About

Dr. Musarrat Abbas Khan earned his B.Sc. (Hons) Animal Husbandry degree from University of Agriculture Faisal. Later on he completed his M.Phil and Ph.D degree in the discipline of Animal Breeding and Genetics from this same university.

Dr. Musarrat Abbas Khan is currently working as Professor Department of Animal Breeding and Genetics. He started his carrier as Veterinary Officer at Livestock Production Research Institute Bahadurnagar Okara Livestock and Dairy Development Department Government of Punjab. While his 18 years career at Bahadurnagar Okara he served in various capacities including Farm Manager, Research Officer (Buffalo Breeding and Cattle Crossbreeding and lastly as Farm Superintendent. He supervised the breeding, feeding, management of the animals. He looked after the dairy animals, beef animals and sheep. He supervised the farm consisting of 3050 acres of land and monitored the agricultural activities. He provided guidelines for livestock farming to farmers visiting farm and in this way contributed toward the development of the livestock sector. He supervised the feed mill and produced concentrate rationfor provision to Government and Private livestock farms. After serving IUB for about five years as lecturer, he joined as Associate Professor Department of Breeding and Genetics Cholistan University of Veterinary and Animal Sciences Bahawalpur. He has honour to serve as Chairman Department of Breeding and Genetics and as Officer Incharge Faculty of Animal Production and Technology CUVAS Bahawalpur. He is pioneer in initiation of BS Animal Sciences at CUVAS Bahawalpur.

Dr. Musarrat Abbas Khan has thirty research papers in national and international journals. He reviewed several research projects funded by different agencies and research papers published by various research journals. He also served as paper reviewer and moderator of the session on animal breeding at the eve of International Buffalo Congress held at Lahore during February 2019.

Research Interests

The main focus of research is dairy and beef cattle production and genetic improvement. He remained involved in genetic improvement programs of Sahiwal cattle and Nili Ravi Buffalo. He supervised progeny testing program for production of quality bulls at Livestock Production Research Institute Bahadurnagar Okara Livestock and Dairy Development Department Punjab. He supervised beef cattle crossbreeding program at this same institute. He is pioneer in linear type classification of Sahiwal cattle breed. He has rich experience of working on dairy farm. He remained active member during development of breeding policy document and breeding act document at L&DD Punjab. Now his focus of research is on applied aspect of animal breeding and genetics especially for genetic improvement of small ruminants

Awards and Honors

He won indigenous PhD scholarship for doing PhD during year 2003

He won a competitive research project amounting to Rs 23 million rupees from Punjab Agricultural Research Board Punjab during year 2018.

Publications

1-M.S. Khan, M.Younas and M.A. Khan. 1998. Genetic and phenotypic (Co) variance for yearling weight and.post-weaning growth rate in Bhagnari x Droughtmaster calves. Pakistan J. Bio. Sci. 1:202-204.

2-M.A. Khan, M.S. Khan and S.Ghulam 1998. Heritability of weaning weight in Bhagnari and its crosses with Droughtmaster in Balochistan. J.Anim.Plant Sci. 8:51-53.

3- M.A. Khan and M.S. Khan. 1999. Variation in pre-weaning growth rate of Bhagnari x Droughtmaster calves. Pakistan Vet. J. 19:4-6.

4-M.A. Khan, M.S. Khan. 1999. Heritability of weaning weight in Narimaster beef calves. Pakistan Vet. J. 19:81-83.

5-M. Shafiq, K. Javed and M.A. Khan. 2000. Correction factors for the length of lactation age at calving and lactation number in Sahiwal cows. J. Anim. Plant Sci. 10:54-60.

6-M.S.Khan and M.A. Khan. 2001. Heritability of birth weight in Bhagnari and its crosses with Droughtmaster in Pakistan. Pakistan J. Agri. Sci. 38:32-36.

7-I.R. Bajwa, M.S. Khan, M.A. khan and K.Z. Gondal. 2004. Environmental factors affecting milk yield and lactation length in Sahiwal cattle. Pakistan Vet. J. 24:23-27.

8- I. R. Bajwa, M. S. Khan, M. A. Khan and K. Z. Gondal. 2004. Comparison of different procedures for lactation length adjustment of milk yield in Sahiwal cattle. Pakistan Vet. J. 24:117-120.

9-M.A. Khan, M.S. Khan and A. Iqbal. 2008. Genetic and phenotypic correlations among linear type traits in Sahiwal cows. Pakistan J. Agri. Sci. 45:268-274.

10-M.S. Khan and M.A. khan. 2010. Dewlap in Sahiwal cattle-Genetic control and relationship with milk yield. 9^th World Congress on Genetics applied to livestock production, Leipzeg, Germany 1-6 August 2010.

11-M.S. Khan and M.A. Khan. 2010. Dewlap in Sahiwal cattle-An important phenotypic marker. Poster session 9^th World Congress on Genetics applied to livestock production, Leipzeg, Germany 1-6 August 2010, vol. species breeding: Dairy cattle and buffalo breeding (jointly with interbull) Poster session, P0089.www.wcgalp.org/proceedings/2010.

