Laiba ShafiqueGuangxi University · College of Animal Science and Technology
Laiba Shafique
Ph.D Genetics
Teacher Beibu Gulf University China
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The members of the transforming growth factor β (TGF-β) family of cell signaling polypeptides have garnered a great deal of interest due to its capacity from nematodes to mammals to regulate cell-based activities which control the growth of embryos and sustain tissue homeostasis. The current study designed a computational analysis of the TGF-β prot...
Chloride channels (ClCs) have received global interest due to their significant role in the regulation of ion homeostasis, fluid transport, and electrical excitability of tissues and organs in different mammals and contributing to various functions, such as neuronal signaling, muscle contraction , and regulating the electrolytes' balance in kidneys...
In the current investigation, a total of 42 full-length, non-redundant small heat shock proteins (sHsp) were detected in Cyprinus carpio, Labeo rohita, Danio rerio, Salmo salar, Oncorhynchus mykiss, and Clupea harengus. The sHsp genes were classified into three groups based on phylogenetic analysis. All the sHsps were shown to have higher aliphatic...
Over the past two decades, there has been a growing alarm about the role of unintended hybridization in shaping the current biodiversity. Major carps (Labeo rohita, Catla catla, and Cirrhina mrigala) are commercially important freshwater fish for aquaculture and are also found exclusively in the riverine ecosystems of Punjab, Pakistan. One of the m...
Heavy metal accumulation in freshwater ecosystem has become one of the major aquatic environmental concerns for freshwater flora and fauna due to their higher stability and bioaccumulation as well as bio-magnification properties. Furthermore, passing through the food web, these heavy metals affect human populations ultimately. This study assessed t...
Camel milk is known for its exceptional medical uses. It has been used since ancient times to treat infant diarrhea, hepatitis, insulin-dependent diabetes (IDDM), lactose intolerance, alcohol-induced liver damage, allergies, and autism. It has the power to treat several diseases, with cancer being the most significant. This study investigated the e...
Bacteria or viral outbreaks can cause tilapia haemorrhage, ensuring considerable volume of hemoglobin (Hb) into the tissue. However, the hemoglobin toxicity on tissue and high doses also effect on tissue this phenomena is still under consideration. Therefore, current study exploited Nile tilapia kidney (NTK) cells to deeply expose the toxic effect...
Staphylococcus aureus is emerging as a ubiquitous multidrug-resistant pathogen circulating among animals, humans, and their environment. The current study focused on molecular epidemiology and evidence-based treatment against S. aureus from bovine endometritis. For this study, n = 304 cattle were screened for endometritis using ultrasonography whil...
Use of antibiotics without following standard guidelines is routine practice in developing countries which is giving rise to genetic divergence and increased drug resistance. The current study analyzed genetic divergence and drug resistance by S. aureus and therapeutic efficacy of novel antibiotic combinations. The study revealed that 42.30% (minim...
Buffalo has many excellent economic traits and it is one of the greatest potential livestock. Compared with cattle, buffalo has poorer reproductivity, it is of great significance to improve the development potential of oocytes. Buffalo oocyte in vitro maturation (IVM) has been widely used in production, but the poor development ability of bovine oo...
Antibiotic-resistant bacteria have become the predominant etiology of endometritis and thus require effective treatment approaches. We used ultrasonography coupled with clinical signs and presented complaints of reproductive issues to investigate the epidemiology, phylogenetic analysis, antimicrobial resistance, and development of novel therapeutic...
Red claw crayfish (Cherax quadricarinatus) has recently attracted widespread attention as an emerging candidate for sustainable aquaculture production in Australia and abroad. Although they are of great economic importance, few full-length transcriptomes are available. Here, transcripts of C. quadricarinatus were generated by using Pacific Bioscien...
Authors' Contribution LZ and LQ designed the research studies. LZ performed the experimental work, analyzed data and discussed the results and implications. LX provided help in data analysis. LX provided help in experiment. SD provided important support in the research. LZ and LS drafted the manuscript. SR helped in revision of the manuscript. In t...
The success of the aquafeed industry mainly depends on the availability of raw ingredients with high nutritional value, such as fishmeal (FM). However, the increased demand for FM elevates its prices and leads to high feed costs. Thus, there is an urgent need to find suitable alternatives for FM in fish diets to achieve sustainability in aquacultur...
Background:
Buffalo milk is considered as a highly nutritious food owing to its higher contents of fatty acids (FA) and rich nutrient profile. Higher fat contents of buffalo milk make it suitable for processing to develop various healthy and nutritious products. Moreover, buffalo milk contains more unsaturated FAs (UFA) such as oleic and linolenic...
