Publications by authors named "Mohammad Taghi Beigi Nassiri"
The aim of this study was to investigate the immunogenicity of a plasmid deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) vaccine encoding the G1 epitope of bovine ephemeral fever virus (BEFV) G glycoprotein in mice. A plasmid DNA carrying the G1 gene was constructed and designated as pcDNA3.1-G1.
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- The study is the first to analyze the genetic and phenotypic relationships between growth and reproductive traits in Zandi sheep, using data from 4,309 lamb growth records and 2,588 reproductive trait records.
- It employed two animal models to estimate correlations between lamb growth traits (like birth weight and weaning weight) and ewe reproductive traits (including litter size and total litter weight).
- The findings show varied genetic correlations, particularly indicating that selecting for improved weaning weight might significantly enhance total litter weight at weaning and other reproductive traits in Zandi sheep.
This study reports on the phenotypic and genetic (co)variance components for reproductive traits in Zandi sheep, using between 1,859 and 2,588 records obtained from 577 ewes. The data were collected from the Khojir Breeding Station of Zandi sheep in Tehran, Iran from 1994 to 2008. The basic traits were litter size at birth (LSB), litter size at weaning (LSW), litter mean weight per lamb born (LMWLB), and litter mean weight per lamb weaned (LMWLW), and the composite traits were total litter weight at birth (TLWB) and total litter weight at weaning (TLWW).
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