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New loci and neuronal pathways for resilience to heat stress in cattle by Cheruiyot, Evans K., Haile-Mariam, Mekonnen, Cocks, Benjamin G., MacLeod, Iona M., Xiang, Ruidong, Pryce, Jennie E.

“…While understanding the genetic basis of heat tolerance is crucial in the context of global warming’s effect on humans, livestock, and wildlife, the specific…”
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Heat Stress in Dairy Cattle Alters Lipid Composition of Milk by Liu, Z., Ezernieks, V., Wang, J., Arachchillage, N. Wanni, Garner, J. B., Wales, W. J., Cocks, B. G., Rochfort, S.

“…Heat stress, potentially affecting both the health of animals and the yield and composition of milk, occurs frequently in tropical, sub-tropical and temperate…”
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Dietary wheat and reduced methane yield are linked to rumen microbiome changes in dairy cows by Savin, Keith W, Moate, Peter J, Williams, S R O, Bath, Carolyn, Hemsworth, Joanne, Wang, Jianghui, Ram, Doris, Zawadzki, Jody, Rochfort, Simone, Cocks, Benjamin G

“…Fermentation of pasture grasses and grains in the rumen of dairy cows and other ruminants produces methane as a by-product, wasting energy and contributing to…”
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Metagenomic predictions: from microbiome to complex health and environmental phenotypes in humans and cattle by Ross, Elizabeth M, Moate, Peter J, Marett, Leah C, Cocks, Ben G, Hayes, Ben J

“…Mammals have a large cohort of endo- and ecto- symbiotic microorganisms (the microbiome) that potentially influence host phenotypes. There have been numerous…”
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Recovery of mitogenomes from whole genome sequences to infer maternal diversity in 1883 modern taurine and indicine cattle by Dorji, Jigme, Vander Jagt, Christy J., Chamberlain, Amanda J., Cocks, Benjamin G., MacLeod, Iona M., Daetwyler, Hans D.

“…Maternal diversity based on a sub-region of mitochondrial genome or variants were commonly used to understand past demographic events in livestock…”
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Improving Genomic Selection for Heat Tolerance in Dairy Cattle: Current Opportunities and Future Directions by Cheruiyot, Evans K., Haile-Mariam, Mekonnen, Cocks, Benjamin G., Pryce, Jennie E.

“…Heat tolerance is the ability of an animal to maintain production and reproduction levels under hot and humid conditions and is now a trait of economic…”
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Simulating the Feasibility of Using Liquid Micro-Jets for Determining Electron-Liquid Scattering Cross-Sections by Muccignat, Dale L, Stokes, Peter W, Cocks, Daniel G, Gascooke, Jason R, Jones, Darryl B, Brunger, Michael J, White, Ronald D

“…The extraction of electron-liquid phase cross-sections (surface and bulk) is proposed through the measurement of (differential) energy loss spectra for…”
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Faecalibacterium diversity in dairy cow milk by Savin, Keith W, Zawadzki, Jody, Auldist, Martin J, Wang, Jianghui, Ram, Doris, Rochfort, Simone, Cocks, Benjamin G

“…The bacterial species, Faecalibacterium prausnitzii, beneficial to humans and animals and found in mammalian and avian gut, is also occasionally found in dairy…”
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Expression of mitochondrial protein genes encoded by nuclear and mitochondrial genomes correlate with energy metabolism in dairy cattle by Dorji, Jigme, Vander Jagt, Christy J, Garner, Josie B, Marett, Leah C, Mason, Brett A, Reich, Coralie M, Xiang, Ruidong, Clark, Emily L, Cocks, Benjamin G, Chamberlain, Amanda J, MacLeod, Iona M, Daetwyler, Hans D

“…Mutations in the mitochondrial genome have been implicated in mitochondrial disease, often characterized by impaired cellular energy metabolism. Cellular…”
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Functionally prioritised whole-genome sequence variants improve the accuracy of genomic prediction for heat tolerance by Cheruiyot, Evans K, Haile-Mariam, Mekonnen, Cocks, Benjamin G, MacLeod, Iona M, Mrode, Raphael, Pryce, Jennie E

“…Heat tolerance is a trait of economic importance in the context of warm climates and the effects of global warming on livestock production, reproduction,…”
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Putative bovine topological association domains and CTCF binding motifs can reduce the search space for causative regulatory variants of complex traits by Wang, Min, Hancock, Timothy P, Chamberlain, Amanda J, Vander Jagt, Christy J, Pryce, Jennie E, Cocks, Benjamin G, Goddard, Mike E, Hayes, Benjamin J

