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Broad phenotypic impact of the effects of transgenerational heat stress in dairy cattle: a study of four consecutive generations.
Genetics, selection, evolution : GSE - 6 Sept 2021
Weller Joel Ira, Ezra Ephraim, Gershoni Moran
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BACKGROUND: Global warming has increased the frequency of heat stress in livestock. Although heat stress directly leads to negative effects on production and reproduction traits in dairy cattle, the transgenerational transition of these changes is poorly understood. We hypothesized that heat stress in pregnant cows might induce epigenetic modifications in the developing embryo germ cells, which, in turn, might...
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