@conference {3672,
	title = {2015 NZSAP Living Legend Address {\textendash} Invermay Agricultural Centre},
	booktitle = {Proceedings of the New Zealand Society of Animal Production},
	volume = {75},
	year = {2015},
	month = {07/2015},
	pages = {149},
	address = {Dunedin},
	abstract = {Some of the best science is done by those who are excited by their research and by working with industry. Many breakthroughs come from people noticing, and following up on, unusual observations or anomalies. Often, their passions are funded {\textquotedblleft}from the back pocket{\textquotedblright} for several years; until sufficient information is secured to justify a formal funding application.

The Living Legend Lecture invites distinguished longterm members of NZSAP to make a scholarly presentation at the Society{\textquoteright}s annual conference in recognition of their contribution to New Zealand Animal Production over a substantial period of time. Heeding the Guidelines
recommendation to consider members resident in the area holding the conference, the 2015 organising committee chose to nominate the contributions of the scientists and technical staff of an iconic Institution, rather than acknowledge a single individual{\textquoteright}s work. No specific animal production {\textquotedblleft}theme{\textquotedblright} was selected. Instead, it was decided to highlight the contribution of the Invermay Agricultural Centre as a whole...},
	issn = {1176-5283},
	author = {Shackell GH and Drew KR and Fennessy PF and Allison AJ and McEwan JC and Crawford AM}
}
@conference {41974,
	title = {Uptake of DNA testing by the livestock industries of New Zealand},
	booktitle = {Proceedings of the New Zealand Society of Animal Production},
	volume = {67},
	year = {2007},
	month = {Jan},
	pages = {168-174},
	publisher = {New Zealand Society of Animal Production},
	organization = {New Zealand Society of Animal Production},
	address = {Wanaka},
	abstract = {This paper describes, from the perspective of the main animal genotyping service laboratory, the uptake of DNA tests by the New Zealand livestock industries. We describe a rapid increase in the use of DNA testing over the last 3-4 years in New Zealand. In particular pedigree establishment and verification has shown significant uptake by deer, cattle and sheep breeders. The highest penetration of DNA testing has been in the deer industry where we estimate 30-40\% of the recorded breeding population uses DNA testing to establish and verify pedigrees. The increases have mainly been due to an increase in the number of samples per client rather than an increase in the number of clients using the service.},
	issn = {1176-5283},
	author = {Crawford AM and Anderson RM and McEwan KM}
}
@conference {41479,
	title = {What the bovine genome project means to New Zealand},
	booktitle = {Proceedings of the New Zealand Society of Animal Production},
	volume = {64},
	year = {2004},
	month = {Jan},
	pages = {86-91},
	publisher = {New Zealand Society of Animal Production},
	organization = {New Zealand Society of Animal Production},
	address = {Hamilton},
	abstract = {The sequencing of the bovine genome commenced in December 2003 and sequencing is planned to achieve a seven-fold coverage by November 2005. This along with previous physical mapping efforts will allow a high quality genomic assembly to be produced. The sequencing is being undertaken by Baylor College of Medicine in Texas. Separately, the Michael Smith Genome Science Centre in Vancouver will sequence 10,000 full length non-redundant bovine mRNAs. The assembled genome will be annotated in collaboration with the Ensembl project at the Sanger Institute, UK, and will be publicly available on genome browsers such as NCBI, Ensembl and UCSC. In the interim the raw sequence information is being made available at NCBI within days of being generated. As well as providing DNA sequence, the program will identify more than 50,000 microsatellites and one to two million SNPs. The availability of this information will transform and accelerate ruminant genomics research. Similar genome sequencing efforts in human and laboratory species have greatly increased the rate of gene variant discovery underlying quantitative trait loci. It will also aid our understanding of gene expression control. New Zealand stands to benefit directly from this work, because of its strong reliance on grazing livestock for export income and its internationally competitive beef and dairy industries. The project is funded by an international consortium involving CSIRO Australia, Genome Canada, New Zealand, National Human Genome Research Institute of the U.S. national Institutes of Health (NHGRI), U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), the State of Texas, The Kleberg Foundation, U.S. Beef Council, and Texas and South Dakota Beef Councils. Significantly, the National Institutes of Health have strongly supported the project as a consequence of its human health implications. This project benefited greatly from a previous international genomic collaboration to physically map the bovine genome, and it provides an excellent example of benefits obtained from international research consortia co-investing in public domain infrastructural projects. },
