In dairy cattle, the widespread use of artificial insemination has resulted in increased selection
intensity, which has led to spectacular increase in productivity. However, cow fertility has …

Despite much attention, history of sheep (Ovis aries) evolution, including its dating, demographic
trajectory and geographic spread, remains controversial. To address these questions, …

Background The Nordic Red Cattle consisting of three different populations from Finland,
Sweden and Denmark are under a joint breeding value estimation system. The long history of …

Domestication in the near eastern region had a major impact on the gene pool of humpless
taurine cattle (Bos taurus). As a result of subsequent natural and artificial selection, hundreds …

… Terhi Iso-Touru b Hannu Puolijoki c … Analyzed with the t test (mean) and the χ2 test. If a
statistically significant difference was found, pairwise comparison was done by the Bonferroni …

Background Several molecular and population genetic studies have focused on the native
sheep breeds of Finland. In this work, we investigated their ancestral sheep populations from …

Background Artificial insemination is widely used in many cattle breeding programs. Semen
samples of breeding bulls are collected and closely examined immediately after collection at …

Large genomic deletions are potential candidate for loss-of-function, which could be lethal
as homozygote. Analysing whole genome data of 175 cattle, we report 8,480 large deletions (…

… would be impossible without major input from other organizations, particularly the National
Resources Institute Finland (Luke; represented in our team by Eeva Vainio, Terhi Iso-Touru, …

… fiber population in Finland compared to the population in Russia (Iso-Touru et al. 2020),
the immigrants from Russia could improve the situation. Translocation of some C. fiber …