MSTN Gene: Not Just for Evaluating Racehorse Potential
Christa Lesté-Lasserre, MA
February 15, 2017
The gene appears to affect horses’ muscular ability to carry out specific gaits, such as the tolt in Icelandics.
The gene appears to affect horses’ muscular ability to carry out specific gaits, such as the tolt in Icelandics.
By gaining a better understanding of how horses associate and learn, can we train them more effectively and ethically?
Equine cowbox infections are extremely rare, with only two other cases ever reported.
Specific proteins from the ‘orf’ virus could help improve wound healing, scientists found, but more research is needed.
The probiotic researchers tested had “disappointing” results, but not all studies have yielded negative results.
A hereditary disease–skeletal atavism–leads to disturbed skeletal development and usually requires euthanasia.
A recently developed vaccine induced high antibody levels and immune responses (signs of immunity) in naive horses.
Italian horses are product of diversity coming from across Europe, Asia, and northern Africa, researchers found.
Researchers found that MRI images of bone thickness could provide critical information about fracture risk.
Gene variations in individual horses can result in an unexpected color for a certain breed or mating.
A horse’s back isn’t purpose-built for riding, but awareness and attention to our influences—and applying the most recent scientific equitation research—can go a long way in helping ensure soundness, welfare, and longevity under saddle.
Scientists in Hong Kong validated a “dilute-and-shoot” test that can check for more than 40 difficult-to-detect drugs.
Horses faced with a problem they couldn’t solve used visual and tactile signs to get human attention and ask for help.
Horses can appear lame in the front limb when the real lameness is the hind limb on the same side, researchers found.
A missense mutation is behind the donkeys’ lack of pigmentation, researchers learned.
Complications are common with traditional repair, so researchers tested a plate designed for human geriatric patients.
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