The authenticity of milk and milk products is important and has extended health, cultural, and financial implications. Current analytical methods for the detection of milk adulteration are slow, laborious, and therefore impractical for use in routine milk screening by the dairy industry. Fourier transform infrared (FT-IR) spectroscopy is a rapid biochemical fingerprinting technique that could b...

background and objectives: in this study, the proteolysis and lipolysis of poosti cheese produced from raw sheep milk in mountainous eastern regions of iran were investigated during 90 days of ripening. materials and methods: sodium dodecyl sulfate polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis for proteolysis (sds-page) and gas chromatography (gc) for free fatty acids (ffas) were applied to investigate th...

Corynebacterium camporealensis has been isolated in pure culture from milk samples of dairy sheep affected by subclinical mastitis. The complete genome sequence of the type strain DSM 44610, recovered from milk of a Manchega sheep, comprises 2,451,810 bp with a mean G+C content of 59.41% and 2,249 protein-coding genes.

The purpose of the study was to detect the AluI and DdeI polymorphisms within POU1F1 gene exon 6 and 3'UTR region in Turkish sheep breeds, and their association with milk productive traits. Jugular blood samples were collected from 50 Sakiz, 50 White Karaman, and 50 Awassi sheep using EDTA as an anticoagulant. PCR-RFLP and sequencing analysis were performed to investigate possible polymorphisms...

The study demonstrated that during the period of milking, the duration of the daylight had a significant effect on the lactation parameters in ewes lambed in January and June. Marked differences were noted in the levels of milk production in sheep, during the period of shortening daylight, i.e. in autumn, as the sheep lambed in June produced 50% less milk than ewes lambed in January. The dwindl...

This paper describes the particularities of the anatomy and morphology of the dairy sheep udder and the current implications on machine milkability. The sheep mammary gland is an exocrine epithelial gland mainly constituted of tubulo-alveolar parenchyma with alveoli and well differentiated cisterns. Two anatomical compartments are used for milk storage: alveolar and cisternal, the large-cistern...

RNA-Seq enables the generation of extensive transcriptome information providing the capability to characterize transcripts (including alternative isoforms and polymorphism), to quantify expression and to identify differential regulation in a single experiment. Our aim in this study was to take advantage of using RNA-Seq high-throughput technology to provide a comprehensive transcriptome profili...

This paper reports on a sporadic, naturally acquired infection of sheep with Brucella abortus on a privately owned farm in Toro near Bauchi, Nigeria. The abortions, which occurred in a flock of 28 Yankassa sheep, involved five ewes at the third month of gestation. Serum and milk samples from the flock were examined for Brucella antibodies by the Rose Bengal plate test, serum agglutination test ...

Studies were undertaken to compare the detection of anti-listeriolysin O antibodies (ALLO) and isolation of Listeria monocytogenes from meat and milk samples of sheep and goats. Out of 201 samples (87 of milk and 114 of meat) tested, 17.64% yielded Listeria species isolates. L. monocytogenes was isolated from 6.66 and 1.56% of meat (60) and (64) milk samples of goats, respectively, and 7.4% of ...

THE milk-fats from goats and sheep are used, although only to a small extent, as substitutes for those of cows and buffaloes in India. The component fatty acids and glycerides of these two fats have been studied by methods recently developed [Hilditch et al., 1929; 1930; 1931] in the case of cow butter-fats, in order to compare their composition with those of the latter and, in certain respects...