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Moreno E, Cervantes I, Gutiérrez JP, Fernández I, Goyache F. Analysing the pedigree to identify undesirable losses of genetic diversity and to prioritize management decisions in captive breeding: a case study. Heredity (Edinb) 2024:10.1038/s41437-024-00723-z. [PMID: 39289561 DOI: 10.1038/s41437-024-00723-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/08/2023] [Revised: 08/21/2024] [Accepted: 08/22/2024] [Indexed: 09/19/2024] Open
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When prevention of species extinction is the priority, captive breeding is a key component in conservation programmes, allowing the recording of pedigree information in studbooks. The genealogical information registered in Cuvier's gazelle studbook between 1975 and 2023 was analysed to (a) assess if the implemented mating policy was successful in preserving the genetic background of the founders (1 male:3 females) in the present population, and b) improve future management and breeding decisions. Although the maternal contribution of one founder female was lost and the mean inbreeding of the total live population was high (0.305 ± 0.095), the breeding policy applied produced better results than expected from a population starting from four founders. It was successful in keeping the individual increase in inbreeding low (0.047 ± 0.021), and, notably, the inbreeding tended to decrease during the last three decades of the breeding programme, ensuring the viability of this highly inbred population. Historical dissemination of individuals among the zoos of Europe and North America caused population structuring and genetic differentiation of the live North American population. However, it did not risk the viability of the captive population. The average relatedness coefficients allowed the identification of individuals with underrepresented genotypes, which is relevant to plan future mating guidelines to keep the founders' representation balanced in the next generations. This study highlights the importance of keeping long-term pedigree information to monitor changes in the genetic diversity of captive populations, which is crucial to implement optimal mating decisions and assuring their long-term viability within an ex situ conservation programme.
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- Eulalia Moreno
- Departamento de Ecología Funcional y Evolutiva, Estación Experimental de Zonas Áridas (Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas), Carretera de Sacramento s/n, La Cañada de San Urbano, Almería, E- 04120, Spain.
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- Departamento de Producción Animal, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Avda. Puerta de Hierro s/n, Madrid, E-28040, Spain
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- Departamento de Producción Animal, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Avda. Puerta de Hierro s/n, Madrid, E-28040, Spain
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- SERIDA-Deva, Camino de Rioseco 1225, E-33394, Gijón (Asturias), Spain
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- SERIDA-Deva, Camino de Rioseco 1225, E-33394, Gijón (Asturias), Spain
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Marín Navas C, Delgado Bermejo JV, McLean AK, León Jurado JM, Camacho Vallejo ME, Navas González FJ. Modeling Climate Change Effects on Genetic Diversity of an Endangered Horse Breed Using Canonical Correlations. Animals (Basel) 2024; 14:659. [PMID: 38473046 DOI: 10.3390/ani14050659] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/10/2024] [Revised: 02/16/2024] [Accepted: 02/17/2024] [Indexed: 03/14/2024] Open
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The historical increase in the occurrence of extreme weather events in Spain during the last thirty years makes it a perfect location for the evaluation of climate change. Modeling the effects of climate change on domestic animals' genetic diversity may help to anticipate challenging situations. However, animal populations' short life cycle and patent lack of historical information during extended periods of time drastically compromise the evaluation of climate change effects. Locally adapted breeds' gene pool is the base for their improved resilience and plasticity in response to climate change's extreme climatic conditions. The preservation of these domestic resources offers selection alternatives to breeders who seek such improved adaptability. The Spanish endangered autochthonous Hispano-Arabian horse breed is perfectly adapted to the conditions of the territory where it was created, developed, and widespread worldwide. The possibility to trace genetic diversity in the Hispano-Arabian breed back around seven decades and its global ubiquity make this breed an idoneous reference subject to act as a model for other international populations. Climate change's shaping effects on the genetic diversity of the Hispano-Arabian horse breed's historical population were monitored from 1950 to 2019 and evaluated. Wind speed, gust speed, or barometric pressure have greater repercussions than extreme temperatures on genetic diversity. Extreme climate conditions, rather than average modifications of climate, may push breeders/owners to implement effective strategies in the short to medium term, but the effect will be plausible in the long term due to breed sustainability and enhanced capacity of response to extreme climate events. When extreme climatic conditions occur, breeders opt for mating highly diverse unrelated individuals, avoiding the production of a large number of offspring. People in charge of domestic population conservation act as catalyzers of the regulatory changes occurring during breeds' climate change adaptive process and may identify genes conferring their animals with greater adaptability but still maintaining enhanced performance. This model assists in determining how owners of endangered domestic populations should plan their breeding strategies, seeking the obtention of animals more resilient and adapted to climate-extreme conditions. This efficient alternative is focused on the obtention of increased profitability from this population and in turn ensuring their sustainability.
