REASONS FOR PERFORMING STUDY : The carrier prevalence of severe combined immunodeficiency (SCID), lavender foal syndrome (LFS) and cerebellar abiotrophy (CA) in Arabian foals in South Africawas determined in order to ...

The South African lion (Panthera leo) population is highly fragmented. One third of its wild lions occur in small (<1000 km2) reserves. These lions were reintroduced from other areas of the species’ historical range. ...

The identification of related and unrelated individuals from molecular marker data is often difficult, particularly when no pedigree information is available and the data set is large. High levels of relatedness or inbreeding ...

Disorders of sex development (DSD) have long been documented in domestic animal species including horses. However, there is only a single report of an androgen receptor mutation causative of such a DSD syndrome in a horse ...

The aims of the study were to determine which of Days 5, 6 or 7 after the blood plasma progesterone concentration (PPC) of bitches first reached 6–9 nmol/L (Day 0) yield the highest fertility and whether day of insemination ...

Color markings among felid species display both a remarkable diversity and a common underlying periodicity. A similar range of patterns within domestic cats suggests a conserved mechanism whose appearance can be altered ...