Objective The presence of different missense mutations in sheep breeds have shown that the bone morphogenetic protein receptor 1B (BMPR1B), bone morphogenetic protein 15 (BMP15) and growth differentiation factor 9 (GDF9) genes play a vital role in ovulation rate and prolificacy in ewes. Therefore, the present study investigates BMPR1B, BMP15 and GDF9 genes mutations in prolific ewes of Iranian ...

identification of effective major genes releted with energy balance, milk production, fertility, immunity, as well as feed consumption constitutes some of the most important and strategic objectives in animal breeding and genetics researches. among the major genes, leptin is one of the largely effective ones the polymorphism of which is closely related with important economic traits in livestoc...

b ackground: the aim of the present study was to determine the molecular characteristics of echinococcus granulosus from paraffin-embedded tissues of hydatid cysts isolated from human and protoscoleces of hydatid cysts from sheep, cattle and camel isolates using pcr- rflp of its1- rdna analysis in golestan province, northern iran. m ethods: e . granulosus isolates from human patients infected w...

In Iraq, Awassi is the most widespread sheep breed on non-European origin. The adapt to a wide range of environmental conditions. Sheep farming, mainly breed, represents an essential economic activity Iraq; however, so far, only very few genetic data exist this breed. present study was performed in Biology Department, University Zakho. Thirty two Blood samples were obtained from Awassi-Iq (Ovis...

the current study was designed to estimate the frequency of igf-i gene 1 polymorphism and investigate if their polymorphisms have association with biometric traits in moghani sheep by pcr-sscp method. for this purpose, a number of 100 sheep were randomly chosen from moghani sheep jafarabad, moghan breeding station that located in ardabil state and blood samples were collected from the left jugu...

detection of bluetongue virus in aborted lamb fetuses in chaharmahal va bakhtiari and isfahan provinces, by rt-pcr method background: bluetongue or muzzle sore disease is an infectious disease which is mainly transmitted by insects. it can cause erosions in mouth, nasal mucosa and limbs and also abortion in ruminants. the aim of this study was genomic detection of bluetongue virus in sheep abor...

objective: in this study, the possibility of prenatal diagnosis of down syndrome with real-time pcr method was evaluated. in this context, optimization of a suitable method for purification of high quality dna from amniotic fluid samples was also considered. materials and methods: pregnant women who had the high risk of having babies with down syndrome were selected according to the biochemica...