… either secretin (2 U/kg) or calcium infusion (4 mg Ca 2+ /kg·h for 3 h) are required to distinguish
patients with ZES from other patients with hypergastrinemia, such as those with antral G-…

The Booroola fecundity gene (FecB) increases ovulation rate and litter size in sheep and is
inherited as a single autosomal locus. The effect of FecB is additive for ovulation rate (…

Human assisted reproductive technology procedures are routinely performed in clinics globally,
and some of these approaches are now common in other mammals such as cattle. This …

Reproductive traits are complex, and desirable reproductive phenotypes, such as litter size
or semen quality, are true polygenetic traits determined by multiple gene regulatory pathways…

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Quantitative trait loci analyses were applied to data from Suffolk and Texel commercial sheep
flocks in the United Kingdom. The populations comprised 489 Suffolk animals in three half-…

… This equates to an estimated additive effect that varied from 11.9 g/day in the Swedish
population to 20.6 g/day in the … Our exploratory analyses of the British and French data (Walling …

… Ave BWT of a litter ranged from 820 to 2740 g and the SD BWT ranged from 8.5 to 811.8 g.
LITTER SIZE ranged from 1 to 29 piglets. The within-litter proportion of piglets surviving to …

Pigs with a lean genotype were fed diets differing in protein and amino acid contents
between 40 and 115kg live weight. A high protein control regime (C) was compared with one …

Background Obesity, excess fat tissue in the body, can underlie a variety of medical complaints
including heart disease, stroke and cancer. The pig is an excellent model organism for …