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In Vitro Antioxidant Activities of Plant Polyphenol Extracts and Their Combined Effect with Flaxseed on Raw and Cooked Breast Muscle Fatty Acid Content, Lipid Health Indices and Oxidative Stability in Slow-Growing Sasso Chickens (2022)
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Tadesse, D., Retta, N., Girma, M., Ndiwa, N., Dessie, T., Hanotte, O., …Maak, S. (2023). In Vitro Antioxidant Activities of Plant Polyphenol Extracts and Their Combined Effect with Flaxseed on Raw and Cooked Breast Muscle Fatty Acid Content, Lipid Health Indices and Oxidative Stability in Slow-Growing Sasso Chickens. Foods, 12(1), Article 115. https://doi.org/10.3390/foods12010115

Adding flaxseed was found to decrease oxidative stability in feed and increase the antioxidant needs of chicken. This has also been associated with a decrease in the nutritional value and oxidative stability of meat if sufficient dietary antioxidants... Read More about In Vitro Antioxidant Activities of Plant Polyphenol Extracts and Their Combined Effect with Flaxseed on Raw and Cooked Breast Muscle Fatty Acid Content, Lipid Health Indices and Oxidative Stability in Slow-Growing Sasso Chickens.

Genomic adaptation of Ethiopian indigenous cattle to high altitude (2022)
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Terefe, E., Belay, G., Han, J., Hanotte, O., & Tijjani, A. (2022). Genomic adaptation of Ethiopian indigenous cattle to high altitude. Frontiers in Genetics, 13, Article 960234. https://doi.org/10.3389/fgene.2022.960234

The mountainous areas of Ethiopia represent one of the most extreme environmental challenges in Africa faced by humans and other inhabitants. Selection for high-altitude adaptation is expected to have imprinted the genomes of livestock living in thes... Read More about Genomic adaptation of Ethiopian indigenous cattle to high altitude.

Transcriptome analysis of differentially expressed circRNAs miRNAs and mRNAs during the challenge of coccidiosis (2022)
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Chen, X., Wang, Z., Chen, Y., Akinci, I., Luo, W., Xu, Y., …Nie, Q. (2022). Transcriptome analysis of differentially expressed circRNAs miRNAs and mRNAs during the challenge of coccidiosis. Frontiers in Immunology, 13, Article 910860. https://doi.org/10.3389/fimmu.2022.910860

Avian coccidiosis is a common enzootic disease caused by infection of Eimeria species parasites. It causes huge economic losses in the global poultry industry. Current control using anticoccidial drugs or vaccination is limited due to drug resistance... Read More about Transcriptome analysis of differentially expressed circRNAs miRNAs and mRNAs during the challenge of coccidiosis.

Genome-Wide Genetic Diversity and Population Structure of Local Sudanese Sheep Populations Revealed by Whole-Genome Sequencing (2022)
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Amane, A., Belay, G., Tijjani, A., Dessie, T., Musa, H. H., & Hanotte, O. (2022). Genome-Wide Genetic Diversity and Population Structure of Local Sudanese Sheep Populations Revealed by Whole-Genome Sequencing. Diversity, 14(11), Article 895. https://doi.org/10.3390/d14110895

Local Sudanese sheep populations inhabiting diverse environmental conditions and holding opposing morphologies provide opportunities for molecular-genetic research. Characterizing their genome is crucial for sustainable breeding improvement and targe... Read More about Genome-Wide Genetic Diversity and Population Structure of Local Sudanese Sheep Populations Revealed by Whole-Genome Sequencing.

Ecological niche modelling as a tool to identify candidate indigenous chicken ecotypes of Tigray (Ethiopia) (2022)
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Gebru, G., Belay, G., Vallejo-Trujillo, A., Dessie, T., Gheyas, A., & Hanotte, O. (2022). Ecological niche modelling as a tool to identify candidate indigenous chicken ecotypes of Tigray (Ethiopia). Frontiers in Genetics, 13, Article 968961. https://doi.org/10.3389/fgene.2022.968961

The Tigray region is an ancient entry route for the domestic chickens into Africa. The oldest African chicken bones were found in this region at Mezber, a pre-Aksumite rural farming settlement. They were dated to around 800–400 BCE. Since then, the f... Read More about Ecological niche modelling as a tool to identify candidate indigenous chicken ecotypes of Tigray (Ethiopia).

Influence of Eimeria maxima coccidia infection on gut microbiome diversity and composition of the jejunum and cecum of indigenous chicken (2022)
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Jebessa, E., Guo, L., Chen, X., Bello, S. F., Cai, B., Girma, M., …Nie, Q. (2022). Influence of Eimeria maxima coccidia infection on gut microbiome diversity and composition of the jejunum and cecum of indigenous chicken. Frontiers in Immunology, 13, Article 994224. https://doi.org/10.3389/fimmu.2022.994224

Coccidiosis is an economically significant protozoan disease and an intracellular parasite that significantly impacts poultry production. The gastrointestinal tract microbiota plays a central role in host health and metabolism, and these microbes enh... Read More about Influence of Eimeria maxima coccidia infection on gut microbiome diversity and composition of the jejunum and cecum of indigenous chicken.

