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June 2019 - August 2019
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February 2020 - February 2024
September 2014 - September 2019
Faculty of Agriculture University of Zagreb
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- Genetics and Animal breeding
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Since their domestication, horses have accompanied mankind, and humans have constantly shaped horses according to their needs through stallion-centered breeding. Consequently, the male-specific portion of the Y chromosome (MSY) is extremely uniform in modern horse breeds. The majority of stallions worldwide carry MSY haplotypes (HT) attributed to a...
Polish Konik remains one of the most important horse breeds in Poland. The primitive, native horses with a stocky body and mouse-like coat color are protected by a conservation program, while their Polish population consists of about 3,480 individuals, representing 16 dam and six sire lines. To define the population's genetic structure, mitochondri...
The Y chromosome carries information about the demography of paternal lineages, and thus, can prove invaluable for retracing both the evolutionary trajectory of wild animals and the breeding history of domesticates. In horses, the Y chromosome shows a limited, but highly informative, sequence diversity, supporting the increasing breeding influence...
Structural rearrangements like copy number variations (CNVs) in the male-specific Y chromosome (MSY) have been associated with male fertility phenotypes in human and mouse but have been sparsely studied in other mammalian species. Here we designed digital droplet PCR (ddPCR) assays for seven horse MSY multi-copy genes and SRY and evaluated their ab...
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Bred over centuries in the Maghreb region, on a corridor between the Arab and the Western world, the North African Barb horse has been touched by many influences in the course of history. The present study investigated the paternally inherited Y chromosome in today´s Barbs and Arab-Barbs collected from North Africa and Europe, with t...
The Y chromosome is a valuable genetic marker for studying the origin and influence of paternal lineages in populations. In this study, we conducted Y-chromosomal lineage-tracing in Arabian horses. First, we resolved a Y haplotype phylogeny based on the next generation sequencing data of 157 males from several breeds. Y-chromosomal haplotypes speci...
The male-specific region of the Y chromosome (MSY) is paternally inherited and enables to trace patrilines through genetic analysis. MSY markers and haplotypes in combination with pedigree information provide precise insights into genealogical systems. While the use of the Y chromosomal genetic genealogy is well established in humans, we recently c...
