Abstract

In the last years the understanding of genetic influences on mammary gland development and function received an increased attention, because the improvement of milk quantity and quality in farm species doesn’t have to compromise animal health. The variations registered in milk quantity and quality cannot be attributed just too a few genes, because the starting and maintaining of mammary gland secretor activity is controlled by a cascade of hormones, transcription factors, enzymes (Rosen, 2003), which all over the years suffered mutations which are probably the cause of these variations (Ghasemi et al., 2009).

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