Selected Recent Publications Navarro Marcos, C., Gutiérrez-Rivas, M., Goiri, I., García-Rodriguez, A., González-Recio, O. 2025. The association of the rumen virome with methane emissions in dairy cattle. Commun Biol 8, 1534 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-025-08896-x. López-Catalina, A., Ragab, M., Reverter, A., González-Recio O. 2025. A Recursive Model Approach to Include Epigenetic Effects in Genetic Evaluations Using Simulated DNA Methylation Effects. J. Animal Breed and Genet. 142 (5): 550-559. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jbg.12925. González-Recio, O., A. Fernández, J.A. Jiménez Montero. 2025. Epidemiological and genetic factors affecting severe epizootic hemorrhagic disease in Spanish Holstein cattle during the Southern Europe outbreak of 2023. Journal of Dairy Science, 108:3850–3857 https://doi.org/10.3168/jds.2024-25520. Marcos, C.N., Bach, A., Gutiérrez-Rivas, M, González-Recio, O. 2024. The oral microbiome as a proxy for feed efficiency in dairy cattle. Journal of Dairy Science, 107: 5881–5896. https://doi.org/10.3168/jds.2024-24014. López-Catalina, A., Reverter, A., Alexandre, P. A., Nguyen, L. T., González-Recio, O. 2024. Stress-induced epigenetic effects driven by maternal lactation in dairy cattle: a comethylation network approach. Epigenetics, 19(1). https://doi.org/10.1080/15592294.2024.2381856 Badia-Bringué, G., Canive,M., Vázquez, P., Garrido, J.M., Fernández, A., Juste, R.A., Jiménez, J.A., González-Recio, O., Alonso-Hearn, M. 2024. Genome-Wide Association Study Reveals Quantitative Trait Loci and Candidate Genes Associated with High Interferon-Gamma Production in Holstein Cattle Naturally Infected with Mycobacterium Bovis. Int. J. Mol.Sci. 25: 6165. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijms25116165 Varona, L., López-Carbonell, D., Srihi, H., Hervás-Rivero, C., González-Recio, O., Altarriba, J. 2024. Equivalence of variance components between standard and recursive genetic models using LDL′ transformations. Genet Sel Evol 56: 33 . https://doi.org/10.1186/s12711-024-00901-x Van Staaveren, N., Oliveira, H. R., Houlahan, K., Chud, T. C. S., Oliveira, G. A., Hailemariam, D., Kistemaker, G., Miglior, F., Plastow, G., Schenkel, F. S., Cerri, R., Sirard, M. A., Stothard, P., Pryce, J., Butty, A., Stratz, P., Abdalla, E. A. E., Segelke, D., Stamer, E., Thaller, G., Lassen, J., Manzanilla-Pech, C. I. V., Stephansen, R. B., Charfeddine, N., Garcia-Rodriguez, A., González-Recio, O., López-Paredes, J., Baldwin, R., Burchard, J., Gaddis, K., Koltes, J. E., Peñagaricano, F., Santos, J. E. P., Tempelman, R. J., VandeHaar, M., Weigel, K., White, H., Baes, C. F. . 2024. The Resilient Dairy Genome Project – a general overview of methods and objectives related to feed efficiency and methane emissions. Journal of Dairy Science, 107(3):1510-1522. https://doi.org/10.3168/jds.2022-22951. Martínez-Álvaro, M., Mattock, J., González-Recio, Ó., Saborío-Montero, A., Weng, Z., Lima, J., Duthie, C.A., Dewhurst, R., Cleveland, M.A., Watson, M., and Roehe, R. 2024. Including microbiome information in a multi-trait genomic evaluation: a case study on longitudinal growth performance in beef cattle. Genet Sel Evol 56: 19. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12711-024-00887-6 López-Catalina, A., Costes, V., Peiró-Pastor, R., Kiefer, H., González-Recio, O. 2024. Oxford nanopore sequencing as an alternative to reduced representation bisulphite sequencing for the identification of CpGs of interest in livestock populations. Livestock Science,Vol. 279, 105377. ISSN 1871-1413 (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.livsci.2023.105377). Badia-Bringué, Gerard, María Canive, Patricia Vázquez, Joseba M. Garrido, Almudena Fernández, Ramón A. Juste, José Antonio Jiménez, González-Recio, O. and Marta Alonso-Hearn. 2023. Association between High Interferon-Gamma Production in Avian Tuberculin-Stimulated Blood from Mycobacterium avium subsp. paratuberculosis-Infected Cattle and Candidate Genes Implicated in Necroptosis. Microorganisms 11, no. 7: 1817. https://doi.org/10.3390/microorganisms11071817. González-Recio, O., López-Catalina, A., Peiró-Pastor, R. et al. Evaluating the potential of (epi)genotype-by-low pass nanopore sequencing in dairy cattle: a study on direct genomic This article was published on 2026-05-11