ARTICLES CIENTÍFICS: Enviaments recents

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    • Quan les fonts s’assequen. Situació dramàtica de les fonts de la Serralada Litoral davant la crisi climàtica 

      Corbera, Jordi; Preece, Catherine; Sabater, Francesc; Fernández-Martínez, Marcos (L'Atzavara, 2023) Sostenibilitat en Biosistemes
      Deu anys després de l’inici del Projecte Fonts s’han visitat 31 fonts de la Serralada Litoral ja estudiades fa una dècada per tal de comparar els seus cabals antics amb els actuals. A totes les 31 fonts ...

    • Near infrared spectroscopy for fast characterization of animal by products feedstocks for biogas production: Calibration of a handheld device 

      Otero, A.; Segura, C.; Tey, L.; Masferrer, G.; Comaposada, Josep; Fernández, Belén (Biomass and Bioenergy, 2022-12-28) Sostenibilitat en Biosistemes; Qualitat i Tecnologia Alimentària
      Anaerobic digestion performance is highly influenced by the chemical composition and flow of substrates. This work evaluates the feasibility of a handheld near infrared spectrometer to predict moisture, ...

    • 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 ...

    • Effectiveness landscape of crop pollinator assemblages: Implications to pollination service management 

      Haedo, Joana P.; Graffigna, Sofía; Martínez, Lucía C.; Pérez-Méndez, Néstor; Torretta, Juan P.; Marrero, Hugo J. (Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment, 2023-02-22) Cultius Extensius Sostenibles
      There is a growing consensus that the world is facing a pollination crisis. To mitigate crop pollination deficits, some management strategies include the massive introduction of managed bee species, yet ...

    • Welfare of broilers on farm 

      EFSA AHAW Panel (EFSA Panel on Animal Health and Welfare); Nielsen, Søren Saxmose; Alvarez, Julio; Bicout, Dominique Joseph; Calistri, Paolo; Canali, Elisabetta; Drewe, Julian Ashley; Garin-Bastuji, Bruno; Gonzales Rojas, Jose Luis; Gortázar Schmidt, Christian; Herskin, Mette S; Miranda Chueca, Miguel Ángel; Padalino, Barbara; Pasquali, Paolo; Roberts, Helen Clare; Spoolder, Hans; Stahl, Karl; Velarde, Antonio; Viltrop, Arvo; Winckler, Christoph; Tiemann, Inga; de Jong, Ingrid; Gebhardt-Henrich, Sabine Gabriele; Keeling, Linda; Riber, Anja Brinch; Ashe, Sean; Candiani, Denis; García Matas, Raquel; Hempen, Michaela; Mosbach-Schulz, Olaf; Rojo Gimeno, Cristina; Van der Stede, Yves; Vitali, Marika; Bailly-Caumette, Eléa; Michel, Virginie (EFSA Journal, 2023-02-21) Benestar Animal
      This Scientific Opinion considers the welfare of domestic fowl (Gallus gallus) related to the production of meat (broilers) and includes the keeping of day-old chicks, broiler breeders, and broiler ...

    • Welfare of laying hens on farm 

      EFSA Panel on Animal Health and Animal Welfare (AHAW); Nielsen, Søren Saxmose; Alvarez, Julio; Bicout, Dominique Joseph; Calistri, Paolo; Canali, Elisabetta; Drewe, Julian Ashley; Garin-Bastuji, Bruno; Gonzales Rojas, Jose Luis; Gortázar Schmidt, Christian; Herskin, Mette; Miranda Chueca, Miguel Ángel; Padalino, Barbara; Pasquali, Paolo; Roberts, Helen Clare; Spoolder, Hans; Stahl, Karl; Velarde, Antonio; Viltrop, Arvo; Winckler, Christoph; Estevez, Inmaculada; Guinebretière, Maryse; Rodenburg, Bas; Schrader, Lars; Tiemann, Inga; Van Niekerk, Thea; Ardizzone, Michele; Ashe, Sean; Hempen, Michaela; Mosbach-Schulz, Olaf; Rojo Gimeno, Cristina; Van der Stede, Yves; Vitali, Marika; Michel, Virginie (EFSA Journal, 2023-02-21) Benestar Animal
      This scientific opinion focuses on the welfare of laying hens, pullets and layer breeders on farm. The most relevant husbandry systems used in Europe are described. For each system, highly relevant ...

