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item Validating genomic predictions for economic traits in purebred U.S. dairy heifers (Sep 2024)
item A million-cow genome-wide association study of productive life in U.S. Holstein cows (Sep 2024)
item Impact of crate design, number of heat lamps, and lying posture on the occurrence of shoulder lesions in sows (Sep 2024)
item USAS student subunits: history and impact (Sep 2024)
item The development of triploid induction methods for sunshine bass production (Sep 2024)
item Genomic validation software: USA update including truncated MACE (Sep 2024)
item Technical options for all-breed Single Step GBLUP for US dairy cattle (Sep 2024)
item Guidelines for approximating genomic reliabilities of the single-step genomic model (Sep 2024)
item Breeding programs compared across countries, continents, and breeds (Sep 2024)
item Analysis of factors affecting daily milk yields: an initial case study in an automatic thrice-milking farm (Sep 2024)
item Dry matter intake in US Holstein cows: exploring the genomic and phenotypic impact of milk components and body weight composite (Sep 2024)
item Intermittent detections of ISAV-HPR0 in a salmon recirculating aquaculture system, and implications for sampling (Aug 2024)
item Salmon hatcheries can demographically boost wild populations at the cost of diversity: quantitative genetic modelling of Alaska pink salmon (Jul 2024)
item Comparison of genomic merit, pedigree completeness, inbreeding, and relationships of genotyped animals across continents (Jun 2024)
item Multibreed single-step genomic best linear unbiased predictor evaluations for fertility traits in US dairy cattle (Jun 2024)
item Relationship between stocking rate and production of stocker hybrid tilapia and water quality in a mixtotrophic biofloc system (Jun 2024)
item Fine solids removal by foam fractionation in a low-salinity recirculating aquaculture system for red drum juveniles, Sciaenops ocellatus (Jun 2024)
item Shifting paradigms in daily milk yield correction factors: the DeLorenzo-Wiggans method revisited (Jun 2024)
item Improved tracking of recent mutations within common haplotypes causing cholesterol deficiency, muscle weakness, and BLIRD (Jun 2024)
item Six direct health traits for the United States: Updated variance component estimates and implementation of variance adjusted weights (Jun 2024)
item Relationships between weight loss during short-term feed deprivation, feed conversion efficiency and growth in Delta Select and Delta Control line channel catfish families (Jun 2024)
item Genetic and genomic evaluations of milking speed and duration from automated milk recording (Jun 2024)
item Association of individual cow milk fatty acids and milk performance (Jun 2024)
item The value of a national evaluation system in promoting dairy sustainability (Jun 2024)
item Validation of genomic prediction for economic traits in heifers across five U.S. dairy breeds (Jun 2024)
item Integrating aquaculture to support STEM education: A qualitative assessment to identify high school students' attitudes, interests, and experiences (Jun 2024)
item New mutation within a common haplotype is associated with calf muscle weakness in Holsteins (Jun 2024)
item Hypothalamic Transcriptome Response To Simulated Diel Earthen Pond Hypoxia Cycles In Channel Catfish (Ictalurus punctatus) (May 2024)
item Large-sample genome-wide association study of resistance to retained placenta in U.S. Holstein cows (May 2024)
item Inbreeding depression for producer-recorded udder, metabolic, and reproductive diseases in US dairy cattle (May 2024)
item Complete genome of Vibrio harveyi isolated from captive Caribbean Spiny Lobster (Panulirus argus) (Apr 2024)
item Type of black soldier fly (Hermetia illucens) larvae frass influences the nutritional value when included in a prepared diet for Mozambique tilapia (Oreochromis mossambicus) (Apr 2024)
item Susceptibility of delta select and delta control channel catfish lines to experimental Edwardsiella ictaluri and Edwardsiella piscicida infection (Apr 2024)
