ReviewTropical animal health and production2011
Mini review: breeding Awassi and Assaf sheep for diverse management conditions.
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- Effects of Crossbreeding on Growth Performance and Carcass Traits in Sheep Under Extensive Pasture Systems.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2026Article
- Reproductive Efficiency in Sheep: Estimates and Relationships with Fertility, Fecundity and Lamb Survival.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2026Review
- Genome-Wide Identification of Genomic Regions Associated with Body Weight and Morphometric Traits in Awassi Sheep.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2026Article
- Evaluating slow-release urea as a replacement for soybean meal in Awassi lamb diets: effects on growth performance, digestibility, and rumen fermentation.Tropical animal health and production · 2025Article
- Effects of heat stress on reproduction and gene expression in sheep.Animal reproduction · 2025Review
- Applications of Next-Generation Sequencing Technologies and Statistical Tools in Identifying Pathways and Biomarkers for Heat Tolerance in Livestock.Veterinary sciences · 2024Review
- Evaluation of performance and estimation of genetic parameters for milk yield and reproductive traits in Awassi and Asaf sheep breeds and crosses in the Palestinian territory.Tropical animal health and production · 2024Article
- A novel deleterious oxytocin variant is associated with the lower twinning ratio in Awassi ewes.Animal biotechnology · 2023Article
- Hungarian indigenous Tsigai, a promising breed for excellent heat tolerance and immunity.Saudi journal of biological sciences · 2023Article
- The identification of a novel SNP in the resistin (RETN) gene associated with growth traits in Karakul and Awassi sheep.Tropical animal health and production · 2023Article
- miR-1306 induces cell apoptosis by targeting BMPR1B gene in the ovine granulosa cells.Frontiers in genetics · 2022Article
- The impact of lamb diets containing either barley or corn on growth performance and carcass quality.Veterinary world · 2021Article
- Comparative Assessment of Thermotolerance in Dorper and Second-Cross (Poll Dorset/Merino × Border Leicester) Lambs.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2020Article
- Cloning, nucleotide sequencing, and bioinformatics analyses of growth hormone mRNA of Assaf sheep and Boer goats reared in Egypt.Journal, genetic engineering & biotechnology · 2020Article
- Resilience of Small Ruminants to Climate Change and Increased Environmental Temperature: A Review.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2020Review
- Unpredictable Effects of the Genetic Background of Transgenic Lines in Physiological Quantitative Traits.G3 (Bethesda, Md.) · 2019Article
- Intravenous Infusions of Glycerol Versus Propylene Glycol for the Regulation of Negative Energy Balance in Sheep: A Randomized Trial.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2019Article
- Effect and Interaction of β-Lactoglobulin, Kappa Casein, and Prolactin Genes on Milk Production and Composition of Awassi Sheep.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2019Article
- Adaptation Mechanisms of Small Ruminants to Environmental Heat Stress.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2019Review
- Barbados Blackbelly: the Caribbean ovine genetic resource.Tropical animal health and production · 2018Review
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Abstract
The Local Awassi, a triple-purpose breed for meat, milk, and carpet-wool production, is a low-prolific, hardy breed that is well adapted to the unfavorable conditions of the Middle East, where it is managed under traditionally extensive to semi-extensive conditions. Breeding work with the Awassi has included within-breed selection, crossbreeding, and gene introgression. Those efforts resulted in a variety of Awassi-derived genotypes that successfully occupy semi-intensive as well as intensive production systems. Thus, within-breed selection resulted in development of the "Improved Awassi"-a dairy-type Awassi strain which, under intensive management, produces over 500 l milk/ewe annually; crossbreeding with the East Friesian breed led to the development of the Assaf dairy breed, which exceeds the Improved Awassi in prolificacy and in year-round breeding activity, and introgression of the B allele of the FecB locus into the Awassi and Assaf breeds resulted in the formation of the prolific Afec Awassi and Afec Assaf strains, with prolificacies of 1.9 and 2.5 lambs born per ewe lambing, respectively. Advanced molecular genetics tools have enabled a better understanding of how the Awassi breed was formed during domestication and have uncovered differences in its genetic structure compared to other breeds. Implementing large-scale selection schemes that implement emerging new information on the sheep genome, overcoming threats of inbreeding depression, and further breeding for high uterine capacity are the new breeding goals for the Awassi, Assaf, and their derivatives.
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