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    • A catalog of microbial genes from the bovine rumen unveils a specialized and diverse biomass-degrading environment 

      Li, Junhua; Zhong, Huanzi; Ramayo-Caldas, Yuliaxis; Terrapon, Nicolas; Lombard, Vincent; Potocki-Veronese, Gabrielle; Estellé, Jordi; Popova, Milka; Yang, Ziyi; Zhang, Hui; Li, Fang; Tang, Shanmei; Yang, Fangming; Chen, Weineng; Chen, Bing; Li, Jiyang; Guo, Jing; Martin, Cécile; Maguin, Emmanuelle; Xu, Xun; Yang, Huanming; Wang, Jian; Madsen, Lise; Kristiansen, Karsten; Henrissat, Bernard; Ehrlich, Stanislav D.; Morgavi, Diego P. (GigaScience, 2020-05-30) Genètica i Millora Animal
      Background The rumen microbiota provides essential services to its host and, through its role in ruminant production, contributes to human nutrition and food security. A thorough knowledge of the genetic ...

    • A Co-Association Network Analysis Reveals Putative Regulators for Health-Related Traits in Pigs 

      Crespo-Piazuelo, Daniel; Ramayo-Caldas, Yuliaxis; González-Rodríguez, Olga; Pascual, Mariam; Quintanilla, Raquel; Ballester, Maria (Frontiers in Immunology, 2021-11-26) Genètica i Millora Animal
      In recent years, the increase in awareness of antimicrobial resistance together with the societal demand of healthier meat products have driven attention to health-related traits in livestock production. ...

    • A functional regulatory variant of MYH3 influences muscle fiber-type composition and intramuscular fat content in pigs 

      In-Cheol, Cho; Hee-Bok, Park; Jin Seop, Ahn; Sang-Hyun, Han; Jae-Bong, Lee; Hyun-Tae, Lim; Chae-Kyoung, Yoo; Eun-Ji, Jung; Dong-Hwan, Kim; Wu-Sheng, Sun; Ramayo-Caldas, Yuliaxis; Sang-Geum, Kim; Yong-Jun, Kang; Yoo-Kyung, Kim; Hyun-Sook, Shin; Pil-Nam, Seong; In-Sul, Hwang; Beom-Young, Park; Seongsoo, Hwang; Sung-Soo, Lee; Youn-Chul, Ryu; Jun-Heon, Lee; Moon-Suck, Ko; Kichoon, Lee; Andersson, Göran; Pérez-Enciso, Miguel; Jeong-Jeong, Lee (PLoS Genetics, 2019-10-11) Genètica i Millora Animal
      Muscle development and lipid accumulation in muscle critically affect meat quality of livestock. However, the genetic factors underlying myofiber-type specification and intramuscular fat (IMF) accumulation ...

    • A gene co-association network regulating gut microbial communities in a Duroc pig population 

      Reverter, Antonio; Ballester, Maria; Alexandre, Pamela A.; Mármol-Sánchez, Emilio; Dalmau, Antoni; Quintanilla, Raquel; Ramayo-Caldas, Yuliaxis (Microbiome, 2021-02-21) Genètica i Millora Animal
      Background. Analyses of gut microbiome composition in livestock species have shown its potential to contribute to the regulation of complex phenotypes. However, little is known about the host genetic ...

    • A pilot RNA-seq study in 40 pietrain ejaculates to characterize the porcine sperm microbiome 

      Gòdia, Marta; Ramayo-Caldas, Yuliaxis; Zingaretti, Laura M.; Darwich, Laila; López, Samantha; Rodríguez-Gil, Joan E.; Yeste, Marc; Sánchez, Armand; Clop, Alex (Theriogenology, 2020-08-15) Sanitat Animal; Genètica i Millora Animal
      The microbiome plays a key role in homeostasis and health and it has been also linked to fertility and semen quality in several animal species including swine. Despite the more than likely importance ...

