Skip to main content
ARS Home » Research » Manuscripts by Strategic Topical Areas
Animal Offspring Reared
item Vaginal microbiome is associated with breed and pregnancy status in beef cattle (Mar 2026)
item Late gestation supplementation with or without calcium propionate and rumen-protected methionine using nulliparous beef cows grazing dormant range forages (Jan 2026)
item Variation in rate of body weight gain during pregnancy in beef heifers: association with early life health events and influence on progeny performance (Jan 2026)
item Nontargeted plasma metabolomics associated with sow lifetime productivity traits (Jan 2026)
item Guanidinoacetic acid supplementation negatively affects bovine cumulus-oocyte complexes during in-vitro maturation (Dec 2025)
item Relationship of early pregnancy maternal plasma progesterone concentrations on piglet birth weight, within-litter birth weight variation, and piglet mortality from crossbred Landrace or Yorkshire dams bred...Yorkshire sires (Dec 2025)
item Systematic characterization of mammalian extracellular vesicles using nano-flow cytometry (Dec 2025)
item The effects of source and level of rumen undegradable protein on circulating lipid metabolites in beef heifers (Oct 2025)
item Gonadotropin secretion and ovarian response of KISS1 knockout gilts treated with hormone analogs activating the hypothalamic-pituitary-gonadal axis (Aug 2025)
item The influence of source and level of ruminal undegradable protein on antral follicle count and circulating concentrations of urea, glucose, and insulin in beef heifers grazing native rangelands (Jun 2025)
item Relationship between calving day and lifetime productivity in a population of Angus cows managed for a decade with a short breeding season as heifers (May 2025)
item Production of live tiger salamander offspring using cryopreserved sperm (May 2025)
item Near-infrared spectroscopy as a diagnostic screening tool for lethal chytridfungus in eastern newts (Apr 2025)
item Improved evaluation of mitochondrial membrane potential in bovine spermatozoa using JC-1 with flow cytometry (Apr 2025)
item Advances in our understanding of the estrous cycle and applications for improving targeted reproductive management in livestock (Apr 2025)
item Early identification of bovine pregnancy status and embryonic mortality (Mar 2025)
item Repeatability of carbon dioxide and methane emissions and oxygen consumption by forage-consuming beef heifers (Feb 2025)
item Genomic evaluation of recombination in small highly inbred beef cattle populations (Feb 2025)
item Out of Africa: Genetic characterization and diversity of Mashona cattle in the United States (Feb 2025)
item Dietary Arginine Supplementation Modulates the Proteome of Boar Seminal Plasma (Feb 2025)
item Unlocking Gamete Quality Through Extracellular Vesicles: Emerging Perspectives (Feb 2025)
item Multiple strategies association revealed functional candidate FASN gene for fatty acid composition in cattle (Feb 2025)
item Fertility and early embryonic development in a CD46-edited Gir heifer with reduced susceptibility to BVDV (Feb 2025)
item Maternal injectable mineral effects on male and female offspring growth and reproductive parameters (Jan 2025)
item Impact of cleavage morphokinetics on blastocyst development (Jan 2025)
item Delayed endometrial preparation for the induction of luteolysis as a potential factor for improved reproductive performance in Angus beef heifers with high antral follicle counts (Jan 2025)
item Development of KISS1 knockout pigs is characterized by hypogonadotropic hypogonadism, normal growth, and reduced skatole (Dec 2024)
item Gonadotropin-releasing hormone II and its receptor regulate motility, morphology, and kinematics of porcine spermatozoa in vitro (Dec 2024)
item Methionine and guanidinoacetic acid supplementation influence bovine oocyte quality during in-vitro maturation (Dec 2024)
item Impact of bovine serum albumin concentrations on morphology of Fowler’s toad (Anaxyrus fowleri) sperm during short-term storage (Dec 2024)
item Transcriptomic analysis of luteal tissue supports the earlier onset of luteolysis in heifers with diminished ovarian reserve (Dec 2024)
item Machine learning for genomic prediction of growth traits in a composite beef cattle population (Nov 2024)
item Influence of choline and follistatin supplementation during in vitro bovine oocyte maturation on oocyte competence and blastocyst development (Oct 2024)
