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There is increasing global concern about the potential long term consequences of loss of domestic animal diversity. International agreements such as the Convention on Biological Diversity encourage the design of policies that convey economic incentives for conservation of genetic resources employ...

A socio-economic survey was conducted in three districts;- Kirinyaga, Rachuonyo and Nakuru within the Kenya highlands in February to May 2004. The objective of the study was to assess demand for breeding services of smallholder dairy farmers. The major constraints experienced by the respondents i...

In order to characterise the D17MIT16 BAC DNA clone which is part of a 1200 kilobase DNA insert believed to contain mouse trypanotolerance genes, restriction endonucleases were used to digest the insert for restriction mapping, identification of DNA markers, sub cloning and sequencing. The D17MIT...

Knowledge of the genetic diversity is a prerequisite for better utilization of any genetic resource. However, such information is lacking for the indigenous African chicken. Mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) displacement (D)-loop sequences were used to study the genetic diversity, genetic differentiation...

This study examines the food security and marketed surplus effects of intensified dairying in the peri-urban area of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, where a market-oriented dairy production (MODP) system has been introduced for smallholders. Implications for policy formulation are drawn to help enhance t...

The objectives of the study were: to characterise h ousehold resources and determine their interdependencies and relationships, to find out the levels of adoption of dairy production technologies and to estimate milk produc tion levels of crossbred cows and calf growth performance under farm ...

The health of nomadic pastoralists is influenced by factors specific to their way of life. Nomadic pastoralists depend on their livestock for subsistence, especially on the livestock’s milk. Veterinary services provide vaccination against feared livestock diseases such as anthrax. Agents transmis...

Small ruminants provide very important genetic resources that can be exploited for continued improvements of the livelihoods of poor livestock keepers in the pastoral production system, particularly in the developing country situation, Kenya being one of them. Though important, the motivation of ...

Theileria are tick-transmitted, haemoprotozoan parasites infecting wild and domestic ungulates throughout many areas of the world. The most economically important parasite of sheep and goats in many parts of Asia is T. lestoquardi (syn. T. hirci) which causes the disease known as malignant ovine/...

Trypanosomes are unicellular protozoans that alter their hosts I immune response by antigen variation; a process during which the trypanosome periodically switches the antigen profile of the variable surface glycoprotein (VSG), an immunodominant molecule that covers its entire surface. The VSGs a...