Special Issue "Cytogenetics of Domestic Animals: Clinical, Molecular and Evolutionary Aspects"
A special issue of Animals (ISSN 2076-2615). This special issue belongs to the section "Veterinary Clinical Studies".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 October 2021.
Special Issue Editors
Interests: animal cytogenetics; gene mapping by FISH; standard karyotypes; genetic improvement of livestock
Interests: citogenetics; chromosome; sex determination; sry; sox; robertsonian traslocation; animal genetics
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
After the discovery of 1;29 Robertsonian translocation in the Swedish red cattle occurred more than 50 years ago and the demonstration of its deleterious effects on fertility, the cytogenetics applied to domestic animals was largely applied by several scientific laboratories in all the world. The main interest of the scientists has been focused to the following sectors: (a) clinical cytogenetics (study of the relationships between chromosome abnormalities and fertility), (b) evolutionary cytogenetics (study of chromosome banding homologies and gene order between related and unrelated species); (c) molecular cytogenetics (use of molecular markers –generally BAC-clones- and the FISH-technique (i) to extend the genetic physical maps,(ii) to better characterize chromosome abnormalities and (iii) to better study the chromosome evolution of species); (d) environmental cytogenetics (use of several chromosome or molecular test to establish possible damages to the DNA derived by exposure to alleged mutagens present in the environment).
In this Special issue, both paper-review, original contributions and short communications will be published to both sum up the knowledge and update the most important questions and problems related to the domestic animal cytogenetics, giving particular attention to the clinical cytogenetics which is particularly under the screen of both breeders and scientists for the animal breeding improvement.
Dr. Leopoldo Iannuzzi
Dr. Pietro Parma
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- animal cytogenetics
- chromosome abnormality
- animal fertility
- genetic improvement
- molecular cytogenetics
- chromosome evolution
Planned Papers
The below list represents only planned manuscripts. Some of these manuscripts have not been received by the Editorial Office yet. Papers submitted to MDPI journals are subject to peer-review.
Title: Chromosome Abnormalities and Fertility in Domestic Bovids: A review
Authors: A. Iannuzzi; P. Parma; L. Iannuzzi
Affiliation: National Research Council (CNR) of Italy
Title: Clinical cytogenetics of the dog - A review
Authors: Szczerbal I.; Switonski M.
Affiliation: Department of Genetics and Animal Breeding, Poznan University of Life Sciences, Poland
Title: Clinical Cytogenetics in the Horse - Past, Present, Future
Authors: Prof. Monika Bugno; Prof. Terje Raudsepp
Affiliation: University of Agriculture : Krakow, PL and Texas A&M University, USA
Title: Classical, Molecular and Genomic Cytogenetics of the Pig
Authors: A.W. King; B. Donaldson; D. Villagomez
Affiliation: University of Guelph, Canada
Title: Anchoring the CerEla1.0 genome assembly to red deer (Cervus elaphus) and cattle (Bos taurus) chromosomes and specification of evolutionary chromosome rearrangements in Cervidae
Authors: J. Rubes
Affiliation: Středoevropský technologický institutdisabled, Brno, Czech Republic
Title: Karyotype evolution and genomic organization of repetitive DNAs in Sicalis flaveola (Passeriformes, Aves)
Authors: Darren Griffin
Affiliation: University of Kent, Canterbury, United Kingdom