item Seasonal influence on miRNA expression dynamics of extracellular vesicles in equine follicular fluid (Oct 2024)
item Seminal plasma uterine priming alters uterine transcriptomics and negatively impacts embryo growth and uterine artery resistance but not offspring liver transcriptomics in beef cattle (Oct 2024)
item Predicting Boar Sperm Survival during Liquid Storage Using Vibrational Spectroscopic Techniques (Sep 2024)
item The impact of divergent nutritional planes on systemic immune status in mature bulls (Sep 2024)
item Combination and individual vaccines for bovine viral diarrhea virus and infectious bovine rhinotracheitis effects on reproductive cyclicity and immune response (Sep 2024)
item Influence of commercial inactivated or modified-live virus vaccination at time of AI on corpus luteum development and function in beef cattle (Aug 2024)
item Efficacy of salmon GnRHa, Ovaprim® and hCG for hormonal stimulation of spermiation in the Fowler’s toad (Anaxyrus fowleri) (Aug 2024)
item Exploring the full potential of sperm function with nanotechnology tools (Aug 2024)
item Knockdown of gonadotropin-releasing hormone II receptor impairs ovulation rate, corpus luteum development, and progesterone production in gilts (Aug 2024)
item Serum concentrations of luteinizing hormone (LH) and follicle stimulating hormone (FSH) in KISS1 knockout gilts treated with neurokinin B, kisspeptin, and GnRH hormone analogs (Jul 2024)
item Transcriptomic analysis of luteal tissue supports the delayed timing of luteolysis in heifers with greatest ovarian reserve (Jul 2024)
item Developmental programming of reproduction and production in the offspring (May 2024)
item Putative metabolites for sow lifetime opportunity and production traits (May 2024)
item Heat stress during gestation induces follicular and ovarian changes in 30 day old IUGR-born lambs (May 2024)
item Relationship of length of the estrous cycle to antral follicle number in crossbred beef heifers (Apr 2024)
item Indicator traits of fertility in beef cows II: The role of progesterone in uterine biology and embryo development (Apr 2024)
item Developmental programming of the ovarian reserve in livestock (Mar 2024)
item Developmental programming of reproduction in the female animal (Mar 2024)
item The effects of genotype-by-environment interactions on body condition score across three winter supplemental feed environments in a composite beef cattle breed in Montana (Feb 2024)
item Embryo transfer medium supplemented with bovine plasminogen increases zona pellucida diameter and decreases thickness (Dec 2023)
item The influence of Synovex-C growth implants at weaning with different supplementation levels on ovarian parameters in developing beef heifers (Nov 2023)
item The kisspeptin knockout pig; a new model for dissecting mechanisms controlling reproduction (Nov 2023)
item KISS1 knockout boars have decreased concentrations of gonadotropins leading to smaller testes and reduced skatole in backfat (Nov 2023)
item Influence of dietary methionine and guanidinoacetic acid on estrous cycles and early pregnancy in beef heifers (Nov 2023)
item Combination of 1.8 Mm choline and follistatin supplementation may reduce transcript abundance of CEPT1 and CPBE4 during in-vitro bovine oocyte maturation (Nov 2023)
item An extreme model of fertility in sheep demonstrates the basis of controversies surrounding antral follicle count and circulating concentrations of anti-Müllerian hormone as predictors of fertility in ruminants (Oct 2023)
item Clustering of multi-tissue transcriptomes in gilts with normal cyclicity or delayed puberty reveals genes related to pubertal development (Oct 2023)
item Identification of lipids and cytokines in plasma and follicular fluid before and after follicle stimulating hormone stimulation as potential markers for follicular maturation in cattle (Oct 2023)
item Early- and mid-lactation milk traits are associated with piglet growth during lactation (Sep 2023)
item Characterization of mRNA expression for key glycerophospholipid and sphingolipid enzymes within trophectoderm and embryonic disc during initiation of porcine conceptus elongation (Aug 2023)
item Application of bayespulse and pulsar otago to quantify luteinizing hormone pulses in ovariectomized gilts (Aug 2023)
item Diminished reproductive hormone concentrations in GnRHR-II knockdown gilts during the follicular phase of the estrous cycle may be attributed to reduced GnRHR-II levels in theca cells (Aug 2023)
