Beniamino Tuliozi

Journal Article Journal of dairy science · February 2024 Reggiana is a local cattle breed from northern Italy known for its rusticity and profitability, due to the production of branded Parmigiano Reggiano cheese. To ensure the persistence of such profitability in the long term, an adequate breeding program is r ... Full text Cite

Genetic correlations of direct and indirect genetic components of social dominance with fitness and morphology traits in cattle.

Journal Article Genetics, selection, evolution : GSE · November 2023 BackgroundWithin the same species, individuals show marked variation in their social dominance. Studies on a handful of populations have indicated heritable genetic variation for this trait, which is determined by both the genetic background of th ... Full text Cite

Analysis of Prey Composition in Eurasian Reed Warblers’ Acrocephalus scirpaceus Droppings at Four Breeding Sites in Italy

Journal Article Diversity · December 1, 2022 Our aim was to investigate the among-populations diversity of prey composition in Eurasian Reed Warblers’ diets via their droppings, both to assess the ecological validity of this sampling method and to test whether the prey species most abundant in fecal ... Full text Cite

Economic weights for restriction of selection index as optimal strategy for combining multiple traits.

Journal Article Journal of dairy science · November 2022 Presently, selection indices combine EBV belonging to many phenotypes accounting for production and functional traits. In this situation, ensuring positive genetic trends becomes difficult, especially when an antagonistic genetic relationship between trait ... Full text Cite

Genetic correlations and causal effects of fighting ability on fitness traits in cattle reveal antagonistic trade-offs

Journal Article Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution · September 30, 2022 Complex genetic and phenotypic relationships are theorized to link different fitness components but revealing the correlations occurring among disparate traits requires large datasets of pedigreed populations. In particular, the association between traits ... Full text Cite

Genotype by Environment Interaction and Selection Response for Milk Yield Traits and Conformation in a Local Cattle Breed Using a Reaction Norm Approach.

Journal Article Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · March 2022 Local breeds are often reared in various environmental conditions (EC), suggesting that genotype by environment interaction (GxE) could influence genetic progress. This study aimed at investigating GxE and response to selection (R) in Rendena cattle under ... Full text Cite

Improvement of Genomic Predictions in Small Breeds by Construction of Genomic Relationship Matrix Through Variable Selection.

Journal Article Frontiers in genetics · January 2022 Genomic selection has been increasingly implemented in the animal breeding industry, and it is becoming a routine method in many livestock breeding contexts. However, its use is still limited in several small-population local breeds, which are, nonetheless ... Full text Cite

Decoupled Acoustic and Visual Components in the Multimodal Signals of the Common Cuckoo (Cuculus canorus)

Journal Article Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution · November 16, 2021 Because of its parasitic habits, reproduction costs of the common cuckoo (Cuculus canorus) are mostly spent in pre-laying activities. Female costs are limited to searching host nests and laying eggs, whereas, males spend time in performing intense vocal di ... Full text Cite

Genomic Prediction in Local Breeds: The Rendena Cattle as a Case Study.

Journal Article Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · June 2021 The maintenance of local cattle breeds is key to selecting for efficient food production, landscape protection, and conservation of biodiversity and local cultural heritage. Rendena is an indigenous cattle breed from the alpine North-East of Italy, selecte ... Full text Cite

Dyadic leader-follower dynamics change across situations in captive house sparrows

Journal Article Behavioral Ecology · May 1, 2021 Individuals can behave as either leaders or followers in many taxa of collectively moving animals. Leaders initiate movements and may incur predation risks, while followers are thought to be more risk-averse. As a group encounters different challenges and ... Full text Cite

Selection Response Due to Different Combination of Antagonistic Milk, Beef, and Morphological Traits in the Alpine Grey Cattle Breed.

Journal Article Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · May 2021 Selection in local dual-purpose breeds requires great carefulness because of the need to preserve peculiar traits and also guarantee the positive genetic progress for milk and beef production to maintain economic competitiveness. A specific breeding plan a ... Full text Cite

Genome Wide Association Study of Beef Traits in Local Alpine Breed Reveals the Diversity of the Pathways Involved and the Role of Time Stratification.

Journal Article Frontiers in genetics · January 2021 Knowledge of the genetic architecture of key growth and beef traits in livestock species has greatly improved worldwide thanks to genome-wide association studies (GWAS), which allow to link target phenotypes to Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms (SNPs) across ... Full text Cite

Flock-dependent exploitation of a limited resource in House Sparrow.

Journal Article Scientific reports · April 2020 The performances of different social groups can depend on various characteristics, such as familiarity among their members or the presence of individuals with specific traits. However, it has rarely been investigated how groups perform during an encounter ... Full text Cite

Can house sparrows recognize familiar or kin-related individuals by scent?

Journal Article Current zoology · February 2019 In the last decades, higher attention has been paid to olfactory perception in birds. As a consequence, a handful of avian species have been discovered to use olfaction in different contexts. Nevertheless, we still have a very limited knowledge about the u ... Full text Cite

House sparrows' (Passer domesticus) behaviour in a novel environment is modulated by social context and familiarity in a sex-specific manner.

Journal Article Frontiers in zoology · January 2018 BackgroundExploratory behaviour is one of the best-investigated behavioural traits. However, little is known about how differences in familiarity, i.e. in the knowledge and previous experience with a companion can influence the exploration of a no ... Full text Cite

The effect of social connections on the discovery of multiple hidden food patches in a bird species.

Journal Article Scientific reports · April 2017 Social foraging is thought to provide the possibility of information transmission between individuals, but this advantage has been proved only in a handful of species and contexts. We investigated how social connections in captive flocks of house sparrows ... Full text Cite