Publications by authors named "Jose Ribamar Felipe Marques"

The goal of this study was to verify the effect of heterogeneity of variance (HV) on milk production in up to 305 days of lactation (L305) of daughters of Girolando, Gir and Holstein sires, as well as in the genetic evaluation of these sires and their progenies. in Brazil. The model included contemporary groups (consisting of herd, year and calving season) as a fixed effect, cow age at calving (linear and quadratic effects) and heterozygosity (linear effect) as covariates, in addition to the random effects of direct additive genetic and environmental, permanent and residual.

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  • - The study evaluated different nonlinear mixed models for analyzing the growth curves of meat-type quails based on gender, using over 30,000 records of males and females.
  • - Various nonlinear models (such as Brody, Gompertz, and others) were applied, with the Morgan-Mercer-Flodin model emerging as the best fit due to its accurate prediction of asymptotic weight when modeled as a random effect.
  • - Findings suggest that male quails grow at a slower rate than females, indicating that they should be slaughtered later, which could enhance meat quality and improve genetic characteristics over time.
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Body weight records were used to characterize the growth curve of Nelore cattle. Body weight was regressed as a function of age, for both sexes, by using nonlinear models through the functions of Brody, Gompertz, Logistic, Richards, Meloun 1, Von Bertalanffy, and Von Bertalanffy. The quality of the model arrangements was evaluated by employing Akaike and Bayesian Schwarz information criteria.

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The objective of this work was to characterize genetically some buffalo herds raised in Varzea (VA) and Terra-Firme (upland) (TF) ecosystems through polymorphism of the intron 2 of the leptin gene ( LEP-1620). Two hundred seventy-nine animals from four distinct populations were evaluated using the PCR-RFLP method for LEP-1620 polymorphism (SNP) of the leptin gene with restriction enzyme BsaAI. The animal samples were sorted into 4 groups, according to their breed and environmental origin: Mediterranean TF, Murrah TF, Mediterranean VA and Crossbreed VA.

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This study's purpose was to identify polymorphisms (SNP) in the goat β-defensin 1 gene and to associate these SNPs with traits related to nematodean and protozoan infections in Anglo-Nubian goats from semiarid region of Brazil. A total of 184 animals were used for DNA extraction, PCR and DNA automatic sequencing. The association analyses included the fixed effects of animal age, bloodline and genotype of the SNP marker in the statistical model.

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DOMESTIC BUFFALOES ARE DIVIDED INTO TWO GROUP BASED ON CYTOGENETIC CHARACTERISTICS AND HABITATS: the "river buffaloes" with 2n = 50 and the "swamp buffaloes", 2n = 48. Nevertheless, their hybrids are viable, fertile and identified by a 2n = 49. In order to have a better characterization of these different cytotypes of buffaloes, and considering that NOR-bearing chromosomes are involved in the rearrangements responsible for the karyotypic differences, we applied silver staining (Ag-NOR) and performed fluorescent in situ hybridization (FISH) experiments using 18S rDNA as probe.

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