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05 October 2023

By: INRAE - Edition P. Huan - Translation W. Brand-Williams

Pauline Martin explains her work on Tripl'XL experiments at the Pin Experimental Farm (61)

Evaluating health status, behavior and welfare of dairy cows at pasture is one of the objectives of this experiment that began in January 2020 on the INRAE Pin Farm in Normandy. Web-agri and INRAE have joined forces to provide a series of videos presenting the Tripl'XL programme.
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05 October 2023

By: INRAE - Edition P. Huan - W Brand-Williams (translation)

H2020 GEroNIMO : designing tomorrow's breeding in monogastrics

Within the framework of the European Horizon 2020 program, teams from the Genetics Physiology and Farming Systems Unit (GenPhySE) of the Occitanie-Toulouse INRAE research center and GABI have been awarded 7 million euros over five years for the GEroNIMO project (Genome and Epigenome eNabled breedIng in MOnogastrics). This Europe-wide multi-actor participative project began in June 2021. It will promote studies on ways to improve genetic selection in animal breeding and to conserve genetic and epigenetic diversity, in order to provide new knowledge and perspectives to stakeholders, while taking into account current issues associated with sustainable development.
GABI: Animal Genetics and Integrative Biology unit
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05 October 2023

By: Université Paris-Saclay

The University Paris-Saclay strengthens its position as a world-class research-intensive university

Global Ranking of Academic Subjects, Shanghai 2021 : The University Paris-Saclay strengthens its position as a world-class research intensive university
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05 October 2023

By: GABI - Edition P. Huan - Translation W. Brand-Williams

SG-Truite: an FEAMP Project

Definition of the technical and economic conditions useful for genomic selection programmes in the rainbow trout.
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05 October 2023

By: GABI - Edition P. Huan - Translation W. Brand-Williams

EpiCOOL: an FEAMP Project

Impact of storage length on eyed eggs in rainbow trout.
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05 October 2023

By: GABI - Edition P. Huan - Translation W. Brand-Williams

HYPOTEMP: an FEAMP Project

Selection of robust rainbow trout resistant to variations of environmental conditions (hypoxia and temperature).
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05 October 2023

By: GABI - Edition P. Huan - Translation W. Brand-Williams

MedMax: an FEAMP Project

Maximization of genetic resistance to pathogens in the sea bass, a Mediterranean species.
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05 October 2023

By: GABI - Edition P. Huan - Translation W. Brand-Williams

GèneSea: an FEAMP Project

Development and approval of a genomic selection procedure in the sea bass and sea bream to improve resistance to pathologies.
INRAE
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05 October 2023

By: G2B - Edition P. HUAN - Translation W. Brand-Williams

Studying the adaptation of bovine to climate change

In the current context of climate change, one of the challenges in breeding is the adaptation of animals to heat. Cattle are particularly sensitive to heat stress which affects their welfare and their performances. The CAICalor (financed by Apis-Gene) and Rumigen (H2020) projects are aimed at studying the adaptation of cattle to climate change at both phenotypic and genetic levels.
@Galactinnov
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05 October 2023

By: Presse INRAE

Galactinnov : creation of an international research network for high quality and sustainable dairy production

The GALACTINNOV International Research Network (Réseau de recherche à l’international or 2RI) agreement was signed on Friday 7 May, during an online meeting hosted by Marie-Josée Hébert, Vice-Rector for Research, Discovery, Creation and Innovation at the University of Montreal, and Philippe Mauguin, Chair and CEO of INRAE. The launch event was attended by representatives and scientists from the eight partners of the Franco-Canadian network: INRAE, Institut Agro, the National Veterinary School of Toulouse (ENVT), the University of Tours in France, and the University of Montreal, Université Laval, the University of Sherbrooke and McGill University in Quebec, Canada. Their common objective is to structure their collaboration based on high-quality dairy production while respecting the environment as well as animal health and welfare.
GABI: Animal Genetics and Integrative Biology unit
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14 September 2023

By: T. Zerjal - Edition P. Huan

Assessment of trade-offs between feed efficiency, growth-related traits, and immune activity in experimental lines of layer chickens

All organisms are inherently constrained by the resources that are available to them, and must therefore allocate these limited resources among competing functions. This idea is central to the biological concept of trade-offs, which represent the costs incurred when a change in one trait results in an unfavorable change in another. Although the environment of domestic animals is more controlled than that of wild species, especially for food resources, the intensive selection for production and feed efficiency may have unintentionally triggered negative effects on other fundamental functions, such as the immune response, which may lead to detrimental effects on animal health and welfare.
CC-BY Frontiers for young minds, Cooking up knowledge from big data using data science
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05 October 2023

By: A. Rau - Edition P. Huan - Translation W. Brand-Williams

Publishing in a scientific journal with children/teenagers as reviewers

The GiBBS team just published a "core concept" Mathematics article on big data, data sciences, and algorithms in the journal Frontiers in Young Minds. A very enriching experience with young reviewers!
@ INRAE Eric Barrey
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05 October 2023

