cattle breeding in southwestern Burkina Faso

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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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