Gopal Ramdasji Gowane

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Animal Genetics & Breeding Division, ICAR-NDRI, Karnal

MVSc - 1

Quantitative genetics; Immuno-Genetics

PhD

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Avishaan: A prolific sheep (Co-developer)
This newly developed prolific sheep is helpful for improving the productivity of animals and hence economic upliftment of the sheep farmers
Malpura improved germplasm (Developer)
The elite flock of Malpura sheep is developed. The community-based breeding in the Malpura sheep breeders is taken up for Scientific sheep rearing
Hemonchuscontortus resistant strains of Malpura and Avikalin sheep (Co-developer)
The genetically resistant flock of Avikalin and Malpura sheep for Hemonchuscontortus is developed through selective breeding.
Unbiased estimates of genetic parameters using Animal model (Sheep) for prediction of breeding values and total genetic merit.
The utility of genomic selection in places with less resources has been worked out with selective genotyping approach
Community based breeding programme in sheep breeding - A model for the CBBP is developed
Deciphered the MHC diversity in sheep breeds of India
Genetics of variability in the Vaccine response (FMD/PPR/ET) in cattle, sheep and goat

88 research papers and 8 review papers

List of 10 (Ten) most important publications:

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1	GR Gowane, A Chopra, V Prakash, AL Arora. 2010. Estimates of (co) variance components and genetic parameters for body weights and first greasy fleece weight in Malpura sheep. Livestock Science 131 (1), 94-101	L023 (7.20)
2	GR Gowane, A Chopra, LLL Prince, C Paswan, AL Arora. 2010. Estimates of (co) variance components and genetic parameters for body weights and first greasy fleece weight in Bharat Merino sheep. Animal 4 (3), 425-431	A161 (7.87)
3	GR Gowane, A Chopra, LLL Prince, AK Mishra, AL Arora. 2011. Genetic analysis for growth traits of prolific Garole× Malpura (GM) sheep. Tropical animal health and production 43 (2), 299-303	T100 (6.98)
4	GR Gowane, A Chopra, V Prakash, AL Arora. 2011. Estimates of (co) variance components and genetic parameters for growth traits in Sirohi goat. Tropical animal health and production 43 (1), 189-198	T100 (6.98)
5	GR Gowane, AK Sharma, M Sankar, K Narayanan, Biswajit Das, S Subramaniam, B Pattnaik. 2013. Association of BoLA DRB3 alleles with variability in immune response among the crossbred cattle vaccinated for foot-and-mouth disease (FMD). Research in Veterinary Science 95 (1), 156-163	R038 (7.62)
6	GR Gowane*, V Prakash, A Chopra, LLL Prince. 2013. Population structure and effect of inbreeding on lamb growth in Bharat Merino sheep. Small Ruminant Research 114 (1), 72-79	S046 (6.97)
7	GR Gowane, CP Swarnkar, LLL Prince, A Kumar. 2018. Genetic parameters for neonatal mortality in lambs at semi-arid region of Rajasthan India. Livestock Science 210, 85-92	L023 (7.20)
8	GR Gowane, CP Swarnkar, SS Misra, R Kumar, A Kumar, LLL Prince. 2019. Genetic parameter estimates for fecal egg counts and their relationship with growth in Avikalin and Malpura sheep. Animal, 1-9: https://doi.org/10.1017/S1751731118003749	A161 (7.87)
9	GR Gowane*, Arun Kumar and Chanda Nimbkar. 2019. Challenges and opportunities to livestock breeding programmes in India. Journal of Animal Breeding and Genetics. DOI: 10.1111/jbg.12391	J043 (7.94)
10	Gowane, G. R., Sang Hong Lee, Sam Clark, Nasir Moghaddar, Hawlader A Al‐Mamun, Julius HJ van der Werf. 2019. Effect of selection and selective genotyping for creation of reference on bias and accuracy of genomic prediction. Journal of Animal Breeding and Genetics. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/jbg.12420	J043 (7.94)

Research Project Handled: 6 projects (as PI)

H index : 14

80th Foundation Course for Agricultural Research Service; NAARM, Hyderabad; Jan 08, 2007 to May 07, 2007
Genetic analysis of animal breeding data using advanced software packages; NDRI, Karnal; October 10-30, 2007
Innovations in wool production and technologies for value addition; CSWRI, Avikanagar; Dec 4, 2008 to Dec 24, 2008
Genotype by environment interaction in breeding programs at University of New England as a part of Endeavour Research Fellowship-2016 on 30.01.2017 to 03.02.2017.
Summer Institute in Statistical Genetics. Module: Quantitative Genetics by Dr. Bruce Walsh. At Institute of Molecular Biosciences, the University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia. February 2017.

Endeavour Research fellowship 2017
Best scientist (employee) award 2014
International Travel Scholarship for WCGALP (DST) 2017
Various poster and oral presentation awards during scientific conferences

Genetically improved sheep breeds and strains: Malpura sheep for higher growth, Malpura and Avikalin strains for Hemonchuscontortus resistance, Avishaan: a three breed prolific sheep
Sheep Database Management System: sheepdbms.org.in (Co-developer)
This is a national level sheep database management system developed for AICRP/MSSP database of breeding projects
AVIMITRA (Co-developer)
An android mobile application reflecting sheep and rabbit husbandry and overview of CSWRI.
AVIMEGH: (Developer)
An android mobile application for community-based breeding program in Malpura sheep project (MSSP-CSWRI Avikanagar)for real time data collection and management decisions.