item Redefining Piscine Lactococcosis (Apr 2024)
item Apple snails: discussions of past problems and future solutions for an emerging pest in United States agriculture/aquaculture (Mar 2024)
item Repeated copper sulfate treatments have no effect on growth and survival of juvenile Walleye (Mar 2024)
item Microhaplotypes generate higher breeding value accuracy compared to SNPs for imputation-based breeding strategies (Mar 2024)
item Single-step genomic predictions for crossbred Holstein and Jersey cows in the United States (Mar 2024)
item The development of triploidy induction methods for hybrid striped bass production in commercial aquaculture (Feb 2024)
item Experimental peracetic acid use in a North Carolina trout raceway (Feb 2024)
item Production of hybrid striped bass and water quality in split ponds compared to traditional earthen ponds (Feb 2024)
item Initial investigations into the production of triploid sunshine bass using temperature shock (Feb 2024)
item Sex-specific gene expression in eastern oyster gonad and mantle tissues (Feb 2024)
item Acipenserid Herpesvirus 2 Genome and Partial Validation of a qPCR for Detection in White Sturgeon (Acipenser transmontanus) (Feb 2024)
item Alterations of rumen and fecal microbiome in growing beef and dairy steers fed rumen protected Capsicum oleoresin (Jan 2024)
item Effect of dietary phytase on water and fecal prokaryotic and eukaryotic microbiomes in a hybrid tilapia (Oreochromis aureus x O. niloticus) mixotrophic biofloc production system (Jan 2024)
item Hepatic transcriptome analyses of juvenile white bass (Morone chrysops) when fed diets where fish meal is partially or totally replaced by alternative protein sources (Jan 2024)
item Rapid differentiation of infectious salmon anemia virus avirulent (HPR0) from virulent (HPR) variants using multiplex RT-qPCR (Jan 2024)
item Costimulatory receptors in the Channel catfish: CD28 family members and their ligands (Jan 2024)
item A million-cow validation of a chromosome 14 region interacting with all chromosomes for fat percentage in U.S. Holstein cows (Jan 2024)
item Imputation accuracy from low- to medium-density SNP chips for US crossbred dairy cattle (Jan 2024)
item Determining the presence and size of shoulder lesions in sows using computer vision (Dec 2023)
item Influence of probiotic and prebiotic supplementation on intestinal microbiota and resistance to Edwardsiella ictaluri infection in channel catfish (Ictalurus punctatus) following florfenicol administration (Dec 2023)
item Efficient population representation with more genetic markers increases performance of a steelhead (Oncorhynchus mykiss) genetic stock identification baseline (Dec 2023)
item Bacteriophage endolysin treatment for systemic infection of Streptococcus iniae in hybrid striped bass (Dec 2023)
item Antiparasitic effects of peracetic acid on striped bass infested with Trichodina spp (Dec 2023)
item International evaluations for clinical mastitis in Brown Swiss (Dec 2023)
item Estimating test day milk yields by modeling proportional daily yields: Going beyond linearity (Dec 2023)
item Quality and value of imputing gene tests for all animals (Dec 2023)
item Inheritance of a new mutation affecting muscle weakness within a common haplotype in Holsteins (Dec 2023)
item Modeling identical twins and clones in genetic evaluations (Dec 2023)
item Effect of modelling unknown parent groups and metafounders on the historical genetic trend of fertility traits (Dec 2023)
item Updating test-day milk yield factors for use in genetic evaluations and dairy production systems: A comprehensive review (Dec 2023)
item Comparison of high-throughput sequencing methods for bacterial microbiota profiling in catfish aquaculture (Nov 2023)
item Estimating microhaplotype allele frequencies from low-coverage or pooled sequencing data (Nov 2023)
item Effects of male to female broodfish ratio, broodpond stocking density, and post-spawn broodfish holding-pond density on reproductive efficiency in pond-spawned channel catfish, Ictulurus punctatus. (Nov 2023)
