Sentence examples for functional livestock from inspiring English sources

Yet productive mobile pastoralism depends on functional livestock mobility, communal land tenure, and flexible governance systems that support pastoral adaptation strategies.

Statistics for the chicken and cow genomes compared with the human, mouse and rat genomes (Table 1) reveal fundamental problems in genomic structural and functional annotation in livestock genomes.

Given the economic importance of C. hominivorax it is surprising that only now there is an interest in functional studies involving this livestock pest.

In the southern Great Plains, USA, these three perennial grass species are economically and ecologically important; each species is a dominant member of their functional group and important as livestock forage.

Combining results from QTL analyses in different livestock species and functional and positional candidate gene studies have shown that the myostatin gene on OAR2, the insulin-like growth factor-1 gene on OAR3, the callipyge gene and the Carwell rib eye muscling locus on OAR18 and the MHC locus on OAR20 are linked to growth or muscularity QTL in sheep and/or cattle [ 13, 17- 29].

Understanding the effects of land conversion for livestock grazing on species diversity and functional groups continues to be urgently needed to assess how ranching affects animal assemblages and provide guidelines for managing landscapes under this omnipresent type of land use.

The molecular techniques and bioinformatics tools will result in reliable insights into the animals' GI microbial structure and activity of the livestock gut microbes in relation to functional interactions, temporal and spatial relationships among different microbial consortia and dietary ingredients.

We investigated the effects of livestock ranching on Neotropical bat species and functional groups composition via meta-analyses of published information.

Overall, our results support that areas converted for livestock production retain only a subset of the Neotropical bat functional diversity while most of the functional groups are negatively impacted.

However, intricate local practices for livestock branding and horn deformation already provide a functional equivalent to systematized branding.

Our attention must now turn to the identification of these cis-regulatory variants, and the international FAANG (Functional Annotation of Animal Genomes) consortium [ 31] aims to do this for livestock species.