    • A systems biology framework integrating GWAS and RNA-seq to shed light on the molecular basis of sperm quality in swine 

      Gòdia, Marta; Reverter, Antonio; González-Prendes, Rayner; Ramayo-Caldas, Yuliaxis; Castelló, Anna; Rodríguez-Gil, Joan-Enric; Sánchez, Armand; Clop, Alex (Genetics Selection Evolution, 2020-12-08) Genètica i Millora Animal
      Background Genetic pressure in animal breeding is sparking the interest of breeders for selecting elite boars with higher sperm quality to optimize ejaculate doses and fertility rates. However, the ...

    • About the existence of common determinants of gene expression in the porcine liver and skeletal muscle 

      González-Prendes, Rayner; Mármol-Sánchez, Emilio; Quintanilla, Raquel; Castelló, Anna; Zidi, Ali; Ramayo-Caldas, Yuliaxis; Figueiredo Cardoso, Tainã; Manunza, Arianna; Cánovas, Ángela; Amills, Marcel (BMC Genomics, 2019-06-24) Genètica i Millora Animal
      Background: The comparison of expression QTL (eQTL) maps obtained in different tissues is an essential step to understand how gene expression is genetically regulated in a context-dependent manner. In ...

    • Analysis of porcine adipose tissue transcriptome reveals differences in de novo fatty acid synthesis in pigs with divergent muscle fatty acid composition 

      Corominas, Jordi; Ramayo-Caldas, Yuliaxis; Puig-Oliveras, Anna; Estellé, Jordi; Castelló, Anna; Alves, Estefania; Pena, Ramona N; Ballester, Maria; Folch, Josep M (BMC Genomics, 2013-12-01) Genètica i Millora Animal
      Background: In pigs, adipose tissue is one of the principal organs involved in the regulation of lipid metabolism. It is particularly involved in the overall fatty acid synthesis with consequences in ...

    • Breeding farm, level of feeding and presence of antibiotics in the feed influence rabbit cecal microbiota 

      Velasco-Galilea, María; Guivernau, Miriam; Piles, Miriam; Viñas, Marc; Rafel, Oriol; Sánchez, Armand; Ramayo-Caldas, Yuliaxis; González-Rodríguez, Olga; Sánchez, Juan P. (Animal Microbiome, 2020-11-02) Genètica i Millora Animal; Sostenibilitat en Biosistemes
      Background The effect of the production environment and different management practices in rabbit cecal microbiota remains poorly understood. While previous studies have proved the impact of the age or ...

    • Characterization of bacterial microbiota compositions along the intestinal tract in pigs and their interactions and functions 

      Crespo-Piazuelo, Daniel; Estellé, Jordi; Revilla, Manuel; Criado-Mesas, Lourdes; Ramayo-Caldas, Yuliaxis; Óvilo, Cristina; Fernández, Ana I.; Ballester, Maria; Folch, Josep M. (Scientific Reports, 2018-08-28) Genètica i Millora Animal
      In addition to its value in meat production, the pig is an interesting animal model for human digestive tract studies due to its physiological similarities. The aim of this study was to describe the ...

    • Co-expression network analysis predicts a key role of microRNAs in the adaptation of the porcine skeletal muscle to nutrient supply 

      Mármol-Sánchez, Emilio; Ramayo-Caldas, Yuliaxis; Quintanilla, Raquel; Cardoso, Tainã Figueiredo; González-Prendes, Rayner; Tibau, Joan; Amills, Marcel (Journal of Animal Science and Biotechnology, 2020-01-17) Genètica i Millora Animal
      Background The role of non-coding RNAs in the porcine muscle metabolism is poorly understood, with few studies investigating their expression patterns in response to nutrient supply. Therefore, we aimed ...

    • 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 Biotecnologia
      Genetic 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 ...

    • Diet, Immunity, and Microbiota Interactions: An Integrative Analysis of the Intestine Transcriptional Response and Microbiota Modulation in Gilthead Seabream (Sparus aurata) Fed an Essential Oils-Based Functional Diet 

      Firmino, Joana P.; Vallejos-Vidal, Eva; Balebona, M. Carmen; Ramayo-Caldas, Yuliaxis; Cerezo, Isabel M.; Salomón, Ricardo; Tort, Lluis; Estevez, Alicia; Moriñigo, Miguel Ángel; Reyes-López, Felipe E.; Gisbert, Enric (Frontiers in Immunology, 2021-03-04) Aqüicultura; Genètica i Millora Animal
      Essential oils (EOs) are promising alternatives to chemotherapeutics in animal production due to their immunostimulant, antimicrobial, and antioxidant properties, without associated environmental or ...

