Effect of the wild-type tall fescue endophyte on growth rate and feed consumption in nulliparous meat goat does

2012 ◽  
Vol 105 (1-3) ◽  
pp. 29-32 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. Browning
Keyword(s):  
Growth Rate ◽  
Tall Fescue ◽  
Feed Consumption ◽  
Wild Type ◽  
Meat Goat

scholarly journals Effects of cofD gene knock-out on the methanogenesis of Methanobrevibacter ruminantium

AMB Express ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jian Ma ◽  
Xueying Wang ◽  
Ting Zhou ◽  
Rui Hu ◽  
Huawei Zou ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Growth Rate ◽  
Specific Growth ◽  
Production Capacity ◽  
Maximum Amount ◽  
Logarithmic Phase ◽  
Wild Type ◽  
Knock Out ◽  
Maximum Biomass ◽  
Reproductive Ability ◽  
Methanobrevibacter Ruminantium

AbstractThis study aimed to investigate the effects of cofD gene knock-out on the synthesis of coenzyme F420 and production of methane in Methanobrevibacter ruminantium (M. ruminantium). The experiment successfully constructed a cofD gene knock-out M. ruminantium via homologous recombination technology. The results showed that the logarithmic phase of mutant M. ruminantium (12 h) was lower than the wild-type (24 h). The maximum biomass and specific growth rate of mutant M. ruminantium were significantly lower (P < 0.05) than those of wild-type, and the maximum biomass of mutant M. ruminantium was approximately half of the wild-type; meanwhile, the proliferation was reduced. The synthesis amount of coenzyme F420 of M. ruminantium was significantly decreased (P < 0.05) after the cofD gene knock-out. Moreover, the maximum amount of H2 consumed and CH4 produced by mutant were 14 and 2% of wild-type M. ruminantium respectively. In conclusion, cofD gene knock-out induced the decreased growth rate and reproductive ability of M. ruminantium. Subsequently, the synthesis of coenzyme F420 was decreased. Ultimately, the production capacity of CH4 in M. ruminantium was reduced. Our research provides evidence that cofD gene plays an indispensable role in the regulation of coenzyme F420 synthesis and CH4 production in M. ruminantium.

scholarly journals The Constitutive Centromere Component CENP-50 Is Required for Recovery from Spindle Damage

2005 ◽  
Vol 25 (23) ◽  
pp. 10315-10328 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yukinori Minoshima ◽  
Tetsuya Hori ◽  
Masahiro Okada ◽  
Hiroshi Kimura ◽  
Tokuko Haraguchi ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Cell Cycle ◽  
Growth Rate ◽  
Mitotic Checkpoint ◽  
Loss Of Function ◽  
Wild Type ◽  
Centromere Function ◽  
Dt40 Cells ◽  
Precise Role ◽  
Chicken Dt40 Cell

ABSTRACT We identified CENP-50 as a novel kinetochore component. We found that CENP-50 is a constitutive component of the centromere that colocalizes with CENP-A and CENP-H throughout the cell cycle in vertebrate cells. To determine the precise role of CENP-50, we examined its role in centromere function by generating a loss-of-function mutant in the chicken DT40 cell line. The CENP-50 knockout was not lethal; however, the growth rate of cells with this mutation was slower than that of wild-type cells. We observed that the time for CENP-50-deficient cells to complete mitosis was longer than that for wild-type cells. Centromeric localization of CENP-50 was abolished in both CENP-H- and CENP-I-deficient cells. Coimmunoprecipitation experiments revealed that CENP-50 interacted with the CENP-H/CENP-I complex in chicken DT40 cells. We also observed severe mitotic defects in CENP-50-deficient cells with apparent premature sister chromatid separation when the mitotic checkpoint was activated, indicating that CENP-50 is required for recovery from spindle damage.

scholarly journals Impaired Temperature Stress Response of a Streptococcus thermophilus deoD Mutant

2003 ◽  
Vol 69 (2) ◽  
pp. 1287-1289 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mario Varcamonti ◽  
Maria R. Graziano ◽  
Romilde Pezzopane ◽  
Gino Naclerio ◽  
Slavica Arsenijevic ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Growth Rate ◽  
Stress Response ◽  
Heat Shock ◽  
Temperature Stress ◽  
Streptococcus Thermophilus ◽  
Wild Type ◽  
Temperature Shock ◽  
Dual Response ◽  
Survival Capacity

ABSTRACT An insertional deoD mutant of Streptococcus thermophilus strain SFi39 had a reduced growth rate at 20°C and an enhanced survival capacity to heat shock compared to the wild type, indicating that the deoD product is involved in temperature shock adaptation. We report evidence that ppGpp is implicated in this dual response.

