The science behind the wool industry. The importance and value of wool production from sheep

Implications This paper outlines the wool industry and highlights wool as a textile fibre. The wool industry has optimized the production of a niche product that has eco-positioned itself due to its inherent natural properties of being a natural, biodegradable product that offers consumer comfort and health benefits. Research into the breeding and management of sheep on-farm, has developed a raw product that is easier to process or has superior woolen attributes. Skin follicle formation and subsidiary glands affect wool production and quality. By understanding how wool follicle cells initiate and develop, producers are able to improve fibre quality

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Advanced Cycle Helmet Testing Protocols: Effects of Linear Impact Energy and Compound Impacts

This article is part of the Proceedings of the 6th Annual International Cycling Safety Conference held in Davis, California, USA on September 20th through 23rd in the year 2017.<br><br>Paper ID: 6

SheepGenomics and the international sheep genomics consortium

SheepGenomics is a strategic investment by Meat &amp; Livestock Australia and Australian Wool Innovation Limited and 11 Australian and New Zealand research organizations to deliver tangible outcomes from genomics research to the sheep industry. The overall strategy of SheepGenomics is to 'find useful genes and put them to work'. To achieve this has required the development of significant resources including a half-sib design mapping flock using over 16 industry sires and 4 sires from previous QTL studies to generate and extensively phenotype from 200 to 400 progeny/sire. The original intent was to genotype the progeny using a limited number of microsatellite markers and then fine-map selected progeny to discover genes for use in industry breeding programs and for further study. Development of genomic resources for sheep has proceeded to the stage where it is now becoming practical to genotype the progeny of the Sheep Genomics flock with tens of thousands of SNPs and use the outputs to derive genome selection derived breeding values (in addition to many new QTL). This change in strategy and deliverables would not have been possible without a substantial contribution from the International Sheep Genomics Consortium (ISGC) to develop sheep-specific genomic information in the public domain. The ISGC has been instrumental in developing a sheep BAC library, its end sequencing and alignment against other genomes. This has resulted in development of a virtual sheep genome, which in turn underpins current activities to discover and use tens of thousands of ordered sheep SNPs