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Improving feed efficiency in pig production has two main consequences: (i) increasing competitiveness of pig industry by reducing the cost of pork production – in a context of dramatic rise of the cost of feedstuffs – and (ii) decreasing environmental impact of pig farms, in particular that concerni
Detecting polymorphisms, such as SNPs (Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms) or CNVs (Copy Number Variations) in candidate genomic regions associated with complex traits or diseases in relevant animals is a prerequisite for further genotyping and identification of causes that explain phenotypic variation
Construction d’une banque BAC de cacaoyer Criollo ; séquençage et analyse bioinformatique des extrémités de BAC – CACAOBAC
Theobroma cacao L. is a diploid species (2n = 2x = 20) with a small genome of 430 Mbp. T. cacao L., is a tree fruit originated from the tropical rainforest of South America and is one of the major cash crops for many tropical countries. An International Cocoa Genome Sequencing consortium (ICGS) has
Genetic and functional characterization of the rainbow trout "mal" masculinizing mutation. – SEXYTROUT
In contrast to the situation observed in mammals and birds, in which a major sex-determining system has been maintained over at least 100 million years of evolution, a very large diversity of sex determination mechanisms has been reported in fish. In salmonids, sex determination is generally regarde
Methodological approaches and applications of geneomic selection in dairy cattle – AMASGEN
The AMASGEN project fits in sub-axis C of the thematic axis « Animal genomics » of the ANR-Génomique call for proposals. It explicitly aims at bringing to the forefront the most recent genomic approaches to enhance and extend the marker assisted selection methods currently used in dairy cattle. The
The present project aims at improving the knowledge of the genetic and physiological bases of reproduction and associated processes of an economically important mollusk, the Pacific oyster Crassostrea gigas a species whose phylum is located at a key phylogenetic position among bilaterian animals. T
The most important congenital genetic defects that occur in piglets are hernias (umbilical hernia and inguinal or scrotal hernias), cryptorchidism and splay legs, and to a lesser extent intersexuality, hermaphrodism and anal atresia. They affect on average 3% of the commercial pig populations worldw
60 000 SNP chip to fine map QTL affecting production traits, resistance to diseases and behaviour in sheep. – SheepSNPQTL
During the last 15 years in France, 10 different QTL studies have been carried out in sheep. Numerous economically important traits (milk and meat production and/or quality, reproduction, behaviour and disease resistance traits …) recorded on farm or in specialized experimental designs have been con
Maternal-embryo exchanges: harnessing the transcriptomic data in cattle at implantation – MEETAC
Beyond its fundamental interest, understanding the implantation process is of major importance in livestock species since the peri-implantation conceptus loss account for more than 35% of the pregnancy failure. Consequently, when pregnancy does not establish properly, repeated services (artificial i
Impact of recombination and biased gene conversion on genome evolution: application to animal comparative genomics – CoGeBi
The identification of functional elements (genes, regulatory elements) in large eukaryotic genomes such as those of animals and plants is a major issue. Sequence annotation relies heavily on comparative genomics: by analyzing patterns of sequence variation between different species or within populat
Sea food consumption is an important component of healthy diet. Increase in aquaculture production is required to compensate rarefaction of sea food from wild fisheries. A challenge facing aquaculture industry is to increase fish flesh production while maintaining nutritional value and quality of th
This project aims at determining the main genetic and environmental factors determining fine milk composition in fat and protein. It includes 3 tasks but is a part of a larger programme with six tasks, three of them being supported by non-ANR fundings : (1) adapt Mid Infra Red (MIR) spectrometers of
required for the full acquisition of oocyte developmental competence in vertebrates. In order to do so, we will first aim at performing a wide-scale microarray-based gene expression study of the granulosa cells during in vivo oocyte developmental competence acquisition. The studied will be performed
Analyse du transcriptome des interactions entre le blé et le champignon pathogène Septoria tritici (Mycosphaerella graminicola) – TWIST
Wheat is the most widely grown and consumed food crop in the world. It is the staple food of nearly 35% of the world population, and demand for wheat is expected to grow faster than for any other major crop. Fungal diseases are a major concern for wheat production. Among them, Septoria tritici (syn.
Création d'une nouvelle ressource pour la validation de gènes chez le blé: une population emboitée de génétique d'association – NEWNAM
Wheat is the crop most widely cultivated worldwide: Each year, more than 550 million tons of wheat are used for human food and animal feed. If conventional breeding has allowed significant advances in terms of yield and grain quality, it will not be able to face the demands for increasing global cro
Séquençage du génome du bananier (Musa) – MusaTract
Computational Biology for Metagenomics Experiments – CBME
Mining genomes for novel biocatalysts – GenoZyme