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- Carmen Marín Navas
- Department of Genetics, Faculty of Veterinary Sciences, University of Córdoba, 14071 Córdoba, Spain
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- Department of Animal Science, University of California Davis, Davis, CA 95617, USA
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- Centro Agropecuario Provincial de Córdoba, Diputación Provincial de Córdoba, 14071 Córdoba, Spain
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Arias KD, Gutiérrez JP, Fernández I, Álvarez I, Goyache F. Approaching autozygosity in a small pedigree of Gochu Asturcelta pigs. Genet Sel Evol 2023; 55:74. [PMID: 37880572 PMCID: PMC10601182 DOI: 10.1186/s12711-023-00846-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/27/2023] [Accepted: 10/03/2023] [Indexed: 10/27/2023] Open
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BACKGROUND In spite of the availability of single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) array data, differentiation between observed homozygosity and that caused by mating between relatives (autozygosity) introduces major difficulties. Homozygosity estimators show large variation due to different causes, namely, Mendelian sampling, population structure, and differences among chromosomes. Therefore, the ascertainment of how inbreeding is reflected in the genome is still an issue. The aim of this research was to study the usefulness of genomic information for the assessment of genetic diversity in the highly endangered Gochu Asturcelta pig breed. Pedigree depth varied from 0 (founders) to 4 equivalent discrete generations (t). Four homozygosity parameters (runs of homozygosity, FROH; heterozygosity-rich regions, FHRR; Li and Horvitz's, FLH; and Yang and colleague's FYAN) were computed for each individual, adjusted for the variability in the base population (BP; six individuals) and further jackknifed over autosomes. Individual increases in homozygosity (depending on t) and increases in pairwise homozygosity (i.e., increase in the parents' mean) were computed for each individual in the pedigree, and effective population size (Ne) was computed for five subpopulations (cohorts). Genealogical parameters (individual inbreeding, individual increase in inbreeding, and Ne) were used for comparisons. RESULTS The mean F was 0.120 ± 0.074 and the mean BP-adjusted homozygosity ranged from 0.099 ± 0.081 (FLH) to 0.152 ± 0.075 (FYAN). After jackknifing, the mean values were slightly lower. The increase in pairwise homozygosity tended to be twofold higher than the corresponding individual increase in homozygosity values. When compared with genealogical estimates, estimates of Ne obtained using FYAN tended to have low root-mean-squared errors. However, Ne estimates based on increases in pairwise homozygosity using both FROH and FHRR estimates of genomic inbreeding had lower root-mean-squared errors. CONCLUSIONS Parameters characterizing homozygosity may not accurately depict losses of variability in small populations in which breeding policy prohibits matings between close relatives. After BP adjustment, the performance of FROH and FHRR was highly consistent. Assuming that an increase in homozygosity depends only on pedigree depth can lead to underestimating it in populations with shallow pedigrees. An increase in pairwise homozygosity computed from either FROH or FHRR is a promising approach for characterizing autozygosity.
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- Katherine D Arias
- Área de Genética y Reproducción Animal, SERIDA-Deva, Camino de Rioseco 1225, 33394, Gijón, Spain
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- Departamento de Producción Animal, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Avda. Puerta de Hierro S/N, 28040, Madrid, Spain
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- Área de Genética y Reproducción Animal, SERIDA-Deva, Camino de Rioseco 1225, 33394, Gijón, Spain
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- Área de Genética y Reproducción Animal, SERIDA-Deva, Camino de Rioseco 1225, 33394, Gijón, Spain
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- Área de Genética y Reproducción Animal, SERIDA-Deva, Camino de Rioseco 1225, 33394, Gijón, Spain.
