SUMMARY Background: The merle colour in dogs (merle: blackbird) is caused by a retrotransposon insertion in the SILV gene, resulting in malfunction in the eumelanin producing pigment cells. In homozygous (MM) ...

SUMMARY Background: The management of non-pregnant, subfertile broodmares causes a significant expense in horse breeding. Beyond the routine physical and sono-graphic examination, advanced techniques are available for ...

SUMMARY Background: Cryopreservation supports very much the application of AI in the horse breeding, like in other farm animal species.Objectives: The objective of this study was to compare the efficiency of AI car-ried ...

SUMMARY Background: Local breeds are national treasures and an aim of the saving of such breeds is not only to manufacture local products, preserve ancient knowledge and conserve natural landscape, but transfer historical ...

SUMMARY The maintenance of a greater genetic diversity is indispensable on the course of preservation of our old, rare domestic animal breeds. The authors analyse the genetic background by use of mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) ...

Summary Background: At the Department of Genetics and Animal Breeding (University of Veterinary Medicine, Budapest) the oral exams on Genetics and Animal breed ing are preceded by a compulsory practical exam. In 2013, ...

SUMMARY Background: Non-pregnant, subfertile broodmares cause a significant expense in horse breeding. Beyond the routine physical and sonographic examination, advanced techniques are available for diagnosing ...

SUMMARY The online monitoring of the rumination as a development of the recent past got into the arsenal of the precise dairy farming in order to continuously control the individuals kept in groups on large-scale dairy ...