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Genetic screening of FecB, FecXG and FecXI mutations and their linkage with litter size in Barki and Rahmani sheep breeds.
Reproduction in domestic animals = Zuchthygiene - 1 Dec 2017
El-Seedy A S, Hashem N M, El-Azrak K M, Nour El-Din Anm, Ramadan T A, Taha T A, Salem M H
Abstract excerpt
Characterization of fecundity genes offers the opportunity to improve production efficiency, and the consequent increase in litter size in livestock industry, through utilizing them in breeding programs. The main objective of this study was to detect the BMPR-IB, BMP15 and GDF9 gene mutations and to investigate whether these mutations are associated with litter size in Egyptian sheep breeds. To achieve this goal,...
Topics
- Animals
- Bone Morphogenetic Protein 15
- Bone Morphogenetic Protein Receptors, Type I
- Egypt
- Female
- Growth Differentiation Factor 9
- Litter Size
- Mutation
- Polymerase Chain Reaction
- Polymorphism, Restriction Fragment Length
- Sheep