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Managing genetic diversity in pig populations: implications of optimal contribution selection in the Black Slavonian pig. ITALIAN JOURNAL OF ANIMAL SCIENCE 2022. [DOI: 10.1080/1828051x.2022.2104661] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/16/2022]
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Ojeda-Marín C, Cervantes I, Moreno E, Goyache F, Gutiérrez JP. Breeding Strategies to Optimize Effective Population Size in Low Census Captive Populations: The Case of Gazella cuvieri. Animals (Basel) 2021; 11:ani11061559. [PMID: 34071810 PMCID: PMC8226440 DOI: 10.3390/ani11061559] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/09/2021] [Revised: 05/21/2021] [Accepted: 05/24/2021] [Indexed: 11/27/2022] Open
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Simple Summary Small-sized populations frequently undergo a significant loss of genetic variability that can lead to their extinction. Therefore, research on animal breeding has focused on mating systems for minimizing the disappearance of genetic variability. Minimizing the average coancestry of offspring has been described as the best strategy for this purpose. Traditionally, the preservation of genetic variability has been approached via breeding strategies for increasing the effective population size (Ne). The main objective of this study was to compare, via computer simulations, the performance of different breeding schemes to limit the losses of genetic diversity in small populations. This objective was achieved by monitoring the evolution of the effective size obtained by different strategies across 20 generations with a starting point of two pedigree real populations of Gazella cuvieri. The results showed that minimizing average coancestry in a cohort did not maximize the effective size as compared with new strategies that were designed for this study. Furthermore, the best strategy may vary for each population and should be studied individually. Abstract Small-sized animal populations can undergo significant loss of genetic variability that can lead to their extinction. Therefore, studies on animal breeding have focused on mating systems for minimizing the disappearance of genetic variability. The main objective of this study was to compare, using computer simulations, the performance of different breeding schemes to limit the loss of genetic diversity in small-sized populations. This objective was achieved by monitoring the evolution of the effective population size obtained by 23 strategies throughout 20 generations in two populations of Gazella cuvieri. The scenarios were designed with different assumptions, in both reference subpopulations, regarding: the use of parents coancestry or offspring coancestry, the use of their increases or the coefficients themselves, and the number of males and females involved. Computations were performed using an experimental module of Endog v4.9 developed for this purpose. The results of the study showed that strategies for minimizing the coancestry of the parents were better in the short term; however, these strategies were worse in the long term. Minimizing the average coancestry of the offspring was a better approach in the long term. Nevertheless, in both populations, the best results were obtained when both the coancestry of the parents and the coancestry of the offspring were weighted at 5% each and neither males nor females were assumed to contribute to the next generation. In any case, not all strategies had the same evolutionary pattern throughout generations in both populations. The current results show that neither traditional nor new strategies have any general use. Therefore, it is important to carefully test these strategies before applying them to different populations with different breeding needs under different conditions, such as different generation intervals, and different natural breeding systems such as monogamy or polygyny.
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- Candela Ojeda-Marín
- Departamento de Producción Animal, Facultad de Veterinaria, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Avda. Puerta de Hierro s/n, E-28040 Madrid, Spain; (C.O.-M.); (J.P.G.)
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- Departamento de Producción Animal, Facultad de Veterinaria, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Avda. Puerta de Hierro s/n, E-28040 Madrid, Spain; (C.O.-M.); (J.P.G.)
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- Estación Experimental de Zonas Áridas-CSIC, 04120 La Cañada de San Urbano, Almería, Spain;
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- SERIDA-Deva, Camino de Rioseco 1225, E-33394 Gijón, Spain;
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- Departamento de Producción Animal, Facultad de Veterinaria, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Avda. Puerta de Hierro s/n, E-28040 Madrid, Spain; (C.O.-M.); (J.P.G.)
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Mariani E, Summer A, Ablondi M, Sabbioni A. Genetic Variability and Management in Nero di Parma Swine Breed to Preserve Local Diversity. Animals (Basel) 2020; 10:ani10030538. [PMID: 32213904 PMCID: PMC7142944 DOI: 10.3390/ani10030538] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/18/2020] [Revised: 03/21/2020] [Accepted: 03/22/2020] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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Simple Summary The Nero di Parma is an Italian pig breed with a peculiar breed history. It originates from a native breed called “Nera Parmigiana”, which, in the beginning of the 20th century, was crossed with highly productive breeds, causing the extinction of the original type in the 1970s. During the 1990s a growing interest for organic products and outdoor farming brought the attention back to the local type and a breed recovery project started to reestablish the original breed. The aim of the study was to investigate the genetic diversity of the Nero di Parma breed to provide further insights for breed conservation and to propose breeding strategies. Abstract Nero di Parma is an endangered swine breed reared in the North of Italy which nowadays counts 1603 alive pigs. The aims of this study were (i) to explore the genetic diversity of the breed at pedigree level to determine the actual genetic structure, (ii) to evaluate the effectiveness of the breeding recovery project and (iii) to potentially propose breeding strategies for the coming generations. The pedigree dataset contained 14,485 animals and was used to estimate demographic and genetic parameters. The mean equivalent complete generations was equal to 6.47 in the whole population, and it reached a mean value of 7.94 in the live animals, highlighting the quality of the available data. Average inbreeding was 0.28 in the total population, whereas it reached 0.31 in the alive animals and it decreased to 0.27 if only breeding animals were considered. The rate of inbreeding based on the individual increase in inbreeding was equal to 7%. This study showed the effectiveness of the recovery project of the breed. Nevertheless, we found that inbreeding and genetic diversity have reached alarming levels, therefore novel breeding strategies must be applied to ensure long-term survival of this breed.