    • Discovering Loci for Breeding Prospective and Phenology in Wheat Mediterranean Landraces by Environmental and eigenGWAS 

      Yannam, Venkata Rami Reddy; Rufo, Rubén; Marcotuli, Ilaria; Galadeta, Agata; Lopes, Marta S.; Soriano Soriano, Jose Miguel (International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 2023-01-15) Cultius Extensius Sostenibles
      Knowledge of the genetic basis of traits controlling phenology, differentiation patterns, and environmental adaptation is essential to develop new cultivars under climate change conditions. Landrace ...

    • Identification of microRNAs in PCV2 subclinically infected pigs by high throughput sequencing 

      Núñez-Hernández, Fernando; Pérez, Lester J.; Muñoz, Marta; Vera, Gonzalo; Tomás, Anna; Egea, Raquel; Córdoba, Sarai; Segalés, Joaquim; Sánchez, Armand; Núñez, J Ignacio (Veterinary Research, 2015-03-03) Sanitat Animal
      Porcine circovirus type 2 (PCV2) is the essential etiological infectious agent of PCV2-systemic disease and has been associated with other swine diseases, all of them collectively known as porcine ...

    • The impact of irrigation on the quality of drainage water in a new irrigation district 

      Villar, J.M.; Pascual, M.; Rufat, Josep; Villar, P. (Ingeniería del agua, 2015-10-28) Ús Eficient de l'Aigua en Agricultura
      La calidad del agua de dos sistemas de drenaje agrícola fue monitorizado en dos temporadas de riego para determinar la sostenibilidad de una zona recientemente transformada de secano a regadío y gestionada ...

    • Development and preliminary evaluation of a 90 K Axiom® SNP array for the allo-octoploid cultivated strawberry Fragaria × ananassa 

      Bassil, Nahla V.; Davis, Thomas M.; Zhang, Hailong; Ficklin, Stephen; Mittmann, Mike; Webster, Teresa; Mahoney, Lise; Wood, David; Alperin, Elisabeth S.; Rosyara, Umesh R.; Putten, Herma Koehorst-vanc; Monfort, Amparo; Sargent, Daniel J.; Amaya, Iraida; Denoyes, Beatrice; Bianco, Luca; van Dijk, Thijs; Pirani, Ali; Iezzoni, Amy; Main, Dorrie; Peace, Cameron; Yang, Yilong; Whitaker, Vance; Verma, Sujeet; Bellon, Laurent; Brew, Fiona; Herrera, Raul; van de Weg, Eric (BMC Genomics, 2015-03-07) Genòmica i Biotecnologia
      Background: A high-throughput genotyping platform is needed to enable marker-assisted breeding in the allo-octoploid cultivated strawberry Fragaria × ananassa. Short-read sequences from one diploid and ...

    • An attempt to predict conformation and fatness in bulls by means of artificial neural networks using weight, age and breed composition information 

      Čandek-Potokar, Marjeta; Prevolnik, Maja; Škrlep, Martin; Font i Furnols, Maria; Novič, Marjana (Italian Journal of Animal Science, 2015) Qualitat i Tecnologia Alimentària
      The present study aimed to predict conformation and fatness grades in bulls based on data available at slaughter (carcass weight, age and breed proportions) by means of counter-propagation artificial ...

