Review on small ruminant conservation status and prospects in India

Pathak, P. K.; Nayak, Vivek; Sinha, Rekha; Ganaie, Bilal Ahmad

doi:10.1007/s11250-020-02356-w

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“…The practical value of Belyaev’s concept has been realized in a huge collection of commercial fur colors—e.g., “Amber-gold pastel,” “Ashen,” “Beige,” “Black crystal,” “Cobalt,” “Ermine-like,” “Peach,” ““Pearl,” Platinum,” “Purple,” “Silver sable-like,” “Steel-blue,” and “Straw,”—rarely or never seen in the wild [ 6 ]. The concept’s fundamental importance has found confirmation in a large variety of breeds of dogs [ 7 ], cats [ 8 ], pigs [ 9 ], cows [ 10 ], horses [ 11 ], sheep [ 12 ], goats [ 13 ], chickens [ 14 ], ducks [ 15 ], geese [ 16 ], and other domestic animals [ 17 ] as well as in artificial shelters and additional feeding for wild animals in wildlife for saving them [ 18 ]. On the basis of Belyaev’s concept [ 1 ], a laboratory model of animal domestication by humans has been created using outbred lines of tame and aggressive rats artificially bred [ 19 ] for performance on a standard glove test [ 20 ].…”

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Domestication Explains Two-Thirds of Differential-Gene-Expression Variance between Domestic and Wild Animals; The Remaining One-Third Reflects Intraspecific and Interspecific Variation

Chadaeva

Пономаренко

Kozhemyakina

et al. 2021

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Belyaev’s concept of destabilizing selection during domestication was a major achievement in the XX century. Its practical value has been realized in commercial colors of the domesticated fox that never occur in the wild and has been confirmed in a wide variety of pet breeds. Many human disease models involving animals allow to test drugs before human testing. Perhaps this is why investigators doing transcriptomic profiling of domestic versus wild animals have searched for breed-specific patterns. Here we sequenced hypothalamic transcriptomes of tame and aggressive rats, identified their differentially expressed genes (DEGs), and, for the first time, applied principal component analysis to compare them with all the known DEGs of domestic versus wild animals that we could find. Two principal components, PC1 and PC2, respectively explained 67% and 33% of differential-gene-expression variance (hereinafter: log2 value) between domestic and wild animals. PC1 corresponded to multiple orthologous DEGs supported by homologs; these DEGs kept the log2 value sign from species to species and from tissue to tissue (i.e., a common domestication pattern). PC2 represented stand-alone homologous DEG pairs reversing the log2 value sign from one species to another and from tissue to tissue (i.e., representing intraspecific and interspecific variation).

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confidence: 99%

Domestication Explains Two-Thirds of Differential-Gene-Expression Variance between Domestic and Wild Animals; The Remaining One-Third Reflects Intraspecific and Interspecific Variation

Chadaeva

Пономаренко

Kozhemyakina

et al. 2021

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Enhancing welfare and reducing stress in surgical embryo collection in sheep: Effects of flunixin and flunixin-dipyrone postoperative protocols in Dorper ewes

Balistrieri,

Cortat,

Correia

et al. 2023

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Dairy Goat Production: Socioeconomic, Environmental, and Cultural Importance Across Time (1970–2022) and Possible Scenarios (2050)

Navarrete-Molina,

Meza-Herrera,

De Santiago-Miramontes

et al. 2024

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Inequality, malnutrition, poverty, and environmental degradation are some of the global challenges facing humanity. These are aggravated in the context of climate change (CC), envisioning as a utopia to guarantee food security without risking sustainability. Considering the increase in scientific attention on dairy goat production (DGP), we aimed to carry out an exhaustive analysis regarding the evolution of DGP to determine both its socioeconomic and cultural importance during the period 1970–2022 and its possible scenarios for 2050. Over the last half century (1970–2022), dairy goats (DG; 214.01 million heads) have shown an inventory growth of 182%, and this is estimated to increase by 53.37% over the next 28 years (2023–2050). While DGP increased 196% during 1970–2022, it is projected to increase around 71.29% by 2050. Notably, however, the economic value of DGP almost quadrupled (+375%) during 1991–2022, and the same trend is estimated for 2023–2050. Historically, Asia has excelled in both goat inventory and goat milk production volume. This research highlights the crucial role of both goats and DG in the socioeconomic issues in various regions of the world, as they most often represent the only source of income for millions of smallholder families, particularly in developing countries. In the face of CC challenges, goats in general, and DG in particular, show an exceptional potential to be considered the “animal of the future” due to their refined and sophisticated ethological, adaptive, and physiological plasticity under generally clean, green, and ethical production schemes, mainly in marginal contexts in the arid and semi-arid zones of the world.

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Review on small ruminant conservation status and prospects in India

Cited by 3 publications

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Domestication Explains Two-Thirds of Differential-Gene-Expression Variance between Domestic and Wild Animals; The Remaining One-Third Reflects Intraspecific and Interspecific Variation

Domestication Explains Two-Thirds of Differential-Gene-Expression Variance between Domestic and Wild Animals; The Remaining One-Third Reflects Intraspecific and Interspecific Variation

Enhancing welfare and reducing stress in surgical embryo collection in sheep: Effects of flunixin and flunixin-dipyrone postoperative protocols in Dorper ewes

Dairy Goat Production: Socioeconomic, Environmental, and Cultural Importance Across Time (1970–2022) and Possible Scenarios (2050)

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