By: INRAE Service presse - Edition P. Huan

The metabolic secrets of horse-athlete endurance

The intestinal microbiota and energy centers of the blood cells of horses communicate to ensure an unfailing endurance! A dialogue based on fatty acid production allows the animal to adapt its metabolism to delay fatigue, hypoglycemia and reduce inflammation. These are the conclusions of a study led by INRAE in partnership with the National Veterinary School at Alfort and the University of Evry. These results, published in Frontiers in Molecular Biosciences lead the way to custom-made diets for endurance race horses, to guarantee their performances, welfare and health.
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05 October 2023

By: N. Mach Edition P. Huan Translation W. Brand-Williams

Resilience of the intestinal microbiota in stressed equine athletes

Elite horse athletes that live in individual boxes undergo long-term physical and mental stress that compromises the welfare of these animals altering their intestinal microbiota. In a studied published in Scientific Reports, scientists from INRAE laboratories including Animal Genetics and Integrative Biology - GABI evaluated whether a temporary period at pasture with other animals could improve animal welfare and, in return, favorably affect the intestinal microbiota composition.
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14 September 2023

By: M-P. Sanchez - Edition P. Huan - Translation W. Brand-Williams

Analysis of the genetic determinism of the mineral concentration of cow's milk

The composition in minerals of cow's milk plays an important role in its nutritional value and its cheese-making abilities. By combining high-throughput phenotyping with middle infrared spectrometry (MIR), large-scale genotyping, association and annotation analyses, 50 regions of the genome were detected that affect the main mineral concentrations, identifying the genes implicated and candidate genetic variants (usually involved in regulation). The genes SLC37A1 and ANKH explain the most significant QTL.
@INRAE Bertrand Nicolas
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14 September 2023

By: INRAE - Press Service

The creation of INRAE's first Assoicated Partnership Laboratory: dedicated to innovation with Excilone

Due to the major challenges facing our societies, expectations of research are growing. To respond through real innovation to the industry's and society's problems, the intensifiction of interactions between public resarch with companies is a key. By placing innovation as one of the pilars in its strategy for the next 10 years [1], at the beginning of 2021, INRAE has launched a new type of partnership with social-economic actors: the Associated Partnership Laboratory. Thus, on the basis of a common roadmap for 5 years, the partnership will allow INRAE and Excilone to share their material and human resources around a co-conceived research and technological programme in the field of microgenomics. This is a new type of partnership for INRAE that is both flexible and adaptable whose objective is to accelerate the development of new innovations.
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14 September 2023

By: GABI - Edition P. Huan

Anaïs Cazals will defend her PhD dissertation on Thursday December 9th at 14.00

Her PhD dissertation is entitled, "Study of the impact of host genetics and gut microbiota composition on Salmonella Enteritidis carriage in mice and chickens".
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14 September 2023

By: CP INRAE - Edition P. Huan

Mystery of four-horned goats and sheep finally solved

In meadows, we can sometimes see sheep and goats with four horns instead of two. Some breeds, like the Manx Loaghtan from the Isle of Man, are famous for their unusual headgear. A team of researchers from INRAE, the University of Geneva, the Polytechnic School of Lausanne, the French National Union of Cooperatives for Animal Insemination (ALLICE), as well as from several museums and breeding associations, has been investigating the genetic causes of this curious morphological phenomenon. Published in the journal Molecular Biology and Evolution on 16 February 2021, their results show that all the polycerate animals studied carried a mutation in the same gene: HOXD1.
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14 September 2023

By: GABI

An environmentally relevant mixture PCBs and PBDEs disrupts mitochondrial function, lipid metabolism and neurotransmission in the brain of exposed zebrafish and their unexposed F2 offspring

Polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) and polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDE) are persistant organic pollutants present in aquatic environments despite their either total or partial removal from the market. Chronic exposition of zebrafish, a fish model, to a mixture of PCB and PBDE that is representative of European environmental situations, affects the energy metabolism, growth and reproduction in the exposed zebrafish (F0) as well as the behavior of their non-exposed offspring (F1-F4) (Horri et al., 2018 ; Alfonso et al., 2019).
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14 September 2023

By: INRAE - Edition P. Huan - Translation W. Brand-Williams

INRAE research during the COVID-19 pandemic

In this press release, discover the studies led by INRAE on COVID-19, studies ranging from virology to sociology, epidemiology, ecology and mathematics.
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14 September 2023

By: Productions Animales - Edition P. Huan - Translation W. Brand-Williams

The project « A thousand Gallus genomes» : sharing sequene data for their improved use.

Whole genome sequencing has changed many fields in genetics: selection, biodiversity, understanding the genotype-phenotype relationship. The idea of a "1000 Genomes" project, tested in cattle, consists of sharing sequence data obtained by different partners to facilitate the extraction of information that answers the different research questions. Here we present how this will be done for the chicken on both national and international levels.
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