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Menéndez J, Goyache F, Beja-Pereira A, Fernández I, Menéndez-Arias NA, Godinho R, Álvarez I. Genetic characterisation of the endangered Gochu Asturcelta pig breed using microsatellite and mitochondrial markers: Insights for the composition of the Iberian native pig stock. Livest Sci 2016. [DOI: 10.1016/j.livsci.2016.03.013] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Álvarez I, Pérez-Pardal L, Traoré A, Fernández I, Goyache F. African Cattle do not Carry Unique Mutations on the Exon 9 of the ARHGAP15 Gene. Anim Biotechnol 2015; 27:9-12. [DOI: 10.1080/10495398.2015.1053606] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/22/2022]
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Plieschke L, Edel C, Pimentel EC, Emmerling R, Bennewitz J, Götz KU. A simple method to separate base population and segregation effects in genomic relationship matrices. Genet Sel Evol 2015; 47:53. [PMID: 26100390 PMCID: PMC4476209 DOI: 10.1186/s12711-015-0130-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/18/2014] [Accepted: 05/27/2015] [Indexed: 12/31/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND Genomic selection and estimation of genomic breeding values (GBV) are widely used in cattle and plant breeding. Several studies have attempted to detect population subdivision by investigating the structure of the genomic relationship matrix G. However, the question of how these effects influence GBV estimation using genomic best linear unbiased prediction (GBLUP) has received little attention. METHODS We propose a simple method to decompose G into two independent covariance matrices, one describing the covariance that results from systematic differences in allele frequencies between groups at the pedigree base (G A (*) ) and the other describing genomic relationships (G S) corrected for these differences. Using this decomposition and Fst statistics, we examined whether observed genetic distances between genotyped subgroups within populations resulted from the heterogeneous genetic structure present at the base of the pedigree and/or from breed divergence. Using this decomposition, we tested three models in a forward prediction validation scenario on six traits using Brown Swiss and dual-purpose Fleckvieh cattle data. Model 0 (M0) used both components and is equivalent to the model using the standard G-matrix. Model 1 (M1) used G S only and model 2 (M2), an extension of M1, included a fixed genetic group effect. Moreover, we analyzed the matrix of contributions of each base group (Q) and estimated the effects and prediction errors of each base group using M0 and M1. RESULTS The proposed decomposition of G helped to examine the relative importance of the effects of base groups and segregation in a given population. We found significant differences between the effects of base groups for each breed. In forward prediction, differences between models in terms of validation reliability of estimated direct genomic values were small but predictive power was consistently lowest for M1. The relative advantage of M0 or M2 in prediction depended on breed, trait and genetic composition of the validation group. Our approach presents a general analogy with the use of genetic groups in conventional animal models and provides proof that standard GBLUP using G yields solutions equivalent to M0, where base groups are considered as correlated random effects within the additive genetic variance assigned to the genetic base.
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- Laura Plieschke
- Bavarian State Research Center for Agriculture, Institute of Animal Breeding, Prof.-Dürrwaechter-Platz 1, 85586, Poing-Grub, Germany.
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- Bavarian State Research Center for Agriculture, Institute of Animal Breeding, Prof.-Dürrwaechter-Platz 1, 85586, Poing-Grub, Germany.
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- Bavarian State Research Center for Agriculture, Institute of Animal Breeding, Prof.-Dürrwaechter-Platz 1, 85586, Poing-Grub, Germany.
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- Bavarian State Research Center for Agriculture, Institute of Animal Breeding, Prof.-Dürrwaechter-Platz 1, 85586, Poing-Grub, Germany.
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- Institute of Animal Husbandry and Breeding, University Hohenheim, Garbenstraße 17, 70599, Stuttgart, Germany.
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- Bavarian State Research Center for Agriculture, Institute of Animal Breeding, Prof.-Dürrwaechter-Platz 1, 85586, Poing-Grub, Germany.
