Tadelle Dessie

TL;DR: Signs of selection including genes and/or pathways controlling anemia and feeding behavior in the trypanotolerant N’Dama, coat color and horn development in Ankole, and heat tolerance and tick resistance across African cattle especially in zebu breeds are identified.

TL;DR: The results showed that production of eggs for consumption is the principal function of chickens in most regions followed by the use as source of income and meat for home consumption and the high significance attributed to reproduction traits indicates the need for maintaining broody behavior and high level of hatchability while breeding for improved productivity of indigenous chickens for village conditions.

TL;DR: Compared with other livestock, which show a long history of gene flow with their wild ancestors, the dromedary finds a high initial diversity relative to the native distribution of the wild ancestor on the Arabian Peninsula and to the brief coexistence of early-domesticated and wild individuals.

TL;DR: Five populations of chickens in different regions of Ethiopia were studied based on 13 qualitative traits recorded for a total of 1 125 chickens, and most of the morphological traits showed a very low level of associations with each other.

TL;DR: Genetic distance, phylogenic tree, principal component analysis, and population structure analyses clearly differentiated the cattle population according to their historical origins, and confirmed that Ethiopian cattle populations are genetically distinct from the Hanwoo breed.