2018

Abo-Ismail, MK., Lansink, N., Akanno, E., Karisa, B., Crowley, JJ., Moore, S., Bork, E., Stothard, P., Basarab, JA., Plastow, G. (2018) Development and validation of a small SNP panel for feed efficiency in beef cattle. J Anim Sci 96(2): 375–397 doi: 10.1093/jas/sky020. PubMed

Bouwman, AC., Daetwyler, HD., Chamberlain, AJ., Ponce, CH., Sargolzaei, M., Schenkel, FS., Sahana, G., Govignon-Gion, A., Boitard, S., Dolezal, M., Pausch, H., Brøndum, RF., Bowman, PJ., Thomsen, B., Guldbrandtsen, B., Lund, MS., Servin, B., Garrick, DJ., Reecy, J., Vilkki, J., Bagnato, A., Wang, M., Hoff, JL, Schnabel, RD., Taylor, JF., Vinkhuyzen, AAE., Panitz, F., Bendixen, C., Holm, LE., Gredler, B., Hozé, C., Boussaha, M., Sanchez, MP., Rocha, D., Capitan, A., Tribout, T., Barbat, A., Croiseau, P., Drögemüller, C., Jagannathan, V., Vander, Jagt C., Crowley, JJ, Bieber, A., Purfield, DC., Berry, DP., Emmerling, R., Götz, KU., Frischknecht, M., Russ, I., Sölkner, J., Van Tassell, CP., Fries, R., Stothard, P., Veerkamp, RF., Boichard, D., Goddard, ME., Hayes, BJ. (2018) Meta-analysis of genome-wide association studies for cattle stature identifies common genes that regulate body size in mammals. Nat Genet 50(3):362-367 doi: 10.1038/s41588-018-0056-5. PubMed

Cantalapiedra-Hijar, G., Abo-Ismail, M., Carstens, GE., Guan, LL., Hegarty, R., Kenny, DA., McGee, M., Plastow, G., Relling, A., Ortigues-Marty, I. (2018) Review: Biological determinants of between-animal variation in feed efficiency of growing beef cattle. Animal. 12(s2):s321-s335. doi: 10.1017/S1751731118001489.

Chauhan, A., Pathak, A., Rajneesh, J., Edwards III, B., Chappell, D., Ball, C., Garcia-Sillas, R., Stothard, P., Seaman, J. (2018) Physiological and comparative genomic analysis of Arthrobacter sp. SRS-W-1-2016 provides insights on niche adaptation for survival in uraniferous soils. Genes 9(1) doi: 10.3390/genes9010031. PubMed

Ekine-Dzivenu, C., Akanno, EC., Chen, L., McKeown, L., Irving, B., Baker, L., Vinsky, M., Miller, S., Wang, Z., Crowley, J., Colazo, M., Ambrose, D., Juarez, M., Bruce, H., MacNeil, MD., Plastow ,G., Basarab, J., Li C., & Fitzsimmons, C. (2018) Improvement of cow feed efficiency using molecular breeding values for residual feed intake – The “Kinsella Breeding Project”. In: Proceedings of the World Congress on Genetics Applied to Livestock Production. vol. Electronic Poster Session – Genetic Gain – Breeding Strategies 2: 809.

Fischer, AJ., Malmuthuge, N., Guan, LL., Steele, MA. (2018) Short communication: The effect of heat treatment of bovine colostrum on the concentration of oligosaccharides in colostrum and in the intestine of neonatal male Holstein calves. J. Dairy Science. 101(1):401-407. doi: 10.3168/jds.2017-13533.

Hare, KS., Wood, KM., Fitzsimmons, C., Penner, GB. (2018) Oversupplying metabolizable protein in late gestation for beef cattle: Effects on postpartum ruminal fermentation, blood metabolites, skeletal muscle catabolism, colostrum composition, milk yield and composition, and calf growth performance. Journal of Animal Science 97(1):437-455.

Hare, KS., Wood, KM., Fitzsimmons, C., Penner, GB. (2018) Oversupplying Metabolizable Protein in Late Gestation for Beef Cattle: Effects on Pre-Partum Body Weight, Ruminal Fermentation, Nitrogen Balance, and Skeletal Muscle Catabolism. Journal of Animal Science 97(1):407-423.

