Nauman J. Maqbool

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: The findings support the essentiality of milk to the survival of mammalian neonates and the establishment of milk secretory mechanisms more than 160 million years ago and suggest that this diversity of milk protein composition across species is primarily due to other mechanisms.

TL;DR: The repertoire and extent of inflammation dependent gene regulation in a bovine mammary epithelial cell (MEC) model, to better understand the contribution of the MEC in the immune defence of the udder, and the adequacy of immunological regulation in MEC is compared.

TL;DR: It is proposed that a substantial proportion of unexplained phenotypic variation in the dairy cow is due to epigenetic regulation, which highlights the potential to modify lactation performance of offspring.

TL;DR: The deer map and interspecies hybrid pedigrees described here are a valuable resource for predicting the location of orthologs to human genes in ruminants, mapping QTL in farmed and wild deer populations, and ruminant phylogenetic studies.