    • Disentangling the causal relationship between rabbit growth and cecal microbiota through structural equation models 

      Mora Fenoll, Mónica; Velasco-Galilea, María; Sanchez, Juan Pablo; Ramayo-Caldas, Yuliaxis; Piles, Miriam (Genetics Selection Evolution, 2022-12-19) Genètica i Millora Animal
      Background The effect of the cecal microbiome on growth of rabbits that were fed under different regimes has been studied previously. However, the term “effect” carries a causal meaning that can be ...

    • 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 Animal
      Pig 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 ...

    • Genetic diversity and selection signatures of the beef ‘Charolais de Cuba’ breed 

      Rodriguez-Valera, Yoel; Renand, Gilles; Naves, Michel; Fonseca-Jiménez, Yidix; Moreno-Probance, Teresa Inés; Ramos-Onsins, Sebastian; Rocha, Dominique; Ramayo-Caldas, Yuliaxis (Scientific Reports, 2018-07-20) Genètica i Millora Animal
      In this study, we used BovineSNP50 Genotyping BeadChip data to estimate the structure, putative ancestral origin as well as to identify regions with selective sweeps that may have had an important role ...

    • Genetic parameters and associated genomic regions for global immunocompetence and other health-related traits in pigs 

      Ballester, Maria; Ramayo-Caldas, Yuliaxis; González-Rodríguez, Olga; Pascual, Mariam; Reixach, Josep; Díaz, Marta; Blanc, Fany; López-Serrano, Sergi; Tibau, Joan; Quintanilla, Raquel (Scientific Reports, 2020-10-28) Genètica i Millora Animal; Sanitat Animal
      The inclusion of health-related traits, or functionally associated genetic markers, in pig breeding programs could contribute to produce more robust and disease resistant animals. The aim of the present ...

    • Global analysis of the association between pig muscle fatty acid composition and gene expression using RNA-Seq 

      Valdés-Hernández, Jesús; Ramayo-Caldas, Yuliaxis; Passols, Magí; Sebastià, Cristina; Criado-Mesas, Lourdes; Crespo-Piazuelo, Daniel; Esteve-Codina, Anna; Castelló, Anna; Sánchez, Armand; Folch, Josep M. (Scientific reports, 2023-01-11) Genètica i Millora Animal
      Fatty acids (FAs) play an essential role as mediators of cell signaling and signal transduction, affecting metabolic homeostasis and determining meat quality in pigs. However, FAs are transformed by the ...

    • Gut barrier-microbiota imbalances in early life lead to higher sensitivity to inflammation in a murine model of C-section delivery 

      Barone, M.; Ramayo-Caldas, Yuliaxis; Estellé, J.; Tambosco, K.; Chadi, S.; Maillard, F.; Gallopin, M.; Planchais, J.; Chain, F.; Kropp, C.; Rios-Covian, D.; Sokol, H.; Brigidi, P.; Langella, P.; Martín, R. (Microbiome, 2023-07-03) Genètica i Millora Animal
      Background Most interactions between the host and its microbiota occur at the gut barrier, and primary colonizers are essential in the gut barrier maturation in the early life. The mother–ofspring ...

    • Gut eukaryotic communities in pigs: diversity, composition and host genetics contribution 

      Ramayo-Caldas, Yuliaxis; Prenafeta-Boldú, Francesc; Zingaretti, Laura M.; Gonzalez-Rodriguez, Olga; Dalmau, Antoni; Quintanilla, Raquel; Ballester, Maria (Animal Microbiome, 2020-05-07) Genètica i Millora Animal; Sostenibilitat en Biosistemes
      Background The pig gut microbiome harbors thousands of species of archaea, bacteria, viruses and eukaryotes such as protists and fungi. However, since the majority of published studies have been focused ...