	issn = {1176-5283},
	author = {McEwan JC and Crawford AM}
}
@conference {41173,
	title = {Preliminary beef carcass composition data from breed-crosses in a genetic marker trial},
	booktitle = {Proceedings of the New Zealand Society of Animal Production},
	volume = {60},
	year = {2000},
	month = {Jan},
	pages = {113-114},
	publisher = {New Zealand Society of Animal Production},
	organization = {New Zealand Society of Animal Production},
	address = {Hamilton},
	abstract = {A collaborative project has been established in AgResearch and at the University of Adelaide to identify genetic markersfor carcass composition and meat quality traits in beef cattle. Two extreme breeds were used, Jersey (J) and Limousin (L).First-cross Jersey x Limousin bulls (X) were mated to cows of both breeds to produce three-quarter Jersey (XJ) and threequarter Limousin (XL) animals. A total of 261 and 155 back-cross cattle of both sexes were slaughtered as 2-year-olds atRuakura in the springs of 1998 and 1999, respectively. A further 400 cattle of the same back-crosses are under evaluationin Australia. Relative to the mean off-pasture weight and hot carcass weight of the XJ cattle slaughtered at Ruakura in1998 (404 and 202 kg), the corresponding XL means were 472 and 262 kg respectively, 1.8 and 2.6 phenotypic standarddeviations (s.d.) heavier. A series of carcass composition traits was obtained from the weights of saleable meat, trimmedfat and bone from individual joints on the right side of each animal, after 24 h in the chiller. Over all joints, the weights ofmeat, fat and bone (as a \% of their total) were 66.6, 9.6 and 23.8 for XJ and 71.7, 7.1 and 21.2 for XL, representingdifferences of 2.8, 1.4 and 2.2 s.d. units respectively. Weights of high value cuts (\% of side weight) were 50.4 for XJ and52.7 for XL, a 2.3 s.d. difference. Ratios of meat to bone were 2.80 for XJ and 3.93 for XL, a 5.5 s.d. difference. Standarderrors of all the above differences in s.d. units were 0.16. The largest differences between the two breed crosses for theabove traits were 2.8 and 5.5 s.d, for meat percent in the side, and for meat to bone ratio, providing good opportunities forgenetic marker studies. In the AgResearch animals, consisting of progeny from three sire groups, markers from over halfof the genome have been analysed so far. A significant marker has been identified for meat percent in the side. The twoinformative sires had the same genotype for this marker, and the difference between sire-derived alleles in their effect onmeat percent averaged 0.99 s.d. (F statistic for each sire, 45.47 and 8.84).},
	issn = {1176-5283},
	author = {Morris CA and Cullen NG and Bottema CDK and Crawford AM and Hyndman DL and Pitchford WS}
}
@conference {40973,
	title = {A simplified method for typing DRB alleles in deer},
	booktitle = {Proceedings of the New Zealand Society of Animal Production},
	volume = {58},
	year = {1998},
	month = {Jan},
	pages = {13-15},
	publisher = {New Zealand Society of Animal Production},
	organization = {New Zealand Society of Animal Production},
	abstract = {Major histocompatibility complex (MHC) genes present foreign antigens to the immune system and polymorphism in these genes may have a key role in the variability of the host response to pathogenic challenge. The DRB genes are part of the MHC class II family whose proteins present foreign antigenic peptides on the surface of the macrophage for recognition by the CD4+T cells of the immune response. The genes are highly variable with over 100 different variants found in some species. The goal of this study was the development and testing of a simplified system for differentiating between the different DRB alleles already identified in red deer. The typing method chosen used DNA hybridisation to discriminate between the DRB alleles. The RNA from each deer was extracted from cultured leukocytes. Reverse transcription followed by PCR was used to amplify the DRB region. Amino-linked oligonucleotides representing variable regions of the DRB region were covalently bound to a nylon membrane and probed with end-labelled PCR product. The degree of binding of the labelled PCR products to the membrane-bound oligonucleotides was used to discriminate between the different DRB genes amplified. This proved to be a simple and robust method of typing which eliminated any requirement for electrophoresis. },