item Evaluating fertility in the wake of embryo transfer (Oct 2023)
item Effect of hypoxia duration and pattern on channel catfish (Ictalurus punctatus) neuropeptide gene expression and hematology (Oct 2023)
item System and biological effects on quantitative milking speed phenotypes from inline milk meters (Oct 2023)
item Black soldier fly (Hermetia illucens) frass on sweet-potato (Ipomea batatas) slip production with aquaponics (Sep 2023)
item Performance of phytase-treated fishmeal-free and all-plant protein diets in pond production of market sized hybrid striped bass (Sep 2023)
item Estimation of cell type proportions from bulk RNA-Seq of porcine whole blood samples using partial reference-free deconvolution (Sep 2023)
item Use of a project-based aquaponics curriculum in rural Kentucky school districts increases secondary students’ understanding of ecosystems (Sep 2023)
item Identifying early-life behavior to predict mothering ability in swine utilizing NUtrack system (Sep 2023)
item Fine-scale environmentally associated spatial structure of Lumpfish (Cyclopterus lumpus) across the Northwest Atlantic (Sep 2023)
item Gene expression signatures for physiological resilience of sea urchin larva to food deprivation (Aug 2023)
item Characterization of additive, dominance, and runs of homozygosity effects inbreeds of dairy cattle (Aug 2023)
item Dissolved oxygen management on catfish farms (Aug 2023)
item Effect of brooder age and size on fry size variation in channel catfish (Aug 2023)
item Integration of physiological and gene expression analyses to reveal biomarkers for protein dynamic mechanisms regulating higher growth and survival among larval oyster families (Crassostrea gigas) (Jul 2023)
item Does modeling causal relationships improve the accuracy of estimating lactation milk yields? (Jul 2023)
item Genotype by environment interaction in dairy cattle raised in California and New England (Jul 2023)
item The use of kaolin as a prophylactic treatment to prevent columnaris disease (Flavobacterium covae) in commercial baitfish and sportfish species (Jul 2023)
item Evaluating nanopore sequencing for microbial community characterization in catfish pond water (Jul 2023)
item Identification of candidate lethal haplotypes and genomic association with post-natal mortality and reproductive traits in Nellore cattle (Jun 2023)
item Influence of channel catfish (Ictalurus punctatus) and channel x blue catfish (I. furcatus) hybrids on myxozoan community composition in catfish aquaculture ponds (Jun 2023)
item Colostrum microbiome as a predictor of future milk solids production (Jun 2023)
item Standardizing lactation yields from national data with age-parity-season-region corrections for fair comparisons across individual cows and environments (Jun 2023)
item Get test-day milk yields right: what have we learned? (Jun 2023)
item Quality and value of imputing gene tests for all animals (Jun 2023)
item Combined effects of milking intervals and frequencies (Jun 2023)
item Haplotype inheritance and livability of recumbent Holstein calves (Jun 2023)
item A million-cow genome-wide association study of three fertility traits in U.S. Holstein cows (Jun 2023)
item Genomic validation software: USA results (Jun 2023)
item Candidate mutation for calf recumbency in Holsteins (Jun 2023)
item Heart inflammation is affected by the host stain of Atlantic salmon during piscine orthoreovirs infection (Jun 2023)
item Dietary inclusions of black soldier fly (Hermetia illucens) larvae frass enhanced production of channel catfish (Ictalurus punctatus) juveniles, stevia (Stevia rebaudiana, and lavender (Lavaridula angustifolia) in an aquapo (Jun 2023)
item Using skin mucus for the identification of ovulation biomarkers in North American Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) (May 2023)
item Effects of different treatment approaches on microbial populations in the vaginal discharge of cows diagnosed with clinical metritis (May 2023)
