Chris Haley

TL;DR: Evaluating the use of unilateral ovariectomy for the measurement of uterine capacity in rabbits through a comparison of the relationships between ovulation rate, number of implanted embryos, and litter size found that pre- and postimplantation survivals were not related in intact does but seemed to be related in ULO does through an effect on the number of implantation sites.

TL;DR: The size of QTL effect is such that the QTL flanking markers can be immediately applied in marker-assisted selection programmes to improve the resistance of salmon populations to IPN, thus reducing mortality due to the disease.

TL;DR: An overview is given of the methods which are available for the detection of QTL and the appropriate method of analysis will depend on the design of the experiment, information required and assumptions which are valid on the underlying genetic model.

TL;DR: Investigation of genetic diversity within and between breeds (and lines) of pigs showed that the local breeds accounted for 56% of the total European between-breed microsatellite diversity, and slightly less for AFLP, followed by commercial lines and international breeds, whereas the group of international breeds contributed most to within-Breed diversity.

TL;DR: Because the time spent in nearwork tasks is highly correlated between siblings, epidemiological studies will benefit from precise, quantitative measures of refractive error in parents and more distant relatives in order to begin to dissociate genetic and environmental sources of variation.