@conference {89266,
	title = {The effect of milking frequency in early lactation on gene expression in the bovine mammary gland},
	booktitle = {Proceedings of the New Zealand Society of Animal Production},
	volume = {73},
	year = {2013},
	month = {Jan},
	pages = {45-47},
	publisher = {New Zealand Society of Animal Production},
	organization = {New Zealand Society of Animal Production},
	address = {Hamilton},
	abstract = {<p>In ruminants, altered milking frequency influences milk production due to either an increase in the number of secretory mammary epithelial cells and/or the activity of these cells (Stelwagen 2001). Microarray studies examining the response of mammary epithelial cells to either increased (Connor et al. 2008) or decreased (Littlejohn et al. 2010) milking frequency, reportedaltered gene expression in several regulatory pathways. These changes would appear to be locally regulated within the mammary gland, as milk production is different in different glands within the same udder depending on the milking frequency of individual glands (Stelwagen 2001). Therefore, the udder lends itself well as a model system to study the effect of different milking frequencies by comparing the response in adjacent udder halves (Murney et al. 2012).</p>
},
	issn = {1176-5283},
	author = {MacLean PH and Stelwagen K and Maqbool N and Oden K and Murney R and Couldrey C and Singh K}
}
@conference {89264,
	title = {Genome wide DNA methylation patterns and transcription analysis in sheep muscle},
	booktitle = {Proceedings of the New Zealand Society of Animal Production},
	volume = {73},
	year = {2013},
	month = {Jan},
	pages = {37-40},
	publisher = {New Zealand Society of Animal Production},
	organization = {New Zealand Society of Animal Production},
	address = {Hamilton},
	abstract = {<p>The Carwell phenotype is a desirable inherited muscular hypertrophy of the Longissimus dorsimuscle in Poll Dorset sheep that does not have any detrimental effect on eating quality, fat deposition or detectable meat tenderness. The Carwell haplotype has been localized to a 350kb region on the distal end of OAR18 near the Callipyge locus (Nicoll et al. 1998) containing three known genes. However, in spite of considerable effort in sequencing and resequencing, the causative mutation has not been identified. Although unsuccessful in identifying the causative mutation, these studies have revealed that the Carwell phenotype displays an imprinted inheritance pattern, with increased muscling associated with inheritance from the sire but not the dam.</p>
},
	issn = {1176-5283},
	author = {Couldrey C and Brauning R and MacLean PH and Henderson HV and McEwan JC}
}