He, Z., Fischer, A., Song, Y., Steele, M., Guan, LL. (2018) Genome wide transcriptome analysis provides bases on colonic mucosal immune system development affected by colostrum feeding strategies in neonatal calves. BMC Genomics. 19(1):635. doi: 10.1186/s12864-018-5017-y.

Hong, H., Roy, B., Chalamaiah, M., Bruce, H., Wu, J. (2018) Pretreatment with formic acid enhances the production of small peptides from highly cross-linked collagen of spent hens. Food Chemistry 258: 174-180.

Koufariotis, L, Hayes, BJ., Kelly, M., Burns, BM., Lyons, R., Stothard, P., Chamberlain, AJ., Moore, S. (2018) Sequencing the mosaic genome of Brahman cattle identifies historic and recent introgression including polled. Sci Rep 8:17761 doi: 10.1038/s41598-018-35698-5. PubMed

Koufariotis, LT., Chen, YP., Stothard, P., Hayes, BJ. (2018) Variance explained by whole genome sequence variants in coding and regulatory genome annotations for six dairy traits. BMC Genomics 19:237 doi: 10.1186/s12864-018-4617-x. PubMed

Kubota, H., Iqbal, M., Dyck, M., Quideau, S., Yang, R-C. (2018)  Spaner D: Investigating Genetic Progress and Variation for Nitrogen Use Efficiency in Spring Wheat. Crop Science 58:1542-1557.

Lei, H., Zhang, C., Li, C., Plastow, G. S., Bruce, H. L. (2018). Efficacy of genetic parameters estimation of pork loin quality of crossbred commercial pigs using technological quality measurements of frozen and unfrozen product. Canadian Journal of Animal Science 98:453-462.

Li, F., Neves, ALA., Ghoshal, B., and Guan, LL. (2018) Mining metagenomic and metatranscriptomic data for clues about microbial metabolic functions in ruminants. J. Dairy Sci. 101(6):5605-5618. doi: 10.3168/jds.2017-13356.

Li, X., Yan, Q., Tang, S., Tan, Z., Fitzsimmons, CJ., Yi, K. (2018) Effects of maternal feed intake restriction during pregnancy on the expression of growth regulation, imprinting and epigenetic transcription-related genes in foetal goats. Animal Reproduction Science 198:90–98.

Lin, XB., Wang, T., Stothard, P., Corander, J., Wang, J., Baines, J., Knowles, SCL., Baltrūnaitė, L., Tasseva, G., Schmaltz, R., Tollenaar, S., Cody, LA., Grenier, T., Wu, W., Ramer-Tait, AE., Walter, J. (2018) The evolution of ecological facilitation within mixed-species biofilms in the mouse gastrointestinal tract. ISME Journal 12:2770–2784 doi: 10.1038/s41396-018-0211-0. PubMed

Ma, T., Suzuki, Y., Guan, LL. (2018) Dissect the mode of action of probiotics in affecting host-microbial interactions and immunity in food producing animals. Veterinary Immunology and Immunopathology 205: 35-48.

Mahmood, S., Turchinsky, N., Paradis, F., Dixon, W. T., Bruce, H. L. (2018) Proteomics of dark cutting longissimus thoracismuscle from heifer and steer carcasses. Meat Science 137: 47-57.

Montecillo, AD., Raymundo, AK., Papa, IA., Aquino, GMB., Jacildo, AJ., Stothard, P., Rosana, AR. (2018) Near-complete genome of Ralstonia solanacearum T523, a phylotype I tomato phytopathogen isolated from the Philippines. Microbiol Resour Announc  7(12) doi: 10.1128/MRA.01048-18. PubMed

Mukiibi, R., Vinsky, M., Keogh, KA., Fitzsimmons, C., Stothard, P., Waters, SM., Li, C. (2018) Transcriptome analyses reveal reduced hepatic lipid synthesis and accumulation in more feed efficient beef cattle. Scientific Reports 8:7303. DOI:10.1038/s41598-018-25605-3.

