We compared the degrees of vitality 12 Korean native chicken breeds, such as Jaeraejong, Rhode Island Red (Rhode), White Leghorn, Cornish (Cornish), and Ogye breeds. The survival rate telomere length were measured vital markers. Telomere was analyzed via quantitative fluorescence in situ hybridization method using lymphocytes 466 chickens. found that decreased linearly with increasing chronolog...

the main aim of this research was to estimate the genetic and phenotypic parameters for productive and reproductive traits of esfahan native chickens. traits included body weights at hatch (bw1), 8 weeks of age (bw8), 12 weeks of age (bw12), and at sexual maturity (wsm)], age at sex maturity (asm), egg number (en), average egg weight (aew) in the first 12 weeks of production, and egg production...

The Beijing You chicken is a Chinese native breed with superior meat quality and a unique appearance. The G/T mutation of SNP rs80659072 in the Shh long-range regulator of GGA2 is highly associated with the polydactyly phenotype in some chicken breeds. In the present study, this SNP was genotyped using the TaqMan detection method, and its association with the number of toes was analyzed in a fl...

The aim of this study was to estimate the population burden of respiratory diseases in the Zasavje region of Slovenia that can be attributed to outdoor air pollution in order to gain relevant grounds for evidence based public health activities. In 2008, 981 schoolchildren (age 6 to 12 years) were observed in a prevalence study. The prevalence of chronic respiratory diseases (CRD) and frequent a...

BACKGROUND Ankylosing spondylitis (AS) may manifest with heterogeneous patterns according to ethnic origins. The purpose of this study was to describe the influence of various Iranian ethnic origins on clinical measures in patients with AS. METHODS 0ne hundred sixty-three AS patients diagnosed by modified New York 1984 criteria were enrolled consecutively. The patients were classified into Fa...

The purpose of this study was to determine the effect watermelon seed flour supplementation in feed on interior quality native chicken eggs. This research is a biological using Completely Randomized Design (CRD) with 4 treatments and 5 replications. Each treatment used chickens. results statistical analysis showed that had very significant (p<0.01) egg yolk index white height an insignifican...

1Department of Embryology; 3Department of Health, Golestan University of Medical Sciences, Gorgan, Islamic Republic of Iran (Correspondence to M.J. Golalipour: [email protected]). 2Department of Paediatrics, Babol University of Medical Sciences, Babol, Islamic Republic of Iran. ABSTRACT This study recorded the rate of congenital malformations in 10 000 births at a referral hospital in Gorg...

Several findings on the semen characteristics of domestic chickens have revealed that ecotype and age significantly affect quality. There is, however, lack data effects Tanzanian native roosters. This study evaluated effect ecotypes (Ching’wekwe, Morogoro-medium Kuchi) ages (11-15 24-28 months) A total 192 samples were collected from 12 roosters (four each ecotype) using abdominal massage techn...