Citation: Nazari-Ghadikolaei A, Mehrabani-Yeganeh H, Miarei-Aashtiani SR, Staiger EA, Rashidi A and Huson HJ (2018) Genome-Wide Association Studies Identify Candidate Genes for Coat Color and Mohair Traits in the Iranian Markhoz Goat. Front. Genet. 9:105. doi: 10.3389/fgene.2018.00105 Genome-Wide Association Studies Identify Candidate Genes for Coat Color and Mohair Traits in the Iranian Markho...

Iran is one of the most important mohair-producing countries in the world. Markhoz goat is the only breed producing mohair in Iran that is showing endangerment trend in its native breeding region. The aim of this study was to evaluate the genetic diversity of Markhoz goat and its color types using ISSR markers. Four primers were designed and two of them were selected based on their number of ba...

This study provides some comprehensive osteometric and morphologic descriptions of the skull region of the Markhoz goat. Totally, 17 osteometric parameters of eight skulls of Markhoz goat were measured and expressed as mean ± SD. A skull length of 18.67 ± 0.66, a cranial length of 11.1 ± 0.38, a facial length of 10.23 ± 0.76, a skull index of 47.77 ± 1.96, a cranial index of 54.04 ± 2.29, a fac...

electrocardiographic study of 50 healthy markhoz goats ranging from less than 1 to more than 3 years inage was carried out. the heart rate varied from 99 to 123 beats/min with a mean of 110 beats/min. there wasa significant difference between the heart rate of goats in 3 age groups (pt waves and qt interval in base apex lead, qrs wave in lead i, p-r and pq interval in avf lead were higherand du...

this study was conducted to collect comprehensive identification about markhoz goat population and to simulate past dynamics of the population under its living conditions.census data of the population size and the required parametersfor the simulation modelwere obtained frompublished data or were collected in its habitat in the last 3 years. in this study, past population dynamics and expected ...

background: milk fever in cattle, sheep and goats occurs  around the time of parturition and is caused by hypocalcemia. objectives: the aim of this study was to investigate the physiological effects of experimental hypocalcemia on electrocardiography, hematology and serum biochemical changes in markhoz goat breed. methods: ethylene diamine tetra- acetate solution 4.6% was intravenously infused ...

This study was conducted to assess the possible effects of zinc oxide (ZnO) and nano zinc oxide(nZnO) on growth performance as well as the level of Ca, P, Fe, Cu and Zn in Markhoz goat kidsblood samples. Thirty 5-6 months male Markhoz goat kids were supplemented with 22.12 mg ofZn/ kg DM as basal diet for 70 days. Zinc was administered at daily doses of zero, 20 and 40ppm in ZnO group , and 20 ...

This study was conducted to collect comprehensive identification about Markhoz goat population and to simulate past dynamics of the population under its living conditions.Census data of the population size and the required parametersfor the simulation modelwere obtained frompublished data or were collected in its habitat in the last 3 years. In this study, past population dynamics and expected ...