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Sheila Ommeh
PeerJ Author & Reviewer
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Contributions by role

Preprint Author 35
Reviewer 35

Contributions by subject area

Biodiversity
Biotechnology
Conservation Biology
Genetics
Molecular Biology
Bioinformatics
Computational Biology

Sheila C Ommeh

PeerJ Author & Reviewer

Summary

Dr. Sheila Ommeh is a molecular geneticist and her research focus is on understanding the biodiversity hence the conservation of endangered indigenous livestock in developing countries. This could be achieved though sustainable breeding methods and use. Dr. Ommeh also has interests in wildlife conservation genetics especially for endangered species as well as in emerging and re-emerging pathogens causing diseases that are a threat to humans, livestock and wildlife.

Agricultural Science Biodiversity Biogeography Bioinformatics Biotechnology Cell Biology Computational Biology Conservation Biology Ecology Evolutionary Studies Genetics Genomics Molecular Biology Virology

Editing Journals

Past or current institution affiliations

Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology

Work details

Senior Research fellow

Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology
October 2012
Institute for Biotechnology Research (IBR)
Molecular Geneticist and Head Animal Biotechnology Section

Identities

@sommeh

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PeerJ Contributions

  • Preprints 1
  • Reviewed 1
March 15, 2019 - Version: 1
Genetic polymorphisms on heat-shock protein 70 gene and mitochondrial DNA d-loop variations: implications on selection for heat stress in indigenous chickens in Kenya
Grace M Kennedy, Philip M Panyako, Philip A Oyier, Emmanuel K Ndiema, Jacqueline K Lichoti, Sheila C Ommeh
https://doi.org/10.7287/peerj.preprints.27589v1

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November 4, 2014
Unipro UGENE NGS pipelines and components for variant calling, RNA-seq and ChIP-seq data analyses
Olga Golosova, Ross Henderson, Yuriy Vaskin, Andrei Gabrielian, German Grekhov, Vijayaraj Nagarajan, Andrew J. Oler, Mariam QuiƱones, Darrell Hurt, Mikhail Fursov, Yentram Huyen
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.644 PubMed 25392756