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Luca Fontanesi

Full Professor

Department of Agricultural and Food Sciences

Academic discipline: AGRI-09/A Livestock Systems, Animal Breeding and Genetics

Delegate for Competitive Research Projects

Publications

Schiavo, Giuseppina; Hoffmann, Orsolya Ivett; Ribani, Anisa; Utzeri, Valerio Joe; Ghionda, Marco Ciro; Bertolini, Francesca; Geraci, Claudia; Bovo, Samuele; Fontanesi, Luca, A genomic landscape of mitochondrial DNA insertions in the pig nuclear genome provides evolutionary signatures of interspecies admixture, «DNA RESEARCH», 2017, 24, pp. 487 - 498 [Scientific article]Open Access

Bovo, Samuele; Mazzoni, Gianluca; Ribani, Anisa; Utzeri, Valerio Joe; Bertolini, Francesca; Schiavo, Giuseppina; Fontanesi, Luca, A viral metagenomic approach on a nonmetagenomic experiment: Mining next generation sequencing datasets from pig DNA identified several porcine parvoviruses for a retrospective evaluation of viral infections, «PLOS ONE», 2017, 12, Article number: e0179462 , pp. 1 - 17 [Scientific article]Open Access

Motta, Vincenzo; Trevisi, Paolo; Bertolini, Francesca; Ribani, Anisa; Schiavo, Giuseppina; Fontanesi, Luca; Bosi, Paolo, Exploring gastric bacterial community in young pigs, «PLOS ONE», 2017, 12, Article number: e0173029 , pp. 1 - 12 [Scientific article]Open Access

Fontanesi, L; Schiavo, G; Gallo, M; Baiocco, C; Galimberti, G; Bovo, S; Russo, V; Buttazzoni, L, Genome-wide association study for ham weight loss at first salting in Italian Large White pigs: towards the genetic dissection of a key trait for dry-cured ham production, «ANIMAL GENETICS», 2017, 48, pp. 103 - 107 [Scientific article]

Ogorevc, J.; Zorc, M.; Škrlep, M.; Bozzi, R.; Petig, M.; Fontanesi, L.; Čandek-Potokar, M.; Dovc, P., Is KIT Locus Polymorphism rs328592739 Related to White Belt phenotype in Krškopolje Pig?, «ACS. AGRICULTURAE CONSPECTUS SCIENTIFICUS», 2017, 82, pp. 155 - 161 [Scientific article]Open Access

Fontanesi L., Meat Authenticity and Traceability, in: Lawrie's Meat Science, Duxford, Woodhead Publishing - Elsevier, 2017, pp. 585 - 633 [Chapter or essay]

Ribani, A.; Bertolini, F.; Schiavo, G.; Scotti, E.; Utzeri, V.J.; Dall'Olio, S.; Trevisi, P.; Bosi, P.; Fontanesi, L., Next generation semiconductor based sequencing of bitter taste receptor genes in different pig populations and association analysis using a selective DNA pool-seq approach, «ANIMAL GENETICS», 2017, 48, pp. 97 - 102 [Scientific article]

Thulin, C. -G.; Alves, P. C.; Djan, M.; Fontanesi, L.; Peacock, D., Wild opportunities with dedomestication genetics of rabbits, «RESTORATION ECOLOGY», 2017, 25, pp. 330 - 332 [Scientific article]

Fontanesi, L.; Scotti, E.; Gallo, M.; Nanni Costa, L.; Dall'Olio, S, Authentication of "mono-breed" pork products: Identification of a coat colour gene marker in Cinta Senese pigs useful to this purpose, «LIVESTOCK SCIENCE», 2016, 184, pp. 71 - 77 [Scientific article]Open Access

Mastrangelo, S.; Tolone, M.; Di Gerlando, R.; Fontanesi, L.; Sardina, M.T.; Portolano, B, Genomic inbreeding estimation in small populations: Evaluation of runs of homozygosity in three local dairy cattle breeds, «ANIMAL», 2016, 10, pp. 746 - 754 [Scientific article]Open Access

Samoré, A.B.; Fontanesi, L., Genomic selection in pigs: State of the art and perspectives., «ITALIAN JOURNAL OF ANIMAL SCIENCE», 2016, 15, pp. 211 - 232 [Scientific article]Open Access

Ferreira, A.M.; Marques, A.T.; Fontanesi, L.; Thulin, C.G.; Sales-Baptista, E.; Araújo, S.S.; Almeida, A.M, Identification of a Bitter-Taste Receptor Gene Repertoire in Different Lagomorphs Species, «FRONTIERS IN GENETICS», 2016, 7, Article number: 55 , pp. 1 - 5 [Scientific article]Open Access

Fontanesi, L.; Sparacino, G.; Utzeri, V.J.; Scotti, E.; Fornasini, D.; Dall’Olio, S.; Frabetti, A, Identification of polymorphisms in the rabbit growth hormone receptor (GHR) gene and association with finishing weight in a commercial meat rabbit line, «ANIMAL BIOTECHNOLOGY», 2016, 27, pp. 77 - 83 [Scientific article]

Luca Fontanesi; Federica Di Palma; Paul Flicek; Andrew T. Smith; Carl-Gustaf Thulin; Paulo C. Alves; the Lagomorph Genomics Consortium: [..; Rita Casadio; Pier Luigi Martelli; Anisa Ribani; Giuseppina Schiavo; Valerio Joe Utzeri; ..], LaGomiCs-Lagomorph Genomics Consortium: An International Collaborative Effort for Sequencing the Genomes of an Entire Mammalian Order, «JOURNAL OF HEREDITY», 2016, 107, pp. 295 - 308 [Scientific article]

Fontanesi, L., Merging metabolomics, genetics, and genomics in livestock to dissect complex production traits, in: Systems Biology in Animal Production and Health, Vol. 1, Cham, Springer International Publishing, 2016, pp. 43 - 62 [Chapter or essay]