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The sheep rearing occupies a traditional place in Romanian animal production. In actual context of promoting sustainable development and need to face the climatic changes, this sector must evolve in an appropriate manner. This study aims to emphasize the characteristics of Turcana breed developmental body traits (full length, withers height, thorax perimeter, body weight, ear length, and tail length), function of the rearing environment, characterized by temperature and rainfall regimen, in North, and East Romania. The climatic data were collected by a 7 years interval, from public reports. We used the program STATISTICA v.8.0 for Windows. The majority of body developmental traits of Turcana sheep (full length -135.20 cm, withers heigth - 83.03 cm, ear length - 13.12 cm, and tail length - 41.96), recorded biggest values in individuals studied in Suceava County, and smallest (full length -127.95 cm, body weigth - 55.75 kg, ear length - 9.35 cm, and tail length - 32.23) in individuals from Brăila County. The biggest body development expressed by analyzed body traits is emphasized in Tircana sheep stocks studied in North Romania, compared to East Romania, except thorax perimeter. Moderate correlations are identified between Turcana sheep full length (R = 0.480), and withers heigth (R = 0.424), environmental temperature, and precipitations in studied areal. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The tradition of sheep rearing imposes the preservation of both genuine pure traditional breeds and biodiversity. In the context of actual climate change threat, the surviving of these resources may be endangered. Taking into account the history and realities of Tsigai sheep rearing in Romania, ourdays, it is important to allow increasing preoccupation not only to preserve our genuine genetic Tsigai sheep resources, but also to provide conditions for future development, even in accentuated draught conditions. Thus, in particular case of Romania, the preservation of both genuine pure traditional sheep breeds and biodiversity is an important issue to be considered for future generations, with accent to Tsigai sheep breed, due to special robustness of this breed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper aims to emphasize general aspects concerning bioinformatics object of activity, focusing on definitions, and main areas where this complex issue has uses. Being an interdisciplinary field of science, it involves biology, molecular biology knowledge, as well as computational skills. Mastering techniques specific for bioinformatics, allows researcher to perform large scale comprehensive analysis on a given subject. Bioinformatics has an innovative contribution to identification of deepest insights of the living cells, in the meantime with generating the whole picture of the interesting cell, and for this reason it has to develop in the same rhythm with science fields it is involved. In this respect, the paper also presents the main challenges that bioinformatics must face in the future. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]