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Low Cost AI With Frozen Ram logo
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Low Cost AI With Frozen Ram

Australian Wool Innovation (AWI)

The aim of this project was to seek improvement of the function of frozen ram semen so that it can be effectively used in cheaper, less invasive cervical artificial insemination (AI) programs, to improve the current rate of conception using frozen thawed semen in cervical AI from 20% to 70%....

5 Jun 2013 - 30 Jun 2019

New South Wales, Australia

The University of Sydney (USYD)

Fertility of sexed ram semen 18/19 logo
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Fertility of sexed ram semen 18/19

Australian Wool Innovation (AWI)

The ability to pre-select the production of male or female lambs will provide a number of benefits to the Australian wool industry. Sex pre-selection can streamline flock management, reduces the costs associated with progeny testing, allows producers to focus selection on a ewe line, and can improve the rate of...

1 Feb 2018 - 30 Jun 2019

New South Wales, Australia

The University of Queensland (UQ)

Vaccine for control of flystrike logo
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Vaccine for control of flystrike

Australian Wool Innovation (AWI)

Flystrike, and its control, is a significant cost to the Australian sheep and wool industries. With the advent of new technologies and the sheep blow fly genome information, significant new opportunities now exist to make the development of a flystrike vaccine a real possibility. A flystrike vaccine will fulfil a...

26 Nov 2018 - 30 Jun 2022

New South Wales, Australia

The University of Sydney (USYD)

Genetics of Blowfly Parasitism logo
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Genetics of Blowfly Parasitism

Australian Wool Innovation (AWI)

Understanding the biology of the Australian sheep blowfly (Lucilia cuprina) is critical to developing new and effective strategies for its control. The unique parasitic lifecycle of the blowfly means that insect model organisms currently available for study using sophisticated genetic techniques are not necessarily going to provide results about gene...

11 Apr 2016 - 21 Nov 2018

New South Wales, Australia

The University of Sydney (USYD)

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CRISPR Phase II

Australian Wool Innovation (AWI)

This project was the first stage of an on-going investigation into the use of the genetic modification technology CRISPR for editing the blowfly genome. A key outcome from this work is the ability to analyse critical blowfly genes that can be targeted in the search for new blowfly control options.

15 Jan 2018 - 30 Jun 2019

New South Wales, Australia

Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO)

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CRISPR Phase III

Australian Wool Innovation (AWI)

Understanding the biology of the Australian sheep blowfly (Lucilia cuprina) is critical to developing new and effective strategies for its control. The advances made in the sequencing of the L. cuprina genome mean that CRISPR has the potential to be a powerful tool for the understanding of the function of...

21 Jul 2018 - 20 Feb 2019

New South Wales, Australia

The University of Melbourne

Informed development of a flystrike vaccine logo
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Informed development of a flystrike vaccine

Australian Wool Innovation (AWI)

This project focusses on two main areas: Using genetic and genomic data to determine the structure of blowfly populations in Australia to assess the level of genetic variation that exists within and between the locations from where they are collected; and, understanding the molecular processes that allow the maggots to...

2 Jan 2019 - 30 Jun 2022

New South Wales, Australia

The University of Melbourne

Identifying T.cylindrosporum in Australia logo
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Identifying T.cylindrosporum in Australia

Australian Wool Innovation (AWI)

There are several species of fungi that can infect and kill insects, A Review of Sheep Blowfly Pathogen Control (ON-00620) identified one species, Tolypocladium cylindrosporum as capable of killing the Australian sheep blowfly, Lucilia cuprina. It acts by killing larvae and pupa in the soil and hence it could have...

10 Dec 2019 - 30 Jun 2020

New South Wales, Australia

The University of Melbourne

MLPAO Evaluability of Anti Mullerian hormone logo
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MLPAO Evaluability of Anti Mullerian hormone

Australian Wool Innovation (AWI)

This project aims to increase ewe weaning rates and lifetime productivity by providing sheep producers with a more accurate method of identifying more fertile and fecund ewe lambs before first mating. The proposed marker is anti-müllerian hormone (AMH), which is produced solely by the ovary and can be measured accurately...

10 Sep 2018 - 1 Dec 2025

New South Wales, Australia

The University of Melbourne

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Epigenetic and behaviour analysis

Australian Wool Innovation (AWI)

Epigenetic regulation of gene expression may have a siginifcant impact on numerous traits inlcuding wool production. This investment examines the potential influence of shearing frequency (twice shorn versus single shorn) on epigenetic gene expression regulation in a Merino sheep flock. The trial uses a flock representing a variety of commercially...

3 Jan 2019 - 30 Jun 2020

New South Wales, Australia

The University of Melbourne