A research team composed of Prof. Dr. Thamer Karim Khudair, Prof. Salam Marza Suhail, Assistant Professor Dr. Sari Safi Obeis and Assistant Professor Dr. Salah Mahdi Kateh from the Department of Animal Production at the College of Agriculture – University of Kerbala participated in the International Conference on Agriculture, Environment and Food Security. The research, which is the first in Iraq and the Middle East, was published in an international refereed journal within Scopus containers, as it dealt with the effect of the sex-related dw gene on the fertility of male domestic birds and its effect on important physiological traits in reversing the behavior and productivity of local chickens.