Genetic variation in net feed efficiency in Hereford cattle and its association with other production traits

1999 ◽  
Vol 1999 ◽  
pp. 47-47
Author(s):  
R.M. Herd ◽  
S.C. Bishop
Keyword(s):  
Growth Rate ◽  
Genetic Variation ◽  
Feed Intake ◽  
Feed Efficiency ◽  
Genetic Correlations ◽  
Feed Consumption ◽  
Production Traits ◽  
Performance Measurements ◽  
Hereford Cattle ◽  
Rate Selection

Net feed efficiency refers to variation in feed consumption between animals net of requirements for maintenance and production, and may be measured as residual feed intake (RFI). Because RFI is independent of liveweight (LW) and growth rate, selection for improved net feed efficiency is likely to reduce feed intake with little change in growth. The purpose of this study was to establish whether there exists genetic variation in RFI in young British Hereford bulls, and to determine the phenotypic and genetic correlations of RFI with key production traits.The data consisted of performance measurements on 540 bull progeny of 154 British Hereford sires, collected over ten 200-day postweaning performance tests conducted between 1979 and 1988. The traits analysed were food intake (FI), 200 to 400-day daily gain (ADG), 400-day weight (W400), predicted carcass lean content (LEAN), lean growth rate (LGR), food conversion ratio (FI/ADG) and lean FCR (LFCR; FI/(ADG x LEAN), described by Bishop (1992).

scholarly journals Effects of feed restriction on metabolic disorders in broiler chickens: A review

2014 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-13 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Sahraei
Keyword(s):  
Growth Rate ◽  
Broiler Chickens ◽  
Broiler Chicken ◽  
Metabolic Disorders ◽  
Production Efficiency ◽  
Early Growth ◽  
Fast Growth ◽  
Feed Consumption ◽  
Feed Restriction ◽  
Fast Growth Rate

Continuous genetic selection and improvement in nutrition have led to a very fast growth rate in modern strains of broiler chickens. Metabolic disorders such as ascits, sudden death syndrome and leg problems are related to a rapid early growth rate in poultry, especially in broilers, and their incidence can be decreased by slowing early growth. The use of management tools to reduce metabolic disorders that rely primarily on decreasing feed consumption, The feed restriction programs is on of the main techniques in growth curve manipulation for increasing production efficiency in broiler chicken in alleviate the incidence of some metabolic disorders and can be used to reduction the unfavorable effects of fast growth rate in broiler chicken production industry, and could be profitable in broiler chickens production efficiency. This article implicated on new findings in about different feed restriction programs effects on these problems in broiler chickens.

scholarly journals Body weight gain and voluntary feed intake in meat goat does fed endophyte-infected and endophyte-free tall fescue seed

2007 ◽  
Vol 13 ◽  
pp. 427-429
Author(s):  
R. Browning ◽  
J.R. Author ◽  
B. Donnelly ◽  
T. Payton ◽  
P. Pandya ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Body Weight ◽  
Feed Intake ◽  
Tall Fescue ◽  
Body Weight Gain ◽  
Southeastern United States ◽  
Voluntary Feed Intake ◽  
Endophyte Infection ◽  
States Data ◽  
Meat Goat

Tall fescue is the primary pasture forage offered to goats in the southeastern United States. Data on how tall fescue endophyte (Neotyphodium coenophialum) affects meat goat performance are lacking. In three summers, yearling does were fed diets containing tall fescue seed to assess the effect of endophyte infection on goat growth and feed intake. In 2004 and 2005, does were fed endophyte-infected (EI) or endophyte-free (EF) tall fescue seeds added to the diets for 10 wk. Feed refusals were weighed daily. The EI diet reduced (P

scholarly journals Effect of Organic Solvents on the Yield of Solvent-Tolerant Pseudomonas putida S12

