Studbook information collected from 1988 to 2011 in Jafarabad breeding station of Moghani sheep, north-west of Iran, related to 9,457 lambs were used to study the genetic diversity and to evaluate the effectiveness of an implemented rotational mating scheme using pedigree analysis. Lambs born during 2009-2011 were considered as reference population. Means inbreeding and average coancestry for t...

the objective of this study was to determine the inbreeding depression on growth traits in moghani sheep. pedigree information of 8836 animals collected during the years of 1987 to 2006 by moghani breed center in jafar abad moghan, were used for analysis. the base population year was 1988. analysis of the records was performed by asreml software. inbreeding depression was estimated as the regre...

the diacylglycerol acyltransferase 1 gene (dgat1) was identified as a strong candidate gene affecting mutton quality traits in sheep. single nucleotide polymorphism creates a single base mutation (c to t) in agct site of endonuclease alui. dgat1 is one of the candidate genes to improve carcass characteristics in feedlot animals. in order to study area t487c in exon 17 of the dgat1 polymorphism,...

The diacylglycerol acyltransferase 1 gene (DGAT1) was identified as a strong candidate gene affecting mutton quality traits in sheep. Single nucleotide polymorphism creates a single base mutation (C to T) in AGCT site of endonuclease AluI. DGAT1 is one of the candidate genes to improve carcass characteristics in feedlot animals. In order to study area T487C in exon 17 of the DGAT1 polymorphism,...

the objective of the present study was to evaluate the effects of inbreeding on average daily gains and kleiber ratios in moghani sheep. traits included average daily gain from birth to 3 months (adg1), average daily gain from birth to 6 months (adg2), average daily gain from 3 months to 6 months (adg3), average daily gain from 3 months to 9 months (adg4), average daily gain from 3 months to ye...