12-S.A. Bhatti, M.F. Ahmad, D. McGill, M. Sarwar, M. Afzal, E.Ullah, M.A.Khan, M.S. Khan, R. Bush and H.M Warriach. 2010. Effect of different feeding regimes on growth performance and health of Sahiwal calves during pre-weaning period. J. Anim. Sci. 88:T 357-pp 423. Impact factor (2.52)

13-S.A. Bhatti, M.F. Ahmed, P. Charles Wynn, D. McGill, M. Sarwar, M. Afzal, E. Ullah, M.A. Khan, M.S. Khan, R. Bush, H.M. Warriach and A. Khan. 2012. Effect of diet on pre-weaning performance of Sahiwal calves. Tropic. Anim. Health Prod. 44:819-26. Impact Factor (1.67)

14-Khan M.A. and M.S. Khan. 2015. Non Genetic factors affecting linear type traits in Sahiwal cattle. J. Anim. Plant Sci. 25, 29-36. Impact Factor (0.422)

15-Mirza,R. H., K. Javed, M. Akhtar, M. Rauf, S. M. R. Dilshad, M. A. Khan and M. A. Tipu. 2015.  Genetic and Phenotypic Correlation of Some Body Measurements with Milk Yield in Nili Ravi Buffaloes of Pakistan. J. Anim. Health and Prod. 3(1):1-5. Impact factor IBI 2.7).

16-Khan, M.A. and M.S. Khan. 2015. Development of linear score system for Sahiwal cows in Pakistan. J Anim. Health Prod. 3(3):59-63.Impact Factor IBI (2.7)

17-Mirza, R.H., K. Javed, M. Akhtar, M. Rauf, M.A. Khan, M.A. Tipu and S.M.R. Dilshad. 2015. Environmental factors affecting linear classification of top line and feet and leg traits in Nili Ravi buffaloes of Pakistan. Conference Abstract Proceedings of International Conference on Agriculture and Biological Sciences (ABS 2015) July 25-28, Beijing China.

18-Mirza, R.H., K. Javed, M. Akhtar, M. Rauf, M.A. Khan, M.A. Tipu and S.M.R. Dilshad. 2015. Environmental factors affecting linear classification of top line and feet and leg traits in Nili Ravi buffaloes of Pakistan. J. Agricultural Eng. Biotech. 3(3):84-91.

19-Khan, M.A. and M.S. Khan. 2015. Heritability genetic and phenotypic correlations of body capacity traits with milk yield in Sahiwal cows of Pakistan. Abstracts of Second International Conference on Agriculture, Aquaculture and Animal Science 28-29 December Colombo Sri Lanka. pp 26.

20-Khan, M.A and M.S. Khan. 2016. The heritability estimates of linear type traits in Sahiwal. J. Anim. Plant Sci. 26 (1):25-33. Impact Factor (0.422) for 2015.

21- Khan, M.A and M.S. Khan. (2016)  Genetic parameters of udder traits and their relationship with milk yield in Sahiwal cows of Pakistan. J. Anim. Plant Sci.26(4):880-886. Impact Factor (0.422) for 2015.

22. Khan, M.A and M.S. Khan. (2016). Genetic and phenotypic correlations between linear type traits and milk yield in Sahiwal cows. Pak. J. Agri. Sci. 53(2):483-489. Impact Factor 1.049

23. Khan, M.A. and M.S. Khan. 2016. Heritability, Genetic and Phenotypic Correlations of Body Capacity Traits with Milk Yield in Sahiwal Cows of Pakistan. Pak. J. Life Soc. Sci. 14(2):77-82. Impact factor UIF 1.0290.

24. Khan, M.A., M.S. Khan and A.Waheed. 2018. Morphological measurements and their heritability for Sahiwal cattle in Pakistan. J. Anim. Plant Sci. 28(2):431-440.

25.Riaz, R., M.N. Tahir, M. Waseem, M. Asif and M.A. Khan. 2018. Accuracy of estimates for live body weight using Schaeffer’s formula in Non-Descript cattle (Bos-Indicus), Nili Ravi Buffaloes (Bubalus, Bubalis) and their calves using linear body measurements. Pakistan J. Sci. 70(3): 225-232.

26. Khan, M.A., R.H. Mirza, M. Akhtar, M. Mubeen, M. Shakeel and M.Irfan. 2019.Factors Affecting Growth Performances of Simmental, Angus, Charolais and Hereford Beef Crossbred Calves under Sub-tropical Environment of Pakistan. J. Anim. Plant Sci. 29(2):396-401.

27.Waheeed, A., M.S. Khan, E. Eyduran, M.A. Khan, A. Faraz and R.H. Mirza. 2019. Genetic evaluation of linear type traits and their association with milk production traits in Beetal goats in Pakistan. J. Anim. Plant Sci. 29(2):425-430.

28.R.H. Mirza, A. Waheed, M.A. Khan, A. Faraz, H.M. Ishaq and S.M.R. Dilshad. 2019. Genetic and non genetic factors affecting some udder measurements in Nili Ravi buffaloes of Pakistan". Bufalo Bulletin 38 (3):551-560.

29. Ahmad, H.I., J. Zhou, M.J. Ahmad, G. Afzal, H. Jiang, X. Zhang, A.A. Elokil, M. A. Khan, L. Li, H. Li, L. Ping and J. Chen. 2020. Adaptive selection in the evolution of programmed cell death-1 and its ligands in vertebrates. AGING 12: Advance 1-42.

30.Safdar, M. S. Zaheer R. A. Khailany,  S. Parvez, M.Naveed, P. Bhuiyan, M. Ozaslan, R. Moatasam, M. S. Al-Attar, M. A. Khan, Y. Junejo. 2020. The Relevance of SNPs at 3′UTR Region of CASP7 and miR-371b-5p Associated Diseases: A Computational Analysis. Cell Biochem Biophys DOI 10.1007/s12013-020-00941-2

Affiliations

Life long member of Pakistan Veterinary Medical Council of Pakistan