1999 ◽  
Vol 65 (6) ◽  
pp. 2631-2635 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sonja Isken ◽  
Antoine Derks ◽  
Petra F. G. Wolffs ◽  
Jan A. M. de Bont
Keyword(s):  
Growth Rate ◽  
Pseudomonas Putida ◽  
Organic Solvents ◽  
Critical Concentration ◽  
Bacterial Membrane ◽  
Maximal Growth ◽  
Wild Type ◽  
Active Efflux ◽  
Maximal Growth Rate ◽  
Solvent Tolerant

ABSTRACT Solvent-tolerant microorganisms are useful in biotransformations with whole cells in two-phase solvent-water systems. The results presented here describe the effects that organic solvents have on the growth of these organisms. The maximal growth rate of Pseudomonas putida S12, 0.8 h−1, was not affected by toluene in batch cultures, but in chemostat cultures the solvent decreased the maximal growth rate by nearly 50%. Toluene, ethylbenzene, propylbenzene, xylene, hexane, and cyclohexane reduced the biomass yield, and this effect depended on the concentration of the solvent in the bacterial membrane and not on its chemical structure. The dose response to solvents in terms of yield was linear up to an approximately 200 mM concentration of solvent in the bacterial membrane, both in the wild type and in a mutant lacking an active efflux system for toluene. Above this critical concentration the yield of the wild type remained constant at 0.2 g of protein/g of glucose with increasing concentrations of toluene. The reduction of the yield in the presence of solvents is due to a maintenance higher by a factor of three or four as well as to a decrease of the maximum growth yield by 33%. Therefore, energy-consuming adaptation processes as well as the uncoupling effect of the solvents reduce the yield of the tolerant cells.

The effect of adding a feed flavour to the diets of young pigs before and after weaning

1979 ◽  
Vol 19 (101) ◽  
pp. 695 ◽  
Author(s):  
RH King
Keyword(s):  
Growth Rate ◽  
Feed Intake ◽  
Factorial Experiment ◽  
Feed Consumption ◽  
Daily Growth Rate ◽  
Daily Growth ◽  
Weaning Weight ◽  
Young Pigs ◽  
Creep Feed ◽  
Before And After

Sixteen sows and their progeny were allotted to treatments in a 23 factorial experiment involving two levels of feed flavour (0 and 50 ppm of Firanor No. 24) in each of the sow, creep and starter diets. Weaning occurred at a mean piglet age of 26.9 days and observations continued for 31 days after weaning. The feed flavour, when added to the sow diet, was incorporated in sow's milk; milk from one sow fed the flavoured diet contained 9 ppm of Firanor No. 24. The addition of the feed flavour to the creep diet failed to improve creep feed consumption or weaning weight; the average daily creep feed intake and daily growth rate prior to weaning being 47.8 g/head and 207 g/head, respectively. During the postweaning period, pigs that were weaned from sows receiving the flavour and then given the flavoured starter diet ate more feed (P<0.05) and tended to grow faster (839 and 400 g day-1, respectively) than pigs given the unflavoured starter diet, or those weaned from sows given no flavour; their average feed intake and growth rate being 764 and 362 g day-1, respectively.

scholarly journals The effect of calnexin deletion on the expression level of PDI in Saccharomyces cerevisiae under heat stress conditions

2008 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Huili Zhang ◽  
Jianwei He ◽  
Yanyan Ji ◽  
Akio Kato ◽  
Youtao Song
Keyword(s):  
Saccharomyces Cerevisiae ◽  
Growth Rate ◽  
Heat Stress ◽  
Protein Expression ◽  
Molecular Chaperone ◽  
Mrna Level ◽  
Stress Conditions ◽  
Mrna Levels ◽  
Wild Type ◽  
Wild Type Yeast

AbstractWe cultured calnexin-disrupted and wild-type Saccharomyces cerevisiae strains under conditions of heat stress. The growth rate of the calnexin-disrupted yeast was almost the same as that of the wild-type yeast under those conditions. However, the induced mRNA level of the molecular chaperone PDI in the ER was clearly higher in calnexin-disrupted S. cerevisiae relative to the wild type at 37°C, despite being almost the same in the two strains under normal conditions. The western blotting analysis for PDI protein expression in the ER yielded results that show a parallel in their mRNA levels in the two strains. We suggest that PDI may interact with calnexin under heat stress conditions, and that the induction of PDI in the ER can recover part of the function of calnexin in calnexin-disrupted yeast, and result in the same growth rate as in wild-type yeast.

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