O’Hara, E., Kelly, A., McCabe, M., Kenny, DA., O’Connor, A., Guan,, LL., Waters, SM. (2018) Effect of a butyrate-fortified milk replacer on gastrointestinal microbiota and products of fermentation in artificially reared dairy calves at weaning. Scientific Reports 8:14901.  doi: 10.1038/s41598-018-33122-6.

Pathak, A., Jaswal, R., Stothard, P., Brooks, S., Chauhan, A. (2018) Draft genome sequence of Pseudomonas sp. strain B1, isolated from a contaminated sediment. Genome Announc 6(25) doi: 10.1128/genomeA.00518-18. PubMed

Perrott, LA., Strydhorst, SM., Hall, LM., Yang, RC., Pauly, D., Gill, KS., Bowness, R. (2018) Advanced Agronomic Practices to Maximize Feed Barley Yield, Quality, and Standability in Alberta, Canada. I. Responses to Plant Density, a Plant Growth Regulator, and Foliar Fungicides. Agronomy Journal 110:1447-1457.

Perrott, LA., Strydhorst, SM., Hall, LM., Yang, RC., Pauly, D., Gill, KS., Bowness, R. (2018) Advanced Agronomic Practices to Maximize Feed Barley Yield, Quality, and Standability in Alberta, Canada. II. Responses to Supplemental Post-Emergence Nitrogen. Agronomy Journal 110:1458-1466.

Roy, B. C., Walker, B., Rahman, M. M., Bruce, H. L., McMullen, L. (2018) Role of myofibers, perimysium and adipocytes in horse meat toughness. Meat Science 146: 109-121.

Song, Y., Malmuthuge, N., Steele, MA., Guan, LL. (2018) Shift of hindgut microbiota and microbial short chain fatty acids profiles in dairy calves from birth to pre-weaning. FEMS Microbial Ecology 94(3)  doi: 10.1093/femsec/fix179.

Sun, HZ., Zhao, K., Zhou, M., Chen, Y., Guan, LL. (2018) Landscape of multi-tissue global gene expression reveals the regulatory signatures of feed efficiency in beef cattle. Bioinformatics 35(10):1712-1719  doi: 10.1093/bioinformatics/bty883.

Sun, HZ. and Guan, LL. (2018) Feedomics: promises for food security with sustainable food animal production. Trends in Analytical Chemistry 107: 130-141

Thompson, LA., Strydhorst, SM., Hall, LM., Yang, RC., Paul,y D., Gill, KS., Bowness, R. (2018) Effect of cultivar and agronomic management on feed barley production in Alberta environments. Canadian Journal of Plant Science 98(6):1304-1320.

Zhang, C., Kemp, R., Stothard, P., Wang, Z., Boddicker, N., Krivushin, K., Dekkers, J., Plastow, G. (2018) Genomic evaluation of feed efficiency component traits in Duroc pigs using 80K, 650K and whole-genome sequence variants. Genet Sel Evol 50(1):14  doi: 10.1186/s12711-018-0387-9. PubMed

Zhang, Q., Gaafar, M., Yang, R-C., Ding, C., Davies, EGR., Bolton, JR., Liu, Y. (2018) Field data analysis of active chlorine-containing stormwater samples. Journal of Environmental Management 206:51-59.

Zhou, M., Hünerberg, M., Chen, Y., Reuter, T., McAllister, TA., Evans, F., Critchley, AT., Guan, LL.(2018) Air-dried brown seaweed, Ascophyllum nodosum, alters the rumen microbiome in a manner that enhances rumen fermentation and lowers the prevalence of food borne pathogens. mSphere. 3(1). pii: e00017-18. doi: 10.1128/mSphere.00017-18.

Zhou, M., Peng, YJ., Chen, Y., Klinger, CM., Oba, M., Liu, JX., Guan, LL. (2018) Assessment of microbiome changes after rumen transfaunation: implications on improving feed efficiency in beef cattle. Microbiome. 6(1):62. doi: 10.1186/s40168-018-0447-y.