Sentence examples for cattle I from inspiring English sources

This so called "interspecies transmission" is of special interest since the origin of bovine spongiform encephalopathy is suspected to be caused by feeding meat and bone meal from Scrapie infected sheep to cattle, i.e. an interspecies transmission might have lead to the BSE-epidemic in the UK [6].

Scrapie is a fatal neurodegenerative disease and related forms affect also humans (i.e., Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease) and cattle (i.e., bovine spongiform encephalopathy).

Since clinical mastitis and SCS have low heritabilities in dairy cattle i.e. equal to 0.10 and 0.16, respectively, traditional breeding for mastitis resistance is difficult [ 8, 9].

A principal component method, Multiple Factor analysis (MFA), in combination with clustering methods (K-means and Hierarchical Ascendant Clustering) was used to establish groups of condemned cattle, i.e. cattle with at least one portion of the carcass condemned.

To test if population structure influenced rEHH detection, we repeated the whole Italian Holstein dataset analysis (i.e. the "redundant" dataset comprising father-son pairs and all available half-sibs per family) and focused on genes or gene clusters that are well known to be under recent selection in cattle (i.e. "control regions").

Some of the genes which we identified on the cross-cut between different approaches or which were reported in multiple independent studies using the same approach were already identified and verified to affect QTL in cattle (i.e. ABCG2 and DGAT1), while others represent background for subsequent functional studies.

I pound the sheep, I put up fenceposts, I round the cattle up, I feed them, I take the bales to the field".

In our study, we quantified recombination rates and their impact on phasing accuracy in two purebred beef cattle populations i.e. Angus and Limousin.

At Aarhus University 135 bulls from the three major Nordic dairy cattle breeds, i.e. Holstein, Jersey and Nordic Reds, have been sequenced.

Trends in the dynamics of the cattle population, (i.e. births and deaths) indicate strong seasonal fluctuations accompanied by relatively small changes year on year.

Similar to the human genome [ 24], the fitted lines also predict that, on average, individual non-inbred cattle (G i, R  ≈ 0) carry approximately 694 deleterious homozygous variants.