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Sexual selection - How is variation maintained? (SEX SEL - VAR)

Start date: Sep 1, 2013, End date: Dec 31, 2017,

Across the animal kingdom, striking displays and ornaments are produced by sexual selection. Current thinking is that females choose the most elaborate males because they display genetic benefits to offspring. However, this should lead to a rapid decline in genetic variation within species. Variation between individuals is the raw material upon which selection acts, so how is this variation mainta ...
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GENOMIC TOOLS FOR BREEDING AGAINST HERITABLE DISEASES IN HORSES (HORSEGENE)

Start date: Feb 1, 2014, End date: Jan 31, 2017,

The project will use reliable state-of-the-art genomic technologies for the rapid identification of genetic markers for heritable diseases in horses, which will facilitate effective genomics based selection against disease susceptibility. The diseases of particular focus for this project are osteochondrosis (OC), insect bite hypersensitivity (IBH) and chronic progressive lymphedema (CPL). The occ ...
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Optimising plant polyphenols in LEGUMES for ruminant nutrition PLUS health PLUS environmental sustainability (LEGUMEPLUS)

Start date: Jan 1, 2012, End date: Dec 31, 2015,

Europe must face the Grand Challenges of climate change and global warming, which will seriously affect the production of foods, including animal feeds. Tightening supplies of energy, foods and feeds will further impact on food security. Feeding animals in Europe with large quantities of imported soyabeans is not sustainable. ‘Home-grown’ protein sources, such as forage legumes, offer a valuable a ...
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Training Network on Zebrafish Infection Models for Pharmaceutical Screens (FishForPharma)

Start date: Jan 1, 2012, End date: Dec 31, 2015,

Infectious diseases caused by pathogenic micro-organisms are major causes of death, disability, and social and economic disruption for millions of people. During evolution these pathogens have developed intricate strategies to manipulate host defence mechanisms and outwit the immune system. To reduce the burden of infectious diseases it is important to increase understanding of these host-pathogen ...
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AQUAculture infrastructures for EXCELLence in European Fish research (AQUAEXCEL)

Start date: Mar 1, 2011, End date: Feb 28, 2015,

AQUAEXCEL will coordinate the highest class European aquaculture research facilities covering the entire range of production systems (recirculation, flow-through, cage, hatchery and pond systems), environments (freshwater and marine, cold and warm water), scales (small, medium and industrial scale), fish species (salmon, trout, sea bass, sea bream, cod, carp…), and fields of expertise (nutrition, ...
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A Systems Biology Approach to controlling Nematode Infections of Livestock (NematodeSystemHealth)

Start date: Jan 1, 2011, End date: Dec 31, 2014,

Nematodes are among the most serious threats to livestock. They cause disease and death but they also compromise production. Even a mild infection can cause a relative protein deficiency and reduce weight gain by 25% . In the UK sheep industry alone, nematode infection costs over 100 million Euros a year .The mainstay of current control measures is anthelmintic treatment but this is threatened b ...
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Automated and differentiated calculation of sustainability for cod and haddock products (WHITEFISH)

Start date: Jan 1, 2012, End date: Dec 31, 2014,

The European whitefish catch and processing industry is dominated by SMEs, and it is currently facing several challenges. Worldwide many stocks have collapsed, and environmental organizations warn against consuming captured whitefish. Strict regulations with respect to documentation and traceability have been imposed on the European captured fish industry in the last few years, and fulfilling thes ...
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Future of Reefs in a Changing Environment (FORCE): An ecosystem approach to managing Caribbean coral reefs in the face of climate change (FORCE)

Start date: Jan 1, 2010, End date: May 31, 2014,

"The Future of Reefs in a Changing Environment (FORCE) Project partners a multi-disciplinary team of researchers from Europe and the Caribbean to enhance the scientific basis for managing coral reefs in an era of rapid climate change and unprecedented human pressure on coastal resources. The overall aim is to provide coral reef managers with a toolbox of sustainable management practices that minim ...
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Improving vaccination of carp against spring viraemia of carp virus (SVCV) (FISHVAC)

Start date: Dec 1, 2011, End date: Nov 30, 2013,

"This project aims at the advancement on fundamental knowledge on the evolution of fish cytokines and at the development of vaccination strategies against highly cytopathic virus of carp, taking as studying model SVCV. Worldwide, common carp is the most cultured fish species for food consumption with a value of US$20 billion. Koi carp are ornamental varieties of common carp and individual fish may ...
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Innovative and practical management approaches to reduce nitrogen excretion by ruminants (REDNEX)

Start date: Jul 1, 2008, End date: Oct 31, 2013,

Dairying is an important sector of EU agriculture, but intensification has been accompanied by an increase in N surplus. This has a negative environmental impact on groundwater (pollution with nitrates), surface water (eutrophication) and on the atmosphere (de-nitrification and ammonia volatilisation). The EU seeks to stimulate measures that improve management of nutrients, waste and water as a st ...
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Training network on protective immune modulation in warm water fish by feeding glucans (NEMO)

Start date: Oct 1, 2008, End date: Nov 30, 2012,

"The production of a young highly trained scientific group which will stimulate the development of a protection philosophy to disease is urgently needed in the European aquaculture and ornamental fisheries sector. The expansion of this important European commercial sector is also severely affected because of the lack of an industrial critical mass which would allow individual enterprises to establ ...
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SNPs of high utility within European commercial pig breeds (PigSNP)

Start date: Dec 1, 2008, End date: Aug 31, 2010,

Within the PigSNP project SNPs will be identified that are known to be segregating within commercial European pig breeds. Using the Solexa sequencing technique a representation of the genome is directly sequenced to high redundancy. This is achieved by digesting the DNA with a restriction enzyme and sequencing fragments within a specific size range (i.e. 250 bp). The strategy used is based on sequ ...
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