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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., Kaiser, P., Stevens, M. P., & 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., Hocking, P. M., Bumstead, N., Hesketh, P., Archer, A., Bishop, S. C., Kaiser, P., Tomley, F. M., Hume, D. A., Smith, A. L., Blake, D. P., & 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., Kaiser, P., Wigley, P., Hanotte, O., & 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., Holland, R., Froy, H., Salvo-Chirnside, E., Bagnall, A., Whitelaw, C., Coffey, M., Nussey, D., & 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.

Microbial diversity and community composition of caecal microbiota in commercial and indigenous Indian chickens determined using 16s rDNA amplicon sequencing (2018)
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Pandit, R. J., Hinsu, A. T., Patel, N. V., Koringa, P. G., Jakhesara, S. J., Thakkar, J. R., Shah, T. M., Limon, G., Psifidi, A., Guitian, J., Hume, D. A., Tomley, F. M., Rank, D. N., Raman, M., Tirumurugaan, K. G., Blake, D. P., & Joshi, C. G. (2018). Microbial diversity and community composition of caecal microbiota in commercial and indigenous Indian chickens determined using 16s rDNA amplicon sequencing. Microbiome, 6, 115. https://doi.org/10.1186/s40168-018-0501-9

Microbiota composition, gene pool and its expression in Gir cattle (Bos indicus) rumen under different forage diets using metagenomic and metatranscriptomic approaches (2018)
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Pandit, R. J., Hinsu, A. T., Patel, S. H., Jakhesara, S. J., Koringa, P. G., Bruno, F., Psifidi, A., Shah, S. V., & Joshi, C. G. (2018). Microbiota composition, gene pool and its expression in Gir cattle (Bos indicus) rumen under different forage diets using metagenomic and metatranscriptomic approaches. Systematic and Applied Microbiology, 41(4), 374-385. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.syapm.2018.02.002

Zebu (Bos indicus) is a domestic cattle species originating from the Indian subcontinent and now widely domesticated on several continents. In this study, we were particularly interested in understanding the functionally active rumen microbiota of an... Read More about Microbiota composition, gene pool and its expression in Gir cattle (Bos indicus) rumen under different forage diets using metagenomic and metatranscriptomic approaches.

Longitudinal changes in telomere length and associated genetic parameters in dairy cattle analysed using random regression models (2018)
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Seeker, L. A., Ilska, J. J., Psifidi, A., Wilbourn, R. V., Underwood, S. L., Fairlie, J., Holland, R., Froy, H., Bagnall, A., Whitelaw, B., Coffey, M., Nussey, D. H., & Banos, G. (2018). Longitudinal changes in telomere length and associated genetic parameters in dairy cattle analysed using random regression models. PLoS ONE, 13(2), https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0192864

Telomeres cap the ends of linear chromosomes and shorten with age in many organisms. In humans short telomeres have been linked to morbidity and mortality. With the accumulation of longitudinal datasets the focus shifts from investigating telomere le... Read More about Longitudinal changes in telomere length and associated genetic parameters in dairy cattle analysed using random regression models.