item Resource productivity and costs of aquaculture practices: Economic-sustainability perspectives from U.S. catfish farming (May 2023)
item British Columbia freshwater salmon hatcheries demonstrate minimal contribution to piscine orthoreovirus (PRV) regional occurrence with no evidence for non-endemic (May 2023)
item Surveillance of Piscine Orthoreovirus genotype-1 (PRV-1) in wild Pacific Salmon of British Columbia, Canada: 2011-2020 (May 2023)
item Simple, low-cost traps may help manage snails and reduce trematode risk in catfish ponds (Apr 2023)
item Repeated low-dose copper sulfate applications may be a safe and effective way to manage catfish trematode infections (Apr 2023)
item A second unveiling: haplotig masking of the eastern oyster genome improves population-level inference (Apr 2023)
item Digestibility of conventional and novel dietary lipids in channel catfish Ictalurus punctatus (Apr 2023)
item Editorial: Lactation genomics and phenomics in farm animals: Where are we at? (Apr 2023)
item Evaluation of snail trap prototype for monitoring the intermediate gastropod hosts of Bolbophorus spp. in commercial catfish ponds in the southeastern United States (Apr 2023)
item NAJA Feature: Rotenone has little effect on water quality, phytoplankton, zooplankton or macroinvertebrates in aquaculture nursery ponds (Apr 2023)
item Effect of brooder age and size on fry size variation in channel catfish. (Apr 2023)
item Biofiltration reactivation kinetics of a Cyclobio fluidized sand filter in a warmwater recirculating aquaculture system (Apr 2023)
item Reference genomes of channel catfish and blue catfish reveal multiple pericentric chromosome inversions (Apr 2023)
item Use of aquaponics project-based environments to improve students’ perception of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) disciplines and career pathways (Apr 2023)
item Implementation of feed efficiency in Iranian Holstein breeding program (Mar 2023)
item Infectious Diseases of Coldwater Fish in Fresh Water (Mar 2023)
item NAJA Feature: Rotenone has little effect on water quality, phytoplankton, zooplankton or macroinvertebrates in aquaculture nursery ponds (Mar 2023)
item SLEMM: million-scale genomic predictions with window-based SNP weighting (Mar 2023)
item Toxicity of copper sulfate to largemouth bass fry in naturally soft water (Mar 2023)
item Phenotypic characterization of disease resistance in hybrid striped bass Morone saxatilis x M. chrysops (HSB) and its parental species white bass M. chrysops (WB) and striped bass M. saxatilis (SB) (Feb 2023)
item A subset of leukocyte immune-type receptors (LITR) regulates phagocytosis in channel catfish (Ictalurus punctatus) leukocytes (Feb 2023)
item Understanding Crassostrea virginica tolerance of Perkinsus marinus through global gene expression analysis (Jan 2023)
item Big data genomic analysis in dairy cattle (Jan 2023)
item Flavor wheel for sensory analysis of fish raised in recirculating aquaculture systems (Jan 2023)
item Evaluating cost-effective genotyping strategies for genomic selection in oysters (Jan 2023)
item Rotenone has little effect on water quality, phytoplankton, zooplankton or macroinvertebrates in aquaculture nursery ponds (Jan 2023)
item Development and evaluation of high-density SNP arrays for the eastern oyster Crassostrea virginica (Jan 2023)
item Copper toxicity to the ghost rams-horn snail Biomphalaria havanensis (Dec 2022)
item Is there a genetic piece to milking speed? (Dec 2022)
item First Isolation of a Herpesvirus (Family Alloherpesviridae) from Great Lakes Lake Sturgeon (Acipenser fulvescens) (Nov 2022)
item Food-based sizing criteria of bead filters with floating media in serial treatment with moving bed bioreactors (Nov 2022)
item Physiological response of channel (Ictalurus punctatus) and hybrid (I. punctatus x I. furcatus) catfish following Bolbophorus damnificus infection (Nov 2022)
item The supplementation of a commercial prebiotic, probiotic or their combination affected the production performance and intestinal microbiota of red drum Sciaenops ocellatus L. but did not modulate plasma innate immune response (Sep 2022)
