Sima Savar Sofla

• Animal Science Research Institute

Mitochondrial DNA has been one of the most widely used molecular markers for phylogenetic studies in animals because of its simple genomic structure. This study examines the genetic characteristic of domestic goat using sequence analysis of mitochondrial DNA Cytochrome oxidase subunit I (COXI) to identify and differentiate among three common breeds...

The aim of this study was to evaluate genetic characterization of the Caspian horse population using microsatellite markers. This study determined the efficiency of microsatellite markers for conservation plans and breeding strategies in Caspian horse population. For this purpose, 120 Caspian horse samples including 95 adults and 25 foals were geno...

Phylogenetic relationships and genetic variation between two Iranian sheep breeds were analyzed using cytochrome b (cyt-b) gene sequences. The genomic DNA was isolated by salting out method and amplified cytochrome b gene using polymerase chain reaction restriction (PCR) method with a pair of primer. A par-tial sequence of cyt-b gene of Iranian she...

Microsatellites are a class of genetic markers commonly used for parentage verification and population studies. This study determined the efficiency of microsatellite markers for identification and pedigree analysis in horses based on the example of Turkmen horse population. For this purpose, 748 Turkmen horse samples including 574 adults (92 stall...

In order to evaluate the performance of cross breed lambs resulted from crossing between Afshari, Moghani, Shal and Varamini ram breeds and Varamini ewe, the information on birth weight, weaning weight, daily weight gaining average from birth to weaning and information related to the performance of lambs fattening is used. Data analysis showed that...

Masoudi AA, Emrani H, Esmaeilkhanian S, Savar Sofla S., Myostatin (gdf-8) polymorphism growth traits in Baluchi sheep, Onl J Vet Res., 21(8):505-510, 2017. Myostatin represses skeletal muscle growth, but mutations can produce supernumerary muscle fibers, and increase muscle mass. Authors describe association of myostatin polymorphisms with growth t...

The aim of this study was to estimate amount of inbreeding coefficient in Shal sheep and its impact on growth performance. Pedigree information and body weight at different ages (birth weight, 3 month weight, 6 month weight, 9 month weight and 12 month weight) were used from 6692 lambs from 90 rams and 1007 ewes. Data were collected on Ghazvin shee...

This study was designed to investigate the interaction between genotype and climate for milk and fat production traits of Iranian Holstein dairy herds. Milk and fat production data were grouped in 5 climates, on the basis of Extended De Martonne method. (Co)Variance components and genetic parameters of first lactation records from 514 herds were es...

The objective of this study was to estimate genetic parameters for growth traits and kleiber ratio in Moghani lambs. Traits included birth weight (BW), weaning weight (WW), 6-month weight (6MW), average daily gain from Birth to Weaning (ADG 0-3), average daily gain from Weaning to 6 months of age (ADG 3-6), Kleiber ratio from Birth to Weaning (KR 0...

The effect of inbreeding upon some growth traits in Najdi calves - Volume 1 Issue 1 - Bahareh Taheri Dezfuli, Sima Savar Sofla, MohamadReza Mashayekhi