Colette A. Abbey

TL;DR: To understand the biology and evolution of ruminants, the cattle genome was sequenced to about sevenfold coverage and provides a resource for understanding mammalian evolution and accelerating livestock genetic improvement for milk and meat production.

TL;DR: Data show that cattle have undergone a rapid recent decrease in effective population size from a very large ancestral population, possibly due to bottlenecks associated with domestication, selection, and breed formation.

TL;DR: Identification of SSRs within 312 RFLP sequences plus direct mapping of 124 SSRs and exploration for CAPS and SNPs illustrate the “portability” of these STS loci across populations and detection systems useful for marker-assisted improvement of the world's leading fiber crop.

TL;DR: A genetic recombination map for Sorghum of 2512 loci spaced at average 0.4 cM intervals based on 2050 RFLP probes is reported, supporting and extending prior findings regarding maize-sorghum synteny-in particular, where 45% of comparative loci fall outside the inferred colinear/syntenic regions, suggesting that many small rearrangements have occurred since maize-edinburgh divergence.

TL;DR: Identification and analysis of these hormonally responsive genes will help define endometrial pathways critical for uterine support of peri-implantation conceptus survival, growth, and implantation.