item Assessing bactericidal activity of peracetic acid to selected fish pathogens in RAS water (Sep 2022)
item Growth, body composition, and survival of juvenile white bass (Morone chrysops) when dietary fish meal is partially or totally replaced by soybean meal, poultry by-product meal, an all-plant protein blend or a commercial pla (Aug 2022)
item Heart inflammation and piscine orthoreovirus genotype-1 in Pacific Canada Atlantic salmon net-pen farms: 2016-2019 (Aug 2022)
item Design of a Vacuum Degassing Apparatus to Reduce Nitrogen Supersaturation and Maintain Hypoxia in Well-Water (Aug 2022)
item Pathology and virulence of edwardsiella tarda, edwardsiella piscicida, and edwardsiella anguillarum in channel (ictalurus punctatus), blue (ictalurus furcatus), and channel (female) x blue (male) hybrid catfish (Jul 2022)
item Effects of feed applications with various phosphorus concentrations on the abundance of cyanobacteria and common off-flavor compounds in hybrid striped bass aquaculture ponds (Jun 2022)
item Fertilizer use in aquaculture (May 2022)
item Piscine orthoreovirus (PRV) detection, distribution and transmission in the Northeastern Pacific (May 2022)
item Transcriptomic profiles of Florida pompano (Trachinotus carolinus) gill following infection by the ectoparasite Amyloodinium ocellatum (May 2022)
item Evaluating stress mediated microbial pathogenesis in golden shiners, Notemigonus crysoleucas (May 2022)
item Cross-protection efficacy of a live-attenuated Edwarsiella ictaluri vaccine against heterologous Edwardsiella piscicida isolates in channel and channel x blue hybrid catfish (Apr 2022)
item Quantitative PCR assays to measure the HPI axis neuropeptides corticotropin-releasing factor (CRF) and urotensin I (UI) in channel catfish (Ictalurus punctatus) (Apr 2022)
item An Investigation into the Pathogenesis of Blue Catfish Alloherpesvirus in Ictalurid Catfish (Apr 2022)
item Myxozoan community composition and diversity in clinical cases of proliferative gill disease in mississippi catfish aquaculture (Mar 2022)
item The impact of time and environmental factors on the mitochondrial vesicle and subsequent motility of amphibian sperm (Mar 2022)
item Interferons and Interferons receptors in the Channel catfish, Ictalurus punctatus (Mar 2022)
item The expanded Inhibitor of Apoptosis gene family in oysters possesses novel domain architectures and may play diverse roles in apoptosis following immune challenge (Mar 2022)
item STRIPERHUB: Striped bass (Morone saxatilis) aquaculture (Feb 2022)
item Activation of Henneguya ictaluri actinospores by non-ictalurid fish species, with implications for management of proliferative gill disease in catfish aquaculture (Feb 2022)
item Establishment and charaterization of a cell line from ictalurid catfish (Jan 2022)
item Bovine respiratory syncytial Virus (BRSV) infection detected in exhaled breath condensate of dairy calves by near-infrared aquaphotomics (Jan 2022)
item New data on Henneguya postexilis Minchew, 1977, a parasite of channel catfish Ictalurus punctatus, with notes on resolution of molecular markers for myxozoan phylogeny (Jan 2022)
item Impact of diuron applications to commercial catfish ponds on musty-odor cyanobacteria, musty off-flavor compound concentrations, and channel catfish fillet flavor quality (Jan 2022)
item Development and efficacy of Streptococcus iniae live-attenuated vaccines in Nile tilapia, Oreochromis niloticus (Jan 2022)
item Perkinsus marinus suppresses in vitro eastern oyster apoptosis via IAP-dependent and caspase-independent pathways involving TNFR, NF-kB, and oxidative pathway crosstalk. (Jan 2022)
item Evaluation of settling chamber hydraulic retention time in a Sunshine bass biofloc production system (Dec 2021)
item Pan-Piscine Orthoreovirus (PRV) Detection Using Reverse Transcription Quantitative PCR (Nov 2021)
item A comprehensive annotation of the channel catfish (Ictalurus punctatus) T cell receptor alpha/delta, beta and gamma loci (Nov 2021)
