Dairy Goat Lactation Records and Potential for Buck Evaluation

Genotype and Variability in Dairy Lactation Records.

Genetic covariances among relatives for dairy lactation records.

Comparative Transcriptome Profiling of Dairy Goat MicroRNAs from Dry Period and Peak Lactation Mammary Gland Tissues

BACKGROUND MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are small noncoding RNA molecules that serve as important post-transcriptional gene expression regulators by targeting messenger RNAs for post-transcriptional endonucleolytic cleavage or translational inhibition. miRNAs play important roles in many biological processes. Extensive high-throughput sequencing studies of miRNAs have been performed in several animal mod...

Evaluation of Morphometric and Reproductive Traits of Indigenous Dairy Goat Types in North Western Amhara, Ethiopia

The objective of this study was to evaluate the morphometric and reproductive traits of indigenous dairy goat types. It was conducted in three districts (Ebnat, Gonji-kolela and Farta) based on the agro-ecological differences, goat population potentials and experience of the farmers using goat milk. Semi-structured questionnaires, field observations, morphological and reproductive trait measure...

Evaluation of a mechanistic lactation model using cow, goat and sheep data

J. DIJKSTRA , S. LOPEZ *, A. BANNINK , M. S. DHANOA , E. KEBREAB , N. E. ODONGO 6, M. H. FATHI NASRI 7, U. K. BEHERA 8, D. HERNANDEZ-FERRER 9 AND J. FRANCE 10# 1Animal Nutrition Group, Wageningen University, PO Box 338, 6700 AH Wageningen, The Netherlands 2 Instituto de Ganaderı́a de Montaña, Universidad de León – Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientı́ficas, Departamento de Producción Animal...