	issn = {1176-5283},
	author = {Linscott EM and Mackintosh CM and Griffin JFT and Crawford AM}
}
@conference {40966,
	title = {Parasite resistance: A genome scan approach to finding markers and genes.},
	booktitle = {Proceedings of the New Zealand Society of Animal Production},
	volume = {57},
	year = {1997},
	month = {Jan},
	pages = {297-300},
	publisher = {New Zealand Society of Animal Production},
	organization = {New Zealand Society of Animal Production},
	abstract = {A  systematic  approach  for  finding  regions  of  the genome  that  are  important  in  the  control  of  productive traits  has  only  recently  become  available.  The  advent  of microsatellite  markers  for  sheep  and  other  domestic  ani- mals  (Crawford  et  al.  1991)  and their subsequent place- ment on linkage maps (Crawford  eta/.  1995, Kappa  et  al 1997)  has  provided  a  set  of  highly  informative  markers densely  spread  across the genome.  With these  reagents  we now  have  the  ability  to  follow  the  inheritance  of  each region  of  every  chromosome  in  any  cross.  Providing  we have  pedigrees  in  which  genes  which  have  an  important influence  on  the  trait  of  interest  are  segregating,  we  can systematically  identify  the  regions  of  the  genome  in- volved.  This  process  has  become  known  as  the  genomic scan. },
	issn = {1176-5283},
	author = {Crawford AM and Green R and Cuthbertson RP and Wright C and Vlassoff A and Squire DR and West CJ}
}
@conference {40528,
	title = {How reliable are sheep pedigrees?},
	booktitle = {Proceedings of the New Zealand Society of Animal Production},
	volume = {53},
	year = {1993},
	month = {Jan},
	pages = {363-370},
	publisher = {New Zealand Society of Animal Production},
	organization = {New Zealand Society of Animal Production},
	abstract = {Ligand blotting analysis of serum from the horse using radiolabelled IGF-I revealed a protein at 96 kDa which was not present in serum from goat, cow, sheep, deer or donkey. These latter species all displayed five labelled bands in the range 24 to 41 kDa. Conversely these were only weakly labelled in serum from the horse. Size exclusion chromatography of horse serum pre- incubated with radiolabelled IGF-I revealed reduced binding in the 130 kDa peak compared with goat plasma and ligand blotting analysis indicated that 96 kDa protein was present in this peak. The 96 kDa protein from horse serum binds IGF-I and IGF- II specifically and appears to be unique to this species.  The nature of this protein is at present unknown.},
	issn = {1176-5283},
	author = {Crawford AM and Tate ML and McEwan JC and Kumaramanickavel G and McEwan KM and Dodds KG and Swarbrick PA and Thomson P}
}
@conference {40286,
	title = {The use of dinucleotide repeats or microsatellites as genetic markers in domestic animals},
	booktitle = {Proceedings of the New Zealand Society of Animal Production},
	volume = {51},
	year = {1991},
	month = {Jan},
	pages = {79-84},
	publisher = {New Zealand Society of Animal Production},
	organization = {New Zealand Society of Animal Production},
	abstract = {Progesterone releasing devices are used to induce and  synchronise oestrus in ewes and to provide supplementary progesterone  post-mating to increase embryo survival. Because of its physical  characteristics the Type-G CIDR device can be washed and re-used.   Two trials each involving 1200 ewes were conducted. CIDR devices  previously used for 14 days were evaluated in comparison to unused  devices for their efficacy in; (1) induction and synchronisation of  oestrus (50 ewes were treated with either new or used devices each month  of the year with 400 I.U. PMSG given at device removal and the onset of  oestrus and pregnancy monitored) or (ii) treatment post-mating (new,  used or no devices were reinstated into groups of 33 ewes on Day 6 after  a synchronised mating each month of the year. Pregnancy and lambing  rates were monitored). Fewer ewes exhibited oestrus after treatment  with the used CIDR devices and fewer became pregnant in Trial 1. There  was no effect of post-mating treatment on pregnancy rate in Trial 2 but  such treatment reduced the proportion of ewes have multiple births.  Monthly variations in response were seen in both trials.  },
	issn = {1176-5283},
	author = {Crawford AM and Buchanan FC and Swarbrick PA}
}
@conference {40251,
	title = {DNA profiling in sheep},
	booktitle = {Proceedings of the New Zealand Society of Animal Production},
	volume = {50},
	year = {1990},
	month = {Jan},
	pages = {417-422},
	publisher = {New Zealand Society of Animal Production},
	organization = {New Zealand Society of Animal Production},
	abstract = {No abstract supplied   },
	issn = {1176-5283},
	author = {Crawford AM and Buchanan FC}
}