    • Mutations in CmVPS41 controlling resistance to cucumber mosaic virus display specific subcellular localization 

      Real, Núria; Villar, Irene; Serrano, Irene; Guiu-Aragonés, Cèlia; Martin-Hernandez, Ana Montserrat (Plant Physiology, 2022-12-17) Genòmica i Biotecnologia
      Resistance to cucumber mosaic virus (CMV) in melon (Cucumis melo L.) has been described in several exotic accessions and is controlled by a recessive resistance gene, cmv1, that encodes a vacuolar protein ...

    • 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 Animal
      Ancient 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 ...

    • Use of targeted SNP selection for an improved anchoring of the melon (Cucumis melo L.) scaffold genome assembly 

      Argyris, Jason; Ruiz-Herrera, Aurora; Madriz-Masis, Pablo; Sanseverino, Walter; Morata, Jordi; Pujol Abajo, Marta; Ramos-Onsins, Sebastián E.; Garcia-Mas, Jordi (BMC Genomics, 2015-01-22) Genòmica i Biotecnologia
      Background: The genome of the melon (Cucumis melo L.) double-haploid line DHL92 was recently sequenced, with 87.5 and 80.8% of the scaffold assembly anchored and oriented to the 12 linkage groups, ...

    • 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 Animal
      Background: 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 ...

    • The endoparasite Perkinsus olseni affecting the Mediterranean mussels (Mytilus galloprovincialis) in the Italian and Spanish waters: A new possible threat for mussel aquaculture and wild animal population 

      Carella, Francesca; Fernández-Tejedor, Margarita; Villari, Grazia; Andree, Karl; De Vico, Gionata (Frontiers in Marine Science, 2023-02-24) Aigües Marines i Continentals; Aqüicultura
      Dinoflagellates belonging to the Perkinsus genus are OIE (World Organization for animal Health)-listed pathogens extremely virulent for clams and oysters in many marine ecosystems throughout the world. ...

    • Parámetros genéticos de rasgos productivos de cuyes (Cavia porcellus) de las líneas Saños y Mantaro 

      Cruz, Danny Julio; Passuni Huayta, Jorge; Corredor, Flor-Anita; Pascual, Mariam (Revista de Investigaciones Veterinarias del Perú, 2022-06-29) Genètica i Millora Animal
      El objetivo del estudio fue estimar los componentes de varianzas, la heredabilidad y correlaciones genéticas y fenotípicas de los rasgos productivos de las líneas de cuyes Saños y Mantaro, desarrolladas ...

    • Influence of ultrasonic application on the enzymatic formation of zinc protoporphyrin 

      Abril, B.; Contreras, M.; Bou, Ricard; Llauger, Mar; García-Pérez, J.V.; Benedito, J. (Journal of Food Engineering, 2023-02-03) Funcionalitat i Seguretat Alimentària
      Ferrochelatase (FeCH), present in pork liver, catalyses the formation of zinc-protoporphyrin (ZnPP), a stable purple-red pigment found in Parma ham. Kinetics of ZnPP formation is especially slow. Thus, ...

    • Mitochondrial aquaporin-8-mediated hydrogen peroxide transport is essential for teleost spermatozoon motility 

      Chauvigné, François; Boj, Mónica; Finn, Roderick Nigel; Cerdà, Joan (Scientific Reports, 2015-01-14) Aqüicultura
      Reactive oxygen species (ROS), particularly hydrogen peroxide (H2O2), cause oxidative cell damage and inhibit sperm function. In most oviparous fishes that spawn in seawater (SW), spermatozoa may be ...

    • Mating behaviour and gamete release in gilthead seabream (Sparus aurata, Linnaeus 1758) held in captivity 

      Ibarra-Zatarain, Zohar; Duncan, Neil (Spanish Journal of Agricultural Research, 2015-02-11) Aqüicultura
      The present study aimed to describe the reproductive behaviour of gilthead seabream (Sparus aurata) in captivity. Twenty-four mature gilthead seabream, divided in two tanks, were utilized for the present ...