Publikationsverzeichnis Endbericht zitierte Literatur

Publikationsverzeichnis der im Endbericht zitierten Literatur

Aikins-Wilson, S., Bohlouli, M., König, S. (2021): Maternal and direct genetic parameters for tail length, tail lesions and growth traits in pigs. Journal of Animal Science 99, skaa398, https://doi.org/10.1093/jas/skaa398.

Aikins-Wilson, S., Bohlouli, M., Engel., P., König, S. (2022): Effects of an herbal diet, diet x boar line and diet x genotype interactions on skin lesions and on growth performance in post-weaning pigs using a cross-classified experiment. Livestock Science 263, 105010, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.livsci.2022.105010.

Aikins-Wilson, S., Halli, K., Bohlouli, M., Engel, P., Reiner, G., König, S. (2023): Assessing the effects of piglet behavior, diet supplementation, and lesion score breeding values of sires on behavior pattern in weaned pigs. Livestock Science 276, 105314, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.livsci.2023.105314.

Bathke, J., Lühken, G. (2021): OVarFlow: a resource optimized GATK 4 based Open source Variant calling workflow. BMC Bioinformatics 22:402)

Chang, C.G., Chow, C.C. Tellier, L.C., Vattikuti, S., Purcell, S.M., Lee; J.J. (2015): Second-generation PLINK: rising to the challenge of larger and richer datasets. Gigascience 25:4:7, doi: 10.1186/s13742-015-0047-8.

Cingolani, P., Platts, A., Wang, L., Coon, M., Nguyen, T., Wang, L., Land, S., Lu, X., Ruden, D. (2012): A program for annotating and predicting the effects of single nucleotide polymorphisms, SnpEff. Fly 6, 80. https://doi.org/10.4161/fly.19695.

Egerer, C., Gerhards, K., Becker, S., Engel, P., König, S., Reiner, G. 2024. Pig tail length is associated with the prevalence of tail malformations but not with tail inflammation. BMC Vet. Research, under review.

Gerhards, K., Egerer, C., Becker, S., Willems, H., Engel, P., König, S., Reiner, G. 2025. GWAS reveals SNPs associated with tail length and tail kinks in piglets. Veterinary Science, under review.

Huang, M., Liu, X., Zhou, Y., Summers, R., Zhang, Z. (2019): BLINK: a package for the next level of genome-wide association studies with both individuals and markers in the millions. GigaScience 8, 1. https://doi.org/10.1093/gigascience/giy154.

Hümmelchen, H., Wagner, H., König, S., Wehrend, A. (2022): Importance of tail length in sheep and the breeding for short tails. Tierarztl Prax Ausg G Grosstiere Nutztiere 50, 187–194. Accepted, 25-01-2025

Hümmelchen, H., Wenisch, S., Brügemann, K., König, S., Wagner, H. (2023a): Phenotyping the sheep tail – Presentation of characterization methods in the context of breeding for short-tailedness. Tierarztl Prax Ausg G Grosstiere Nutztiere 51, 6–14.

Hümmelchen, H., Wagner, H., Brügemann, K., Wenisch, S., König, S., Wehrend, A. (2023b): Frequency and characterisation of anomalies and fractures of the caudal spine in sheep with undocked tails. Animals 13, 1419. https://doi.org/10.3390/ani13081419.

Hümmelchen, H., Wagner, H., Wenisch, S., König, S., Wehrend, A. (2024a): Phenotyping the sheep tail: Histological depiction of caudal spine structures in sheep. Anatomia, Histologia, Embryologia. Under review.

Hümmelchen, H., Wagner, H., Brügemann, K., König, S., Wehrend, A. (2024b): Effects of breeding for short-tailedness in sheep on parameters of reproduction and lamb development. Veterinary Medicine and Science,  

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Mainzer, J., Yin, T., Giambra, I., Hümmelchen, H., Engel, P., Wagner, H., Wehrend, A., König, S. (2025): Parameters, genome-wide associations and potential candidate genes for additive and dominance effects of tail characteristics in Merinoland sheep based on genome sequences in a selection experiment. Animal Genetics, under review.

McLaren, W., Gil, L., Hunt, S., Riat, H., Ritchie, G., Thormann, A., Flicek, P., Cunningham, F. (2016): The Ensembl Variant Effect Predictor. Genome Biology 17, 122. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13059-016-0974-4.

Oberpenning, J., Bohlouli, M., Engel, P., Hümmelchen, H., Wagner, H., Wehrend, A., König, S. (2022): Multiple-trait and structural equation modelling approaches to infer genetic relationships between tail length and weight traits in Merinoland sheep. Journal of Animal Breeding and Genetics, 140, 132-143.

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Zhang, X., Mainzer, J., Giambra, I., Yin, T., Engel, P., Hümmelchen, H., Wagner, H., Wehrend, A., Egerer, C., Gerhards, K., Reiner, G., König, S. (2025). Integrating GWAS and comparative genomic analysis reveals conservation and species-specificity of functional variants influencing tail length, tail Circumference, and tail abnormalities in pigs and sheep. Mammalian Genome, under review.

Wang, J., Zhang, Z. (2021): GAPIT Version 3: Boosting Power and Accuracy for Genomic Association and Prediction. Genomics Proteomics Bioinformatics 19, 629. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gpb.2021.08.005