Microsatellite loci were identified from Cornus kousa'National'. Primer pairs for 86 loci were developed and of these, eight were optimized and screened using genomic DNA from 22 kousa cultivars. All optimized loci were polymorphic and the number of alleles per locus ranged from three to 17. Observed heterozygosity ranged from 0 to 0.3 and expected heterozygosity ranged from 0.38 to 0.91. These...

There have been considerable recent advancements in animal breeding and genetics relevant to disease control in cattle, which can now be utilised as part of an overall programme for improved cattle health. This review summarises the contribution of genetic makeup to differences in resistance to many diseases affecting cattle. Significant genetic variation in susceptibility to disease does exist...

The European Union has implemented breeding programmes to increase scrapie resistance in sheep. A similar approach can be applied also in goats since the K222 allele provides a level of resistance equivalent to that of ARR in sheep. The European Food Safety Authority stated that breeding for resistance could be offered as an option for Member States to control classical scrapie in goats. We ass...

Supportive breeding is one of the last resort conservation strategies to avoid species extinction. Management of captive populations is challenging because several harmful genetic processes need to be avoided. Several recommendations have been proposed to limit these deleterious effects, but empirical assessments of these strategies remain scarce. We investigated the outcome of a genetic manage...

background: schistosomiasis and soil transmitted infection is a major health problem of children from rural areas of developing countries including yemen. in an attempt to reduce this burden, the ministry of public health and population in yemen established in 2002 a programme for schisto-somal, soil transmitted infection control that aimed to reduce morbidity and prevalence rates of schistosom...

In a conventional breeding programme, all F1 plants, from homozygous self-fertilizing parents, are identically heterozygous. The F2 is produced, and the character combination selected for, is carried on further into daughter generations. In case the pollen was irradiated before pollination it would be investigated whether genetic changes had taken place which influence the variability in the pr...

Introduction We received a request from the owner of a communal flock of indigenous goats in the Northern Province to inseminate some of his does with Gorno Altai semen. The only income he derived from this flock was through the sale of live goats at Christmas. He wanted to embark on a cross-breeding programme in an attempt to create an additional source of income from the fibre that would pote...

PROGRESSIVE encephalomyelopathy with cerebellar degeneration has been described in captive cheetahs (Palmer and others 2001) and in young domestic cats (Palmer and Cavanagh 1995). This case report describes the clinical and histopathological findings in a very similar condition affecting a young snow leopard (Uncia uncia) that had been born in a zoological park in eastern England as part of the...

Genetic variation is essential for crop breeding. In classical plant breeding programme, generated by hybridization and selections are made from the resulting segregating generations. Induced mutagenesis can supplement or able to replace as a source of variability. Since, mutations bring about variation, they provide ultimate basis evolution new forms, varieties species. spontaneous have played...

The majority of embedded applications with real-time constraints monitor and control a technical systems. The correct behavior of such a system typically is described in terms of the technical system. In contrast the embedded hardand software operates on an image of the technical system which is prone to deviations and delays. Therefore a compositional transformation is proposed which maps asse...