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Genome-Wide Association and Genomic Selection for Resistance to Amoebic Gill Disease in Atlantic Salmon by Robledo, Diego, Matika, Oswald, Hamilton, Alastair, Houston, Ross D

“…Amoebic gill disease (AGD) is one of the largest threats to salmon aquaculture, causing serious economic and animal welfare burden. Treatments can be expensive…”
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Genome wide association and genomic prediction for growth traits in juvenile farmed Atlantic salmon using a high density SNP array by Tsai, Hsin-Yuan, Hamilton, Alastair, Tinch, Alan E, Guy, Derrick R, Gharbi, Karim, Stear, Michael J, Matika, Oswald, Bishop, Steve C, Houston, Ross D

“…The genetic architecture of complex traits in farmed animal populations is of interest from a scientific and practical perspective. The use of genetic markers…”
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Genomic Selection for Growth Traits in Pacific Oyster ( Crassostrea gigas ): Potential of Low-Density Marker Panels for Breeding Value Prediction by Gutierrez, Alejandro P, Matika, Oswald, Bean, Tim P, Houston, Ross D

“…Pacific oysters are a key aquaculture species globally, and genetic improvement via selective breeding is a major target. Genomic selection has the potential…”
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Genomic prediction of host resistance to sea lice in farmed Atlantic salmon populations by Tsai, Hsin-Yuan, Hamilton, Alastair, Tinch, Alan E, Guy, Derrick R, Bron, James E, Taggart, John B, Gharbi, Karim, Stear, Michael, Matika, Oswald, Pong-Wong, Ricardo, Bishop, Steve C, Houston, Ross D

“…Sea lice have significant negative economic and welfare impacts on marine Atlantic salmon farming. Since host resistance to sea lice has a substantial genetic…”
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Exploring the value of genomic predictions to simultaneously improve production potential and resilience of farmed animals by Ghaderi Zefreh, Masoud, Doeschl-Wilson, Andrea B, Riggio, Valentina, Matika, Oswald, Pong-Wong, Ricardo

“…Sustainable livestock production requires that animals have a high production potential but are also highly resilient to environmental challenges. The first…”
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Genotype Imputation To Improve the Cost-Efficiency of Genomic Selection in Farmed Atlantic Salmon by Tsai, Hsin-Yuan, Matika, Oswald, Edwards, Stefan McKinnon, Antolín-Sánchez, Roberto, Hamilton, Alastair, Guy, Derrick R, Tinch, Alan E, Gharbi, Karim, Stear, Michael J, Taggart, John B, Bron, James E, Hickey, John M, Houston, Ross D

“…Genomic selection uses genome-wide marker information to predict breeding values for traits of economic interest, and is more accurate than pedigree-based…”
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A locus conferring tolerance to Theileria infection in African cattle by Wragg, David, Cook, Elizabeth A J, Latré de Laté, Perle, Sitt, Tatjana, Hemmink, Johanneke D, Chepkwony, Maurine C, Njeru, Regina, Poole, E Jane, Powell, Jessica, Paxton, Edith A, Callaby, Rebecca, Talenti, Andrea, Miyunga, Antoinette A, Ndambuki, Gideon, Mwaura, Stephen, Auty, Harriet, Matika, Oswald, Hassan, Musa, Marshall, Karen, Connelley, Timothy, Morrison, Liam J, Bronsvoort, B Mark deC, Morrison, W Ivan, Toye, Philip G, Prendergast, James G D

“…East Coast fever, a tick-borne cattle disease caused by the Theileria parva parasite, is among the biggest natural killers of cattle in East Africa, leading to…”
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Multiple Country and Breed Genomic Prediction of Tick Resistance in Beef Cattle by Cardoso, Fernando Flores, Matika, Oswald, Djikeng, Appolinaire, Mapholi, Ntanganedzeni, Burrow, Heather M., Yokoo, Marcos Jun Iti, Campos, Gabriel Soares, Gulias-Gomes, Claudia Cristina, Riggio, Valentina, Pong-Wong, Ricardo, Engle, Bailey, Porto-Neto, Laercio, Maiwashe, Azwihangwisi, Hayes, Ben J.

“…Ticks cause substantial production losses for beef and dairy cattle. Cattle resistance to ticks is one of the most important factors affecting tick control,…”
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Balancing selection at a premature stop mutation in the myostatin gene underlies a recessive leg weakness syndrome in pigs by Matika, Oswald, Robledo, Diego, Pong-Wong, Ricardo, Bishop, Stephen C, Riggio, Valentina, Finlayson, Heather, Lowe, Natalie R, Hoste, Annabelle E, Walling, Grant A, Del-Pozo, Jorge, Archibald, Alan L, Woolliams, John A, Houston, Ross D

“…Balancing selection provides a plausible explanation for the maintenance of deleterious alleles at moderate frequency in livestock, including lethal recessives…”
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Investigating volatile semiochemical production from Bos taurus and Bos indicus as a novel phenotype for breeding host resistance to ixodid ticks by Matika, Oswald, Foster, Sarah, Githaka, Naftaly, Owido, Gad, Ngetich, Collins, Mwendia, Charles, Brown, Helen, Caulfield, John, Watson, Kellie, Djikeng, Appolinaire, Birkett, Michael

