BACKGROUND The natural sex reversal severely affects the sex ratio and thus decreases the productivity of the rice field eel (Monopterus albus). How to understand and manipulate this process is one of the major issues for the rice field eel stocking. So far the genomics and transcriptomics data available for this species are still scarce. Here we provide a comprehensive study of transcriptomes ...

Sperm quality traits routinely collected by artificial insemination (AI) center for rams progeny test are related with the capacity to produce sperm doses AI and, in more or less grade, males' fertility. Low-quality ejaculates unuseful perform doses, which suppose high economic loses center. Moreover, have low heritability values make traditional genetic selection little efficient its improveme...

Background: This study aimed to investigate the inhibitory effects of simultaneous formaldehyde (FA) and noise exposure on the sperm kinematic parameters sexual hormones in male mice. Materials and Methods: Forty eight NMRI adult male mice were randomly assigned to control group and experimental groups which were exposed to formaldehyde vapour (10 ppm) (F), noise (100 dB) (N), and simultaneous ...

To identify genes upregulated during the process of ciliated cell differentiation of airway epithelial cells, differential display was used to compare RNA from rat tracheal epithelial (RTE) cells cultured under conditions that inhibit/promote ciliated cell differentiation. Several partial complementary DNAs (cDNAs) were identified whose expression was regulated coordinately with ciliated cell d...

introduction recently, genomic research in livestock is focused on genomic variation and its effect on phenotypic performance in economic traits. copy number variation (cnv) is one of these variations in genome including insertion, deletion and duplication of 1 kb to 1 mb segment with more than 90% similarity. cnvs can change gene structure and dosage, can regulate gene expression and function ...