item Evaluation of uterine capacity during late gestation in young commercial females over the past twenty years (Aug 2023)
item Relationships of genomic estimated breeding values for age at puberty, birth weight, and growth during development in normal cyclic and acyclic gilts (Aug 2023)
item Alternative SNP weighting for multi-step and single-step genomic BLUP in the presence of causative variants (Aug 2023)
item Multi-trait predictions using GBLUP and Bayesian mixture prior model in beef cattle (Aug 2023)
item Alfalfa in rotation with annual crops reduced nitrate leaching potential (Jul 2023)
item Ovarian ultrasound analysis for developing temporal and spatially explicit hormone regimens for induced ovulation and egg deposition in the tiger salamander (Ambystoma tigrinum) (Jun 2023)
item Influence of preovulatory estradiol treatment on the maintenance of pregnancy in beef cattle receiving in vivo produced embryos (Jun 2023)
item Relationship of field and in vitro fertility of dairy bulls with sperm parameters, including DAG1 and SERPINA5 proteins (Jun 2023)
item Bull field fertility differences can be estimated with in vitro sperm capacitation and flow cytometry (May 2023)
item Effects of prenatal and postnatal melatonin supplementation on overall performance, male reproductive performance, and testicular hemodynamics in beef cattle (Apr 2023)
item Effects of prenatal and postnatal melatonin supplementation on overall performance, male reproductive performance, and testicular hemodynamics in beef cattle (Apr 2023)
item Alfalfa in rotation with annual crops reduces nitrate leaching potential and increases soil organic carbon sequestration (Mar 2023)
item Genomic and epigenomic applications in animal and veterinary sciences (Mar 2023)
item Melatonin in health and disease: A perspective for livestock production (Mar 2023)
item Dynamics of extracellular vesicle-coupled microRNAs in equine follicular fluid associated with follicle selection and ovulation (Feb 2023)
item Follicular-fluid proteomics during equine follicle development (Feb 2023)
item NMR-based metabolomics of plasma from dairy calves infected with two primary causal agents of bovine respiratory disease (BRD) (Feb 2023)
item Secreted metabolome of porcine blastocysts encapsulated within in vitro 3D alginate hydrogel culture systems undergoing morphological changes provides insights into specific mechanisms involved in the initiation of porcine... (Feb 2023)
item Characterization of extracellular vesicle-coupled miRNA profiles in seminal plasma of boars with divergent semen quality status (Feb 2023)
item Multi clustering of the hypothalamic–pituitary–ovary transcriptome in gilts with normal cyclicity or delayed puberty reveals genes related to puberty (Jan 2023)
item Influence of estradiol on the uterine clock in cows and its relationship to fertility before and after timed artificial insemination (Jan 2023)
item Multi-tissue multi-omics approach to investigate genomic factors underlying pubertal phenotypes in gilts (Jan 2023)
item Applying sperm collection and cryopreservation protocols developed in a model amphibian to three threatened anuran species targeted for biobanking management (Dec 2022)
item Sperm Cryopreservation as a Tool for Amphibian Conservation: Production of F2 Generation Offspring from Cryo-Produced F1 Progeny (Dec 2022)
item Melatonin supplementation alters maternal and fetal amino acid concentrations and placental nutrient transporters in a nutrient restriction bovine model (Dec 2022)
item Effects of wild, semi-captive, and captive management onmale Chiricahua leopard frog sperm quality withimplications for conservation breeding programs (Nov 2022)
item Maternal nutrient restriction and dietary melatonin alter neurotransmitter pathways in placental and fetal tissues (Nov 2022)
item Seasonal and temporal variation in the placenta during melatonin supplementation in a bovine compromised pregnancy model (Nov 2022)
item Linking In-Situ and Ex-Situ Populations of Threatened Species using Amphibian Genome Banks (Oct 2022)
item Ultrasound imaging to assess female reproductive status and inform hormone-induced ovulation (Oct 2022)
item Intrafollicular injection of nanomolecules for advancing knowledge on folliculogenesis in livestock (Aug 2022)
item Effects of maternal nutrient restriction and melatonin supplementation on cardiomyocyte cell development parameters using machine learning techniques (Jul 2022)