the Foundation for Food and Agricultural Research[EggTech-0000000028];the Research Foundation-Flanders[SB project 1SC7219N and SB project 1S54823N].
Numerous researchers and institutions have been developing in ovo sexing technologies to improve animal welfare by identifying male embryos in an early embryonic stage and disposing of them before pain perception.This...
Sustainable Commercial Egg Production Scholarship of The University of New England (UNE) for funding Ashley England.
Male and female broiler chickens differ in their growth performance,carcass part weights and nutrient requirements.The potential reasons for these differences have been explored by looking at differences in nutrient d...
This research was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(31672425);Shaanxi Province Key R&D Program(2018ZDXM-NY-043,2020ZDLNY02–04).
Background:Goat milk is very similar to human milk in terms of its abundant nutrients and ease of digestion.To derive greater economic benefit,farmers require more female offspring(does);however,the buck-to-doe offspr...
This study was designed to determine the ability of computer-assisted sperm morphometry analysis (CASA-Morph) with fluorescence to discriminate between spermatozoa carrying different sex chromosomes from the nuclear...
supported by the Russian Foundation for Basic Research (grants 12-04-00260a to IV, EV and VM and 12-04-00414a to AK, for studying the acoustic-based, laparoscopy and gene-based methods of sexing of a few Anseriformes, Gruidae and Alcidae species included in this review);the President RF Foundation (Grant MK-1781.2012.4 to AK, for studying Alcidae species, also included in this review);the Russian Scientific Foundation (Grant No 14-14-00237) to IV, EV, AK and VM for completing the review
Zoo and wildlife management faces a problem with bird sexing,as many bird taxa have indiscernible gender differences in size and coloration.Problematic groups are geese,cranes,rails,raptors,owls,parrots,doves,auks,she...
This research was supported by the Peking-Tsinghua Center for Life Sciences at Peking University(PKU)and the National Natural Science Foundation of China(NSFC No.31271320,No.31471179).We thank Zhi Dong,Yan Zhuang,Yuechen Liu,Lin Miao and Galina Nemkova for technical assistance.Reference tiger samples for calibration were kindly provided by Dr Stephen O’Brien under a Material Transfer Agreement signed between PKU and the National Cancer Institute,USA,and in full compliance with the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species.We also thank Dale Miquelle for helpful comments on an earlier version of the manuscript.
Poaching and trans-boundary trafficking of tigers and body parts are threatening the world’s last remaining wild tigers.Development of an efficient molecular genetic assay for tracing the origins of confiscated speci...
Looking at the last decades of the 19th and 20th century from our vantage point encourages parallels to be drawn between the two periods: in fact, both are affected by a process of cultural fragmentation, social, and...
The use of an internal control in a multiplex-PCR assay for sex determination of In Vitro-produced bovine embryos was evaluated in biopsies of groups of 54 fresh and 44 frozen embryos. The internal controls used were ...
Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China.
This study analyses the bovine SRY DNA sequence by direct sequencing procedure, followed by the designation of the PCR primers specific for bovine SRY. Using PCR amplification of bovine SRY gene, the embryo sex was de...