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- 7Single nucleotide polymorphisms
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- 1Barazandeh, Marjan
- 1Bartusiak, Robert
- 1Braun, Jennifer AJ
- 1Chakravarthy Sridharan, Malinee
- 1Chen, Jing
- 1Christiaens, Inge
- 6Department of Agricultural, Food, and Nutritional Science
- 3Department of Agricultural, Food and Nutritional Science
- 3Department of Biological Sciences
- 2Department of Animal Science
- 2Department of Resource Economics and Environmental Sociology
- 1Department of Physiology
- 1Anthony O. Anyia, Alberta Innovates Technology Futures
- 1Beauchemin, Karen (Agriculture & Agri-Food Canada - Department of Agricultural, Food and Nutritional Science [Adj.])
- 1Beckie, Mary (Faculty of Extension)
- 1Caine, Ken (Sociology)
- 1Coltman, David (Biological Sciences)
- 1Damaraju, Sambasivarao (Laboratory Medicine and Pathology)
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Fall 2009
Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE) belongs to a group of neurodegenerative diseases known as transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (TSEs) which affect many species. From 1986 more than 184,000 cattle in the UK have been confirmed to be infected with this disease, and in Canada total...
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Genetic mapping and physiological characterization of water-use efficiency in barley (Hordeum vulgare L.) on the Canadian Prairies
DownloadFall 2011
Temporal or seasonal water deficit is one of the major factors limiting crop yield on the Canadian Prairies. Empirical knowledge suggests that carbon isotope discrimination (Δ13C), through its negative relationship with water-use efficiency (WUE), is a good index for selecting crop varieties...
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Making a Place at the Table: Examining the Impact and Influence of Women in Agricultural Leadership in the Canadian Prairies
DownloadFall 2019
Since the first days of cultivation of the land, women have played an essential role in the development of agriculture of the Canadian prairies. Over the past 150 years, as prairie agriculture has undergone a range of socio-cultural, economic and technical changes, so too have the roles,...
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New insights about barnacle reproduction: Spermcast mating, aerial copulation and population genetic consequences
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Barnacles are mostly hermaphroditic and they are believed to mate via copulation or, in a few species, by self-fertilization. However, isolated individuals of two species that are thought not to self-fertilize, Pollicipes polymerus and Balanus glandula, nonetheless carried fertilized...
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Perceptions of Science and Expertise Among Alternative Ranchers in Alberta, Canada: A Qualitative and Actor-Network Analysis
DownloadFall 2021
Dlusskaya, Kira Konstantinovna
Raising animals has been an important aspect of human food systems for millennia, but with growing climate concerns, the management of animal agriculture, including beef production, needs to adhere to environmental best practices. Determining what these practices are has been the subject of much...
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Spring 2016
Polar bears (Ursus maritimus) were among the first large mammals to be assessed for genetic variation in the wild, and they remain a common subject of genetics studies. Although recent advances in genotyping technology have allowed for more accurate determination of population structure and the...
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Fall 2016
Methane (CH4) is a greenhouse gas with an elevated global warming potential (GWP) equivalent to 28 times that of CO2. Also, production of enteric CH4 results in a 2 to 12% loss of the gross energy intake of cattle thus knowing the amount of CH4 released to the environment is important. The...
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Fall 2017
In ruminants, evidence is accumulating regarding the associations between rumen microbial taxonomic features and feed efficiency. However, to date, how rumen microbial functional features contribute to the variations in feed efficiency of beef cattle has not been well understood. Moreover,...
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Fall 2019
Temporal isolation contributes to ecological speciation in a diversity of insect taxa. Such prezygotic isolation can reduce or stop hybridization between closely related taxa or populations, leading to speciation. Within the spruce budworm (Choristoneura fumiferana) species complex, hybridization...