Classification of cattle breeds contributes to our understanding of the history of cattle and is essential for an effective conservation of genetic diversity. Here we review the various classifications over the last two centuries and compare the most...
Breed is a major source of variation in beef quality, yet how differences in rumen microbial communities relate to metabolic profiles and meat quality across breeds remains unclear. This study compared growth performance, meat quality traits, rumen m...
Beef cattle breed improvement holds strategic significance in the livestock industry. Pinan cattle, developed through years of selective breeding in Xinye County, Henan Province, exhibit superior traits including thin skin, fine bone structure, rapid...
Visceral organ mass is a major determinant of maintenance energy requirements in cattle, suggesting that equations to predict visceral organ mass could increase the accuracy of estimates of energy requirements. The objective of this meta-analysis was...
Bovine ephemeral fever virus (BEFV) is an arthropod-borne virus (arbovirus) transmitted by blood-feeding insects (mosquitoes and Culicoides biting midges). While the dispersal of arboviral diseases such as bovine ephemeral fever (BEF) into naive area...
Huaxi cattle, a specialized beef cattle breed in China, has the characteristics of fast growth, high slaughter rate, and net meat rate, good reproductive performance, strong stress resistance, and wide adaptability. In this study, we evaluated the ge...
Bovine respiratory disease remains the leading cause of morbidity and mortality in feedyard cattle and is associated with substantial economic and animal welfare consequences. Prognostic tools remain limited, but combining objective diagnostic measur...
The breeding of high-quality beef cattle breeds is crucial for the development of animal husbandry, and whole-genome resequencing is widely applicated in the field of molecular breeding. Advantages in growth and reproductive traits exist in Pinan cat...
Bohai Black cattle are one of the well-known cattle breeds with black coat color in China, which are cultivated for beef. However, no study has conducted a comprehensive analysis of genomic diversity and selective pressures in Bohai Black cattle. Her...
The hypothalamic–pituitary–thyroid (HPT) axis hormones regulate the growth and development of ruminants, and the pituitary gland plays a decisive role in this process. In order to identify pivotal genes in the pituitary gland that could a...
The Pingliang red cattle, an outstanding indigenous resource in China, possesses an exceptional breeding value attributed to its tender meat and superior marbling quality. Currently, research efforts have predominantly concentrated on exploring its m...
Background/Objectives: The A1/A2 polymorphism of the bovine CSN2 gene, encoding β-casein, is relevant to milk composition and breeding strategies for A2 milk production. This study aimed to compare the frequencies of A1 and A2 variants in three...
To investigate the impact of maternal microbiota during lactation in different beef cattle breeds on their own immune levels, milk quality, and the growth and development of their offspring, this study measured the immune parameters, intestinal micro...
The small heat shock proteins (HSPB) are expressed in response to heat stress, and the heat shock protein family B (small) member 7 (HSPB7) gene has been reported to play an important role in heat tolerance pathways. Only a missense mutation (NC_0373...
Honghe cattle were formally recognized as the eighth indigenous cattle breed in Yunnan Province, a region in southwestern China characterized by complex geography and variable climates that have shaped distinctive local cattle germplasm. In this stud...
Genetic disorders arise from alterations in the hereditary information encoded in DNA, leading to potential detrimental effects on the well-being and vitality of organisms. Within the bovine population, genetic conditions inherited in an autosomal re...
As one of the five major indigenous yellow cattle breeds in China, Qinchuan cattle are characterized by stable genetic performance and desirable meat quality. However, compared with imported commercial breeds, Qinchuan cattle have a relatively slow g...
Accurate prognosis at first treatment for bovine respiratory disease (BRD) is essential for timely interventions and management decisions. This cross-sectional observational study evaluated 819 commercial beef feedyard cattle at chute-side for first...
Traditional measurement methods often rely on manual operations, which are not only inefficient but also cause stress to cattle, affecting animal welfare. Currently, non-contact cattle dimension measurement usually involves the use of multi-view imag...
Ticks and tick-borne diseases pose a significant threat to public health. The Tumen River Basin is located at the junction of China, North Korea and Russia, whose warm climate and favorable ecological environment are suitable for the growth and repro...
The intensity and specialization of beef cattle production make off-site fattening, and introduce new breeds need transportation to achieve the goals. The present study was aimed to investigate effects of land transport stress on hormones levels, mic...
Yanhuang cattle is a specialized beef breed independently developed in China with high economic value. However, the effects of the horned/polled trait on its production performance and the underlying genetic markers are poorly understood. This study...
Smoothened (Smo)-mediated Hedgehog (Hh) signaling pathway governs the patterning, morphogenesis and growth of many different regions within animal body plans. This study evaluated the effects of genetic variations of the bovine SMO gene on economica...
Chinese indigenous cattle breeds have abundant genetic resources, which are valuable for the molecular breeding of cattle around the world. Thus, identifying important candidate genes and their genetic markers is very important for cattle molecular b...
While studies have been conducted examining the stress response of dairy cattle to individual acute and chronic stressors, the results are difficult to compare due to differences in study design and analysis methods. The aim of the present study was...
