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Integrating Genetic and Genomic Analyses of Combined Health Data Across Ecotypes to Improve Disease Resistance in Indigenous African Chickens (2020)
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Banos, G., Lindsay, V., Desta, T. T., Bettridge, J., Sanchez-Molano, E., Vallejo-Trujillo, A., …Psifidi, A. (2020). Integrating Genetic and Genomic Analyses of Combined Health Data Across Ecotypes to Improve Disease Resistance in Indigenous African Chickens. Frontiers in Genetics, 11, 543890

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 under semi-scavenging conditions. Vaccinations and biosecurity measures rarely apply, and i... Read More about Integrating Genetic and Genomic Analyses of Combined Health Data Across Ecotypes to Improve Disease Resistance in Indigenous African Chickens.

Role of caecal microbiota in the differential resistance of inbred chicken lines to colonization by Campylobacter jejuni (2020)
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Chintoan-Uta, C., Wisedchanwet, T., Glendinning, L., Bremner, A., Psifidi, A., Vervelde, L., …Stevens, M. P. (2020). Role of caecal microbiota in the differential resistance of inbred chicken lines to colonization by Campylobacter jejuni. Applied and Environmental Microbiology, https://doi.org/10.1128/AEM.02607-19

Campylobacter is the leading foodborne bacterial diarrhoeal illness in many countries, with up to 80 % of human cases attributed to the avian reservoir. The only control strategies currently available are stringent on-farm biosecurity and carcass tre... Read More about Role of caecal microbiota in the differential resistance of inbred chicken lines to colonization by Campylobacter jejuni.

The Genetic Architecture of Bovine Telomere Length in Early Life and Association With Animal Fitness (2019)
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Ilska-Warner, J. J., Psifidi, A., Seeker, L. A., Wilbourn, R. V., Underwood, S. L., Fairlie, J., …Banos, G. (2019). The Genetic Architecture of Bovine Telomere Length in Early Life and Association With Animal Fitness. Frontiers in Genetics, 10, https://doi.org/10.3389/fgene.2019.01048

Health and survival are key goals for selective breeding in farm animals. Progress, however, is often limited by the low heritability of these animal fitness traits in addition to measurement difficulties. In this respect, relevant early-life biomark... Read More about The Genetic Architecture of Bovine Telomere Length in Early Life and Association With Animal Fitness.

Genome reconstruction of a novel carbohydrate digesting bacterium from the chicken caecal microflora (2019)
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Hinsu, A. T., Pandit, R. J., Patel, S. H., Psifidi, A., Tomley, F. M., Das, S. K., …Joshi, C. G. (2019). Genome reconstruction of a novel carbohydrate digesting bacterium from the chicken caecal microflora. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mgene.2019.01.002

The advent of metagenomics using Next-Generation Sequencing (NGS) has led to the acquisition of unprecedented quantities of bacterial sequence data. One use for these data is the recovery of complete genomes of uncultivable, and thus uncharacterised,... Read More about Genome reconstruction of a novel carbohydrate digesting bacterium from the chicken caecal microflora.

Colonization of a commercial broiler line by Campylobacter is under limited genetic control and does not significantly impair performance or intestinal health (2018)
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Bailey, R. A., Kranis, A., Psifidi, A., Watson, K. A., Rothwell, L., Hocking, P. M., …Avendano, S. (2018). Colonization of a commercial broiler line by Campylobacter is under limited genetic control and does not significantly impair performance or intestinal health. Poultry Science, 97(12), 4167-4176. https://doi.org/10.3382/ps/pey295

Campylobacter is the leading bacterial cause of foodborne diarrheal illness in humans and source attribution studies unequivocally identify handling or consumption of poultry meat as a key risk factor. Campylobacter colonizes the avian intestines in... Read More about Colonization of a commercial broiler line by Campylobacter is under limited genetic control and does not significantly impair performance or intestinal health.

Dissecting the Genomic Architecture of Resistance to Eimeria maxima Parasitism in the Chicken (2018)
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Boulton, K., Nolan, M. J., Wu, Z., Riggio, V., Matika, O., Harman, K., …Psifidi, A. (2018). Dissecting the Genomic Architecture of Resistance to Eimeria maxima Parasitism in the Chicken. Frontiers in Genetics, 9, https://doi.org/10.3389/fgene.2018.00528

Coccidiosis in poultry, caused by protozoan parasites of the genus Eimeria, is an intestinal disease with substantial economic impact. With the use of anticoccidial drugs under public and political pressure, and the comparatively higher cost of live-... Read More about Dissecting the Genomic Architecture of Resistance to Eimeria maxima Parasitism in the Chicken.

The role of local adaptation in sustainable production of village chickens (2018)
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Bettridge, J. M., Psifidi, A., Terfa, Z. G., Desta, T. T., Lozano-Jaramillo, M., Dessie, T., …Christley, R. M. (2018). The role of local adaptation in sustainable production of village chickens. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41893-018-0150-9

Village chickens are ubiquitous in smallholder farming systems, contributing to household, local and national economies under diverse environmental, economic and cultural settings. However, they are raised in challenging environments where productivi... Read More about The role of local adaptation in sustainable production of village chickens.

Bovine telomere dynamics and the association between telomere length and productive lifespan (2018)
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Seeker, L. A., Ilska, J. J., Psifidi, A., Wilbourn, R., Underwood, S., Fairlie, J., …Banos, G. (2018). Bovine telomere dynamics and the association between telomere length and productive lifespan. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-018-31185-z

Average telomere length (TL) in blood cells has been shown to decline with age in a range of vertebrate species, and there is evidence that TL is a heritable trait associated with late-life health and mortality in humans. In non-human mammals, few st... Read More about Bovine telomere dynamics and the association between telomere length and productive lifespan.