“…Ticks and tick-borne diseases cause significant loss in livestock production with about 80% world's cattle at risk. The cost of chemical control is high and…”
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Integrating Genetic and Genomic Analyses of Combined Health Data Across Ecotypes to Improve Disease Resistance in Indigenous African Chickens by Banos, Georgios, Lindsay, Victoria, Desta, Takele T, Bettridge, Judy, Sanchez-Molano, Enrique, Vallejo-Trujillo, Adriana, Matika, Oswald, Dessie, Tadelle, Wigley, Paul, Christley, Robert M, Kaiser, Peter, Hanotte, Olivier, Psifidi, Androniki

“…Poultry play an important role in the agriculture of many African countries. The majority of chickens in sub-Saharan Africa are indigenous, raised in villages…”
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The potential for use of haematological and anti-IgE humoral responses as phenotypic markers for tick resistance in cattle by Ngetich, Collins, Kamau, Lucy, Simbauni, Jemimah, Mwendia, Charles, Owido, Milton, Kiio, Irene, Matika, Oswald, Foster, Sarah, Birkett, Michael, Djikeng, Appolinaire, Watson, Kellie Anne, Githaka, Naftaly

“…Approximately 80% of the global cattle population is at risk of infestation and infection by ticks and tick-borne diseases (TTBDs). The economic losses from…”
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Genomic prediction for tuberculosis resistance in dairy cattle by Tsairidou, Smaragda, Woolliams, John A, Allen, Adrian R, Skuce, Robin A, McBride, Stewart H, Wright, David M, Bermingham, Mairead L, Pong-Wong, Ricardo, Matika, Oswald, McDowell, Stanley W J, Glass, Elizabeth J, Bishop, Stephen C

“…The increasing prevalence of bovine tuberculosis (bTB) in the UK and the limitations of the currently available diagnostic and control methods require the…”
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Dissecting the Genomic Architecture of Resistance to Eimeria maxima Parasitism in the Chicken by Boulton, Kay, Nolan, Matthew J, Wu, Zhiguang, Riggio, Valentina, Matika, Oswald, Harman, Kimberley, Hocking, Paul M, Bumstead, Nat, Hesketh, Pat, Archer, Andrew, Bishop, Stephen C, Kaiser, Pete, Tomley, Fiona M, Hume, David A, Smith, Adrian L, Blake, Damer P, Psifidi, Androniki

“…Coccidiosis in poultry, caused by protozoan parasites of the genus , is an intestinal disease with substantial economic impact. With the use of anticoccidial…”
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The Genomic Architecture of Fowl Typhoid Resistance in Commercial Layers by Psifidi, Androniki, Russell, Kay M, Matika, Oswald, Sánchez-Molano, Enrique, Wigley, Paul, Fulton, Janet E, Stevens, Mark P, Fife, Mark S

“…serovar Gallinarum causes devastating outbreaks of fowl typhoid across the globe, especially in developing countries. With the use of antimicrobial agents…”
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Harnessing longitudinal information to identify genetic variation in tolerance of pigs to Porcine Reproductive and Respiratory Syndrome virus infection by Lough, Graham, Hess, Andrew, Hess, Melanie, Rashidi, Hamed, Matika, Oswald, Lunney, Joan K, Rowland, Raymond R R, Kyriazakis, Ilias, Mulder, Han A, Dekkers, Jack C M, Doeschl-Wilson, Andrea

“…High resistance (the ability of the host to reduce pathogen load) and tolerance (the ability to maintain high performance at a given pathogen load) are two…”
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Arginine to Glutamine Variant in Olfactomedin Like 3 ( OLFML3 ) Is a Candidate for Severe Goniodysgenesis and Glaucoma in the Border Collie Dog Breed by Pugh, Carys A, Farrell, Lindsay L, Carlisle, Ailsa J, Bush, Stephen J, Ewing, Adam, Trejo-Reveles, Violeta, Matika, Oswald, de Kloet, Arne, Walsh, Caitlin, Bishop, Stephen C, Prendergast, James G D, Rainger, Joe, Schoenebeck, Jeffrey J, Summers, Kim M

“…Goniodysgenesis is a developmental abnormality of the anterior chamber of the eye. It is generally considered to be congenital in dogs ( ), and has been…”
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Traits associated with innate and adaptive immunity in pigs: heritability and associations with performance under different health status conditions by Clapperton, Mary, Diack, Abigail B, Matika, Oswald, Glass, Elizabeth J, Gladney, Christy D, Mellencamp, Martha A, Hoste, Annabelle, Bishop, Stephen C

“…There is a need for genetic markers or biomarkers that can predict resistance towards a wide range of infectious diseases, especially within a health…”
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Heritability and mechanisms of n− 3 long chain polyunsaturated fatty acid deposition in the flesh of Atlantic salmon by Leaver, Michael J., Taggart, John B., Villeneuve, Laure, Bron, James E., Guy, Derrick R., Bishop, Stephen C., Houston, Ross D., Matika, Oswald, Tocher, Douglas R.

“…n− 3 long chain polyunsaturated fatty acids ( n− 3LC-PUFA) are essential components of vertebrate membrane lipids and are now at critically low levels in…”
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Genome-wide association reveals QTL for growth, bone and in vivo carcass traits as assessed by computed tomography in Scottish Blackface lambs by Matika, Oswald, Riggio, Valentina, Anselme-Moizan, Marie, Law, Andrew S, Pong-Wong, Ricardo, Archibald, Alan L, Bishop, Stephen C

“…Improving meat quality including taste and tenderness is critical to the protection and development of markets for sheep meat. Phenotypic selection for such…”
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