item Dietary replacement of fishmeal with commercial protein blends designed for aquafeeds in hybrid striped bass (Morone chrysops × Morone saxatilis): Digestibility, growth, body composition, and nutrient retention (Oct 2021)
item Effect of water hardness/alkalinity and humic substances on the toxicity of peracetic acid to zebrafish embryos and pathogenic isolates (Oct 2021)
item Effect of water hardness/alkalinity and humic substances on the toxicity and bactericidal/fungistatic effect of peracetic acid: suggests for aquaculture practices (Sep 2021)
item Field evaluation of seven products to control cyanobacterial blooms in aquaculture (Aug 2021)
item Weight loss, survival, and fatty acid composition in over-wintered juvenile coppernose bluegill (Lepomis macrochirus purpurescens) cultured in outdoor tanks using different feeding regime (Aug 2021)
item Genetic variability Of Edwardsiella piscicida isolates from Mississippi catfish aquaculture with an assessment of virulence in channel and channel × blue hybrid catfish (Jul 2021)
item Current status and potential of genomic selection to improve selective breeding in the main aquaculture species of International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES) member countries. (Jul 2021)
item Effect of dietary additives Thermal Care™, Bio-Mos®, and GroBiotic® A on rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) performance at elevated temperature (Jun 2021)
item The status of striped bass Morone saxatilis as a commercially ready species for U.S. marine aquaculture (May 2021)
item Impact of dietary phytase on tilapia performance and biofloc water quality (Apr 2021)
item Juvenile bluegill (Lepomis macrochirus) can be fed diets without marine fish meal without adverse effects on growth, survival, diet utilization, and body composition (Mar 2021)
item Differential susceptibility of white bass (Morone chrysops), striped bass (Morone saxatilis) and hybrid striped bass (M. chrysops x M. saxatilis) to Flavobacterium columnare and effects of mucus on bacterial growth and bio (Oct 2020)
item Effects of long-term restricted feeding followed by full feeding on growth, processing yield, fillet proximate composition, and economics of market-size hybrid catfish, ¿ Ictalurus punctatus × ¿ Ictalurus furcatus (Jul 2020)
item Sterility in aquaculture - advances, performance, impacts (Jun 2020)
item Germplasm Release: ARS Stoneville releasing 'Delta Elite' broodfish, fingerlings. (Apr 2020)
item Preferential intracellular pH regulation is a common trait amongst fishes exposed to high environmental CO2 (Apr 2020)
item Analysis of specific mRNA gene expression profiles as markers of egg and embryo quality for hybrid catfish aquacultures (Feb 2020)
item Effects of acute environmental and handling exposure on physiology and fillet quality of market-sized Channel Catfish (Jan 2020)
item Impact of sperm density on hatching success for channel catfish (Ictalurus punctatus) male × blue catfish (Ictalurus furcatus) female hybrid production (Jan 2020)
item Catfish lymphocytes expressing CC41-reactive Leukocyte Immune-Type Receptors (LITRs) proliferate in response to Edwardsiella ictaluri infection in vitro (Jan 2020)
item Germplasm Release: ARS sets release of Delta Select broodfish, fingerlings (Dec 2019)
item Changes in physiology and stress responses of pellet-reared largemouth bass fed live-forage diets (Oct 2019)
item Effects of acute thermal stress on acid-base regulation, haematology, ion-osmoregulation and aerobic metabolism in Channel Catfish (Ictalurus punctatus) (May 2019)
item Zooplankton selectivity by black buffalo in fertilized ponds (Apr 2019)
item Egg production of Gulf killifish is dependent on broodstock rearing density but not spawning substrate surface area (Apr 2019)
item An assessment of red fillet prevalence in the catfish industry (Apr 2019)
item Economic costs of using tailwater recovery systems for maintaining water quality and irrigation (Jan 2019)