This work was performed to evaluate glutathione S-transferase (GST) activity
and total protein contents (TPCs) in tissues viz. brain, gills, kidney, heart, muscle and liver
of Labeo rohita kept under sub-lethal dose (4.13 μgL-1) of chlorpyrifos. Fish was kept under chlorpyrifos stress for two months and samples were collected on weekly basis. It wa...
Over the last two decades, the world experienced three outbreaks of coronaviruses with elevated morbidity rates. Currently, the global community is facing emerging virus SARS-CoV-2 belonging to Betacoronavirus, which appears to be more transmissible but less deadly than SARS-CoV. The current study aimed to track the evolutionary ancestors and diffe...
Domesticated buffaloes have been integral to rice-paddy agro-ecosystems for millennia, yet relatively little is known about the buffalo genomics. Here, we sequenced and assembled reference genomes for both swamp and river buffaloes and we re-sequenced 230 individuals (132 swamp buffaloes and 98 river buffaloes) sampled from across Asia and Europe....
Buffalo meat consist good qualitative characteristics as it contains “thined tender” which is favorable for cardavascular system. However, the regulatory mechanisms of long non-coding RNA (lncRNA), differences in meat quality are not well known. The chemical-physical parameters revealed the muscle quality of buffalo that can be equivalent of cattle...
Background: Nutritionally, buffalo milk is of immense importance due to high contents of fatty acid (FA), highly energetic and nutritive value. The composition of FA has been regarded as functional food component, which facilitate to manufacture a variety of processed milk products. Moreover, Buffalo milk contains more unsaturated FAs (UFA) such as...
Cherax quadricarinatus is a large-sized, highly fecund, and fast-growing species of freshwater crayfish, and has become one of the world's most intensely studied crustaceans. Decapod iridescent virus 1 (DIV1), a newly described species in the family Iridoviridae, is known to infect various crustaceans, including C. quadricarinatus, and may pose a n...
The Gene Growth Differentiation Factor 9 (GDF9) is far most important gene for oogenesis. Few studies have been reported concerning buffalo oogenesis and embryogenesis. In current study, complete coding region of a gene of the buffalo GDF9 gene was cloned and sequenced, which was found to have 1,362 nucleotides long encoding of 453 amino acid prote...
Authors' Contribution QL designed the experiment. JL cloned the BMP15 gene and drafted the manuscript. YC analyzed the expression pattern of BMP15 gene in folliculogenesis. TF analyzed the data. CL analyzed the expression pattern of BMP15 gene in embryogenesis. PZ did the immunohistochemistry work. LS revised the manuscript. In the present study, B...
Coat color is of great importance in animal breed characteristics; it is not only a significant productive trait but also an indispensable economic trait, especially in the rabbit industry. In the present study, the relationship between melanocortin 1 receptor (MC1R) genotypes and coat color phenotypes was observed in five rabbit breeds with popula...
The present research was carried out to evaluate the effectiveness of dietary formic acid and vitamin D3 on growth performance and muscle proximate analyses of grass carp (Ctenopharyngodon idella). Four experimental diets viz. FD1, FD2, FD3 and FD4 having formic acid (%) and vitamin D3 (IU/Kg) 0, 0; 2, 0; 0, 5000 and 2, 5000, respectively were prep...
In an acute toxicity trail, LC50 and LC100value (96 hr) of endosulfan (END)+chlorpyrifos
(CPF) mixture for Catla catla was computed. The genotoxicity of END+CPF mixture in
RBCs of fish was also evaluated by comet assay. To check the genotoxicity of END+CPF
mixture, blood of fish was sampled after 24-hr of intervals. Some fishes were also kept in
cl...
From last few years contamination of aquatic bodies has been increased due to
extensive use of pesticides in agriculture. The exposure of aquatic animals to these pesticides results in acute and chronic health effects. Fresh water fish species such as Channa striata serve as important bio-indicators for aquatic contamination to access the changes c...
This study was designed with the aim to find suitable spectrophotometric wavelength for accurate measurement of sperm concentration in Nili Ravi buffalo and to compare different quantitative methods (visual, hemocytometric and spectrophotometric) for the assessment of sperm concentration. A total of 78 fresh semen ejaculate were collected from bree...
The present study was designed to check minerals in fish body with organic acid supplemented diets in Labeo rohita fingerlings. Five experimental diets were prepared containing organic acid (0%), malic acid (2%), citric acid (2%), formic acid (2%), lactic acid (2%) and designed as “OA1, OA2, OA3, OA4 and OA5”, respectively. Eight weeks experimental...
The 96 h LC50 and lethal concentration of Fe+Ni+Pb+Zn mixture for the fih, Cirrhina mrigala was determined in this research work. Th fih were exposed to each of the 19 diffrent concentrations (5-90 mg/L) of Fe+Zn+Pb+Ni mixture to determine 96 h LC50 and lethal concentration. During acute toxicity test, behavioral changes and catalase activity in li...