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Lamb meat has become very popular with consumers in recent years due to its nutritional benefits. As a lean red meat, lamb is an important natural source of polyunsaturated and saturated fatty acids, which can be modified by adjustments in livestock feed. This study used proteomic and metabolic analyses to compare a basal ration supplemented with either mulberry silage or corn silage. Supplementation with mulberry silage led to a reduction in subcutaneous carcass fatness compared with corn silage. Additionally, changes in the proteome associated with fatty acid metabolism and oxidation resulted in decreased levels of saturated and trans fatty acids, while significantly increasing the levels of α-linolenic acid (ALA) and oleic acid and reducing linoleic acid content. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Geological disaster effect of active fault zone is a major research area in the field of engineering geology and geological disaster. Located in the west margin of the Qinghai-Tibet plateau, the Ganzi area in western Sichuan Province has underwent different geological events, which have created its unique topography, special landforms and geological phenomena. The intensive neotectonic movements in western Sichuan have caused frequent, various, and widely distributed geological disasters, threatening the safety of human life and property and damaging social life and economic development. In this study, we analyzed the correlation between active fault and spatial distribution of geological disaster sites, and summarized the rules between their spatial distributions. It is considered that active fault is one of the internal dynamic conditions causing geological disasters in the Ganzi area, and it is closely related to geological disasters in space. In average, around the main active fault, there is 0.1 site per km2 within the range of 0~1 km, 0.05 site per km2 within 1~2 km and 0.3 site per km2 within 2~5 km. Geological disaster monitoring and prevention is urgently needed along the active faults, so as to provide basis and suggestions for reducing or avoiding geological disasters.

A graph G is edge k-choosable (respectively, total k-choosable) if, whenever we are given a list L(x) of colors with |L(x)| = k for each x ∈ E(G) (x ∈ E(G) ∪ V (G)), we can choose a color from L(x) for each element x such that no two adjacent (or incident) elements receive the same color. The list edge chromatic index χ′l(G) (respectively, the list total chromatic number χ′′l(G)) of G is the smallest integer k such that G is edge (respectively, total) k-choosable. In this paper, we focus on a planar graph G, with maximum degree Δ (G) ≥ 7 and with some structural restrictions, satisfies χ′l(G) = Δ (G) and χ′′l(G) = Δ (G) + 1.

Performing joint genomic predictions for multiple breeds (MBGP) to expand the reference size is a promising strategy for improving the prediction for limited population sizes or phenotypic records for a single breed. This study proposes an MBGP model—mbBayesAB, which treats the same traits of different breeds as potentially genetically related but different, and divides chromosomes into independent blocks to fit heterogeneous genetic (co)variances. Best practices of random effect (co)variance matrix priors in mbBayesAB were analyzed, and the prediction accuracies of mbBayesAB were compared with within-breed (WBGP) and other commonly used MBGP models. The results showed that assigning an inverse Wishart prior to the random effect and obtaining information on the scale of the inverse Wishart prior from the phenotype enabled mbBayesAB to achieve the highest accuracy. When combining two cattle breeds (Limousin and Angus) in reference, mbBayesAB achieved higher accuracy than the WBGP model for two weight traits. For the marbling score trait in pigs, MBGP of the Yorkshire and Landrace breeds led to a 6.27% increase in accuracy for Yorkshire validation using mbBayesAB compared to that using the WBGP model. Therefore, considering heterogeneous genetic (co)variance in MBGP is advantageous. However, determining appropriate priors for (co)variance and hyperparameters is crucial for MBGP. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A graph is 1-planar if it can be drawn on the plane so that each edge is crossed by at most one other edge. In this paper, it is proved that every 1-planar graph with maximum degree ∆ ≥ 8 is edge-colorable with ∆ colors if each of its 5-cycles contains at most one chord.