Maya Hiltpold

This paper presents a mechanistic energy allocation model in sheep that incorporates trade-offs between the ewe and her lambs, simulating lifetime responses to feeding and management.

The paper identifies 41k regulatory loci in cattle reproductive tissues linked to male fertility by analyzing gene expression and splicing variation across testis, epididymis, and vas deferens.

The paper identifies a 1-bp deletion in QRICH2 as a recessive cause of low sperm count and immotile sperm with morphological abnormalities in Brown Swiss bulls.

The paper identifies four novel recessive QTL for male fertility in dairy cattle and prioritizes a missense variant in SPATA16 as a candidate causal variant.

The paper identifies an intronic deletion in DNAH17 causing infertility in pigs due to defective sperm flagella by disrupting splicing and axoneme assembly.

The paper identifies a recessive allele in WDR19 associated with reduced semen quality and male fertility in cattle, showing it activates cryptic splicing and reduces protein expression.

The paper identifies a splice donor variant in CCDC189 associated with asthenospermia in Nordic Red cattle and integrates findings into the OMIA database.