Publications

Last updated 8 October 2026

Preprint

  1. Track2Health: Interpretable Animal Health Prioritisation from GPS-Derived Behaviour Xintao Zhao, Qiyu Liao, Mhairi Sutherland, Cara Brosnahan, Suzanne Keeling, Dadong Wang, Erik Meijering, Jie Kang · SSRN preprint

2026

  1. Multimodal animal health monitoring in extensive livestock production systems Xintao Zhao, Qiyu Liao, Dadong Wang, Erik Meijering, Cara Brosnahan, Suzanne Keeling, Rugang Tian, Wenrong Li, Mhairi Sutherland, Jie Kang · Frontiers in Veterinary Science 13, 1832869
  2. Effects of Pediococcus pentosaceus and tea polyphenols on biogenic amines, volatile compounds, and microbial community in fermented sausage Erke Sun, Xueying Sun, Weiqi Qin, Shiqi Hao, Yanrong Chen, Lina Sun, Ye Jin, Na Wang, Rugang Tian, Hui Li, Jie Kang, Xun Xiao, Lihua Zhao · Food Chemistry, 148596

2025

  1. A dual-branch multi-modal deep learning framework for non-destructive evaluation of intramuscular fat in sheep Qingqing Ling, Haizheng Yu, Chengguang Yue, Jie Kang, Aili Maimaiti, Zhonghui Li, Jiang Di, Mingjun Liu, Long Liang, Wenrong Li · Scientific Reports 16(1), 2408
  2. SimGBS: a rapid method for simulating large-scale genotyping-by-sequencing data Jie Kang, Melanie K Hess, Ken G Dodds, Rudiger Brauning, John C McEwan, Barry J Foote, Judy F Foote, Agnieszka Konkolewska, Shannon M Clarke, Andrew S Hess · BMC Bioinformatics 27(1), 12
  3. PotatoMASH is a cost-effective marker system for genomic prediction in potato based on short-read haplotypes Lea Vexler, Agnieszka Konkolewska, Stephen Byrne, Tom Ruttink, Maria de la O Leyva-Pérez, Jie Kang, Denis Griffin, Richard GF Visser, Herman J Van Eck, Dan Milbourne · Theoretical and Applied Genetics 138(11), 289
  4. Across-breed analysis of maternal traits in New Zealand beef cattle Jie Kang, Dorian Garrick, Lee Michael, Franziska Weik, Jason Archer · Proceedings of the 26th Conference of the Association for the Advancement of Animal Breeding and Genetics (AAABG), 272–275
  5. Estimation of genetic parameters for wool traits in FGF5 gene-edited Chinese Merino sheep Chengguang Yue, Jie Kang, Chenxi Liu, Bin Han, Zhonghui Li, Wenrong Li · Frontiers in Animal Science 6, 1712295

2024

  1. Earthquake forecasting from paleoseismic records Ting Wang, Jonathan D Griffin, Marco Brenna, David Fletcher, Jiaxu Zeng, Mark Stirling, Peter W Dillingham, Jie Kang · Nature Communications 15(1), 1944
  2. Early Career Researchers succeeding under a changing research system Kristie Cameron, Gergely Toldi, Mahonri Owen, Joya Kemper, Olivia Truax, Ery Hughes, Karly Burch, Jie Kang · New Zealand Science Review 80(1), 47–53

2023

  1. Prediction of gestation length and days to conception from foetal age scans for genetic improvement of maternal fertility in beef cow herds: a simulation study Franziska Weik, Jie Kang, Jason A Archer · Proceedings of the 25th Conference of the AAABG, 130–133
  2. Using foetal age estimates to substitute birth date recording in beef cattle evaluations Jie Kang, Franziska Weik, Neil Sanderson, Dave Robertson, Jason A Archer · Conference proceedings, 126–129
  3. Not just quantity but also quality of language: Cross-cultural comparisons of maternal mental state talk in New Zealand, Australia, and China Qiuyi Kong, Aisling Mulvihill, Virginia Slaughter, Harry Fraser, Bailey Cavanagh-Welch, Felicia Crysta Elwina, Jie Kang, Ted Ruffman · PLOS ONE 18(3), e0282480
  4. Making better use of genotyping-by-sequencing (GBS) data to improve perennial ryegrass breeding Jie Kang · PhD thesis, University of Otago

2022

  1. PotatoMASH—A low cost, genome-scanning marker system for use in potato genomics and genetics applications Maria de la O Leyva-Perez, Lea Vexler, Stephen Byrne, Corentin R Clot, Fergus Meade, Denis Griffin, Tom Ruttink, Jie Kang, Dan Milbourne · Agronomy 12(10), 2461

2021

  1. snpGBS: a simple and flexible bioinformatics workflow to identify SNPs from genotyping-by-sequencing data Jie Kang, Ken Dodds, Stephen Byrne, Marty Faville, Michael Black, Andrew Hess, Melanie Hess, Alan McCulloch, Jeanne Jacobs, Dan Milbourne, Phillip Wilcox, Rudiger Brauning · In: S. Hartmann et al. (eds), 67–70

2020

  1. RWAc and SDOc: The measurement of right-wing authoritarianism and social dominance orientation in childhood Ted Ruffman, Charlie Ruffman, Sarah Hill, Gamze Turunc, Noel Park, Kangning Du, Jill Hayhurst, Jie Kang, Bilge Selçuk, Holger Regenbrecht, Michael C Philipp, John A Hunter · Social Development 29(4), 1194–1214
  2. Genetic analysis using a multi-parent wheat population identifies novel sources of septoria tritici blotch resistance Adnan Riaz, Petra KockAppelgren, James Gerard Hehir, Jie Kang, Fergus Meade, James Cockram, Dan Milbourne, John Spink, Ewen Mullins, Stephen Byrne · Genes 11(8), 887
  3. SMAP: a versatile approach to read-backed haplotyping in stacked NGS read data Tom Ruttink, Elisabeth Veeckman, Dries Schaumont, Sabine Van Glabeke, Annelies Haegeman, Hilde Muylle, Isabel Roldán-Ruiz, Jean-Paul Sampoux, Philippe Barre, Stephen Byrne, Jie Kang, Felix Van der Jeugt, Peter Dawyndt

2019

  1. Construction of multi-allelic genomic relationship matrices using genotyping-by-sequencing (GBS) data Jie Kang, Phillip Wilcox, Michael A Black, Stephen Byrne, Dan Milbourne, Marty J Faville, Jeanne ME Jacobs, Ken G Dodds