Silent information regulator 2 (SIRT2) is a member of the sirtuin family of class III NAD (nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide)-dependent protein deacetylases and may regulate senescence, metabolism and apoptosis. The aims of this study were to investi...
In the beef industry, fat tissue is closely related to meat quality. In this study, high-throughput RNA sequencing was utilized for adipose tissue transcriptome analysis between cattle-yak, Qaidamford cattle, and Angus cattle. The screening and ident...
Understanding temperament is an important part of cattle production since undesirable temperament may cause serious problems associated with aggression, maternal care, and human safety. However, little is known about how farmers define or assess temp...
Antibiotics can promote livestock growth but have side effects, so the search for safe and effective alternatives to antibiotics is urgent. This study aimed to evaluate the effect of supplementing cattle feed with tea saponins on ruminal bacteria and...
In this study, the effects of vitamin A and its metabolite, all-trans retinoic acid (ATRA), on the proliferation and differentiation of preadipocytes and the intestinal microbiome in Yanbian yellow cattle were investigated. Preadipocytes collected fr...
In the presented research, BovineSNP50 microarrays (Illumina) were applied to determine runs of homozygosity in the genomes of 11 cattle breeds maintained in Poland. These cattle breeds represent three basic utility types: milk, meat and dual purpose...
In livestock production, deeply understanding the molecular mechanisms of growth and metabolic differences in different breeds of cattle is of great significance for optimizing breeding strategies, improving meat quality, and promoting sustainable de...
This study proposes a framework for remote identification and tracking of cattle movement based on wireless sensor networks (WSN), mobile communication, and unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). The proposed framework can be implemented for tracking cattl...
Entamoeba spp. are common zoonotic intestinal protozoa, which can lead to serious intestinal diseases in both humans and animals through fecal–oral transmission, leading to significant economic losses and public health challenges. To reveal the...
This study aims to elucidate the population structure and genetic diversity of Xinjiang brown cattle (XJBC) and Chinese Simmental cattle (CSC) while conducting genome-wide selective signatures analyses to identify selected genes associated with milk...
Meat quality is an important economic trait in beef cattle and is influenced by breed-related metabolic characteristics. Yanbian cattle (YB) are valued for desirable meat quality, whereas Yanhuang cattle (YH), developed using Limousin cattle as the p...
A crucial goal of reducing backfat thickness (BFT) is to indirectly improve feed conversion efficiency. This phenotype has been reported in certain papers; however, the molecular mechanism has yet to be fully revealed. Two extreme BFT groups, consist...
The experiment was to compare the effects of switching all-concentrate to all-roughage diets on rumen microflora and functional metabolism of yak, cattle-yak, Tibetan yellow cattle and yellow cattle living in different altitudes. A total of 24 yaks,...
Body weight and chemical composition are important aspects of beef cattle nutrition and management; however, existing equations estimating relationships among empty body and carcass chemical components were developed over 40 years ago using different...
Necropsies are commonly used to diagnose the causes of death in feedyard cattle, but the documentation of multiple organ system involvement and concurrent lesions is limited. This observational study aimed to determine the frequency of such findings...
Wetland ecosystems are highly productive and valued for numerous reasons including wildlife habitat, biodiversity, water quantity and quality, and human uses. Grazing livestock on wet grasslands can sometimes be controversial due the humidity of the...
The Hungarian Grey (HG) cattle breed was almost extinct after WW2; only 200 cows and six bulls survived. Despite the historical significance of the HG, no comprehensive genomic analysis has been conducted to clarify its genetic diversity and evolutio...
This review considers the unique characteristics of Chinese cattle and intramuscular fat content (IMF) as factors influencing meat quality, including tenderness, flavor, and juiciness of meat. Due to its nutritional qualities, meat contributes to a h...
The aim of this experiment was to investigate the differences in metabolites in perirenal fat (PF) between Chinese Simmental cattle and Angus cattle. Six healthy 18-month-old male Angus cattle and Chinese Simmental cattle were selected, and the perir...
Dry-aging is a postmortem process that can substantially enhance the texture and flavour of beef. This study entailed suspending Yanbian cattle M. gluteus medius in the aging cabinet, maintained at a temperature of 2–4 °C and a relative hum...
Brazil’s zero-deforestation Cattle Agreements (CAs) have influenced the supply chain but their impact on deforestation has been limited in part because slaughterhouses monitor deforestation only on the properties they buy from directly. Consequently,...
Non-additive effects play important roles in determining genetic changes with regard to complex traits; however, such effects are usually ignored in genetic evaluation and quantitative trait locus (QTL) mapping analysis. In this study, a two-componen...
Heat stress and cold stress have a negative influence on cattle welfare and productivity. There have been some studies investigating the influence of cold stress on cattle, however the emphasis within this review is the influence of heat stress on ca...
This review article examines the role of selenium (Se) and the effects of Se supplementation especially in the bovine species. Selenium is an important trace element in cattle. Some of its roles include the participation in the antioxidant defense th...
Environmental concerns, caused by greenhouse gases released to the atmosphere and overrunning of nutrients and pathogens to water bodies, have led to reducing direct spread onto the land of cattle manure. In addition, this practice can be a source of...
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