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Juan F. Medrano is affiliated with the University of California, Davis in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, and Agricultural and Biological Sciences.

Their work focuses on key subfields including Molecular Biology, Genetics, Agronomy and Crop Science, Animal Science and Zoology, and Pharmacology. The main research topics addressed by Medrano include:

  • Genetic and phenotypic traits in livestock
  • Reproductive physiology in livestock
  • Effects of environmental stressors on livestock
  • Coffee research and impacts
  • Cancer-related molecular mechanisms research
  • CRISPR and genetic engineering
  • Genetic mapping and diversity in plants and animals

Medrano has published multiple recent papers across various scientific venues. Notable publications include:

  • De novo assembly of the cattle reference genome with single-molecule sequencing, 2020, GigaScience
  • Functional annotations of three domestic animal genomes provide vital resources for comparative and agricultural research, 2021, Nature Communications
  • A comparative analysis of chromatin accessibility in cattle, pig, and mouse tissues, 2020, BMC Genomics
  • Vulnerability of coffee (Coffea spp.) genetic resources in the United States, 2021, Genetic Resources and Crop Evolution
  • Symposium review: Advances in sequencing technology herald a new frontier in cattle genomics and genome-enabled selection, 2020, Journal of Dairy Science

Frequent publication venues associated with Medrano's work include:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Journal of Animal Science
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • BMC Genomics
  • Genetic Resources and Crop Evolution

Their collaborative work involves frequent co-authors, among them:

  • Pablo J. Ross
  • Milton Thomas
  • Pablo Luna-Nevárez
  • R. M. Enns
  • Scott E Speidel

Best Publications

  • Real-time PCR for mRNA quantitation.

    Marisa L. Wong;Juan F. Medrano

  • The Genome Sequence of Taurine Cattle: A Window to Ruminant Biology and Evolution

    Christine G. Elsik;Christine G. Elsik;Christine G. Elsik;Ross L. Tellam;Kim C. Worley;Kim C. Worley;Richard A. Gibbs

  • The Collaborative Cross, a community resource for the genetic analysis of complex traits

    Gary A. Churchill;David C. Airey;Hooman Allayee;Joe M. Angel

  • De novo assembly of the cattle reference genome with single-molecule sequencing.

    Benjamin D Rosen;Derek M Bickhart;Robert D Schnabel;Sergey Koren

  • The nature and identification of quantitative trait loci: a community's view.

    Oduola Abiola;Joe M. Angel;Philip Avner;Alexander A. Bachmanov

  • Amplification of the ZFY and ZFX genes for sex identification in humans, cattle, sheep and goats.

    Eric Aasen;Juan Fernando Medrano

  • An Enhanced Linkage Map of the Sheep Genome Comprising More Than 1000 Loci

    Jillian F. Maddox;Kizanne P. Davies;Allan M. Crawford;Dennis J. Hulme

  • Birth of large calves that developed from in vitro-derived bovine embryos

    E. Behboodi;G. B. Anderson;Robert Bondurant;S. L. Cargill

  • DNA extraction from nucleated red blood cells.

    J F Medrano;E Aasen;L Sharrow

  • Genotyping of bovine kappa-casein loci following DNA sequence amplification.

    Juan Fernando Medrano;Estuardo–Aguilar Cordova;Estuardo–Aguilar Cordova

  • Transcriptional profiling of bovine milk using RNA sequencing

    Saumya Wickramasinghe;Gonzalo Rincon;Alma Islas-Trejo;Juan F Medrano

  • The bovine lactation genome: insights into the evolution of mammalian milk

    Danielle G Lemay;David J Lynn;William F Martin;Margaret C Neville

  • Polymerase chain reaction amplification of bovine β‐lactoglobulin genomic sequences and identification of genetic variants by RFLP analysis

    Juan Fernando Medrano;Estuardo Aguilar‐Cordova

  • Milk Protein Polymorphisms in California Dairy Cattle

    Alison Van Eenennaam;Juan Fernando Medrano

  • SNP discovery in the bovine milk transcriptome using RNA-Seq technology

    Angela Cánovas;Gonzalo Rincon;Alma Islas-Trejo;Saumya Wickramasinghe

  • Establishment of pluripotent cell lines from porcine preimplantation embryos.

    L. R. Chen;Y. L. Shiue;L. Bertolini;J. F. Medrano

  • Organic solvents as facilitators of polymerase chain reaction.

    D Pomp;J F Medrano

  • Comparison of five different RNA sources to examine the lactating bovine mammary gland transcriptome using RNA-Sequencing

    Angela Cánovas;Gonzalo Rincón;Claudia Bevilacqua;Alma Islas-Trejo

  • Glycosylation of Human Milk Lactoferrin Exhibits Dynamic Changes During Early Lactation Enhancing Its Role in Pathogenic Bacteria-Host Interactions

    Mariana Barboza;Janneth Pinzon;Saumiya Wickramasinghe;John W. Froehlich

  • Characterization of Bacteria in Biopsies of Colon and Stools by High Throughput Sequencing of the V2 Region of Bacterial 16S rRNA Gene in Human

    Yukihide Momozawa;Valérie Deffontaine;Edouard Louis;Juan F. Medrano

Frequent Co-Authors

Charles R. Farber
Charles R. Farber University of Virginia
J. Bruce German
J. Bruce German University of California, Davis
Antonio Reverter
Antonio Reverter Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
Sigrid A. Lehnert
Sigrid A. Lehnert Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
Laercio R. Porto-Neto
Laercio R. Porto-Neto Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
Stephen S. Moore
Stephen S. Moore University of Queensland
Ian F Korf
Ian F Korf University of California, Davis
Robert D. Schnabel
Robert D. Schnabel University of Missouri
Evgeny M. Zdobnov
Evgeny M. Zdobnov Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics
Edward J. DePeters
Edward J. DePeters University of California, Davis

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