“…Topological association domains (TADs) are chromosomal domains characterised by frequent internal DNA-DNA interactions. The transcription factor CTCF binds to…”
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Correction to: Expression of mitochondrial protein genes encoded by nuclear and mitochondrial genomes correlate with energy metabolism in dairy cattle by Dorji, Jigme, Vander Jagt, Christy J, Garner, Josie B, Marett, Leah C, Mason, Brett A, Reich, Coralie M, Xiang, Ruidong, Clark, Emily L, Cocks, Benjamin G, Chamberlain, Amanda J, MacLeod, Iona M, Daetwyler, Hans D

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Unified solution of the Boltzmann equation for electron and ion velocity distribution functions and transport coefficients in weakly ionized plasmas by Konovalov, Dmitry A., Cocks, Daniel G., White, Ronald D.

“…The velocity distribution function and transport coefficients for charged particles in weakly ionized plasmas are calculated via a multi-term solution of…”
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Horizontal transfer of a ß-1,6-glucanase gene from an ancestral species of fungal endophyte to a cool-season grass host by Shinozuka, Hiroshi, Hettiarachchige, Inoka K., Shinozuka, Maiko, Cogan, Noel O. I., Spangenberg, German C., Cocks, Benjamin G., Forster, John W., Sawbridge, Timothy I.

“…Molecular characterisation has convincingly demonstrated some types of horizontal gene transfer in eukaryotes, but nuclear gene transfer between distantly…”
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Milk Bottom-Up Proteomics: Method Optimization by Vincent, Delphine, Ezernieks, Vilnis, Elkins, Aaron, Nguyen, Nga, Moate, Peter J, Cocks, Benjamin G, Rochfort, Simone

“…Milk is a complex fluid whose proteome displays a diverse set of proteins of high abundance such as caseins and medium to low abundance whey proteins such as…”
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Ancient antimicrobial peptides kill antibiotic-resistant pathogens: Australian mammals provide new options by Wang, Jianghui, Wong, Emily S W, Whitley, Jane C, Li, Jian, Stringer, Jessica M, Short, Kirsty R, Renfree, Marilyn B, Belov, Katherine, Cocks, Benjamin G

“…To overcome the increasing resistance of pathogens to existing antibiotics the 10×'20 Initiative declared the urgent need for a global commitment to develop 10…”
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Putative enhancer sites in the bovine genome are enriched with variants affecting complex traits by Wang, Min, Hancock, Timothy P, MacLeod, Iona M, Pryce, Jennie E, Cocks, Benjamin G, Hayes, Benjamin J

“…Enhancers are non-coding DNA sequences, which when they are bound by specific proteins increase the level of gene transcription. Enhancers activate unique gene…”
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Single nucleotide polymorphism in the neuroplastin locus associates with cortical thickness and intellectual ability in adolescents by Desrivières, S, Lourdusamy, A, Tao, C, Toro, R, Jia, T, Loth, E, Medina, L M, Kepa, A, Fernandes, A, Ruggeri, B, Carvalho, F M, Cocks, G, Banaschewski, T, Barker, G J, Bokde, A L W, Büchel, C, Conrod, P J, Flor, H, Heinz, A, Gallinat, J, Garavan, H, Gowland, P, Brühl, R, Lawrence, C, Mann, K, Martinot, M L P, Nees, F, Lathrop, M, Poline, J-B, Rietschel, M, Thompson, P, Fauth-Bühler, M, Smolka, M N, Pausova, Z, Paus, T, Feng, J, Schumann, G

“…Despite the recognition that cortical thickness is heritable and correlates with intellectual ability in children and adolescents, the genes contributing to…”
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De Novo Long-Read Whole-Genome Assemblies and the Comparative Pan-Genome Analysis of Ascochyta Blight Pathogens Affecting Field Pea by Ogaji, Yvonne O, Lee, Robert C, Sawbridge, Tim I, Cocks, Benjamin G, Daetwyler, Hans D, Kaur, Sukhjiwan

“…Ascochyta Blight (AB) is a major disease of many cool-season legumes globally. In field pea, three fungal pathogens have been identified to be responsible for…”
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Cross-Talk between Activated Human NK Cells and CD4+ T Cells via OX40-OX40 Ligand Interactions by Zingoni, Alessandra, Sornasse, Thierry, Cocks, Benjamin G, Tanaka, Yuetsu, Santoni, Angela, Lanier, Lewis L

“…It is important to understand which molecules are relevant for linking innate and adaptive immune cells. In this study, we show that OX40 ligand is selectively…”
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