Browsing ARTICLES CIENTÍFICS by Author "Ballester Devis, Maria"
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A compendium of genetic regulatory effects across pig tissues
Teng, Jinyan; Gao, Yahui; Yin, Hongwei; Bai, Zhonghao; Liu, Shuli; Zeng, Haonan; The PigGTEx Consortium; Bai, Lijing; Cai, Zexi; Zhao, Bingru; Li, Xiujin; Xu, Zhiting; Lin, Qing; Pan, Zhangyuan; Yang, Wenjing; Yu, Xiaoshan; Guan, Dailu; Hou, Yali; Keel, Brittney N.; Rohrer, Gary A.; Lindholm-Perry, Amanda K.; Oliver, William T.; Ballester, Maria; Crespo-Piazuelo, Daniel; Quintanilla, Raquel (Nature Genetics, 2024-01-04) Genètica i Millora AnimalThe Farm Animal Genotype-Tissue Expression (FarmGTEx) project has been established to develop a public resource of genetic regulatory variants in livestock, which is essential for linking genetic ... -
Copy Number Variation on ABCC2-DNMBP Loci Affects the Diversity and Composition of the Fecal Microbiota in Pigs
Ramayo-Caldas, Yuliaxis; Crespo-Piazuelo, Daniel; Morata, Jordi; González-Rodríguez, Olga; Sebastià, Cristina; Castello, Anna; Dalmau, Antoni; Ramos-Onsins, Sebastian; Alexiou, Konstantinos G.; Folch, Josep M.; Quintanilla, Raquel; Ballester, Maria (Microbiology Spectrum, 2023-05-31) Benestar Animal; Genètica i Millora Animal; Genòmica i BiotecnologiaGenetic variation in the pig genome partially modulates the composition of porcine gut microbial communities. Previous studies have been focused on the association between single nucleotide polymorphisms ... -
Epigenetic regulation of the ELOVL6 gene is associated with a major QTL effect on fatty acid composition in pigs
Corominas, Jordi; Marchesi, Jorge AP; Puig-Oliveras, Anna; Revilla, Manuel; Estellé, Jordi; Alves, Estefânia; Folch, Josep M.; Ballester Devis, Maria (Genetics Selection Evolution, 2015-03-25) Genètica i Millora AnimalBackground: In previous studies on an Iberian x Landrace cross, we have provided evidence that supported the porcine ELOVL6 gene as the major causative gene of the QTL on pig chromosome 8 for palmitic ... -
Genetic architecture of innate and adaptive immune cells in pigs
Ballester Devis, Maria; Jové Juncà, Teodor; Pascual, Afra; López-Serrano, Sergi; Crespo-Piazuelo, Daniel; Hernández-Banqué, Carles; González-Rodríguez, Olga; Ramayo-Caldas, Yuliaxis; Quintanilla, Raquel (Frontiers in Immunology, 2023-02-06) Genètica i Millora AnimalPig industry is facing new challenges that make necessary to reorient breeding programs to produce more robust and resilient pig populations. The aim of the present work was to study the genetic determinism ... -
Genome data from a sixteenth century pig illuminate modern breed relationships
Ramírez, O.; Burgos-Paz, W.; Casas, E.; Ballester Devis, Maria; Bianco, E.; Olalde, I.; Santpere, G.; Novella, V.; Gut, M.; Lalueza-Fox, C.; Saña, M.; Pérez-Enciso, M. (Heredity, 2014-09-10) Genètica i Millora AnimalAncient DNA (aDNA) provides direct evidence of historical events that have modeled the genome of modern individuals. In livestock, resolving the differences between the effects of initial domestication ... -
Genomic architecture of carcass and pork traits and their association with immune capacity
Jové-Juncà, T.; Crespo-Piazuelo, D.; González-Rodríguez, O.; Pascual, M.; Hernández-Banqué, C.; Reixach, J.; Quintanilla, R.; Ballester, M. (Animal, 2023-11-28) Genètica i Millora AnimalCarcass and pork traits have traditionally been considered of prime importance in pig breeding programmes. However, the changing conditions in modern farming, coupled with antimicrobial resistance issues, ... -
Gut microbiome and resistome characterization of pigs treated with commonly used post-weaning diarrhea treatments
Guitart-Matas, Judith; Ballester, Maria; Fraile, Lorenzo; Darwich, Laila; Giler Baquerizo, Noemí; Tarres, Joaquim; López-Soria, Sergio; Ramayo-Caldas, Yuliaxis; Migura-Garcia, Lourdes (Animal Microbiome, 2024-05-03) Genètica i Millora Animal; Sanitat AnimalBackground The global burden of antimicrobial resistance demands additional measures to ensure the sustainable and conscious use of antimicrobials. For the swine industry, the post-weaning period is ... -
Identification of transcriptional regulatory variants in pig duodenum, liver, and muscle tissues
