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Designing community-based breeding strategies for indigenous sheep breeds of smallholders in Ethiopia

The project will be implemented by four national research centres and will have the following features: Objectives/Goals Improved productivity and income of small-scale resource poor sheep producers in Ethiopia by providing access to improved animals that respond to improved feeding and management...

Molecular characterization of the genetic diversity of the chicken major histocompatibility complex (MHC B complex): Genetic diversity of small ruminant genetic resources

Objectives/goals The long-term objective of research project 1 is identifying the relationships between genetic background of indigenous chicken, genetic polymorphism at the MHC B haplotypes and disease resistances to viral infections in indigenous chicken from Asia and Africa. The short-term...

Optimization and genotyping of DNA samples of 40 sheep populations from seven countries of the CRP using FAO/ISAG recommended panel of microsatellite DNA makers

Objectives/Goals The aim of this project is to optimize 15 of the FAO/ISAG panel of 30 microsatellite DNA markers and to use them for genotyping all the sheep sampling collected so far from the seven member states. Project location Kenya Expected outputs Optimization and genotyping of DNA samples...