Animal and Food Genomics Group

Animal and Food Genomics, and more ...!

We are focused on the application of genetics, genomics, metagenomics, metabolomics and phenomics in the animal production sector to:
1) develop innovative animal breeding and selection programs in livestock and insect species and novel conservation strategies of animal genetic resources;
2) characterize, authenticate and trace animal-derived food products and production systems;
3) analyse various environmental footprints through environmental DNA (eDNA) information.
The research activities include all main livestock species, aquaculture species, wild and extinct animal species, insects, environmental DNA, One Health approaches and all main animal derived food products.

SPOTLIGHTS

📢Our latest publication on Animal Genetics is out

🐇🧬 Signatures of selection detected from whole-genome sequencing indicate that the small body size in dwarf rabbit breeds is caused by polygenic effects with a few major loci

📢Our latest publication on Veterinary Sciences is out

🐖 Mining Porcine Blood Whole-DNA Sequencing Datasets to Uncover Pig Viromes: An Exploratory Application to Identify Potential Infecting Agents of an Undefined Disease Outbreak

📢Our latest publication on Animals is out

🐝 Comparing Morphometric and Mitochondrial DNA Data from Honeybees and Honey Samples for Identifying Apis mellifera ligustica Subspecies at the Colony Level

Annual Meeting of the COST Action EU-LI-PHE (European Network on Livestock Phenomics)

The second EU-LI-PHE Annual and MC meeting will be held at KULeuven (Belgium), as a side event of the International Conference of Production Diseases in Farm Animals (8-11 July 2025) - ICPD2025.