Among closely related taxa, proteins involved in reproduction generally evolve more rapidly than other proteins. Here, we apply a functional and comparative genomics approach to compare functional divergence across a deep phylogenetic array of egg-laying and live-bearing vertebrate taxa. We aligned and annotated a set of 4,986 1 : 1 : 1 : 1 : 1 orthologs in Anolis carolinensis (green lizard), D...

The southern and northern Japanese populations of the medaka fish provide useful tools to gain insights into the comparative genomics and speciation of vertebrates, because they can breed to produce healthy and fertile offspring despite their highly divergent genetic backgrounds compared with those of human-chimpanzee. Comparative genomics analysis has suggested that such large genetic differen...

Current research has determined that traits involved in reproductive strategies and processes of seed dynamics should be studied together, and under varying environments, in order to clarify their roles in the ecology of plant communities. Here, we analyzed reproductive traits (allocation to reproduction, efficiency of seed production, and seed size) at the community level and their relationshi...

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Ovarian Androgen Production in Cattle 3 F Mossa, F Jimenez-Krassel, JK Folger, JLH Ireland, GW 4 Smith, P Lonergan, ACO Evans, and JJ Ireland 5 6 School of Agriculture Food Science and Veterinary Medicine, and Conway 7 Institute of Biomedical and Biomolecular Research, College of Life 8 Sciences, University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin 4, Ireland; Molecular 9 Reproductive Endocrinology Labo...

One in six couples of reproductive age worldwide are affected at least once by some form of infertility. In vitro fertilization (IVF) and intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI) are widely-available assisted reproductive technologies (ART). The identification and isolation of the most-motile sperm with DNA integrity are essential to IVF and ICSI, ultimately affecting treatment consequences and ...

Herd fertility is a key factor for the sustainability of cattle farming. However, since the 1980s, fertility in dairy cattle has steadily decreased and has become one of the main causes of culling and cow replacement in developed countries (Lucy, 2001; Barbat et al., 2010). Many studies have been performed in the last decades to investigate the genetic bases of this decline, considering the rep...

Genetics is responsible for approximately half the observed changes in animal performance in well structured breeding programs. Key characteristics of the dairy cow of the future include (1) production of a large quantity of high-value output (i.e. milk andmeat), (2) good reproductive performance, (3) good health status, (4) good longevity, (5) no requirement for a large quantity of feed, yet b...

Commercialization of animal biotechnologies, including those related to reproduction [also known as assisted reproductive techniques (ARTS)], is an increasing reality in developing countries, following the enormous flow of information around us and the increasing global commercial interests in areas where cattle production has its major assets. The present review discusses the achievements of v...