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Derek Bickhart

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Trigo B, Utsunomiya A, Fortunato A, Milanesi M, Torrecilha R, Lamb H, et al.
Genet Sel Evol . 2021 Apr; 53(1):40. PMID: 33910501
Background: Nellore cattle (Bos indicus) are well-known for their adaptation to warm and humid environments. Hair length and coat color may impact heat tolerance. The Nellore breed has been strongly...
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Rexroad C, Vallet J, Matukumalli L, Reecy J, Bickhart D, Blackburn H, et al.
Front Genet . 2019 Jun; 10:327. PMID: 31156693
In 2008, a consortium led by the Agricultural Research Service (ARS) and the National Institute for Food and Agriculture (NIFA) published the "Blueprint for USDA Efforts in Agricultural Animal Genomics...
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Li W, Edwards A, Riehle C, Cox M, Raabis S, Skarlupka J, et al.
Sci Rep . 2019 May; 9(1):8116. PMID: 31133662
A correction to this article has been published and is linked from the HTML and PDF versions of this paper. The error has been fixed in the paper.
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Li W, Edwards A, Riehle C, Cox M, Raabis S, Skarlupka J, et al.
Sci Rep . 2019 Jan; 9(1):790. PMID: 30692556
In mammals, microbial colonization of the digestive tract (GIT) occurs right after birth by several bacterial phyla. Numerous human and mouse studies have reported the importance of early gut microbial...
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Capuco A, Bickhart D, Li C, Evock-Clover C, Choudhary R, Grossi P, et al.
J Dairy Sci . 2018 Aug; 101(11):10478-10494. PMID: 30146289
Ergot alkaloids in endophyte-infected grasses inhibit prolactin secretion and reduce milk production in lactating cows. However, we previously showed that prepartum consumption of infected seed throughout the dry period did...
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Nandolo W, Utsunomiya Y, Meszaros G, Wurzinger M, Khayadzadeh N, Torrecilha R, et al.
Genet Sel Evol . 2018 Aug; 50(1):43. PMID: 30134820
Background: Runs of homozygosity (ROH) islands are stretches of homozygous sequence in the genome of a large proportion of individuals in a population. Algorithms for the detection of ROH depend...
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Choudhary S, Li W, Bickhart D, Verma R, Sethi R, Mukhopadhyay C, et al.
J Anim Sci Technol . 2018 Jul; 60:18. PMID: 30009039
Background: Xanthosine treatment has been previously reported to increase mammary stem cell population and milk production in cattle and goats. However, the underlying molecular mechanisms associated with the increase in...
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Utsunomiya Y, Milanesi M, Utsunomiya A, Torrecilha R, Kim E, Costa M, et al.
Sci Rep . 2017 Dec; 7(1):17140. PMID: 29215042
The recent evolution of cattle is marked by fluctuations in body size. Height in the Bos taurus lineage was reduced by a factor of ~1.5 from the Neolithic to the...
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Ghurye J, Pop M, Koren S, Bickhart D, Chin C
BMC Genomics . 2017 Jul; 18(1):527. PMID: 28701198
Background: Long read technologies have revolutionized de novo genome assembly by generating contigs orders of magnitude longer than that of short read assemblies. Although assembly contiguity has increased, it usually...
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McClure M, Bickhart D, Null D, VanRaden P, Xu L, Wiggans G, et al.
PLoS One . 2014 Mar; 9(3):e92769. PMID: 24667746
The recent discovery of bovine haplotypes with negative effects on fertility in the Brown Swiss, Holstein, and Jersey breeds has allowed producers to identify carrier animals using commercial single nucleotide...