Crespo-Piazuelo, Daniel; Acloque, Hervé; González-Rodríguez, Olga; Mongellaz, Mayrone; Mercat, Marie-José; Bink, Marco C A M; Huisman, Abe E; Ramayo-Caldas, Yuliaxis; Sanchez, Juan Pablo; Ballester Devis, Maria (GigaScience, 2023-06-24) Genètica i Millora AnimalBackground In humans and livestock species, genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have been applied to study the association between variants distributed across the genome and a phenotype of interest. ... -
Influence of dietary n-3 long-chain fatty acids on microbial diversity and composition of sows’ feces, colostrum, milk, and suckling piglets’ feces
Llauradó-Calero, Eudald; Climent, Eric; Chenoll, Empar; Ballester Devis, Maria; Badiola, Ignacio; Lizardo, Rosil; Torrallardona, David; Esteve-Garcia, Enric; Tous, Núria (Frontiers in Microbiology, 2022-12-05) Genètica i Millora Animal; Nutrició Animal; Sanitat AnimalIntroduction: Very little is known about the impact of n-3 long-chain fatty acids (n-3 LCFAs) on the microbiota of sows and their piglets. The aim of this study was to evaluate the effect of n-3 LCFA ... -
Interrelation between gut microbiota, SCFA, and fatty acid composition in pigs
Sebastià, Cristina; Folch, Josep M.; Ballester, Maria; Estellé, Jordi; Passols, Magí; Muñoz, María; García-Casco, Juan M.; Fernández, Ana I.; Castelló, Anna; Sánchez, Armand; Crespo-Piazuelo, Daniel (mSystems, 2023-12-14) Genètica i Millora AnimalThe gut microbiota is a key player in the host metabolism. Some bacteria are able to ferment non-digestible compounds and produce short-chain fatty acids that the host can later transform and accumulate ... -
Mutations on a conserved distal enhancer in the porcine C-reactive protein gene impair its expression in liver
Hernández-Banqué, Carles; Jové-Juncà, Teodor; Crespo-Piazuelo, Daniel; González-Rodríguez, Olga; Ramayo-Caldas, Yuliaxis; Esteve-Codina, Anna; Mercat, Marie-José; Bink, Marco C. A. M.; Quintanilla, Raquel; Ballester, Maria (Frontiers in Immunology, 2023-09-14) Genètica i Millora AnimalC-reactive protein (CRP) is an evolutionary highly conserved protein. Like humans, CRP acts as a major acute phase protein in pigs. While CRP regulatory mechanisms have been extensively studied in humans, ... -
On the holobiont ‘predictome’ of immunocompetence in pigs
Calle-García, Joan; Ramayo-Caldas, Yuliaxis; Zingaretti, Laura M.; Quintanilla, Raquel; Ballester Devis, Maria; Pérez-Enciso, Miguel (Genetics Selection Evolution, 2023-05-01) Genètica i Millora AnimalBackground Gut microbial composition plays an important role in numerous traits, including immune response. Integration of host genomic information with microbiome data is a natural step in the prediction ... -
PigBiobank: a valuable resource for understanding genetic and biological mechanisms of diverse complex traits in pigs
Zeng, Haonan; Zhang, Wenjing; Lin, Qing; Gao, Yahui; Teng, Jinyan; Xu, Zhiting; Cai, Xiaodian; Zhong, Zhanming; Wu, Jun; Liu, Yuqiang; Diao, Shuqi; Wei, Chen; Gong, Wentao; Pan, Xiangchun; Li, Zedong; Huang, Xiaoyu; Chen, Xifan; Du, Jinshi; The PigGTEx Consortium; Zhao, Fuping; Zhao, Yunxiang; Ballester, Maria; Crespo-Piazuelo, Daniel; Amills, Marcel; Clop, Alex; Karlskov-Mortensen, Peter; Fredholm, Merete; Li, Pinghua; Huang, Ruihua; Tang, Guoqing; Li, Mingzhou; Liu, Xiaohong; Chen, Yaosheng; Zhang, Qin; Li, Jiaqi; Yuan, Xiaolong; Ding, Xiangdong; Fang, Lingzhao; Zhang, Zhe (Nucleic Acids Research, 2023-11-13) Genètica i Millora AnimalTo fully unlock the potential of pigs as both agricultural species for animal-based protein food and biomedical models for human biology and disease, a comprehensive understanding of molecular and ... -
Quantification of camelid cytokine mRNA expression in PBMCs by microfluidic qPCR technology
Rodon, Jordi; Te, Nigger; Ballester, Maria; Segalés, Joaquim; Vergara-Alert, Júlia; Bensaid, Albert (Developmental and Comparative Immunology, 2023-09-17) Genètica i Millora Animal; Sanitat AnimalCamelids are economically and socially important in several parts of the world and might carry pathogens with epizootic or zoonotic potential. However, biological research in these species is limited ...