scholarly journals Immunogenetics of Small Ruminant Lentiviral Infections

Viruses ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 6 (8) ◽  
pp. 3311-3333 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nancy Stonos ◽  
Sarah Wootton ◽  
Niel Karrow
Keyword(s):  
Small Ruminant ◽  
Lentiviral Infections

scholarly journals Induction of SerpinB2 and Th1/Th2 Modulation by SerpinB2 during Lentiviral Infections In Vivo

PLoS ONE ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. e57343 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lee D. Major ◽  
Thomas S. Partridge ◽  
Joy Gardner ◽  
Stephen J. Kent ◽  
Robert de Rose ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Lentiviral Infections

scholarly journals Genetic evaluation is possible on community pastoral small ruminant flocks in the presence of multiple sires and uncertain of paternity

2017 ◽  
Vol 151 ◽  
pp. 72-81
Author(s):  
Francisco Flávio Dias Carneiro ◽  
Ana Maria Bezerra Oliveira Lôbo ◽  
Luciano Pinheiro da Silva ◽  
Kleibe de Moraes Silva ◽  
Aline Vieira Landim ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Small Ruminant ◽  
Genetic Evaluation

Small Ruminant Practice

2021 ◽  
Vol 37 (1) ◽  
pp. xiii-xiv
Author(s):  
Michelle Anne Kutzler ◽  
Cindy Wolf
Keyword(s):  
Small Ruminant

scholarly journals The role of the European small ruminant dairy sector in stabilising global temperatures: lessons from GWP* warming-equivalent emission metrics

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-8
Author(s):  
Agustin del Prado ◽  
Pablo Manzano ◽  
Guillermo Pardo
Keyword(s):  
Small Ruminant ◽  
Ghg Emissions ◽  
Small Ruminants ◽  
Feed Additives ◽  
Dairy Goat ◽  
Emission Rates ◽  
Animal Products ◽  
Ghg Reduction ◽  
Mitigate Climate Change ◽  
Climate Neutrality

Abstract Recent calls advocate that a huge reduction in the consumption of animal products (including dairy) is essential to mitigate climate change and stabilise global warming below the 1.5 and 2°C targets. The Paris Agreement states that to stabilise temperatures we must reach a balance between anthropogenic emissions by sources and removals by sinks of greenhouse gases (GHG) in the second half of this century. Consequently, many countries have adopted overall GHG reduction targets (e.g. EU, at least 40% by 2030 compared to 1990). However, using conventional metric-equivalent emissions (CO2-e GWP100) as the basis to account for emissions does not result in capturing the effect on atmospheric warming of changing emission rates from short-lived GHG (e.g. methane: CH4), which are the main source of GHG emissions by small ruminants. This shortcoming could be solved by using warming-equivalent emissions (CO2-we, GWP*), which can accurately link annual GHG emission rates to its warming effect in the atmosphere. In our study, using this GWP* methodology and different modelling approaches, we first examined the historical (1990–2018) contribution of European dairy small ruminant systems to additional atmosphere warming levels and then studied different emission target scenarios for 2100. These scenarios allow us to envision the necessary reduction of GHG emissions from Europe's dairy small ruminants to achieve a stable impact on global temperatures, i.e. to be climatically neutral. Our analysis showed that, using this type of approach, the whole European sheep and goat dairy sector seems not to have contributed to additional warming in the period 1990–2018. Considering each subsector separately, increases in dairy goat production has led to some level of additional warming into the atmosphere, but these have been compensated by larger emission reductions in the dairy sheep sector. The estimations of warming for future scenarios suggest that to achieve climate neutrality, understood as not adding additional warming to the atmosphere, modest GHG reductions of sheep and goat GHG would be required (e.g. via feed additives). This reduction would be even lower if potential soil organic carbon (SOC) from associated pastures is considered.

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