Journal Articles (Kinsella Ranch)

2004

Irving, B. D., Asamoah, S. A., Hudson, R. J., Bork, E. W., Price, M. A.

We evaluated the temporal dynamics of herbage biomass and protein within riparian meadows and upland grasslands of native Aspen Parkland rangeland to understand the contribution of each to lives tock foraging. For the growing season monitored, meadows were greater in forage yield and crude...

2014

Plastow, G., Stothard, P., Moore, S., Bao, H., Meng, Y., Liao, X.

Gene duplication is a widespread phenomenon in genome evolution, and it has been proposed to serve as an engine of evolutionary innovation. In the present study, we performed the first comprehensive analysis of duplicate genes in the bovine genome. A total of 3131 putative duplicated gene pairs...

1986

Berg, R. T., Price, M. A., Shahin, K. A.

Nineteen mature Double Muscled (DM) cattle consisting of 11 cows and eight bulls were slaughtered between 470 and 710 kg to determine the influence of sex on carcass composition and muscle, bone and fat in DM cattle. Expressed as a percentage of the total side weight, DM bull carcasses had 15%...

2013

Aalhus, J. L., Rolland, D. C., M. E. R. Dugan, Baron, V. S., Mapiye, C., Basarab, J. A., Turner, T. D., Block, H. C., McAllister, T. A., Uttaro, B.

Steers were fed a red clover silage-based diet with or without flaxseed to evaluate over time the effects of flaxseed supplementation on erythrocytes (ERC) trans(t)18:1 isomers composition and their relationships to adipose tissue and muscle t18:1 profiles at slaughter. Concentrations of most ERC...

2014

Aalhus, J. L., Basarab, J. A., Juárez, M., Larsen, I. L., Rymer, R. T.

Steaks from longissimus lumborum and semimembranosus muscles, aged 2 or 27 d, were obtained from a population of steers (n=112) managed to produce a range in tenderness (shear force range from 2.57 to 17.2 kg). All available carcass (live weight, hot commercial weight, pH, temperature, marbling,...

2012

Bork, E. W., Blonski, L. J.

Intensive livestock operations (ILOs) are becoming more common in remote regions of the Canadian prairies in an effort to reduce conflict with other land uses. This has led to ILOs situated where the typical sink for manure application, cultivated land, is not available, leading to growing...

2014

Squires, J. J., Moore, S., Stothard, P., Swanson, K. C., Miller, S. P., Abo-Ismail, M. K., Vander Voort, G., Liao, X., Plastow, G., Mandell, I. B.

Background This study was conducted to: (1) identify new SNPs for residual feed intake (RFI) and performance traits within candidate genes identified in a genome wide association study (GWAS); (2) estimate the proportion of variation in RFI explained by the detected SNPs; (3) estimate the...

2015-07-31

Stothard, Paul, Liang, Guanxiang, Kommadath, Arun, Bearson, Shawn M.D., Sun, Xu, Plastow, Graham S., Bao, Hua, Guan, Le L., Tuggle, Christopher K., Arantes, Adriano S.

2004

Mir, Z., Wang, Z., Goonewardene, L. A., Okine, E. K., Mir, P. S.

Carcass, organ and muscle weight, and fat tissue data were obtained from 30 weaned male Wistar rats fed one of three diets, (10 rats/diet) over a period of 60 d. The diets were base with synthetic conjugated linoleic acid (CLA), sunflower oil or beef enriched CLA. The CLA diet contained the base...

2013

Baron, V. S., Aalhus, J. L., Turner, T. D., Dugan, M. E. R., Mapiye, C., Basarab, J. A.

Background The current study evaluated the subcutaneous fatty acid (FA) composition of calf- and yearling-fed steers with or without growth promoting implants. Crossbred steers (n = 112; 267 ± 5.0 kg) of the same contemporary group were allocated to one of four production system and implant...