Publications by authors named "M Martinez-Castillero"
INGA FOOD S. A., as a Spanish company that produces and commercializes fattened pigs, has produced a hybrid Iberian sow called CASTÚA by crossing the Retinto and Entrepelado varieties.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFMastitis is one of the most prevalent diseases in dairy cattle and is the cause of considerable economic losses. Alongside somatic cell count (SCC), differential somatic cell count (DSCC) has been recently introduced as a new indicator of intramammary infection. The DSCC is expressed as a count or a proportion (%) of polymorphonuclear neutrophils plus lymphocytes (PMN-LYM) in milk somatic cells.
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- The study focuses on the Rubia Gallega cattle breeding scheme, which uses farm and slaughterhouse data along with genomic evaluation techniques to analyze genetic traits.
- The researchers employed a single-step genomic method (ssGBLUP) to identify significant genomic regions linked to growth and carcass quality traits, using extensive data records for traits like birth weight and cold carcass weight.
- They discovered several genomic regions associated with these traits, with some showing pleiotropic effects, implying that certain areas of the genome influence multiple traits simultaneously.
Our study investigated the inbreeding load for fertility traits in the Italian Brown Swiss dairy cattle breed. Fertility traits included continuous traits (i.e.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThis study aimed to investigate the genetic and putative causal relationships between fertility traits [i.e., days open (DO) and calving rate (CR)] and milk quality, composition, and fatty acid contents (milk composition traits) in Holstein-Friesian, Brown Swiss, and Simmental cattle, using recursive models within a Bayesian framework.
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