Search Results - "Rohrer, Gary A"
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Identifying Early-Life Behavior to Predict Mothering Ability in Swine Utilizing NUtrack System
Published in Animals (Basel) (13-09-2023)“…Early indicator traits for swine reproduction and longevity support economical selection decision-making. Activity is a key variable impacting a sow’s herd…”
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Determining the Presence and Size of Shoulder Lesions in Sows Using Computer Vision
Published in Animals (Basel) (29-12-2023)“…Shoulder sores predominantly arise in breeding sows and often result in untimely culling. Reported prevalence rates vary significantly, spanning between 5% and…”
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Genome-wide association of changes in swine feeding behaviour due to heat stress
Published in Genetics selection evolution (Paris) (25-03-2018)“…Heat stress has a negative impact on pork production, particularly during the grow-finish phase. As temperature increases, feeding behaviour changes in order…”
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A Survey of Copy Number Variation in the Porcine Genome Detected From Whole-Genome Sequence
Published in Frontiers in genetics (16-08-2019)“…Copy number variations (CNVs) are gains and losses of large regions of genomic sequence between individuals of a species. Although CNVs have been associated…”
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Online feeding behavior monitoring of individual group-housed grow-finish pigs using a low-frequency RFID electronic feeding system
Published in Translational animal science (2024)“…Abstract Early identification of animals in need of management intervention is critical to maximize animal health and welfare and minimize issues with…”
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A defect in dystrophin causes a novel porcine stress syndrome
Published in BMC genomics (12-06-2012)“…Losses of slaughter-weight pigs due to transport stress are both welfare and economic concerns to pork producers. Historically, the HAL-1843 mutation in…”
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Genome-Wide Copy Number Variations Using SNP Genotyping in a Mixed Breed Swine Population
Published in PloS one (14-07-2015)“…Copy number variations (CNVs) are increasingly understood to affect phenotypic variation. This study uses SNP genotyping of trios of mixed breed swine to add…”
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Impacts of Farrowing Pen Design, Season, and Sow Parity on Litter Performance and Piglet Mortality
Published in Animals (Basel) (01-01-2024)“…Piglet mortality during lactation is a significant concern in swine production, influenced by complex interactions involving sow, piglet, environmental, and…”
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Using SNP Weights Derived From Gene Expression Modules to Improve GWAS Power for Feed Efficiency in Pigs
Published in Frontiers in genetics (21-01-2020)“…The "large small " problem has posed a significant challenge in the analysis and interpretation of genome-wide association studies (GWAS). The use of prior…”
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Effects of Farrowing Stall Layout and Number of Heat Lamps on Sow and Piglet Production Performance
Published in Animals (Basel) (22-02-2020)“…Most farrowing facilities in the United States use stalls and heat lamps to improve sow and piglet productivity. This study investigated these factors by…”
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Polymorphism in the intron 20 of porcine O-linked N-acetylglucosamine transferase
Published in Animal bioscience (01-08-2017)“…O-linked N-acetylglucosamine (O-GlcNAc) transferase (OGT) catalyzes the addition of O-GlcNAc and GlcNAcylation has extensive crosstalk with phosphorylation to…”
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Differences in X-chromosome transcriptional activity and cholesterol metabolism between placentae from swine breeds from Asian and Western origins
Published in PloS one (31-01-2013)“…To gain insight into differences in placental physiology between two swine breeds noted for their dissimilar reproductive performance, that is, the Chinese…”
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Relationships of genomic estimated breeding values for age at puberty, birth weight, and growth during development in normal cyclic and acyclic gilts
Published in Journal of animal science (03-01-2023)“…Abstract Managing replacement gilts to reach optimal body weight and growth rate for boar stimulation and first breeding is a key component for sow…”
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Potential functional variants in AHR signaling pathways are associated with age at puberty in swine
Published in Animal genetics (01-06-2021)“…Summary Puberty in female pigs is defined as age at first estrus and gilts that have an earlier age at puberty are more likely to have greater lifetime…”
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Coordinated international action to accelerate genome-to-phenome with FAANG, the Functional Annotation of Animal Genomes project
Published in Genome Biology (25-03-2015)“…We describe the organization of a nascent international effort, the Functional Annotation of Animal Genomes (FAANG) project, whose aim is to produce…”
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An improved pig reference genome sequence to enable pig genetics and genomics research
Published in Gigascience (01-06-2020)“…Abstract Background The domestic pig (Sus scrofa) is important both as a food source and as a biomedical model given its similarity in size, anatomy,…”
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A compendium of genetic regulatory effects across pig tissues
Published in Nature genetics (01-01-2024)“…The Farm Animal Genotype-Tissue Expression (FarmGTEx) project has been established to develop a public resource of genetic regulatory variants in livestock,…”
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Genetic analysis of teat number in pigs reveals some developmental pathways independent of vertebra number and several loci which only affect a specific side
Published in Genetics selection evolution (Paris) (04-01-2017)“…Number of functional teats is an important trait in commercial swine production. As litter size increases, the number of teats must also increase to supply…”
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gBLUP-GWAS identifies candidate genes, signaling pathways, and putative functional polymorphisms for age at puberty in gilts
Published in Journal of animal science (03-01-2023)“…Abstract Successful development of replacement gilts determines their reproductive longevity and lifetime productivity. Selection for reproductive longevity is…”
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Design of a high density SNP genotyping assay in the pig using SNPs identified and characterized by next generation sequencing technology
Published in PloS one (05-08-2009)“…The dissection of complex traits of economic importance to the pig industry requires the availability of a significant number of genetic markers, such as…”
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