Nejat Badbarin; nymat hydaeat
Volume 18, Issue 4 , December 2016, , Pages 661-670
Abstract
The aim of this study was to map body weight QTLs with some microsatellite markers on chromosome 2 of Markhoz goats. For this purpose a total of 255 offspring including 129 male and 126 female from 8 half-sib sire families were genotyped for 6 microsatellite markers on chromosomes 2. Quantitative traits ...
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The aim of this study was to map body weight QTLs with some microsatellite markers on chromosome 2 of Markhoz goats. For this purpose a total of 255 offspring including 129 male and 126 female from 8 half-sib sire families were genotyped for 6 microsatellite markers on chromosomes 2. Quantitative traits were included weights at birth, 4 months, 6 months, 9 months and 12 months of age. Significant QTL effect was tested using the least squared regression approach using GridQTL (V3.3.0) software. In this study, one putative QTL were detected for weaning weight at 153 cM on chromosome 2 (P<0.01). QTL effect was 4.99 in units of residual standard deviation. The position of this QTL was between the IDVGA64 and OarFCB011 and its distance was measured 10 cM of IDVGA64 markers. In the present study any pleiotropic effect of this QTL with other traits were not recognized. It is expected that future genome wide scan with larger individual per family will help identify pleotropic effects and other QTLs associated with these traits and will provide useful markers for marker-assisted selection of such important traits. According to ensure high confidence interval (CM = 25 cM) Offer is not valid candidate genes for QTL set and is recommended for accurate determination of the QTL in future studies of more offspring in the family are applied.
Mahdi Afra; Bahman Navidshad; Farzad Mirzaei Aghjeh Gheshlagh; Nemat Hedayat Ivarigh
Volume 18, Issue 3 , October 2016, , Pages 563-573
Abstract
This experiment was carried out using 200 Ross 308 broiler chickens in a completely randomized design with 5 treatments and 4 replicates. The true metabolisable energy of the barley hulls were determined using cecectomized roosters.The dry matter, true metabolisable energy, ash, ether extracts, crude ...
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This experiment was carried out using 200 Ross 308 broiler chickens in a completely randomized design with 5 treatments and 4 replicates. The true metabolisable energy of the barley hulls were determined using cecectomized roosters.The dry matter, true metabolisable energy, ash, ether extracts, crude protein, crude fiber, NDF, ADF, Ca and total P content of barely hulls were: 92%, 978 kcal/kg, 3.53%, 4.26%, 12.26%, 12.6%, 52.1%, 23.5%, 0.9% and 0.6%, respectively. The experimental diets were consisted of a control hulls free diet and four diets containing 0.75 or 1.5 percent barley hulls with particle sizes of less than 1 mm or between 1-2 mm. The barley hulls improved weight gain and feed conversion ratio and particularly the diet contained 1.5 percent barley hulls with particle size of 1-2 mm was more effective in this respect (P < 0.05). The same trend was observed in gizzard weight (P < 0.05). Dietary barley hulls improved dry matter, crude protein and ash digestibility (P < 0.05). All the barley hulls contained diets reduced feed cost per kg weight gain of broiler chickens, which could be a surprising finding. The results of the present study suggest that including barley hulls with 1-2 mm particle size at 1.5 percent of the diet could positively affect performance traits and feed cost of broiler chickens.