Natural adaptation and human selection of northeast African sheep genomes (2022)
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Ahbara, A. M., Musa, H. H., Robert, C., Abebe, A., Al-Jumaili, A. S., Kebede, A., …Mwacharo, J. M. (2022). Natural adaptation and human selection of northeast African sheep genomes. Genomics, 114(5), Article 110448. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ygeno.2022.110448

African sheep manifest diverse but distinct physio-anatomical traits, which are the outcomes of natural- and human-driven selection. Here, we generated 34.8 million variants from 150 indigenous northeast African sheep genomes sequenced at an average... Read More about Natural adaptation and human selection of northeast African sheep genomes.

Ecological niche modelling for delineating livestock ecotypes and exploring environmental genomic adaptation: The example of Ethiopian village chicken (2022)
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Vallejo-Trujillo, A., Kebede, A., Lozano-Jaramillo, M., Dessie, T., Smith, J., Hanotte, O., & Gheyas, A. A. (2022). Ecological niche modelling for delineating livestock ecotypes and exploring environmental genomic adaptation: The example of Ethiopian village chicken. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 10, Article 866587. https://doi.org/10.3389/fevo.2022.866587

In evolutionary ecology, an “ecotype” is a population that is genetically adapted to specific environmental conditions. Environmental and genetic characterisation of livestock ecotypes can play a crucial role in conservation and breeding improvement,... Read More about Ecological niche modelling for delineating livestock ecotypes and exploring environmental genomic adaptation: The example of Ethiopian village chicken.

Genomic signatures for drylands adaptation at gene-rich regions in African zebu cattle (2022)
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Tijjani, A., Salim, B., da Silva, M. V. B., Eltahir, H. A., Musa, T. H., Marshall, K., …Musa, H. H. (2022). Genomic signatures for drylands adaptation at gene-rich regions in African zebu cattle. Genomics, 114(4), Article 110423. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ygeno.2022.110423

Background Indigenous Sudanese cattle are mainly indicine/zebu (humped) type. They thrive in the harshest dryland environments characterised by high temperatures, long seasonal dry periods, nutritional shortages, and vector disease challenges. Here,... Read More about Genomic signatures for drylands adaptation at gene-rich regions in African zebu cattle.

Correction to: Population diferentiated copy number variation of Bos taurus, Bos indicus and their African hybrids (2022)
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Jang, J., Terefe, E., Kim, K., Lee, Y. H., Belay, G., Tijjani, A., …Kim, H. (2022). Correction to: Population diferentiated copy number variation of Bos taurus, Bos indicus and their African hybrids. BMC Genomics, 23, Article 207. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12864-022-08409-8

Following publication of the original article [1], the authors reported that the following missing authors from the authorship list: • Endashaw Terefe • Gurja Belay • Abdulfatai Tijjani • Jian-Lin Han • Olivier Hanotte The corrected authorship list a... Read More about Correction to: Population diferentiated copy number variation of Bos taurus, Bos indicus and their African hybrids.

Author Correction: Mitonuclear incompatibility as a hidden driver behind the genome ancestry of African admixed cattle (2022)
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Kwon, T., Kim, K., Caetano-Anolles, K., Sung, S., Cho, S., Jeong, C., …Kim, H. (2022). Author Correction: Mitonuclear incompatibility as a hidden driver behind the genome ancestry of African admixed cattle. BMC Biology, 20, Article 62. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12915-022-01265-8

The original article contained minor errors in Figs. 1 and 3 which have both since been corrected.

Whole genome sequences of 234 indigenous African chickens from Ethiopia (2022)
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Gheyas, A., Vallejo-Trujillo, A., Kebede, A., Dessie, T., Hanotte, O., & Smith, J. (2022). Whole genome sequences of 234 indigenous African chickens from Ethiopia. Scientific Data, 9, Article 53. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-022-01129-4

Indigenous chickens predominate poultry production in Africa. Although preferred for backyard farming because of their adaptability to harsh tropical environments, these populations suffer from relatively low productivity compared to commercial lines... Read More about Whole genome sequences of 234 indigenous African chickens from Ethiopia.

The usefulness of maternally inherited genetic markers for phylogeographic studies in village chicken (2022)
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Al-Jumaili, A. S., & Hanotte, O. (2023). The usefulness of maternally inherited genetic markers for phylogeographic studies in village chicken. Animal Biotechnology, 34(4), 863-881. https://doi.org/10.1080/10495398.2021.2000429

Phylogeography plays a major role in understanding micro and macroevolutionary processes dealing with evolutionary interpretations of geographical distribution. This field integrates information from molecular genetics, population genetics, demograph... Read More about The usefulness of maternally inherited genetic markers for phylogeographic studies in village chicken.

Mitonuclear incompatibility as a hidden driver behind the genome ancestry of African admixed cattle (2022)
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Kwon, T., Kim, K., Caetano-Anolles, K., Sung, S., Cho, S., Jeong, C., …Kim, H. (2022). Mitonuclear incompatibility as a hidden driver behind the genome ancestry of African admixed cattle. BMC Biology, 20(1), Article 20. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12915-021-01206-x

Background: Africa is an important watershed in the genetic history of domestic cattle, as two lineages of modern cattle, Bos taurus and B. indicus, form distinct admixed cattle populations. Despite the predominant B. indicus nuclear ancestry of Afri... Read More about Mitonuclear incompatibility as a hidden driver behind the genome ancestry of African admixed cattle.