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Delgado J, De Andrés N, Valera M, Gutiérrez J, Cervantes I. Assessment of population structure depending on breeding objectives in Spanish Arabian horse by genealogical and molecular information. Livest Sci 2014. [DOI: 10.1016/j.livsci.2014.07.012] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/24/2022]
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Korrida A, Gutiérrez JP, Aggrey SE, Amin-Alami A. Genetic variability characterization of the Moroccan Houbara Bustard (Chlamydotis undulata undulata) inferred from pedigree analysis. Zoo Biol 2012; 32:366-73. [PMID: 22753080 DOI: 10.1002/zoo.21030] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/01/2012] [Revised: 05/18/2012] [Accepted: 05/25/2012] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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A Moroccan Houbara Bustard pedigree was analyzed to evaluate the genetic variability in captive breeding population using genealogical approaches. The whole Houbara breeding flock (WP) for the period 1993-2004 was made up of 531 birds comprising 346 females and 185 males. The reference population (RP) comprised 198 individuals ready for reproduction from 2000 to 2004 cohorts. The corresponding percentage of known ancestors was estimated as 98.23% for the parent generation, 41.19% for the grandparent generation and 7.00% for the great grandparents generation. The average generation interval for Houbara was computed as 4.64 years. Genetic variability loss per generation was ascertained using the effective population size (Ne), the founder genome equivalent (fge), the effective number of ancestors and founders (fa) and (fe), respectively, for the RP and across each cohort. The results showed no bottleneck events in the breed but some loss of genetic variability just after the initiation of the conservation program. However, the annual effective population size based on the realized increase in inbreeding (ΔF) was estimated to be 207 for the RP and 1,000 for the WP. With regard to conservation breeding schemes, the genealogical evidence presented here is very useful as it revealed the positive effect of migration on Houbara breeding. The mating strategies will assist in the future control and management of the genetic variability of this population.
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- Amal Korrida
- Laboratoire des Substances Naturelles, Département de Chimie, Faculté des Sciences d'Agadir, Université Ibn Zohr, Agadir, Morocco.
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Álvarez I, Fernández I, Lorenzo L, Payeras L, Cuervo M, Goyache F. Founder and present maternal diversity in two endangered Spanish horse breeds assessed via pedigree and mitochondrial DNA information. J Anim Breed Genet 2012; 129:271-9. [PMID: 22775259 DOI: 10.1111/j.1439-0388.2012.00995.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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Pedigree information and 179 mtDNA sequences from two endangered Spanish horse breeds, the Asturcón pony (143) and the Mallorquí horse (36), were analysed to asses: (i) the pedigree and molecular maternal genetic diversity of the two breeds; (ii) the concordance between the dam lines recorded in the corresponding studbooks and the mtDNA haplotypes identified; and (iii) to assess the losses of maternal genetic variability occurred from the foundation of the studbooks to present. Up to 50 Asturcón and 18 Mallorquí founder dam lines were identified in the studbooks analysed. Up to 315 Asturcón mares and 51 Mallorquí mares that foaled in the last 5 years of recording formed a reference population. Only 35 Asturcón and 13 Mallorquí founder dam lines were represented in their reference populations. Sequences from a total of 38 Asturcón and 12 Mallorquí dam lines could be obtained. The 179 sequences obtained gave 15 different haplotypes, 11 and 9 of them being identified, respectively, in the Asturcón pony and in the Mallorquí horse. Five different haplotypes (roughly two-thirds of the sequences) were shared by the two horse breeds. Most dam lines analysed had a single mtDNA haplotype. However, more than one haplotype was detected within eight of the dam lines in Asturcón pony. The found inconsistencies are likely to result from deficiencies in genebank management. The maternal N(e) (mN(e)) computed using the dam line information was higher in the Asturcón pony (20.5) than in the Mallorquí horse (15.9), while these figures were on the opposite direction for the haplotypic line information (6.4 and 9.4, respectively). The ratio of the computed mN(e) values to the actual number of founder dam lines were always higher in the Mallorquí horse probably due to a more balanced distribution of individuals kept for reproduction among studs. Consequences for the conservation programmes of the analysed breeds are discussed.
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Gómez M, Azor P, Alonso M, Jordana J, Valera M. Morphological and genetic characterization of Spanish heavy horse breeds: Implications for their conservation. Livest Sci 2012. [DOI: 10.1016/j.livsci.2011.10.013] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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Lidder P, Sonnino A. Biotechnologies for the management of genetic resources for food and agriculture. ADVANCES IN GENETICS 2012; 78:1-167. [PMID: 22980921 DOI: 10.1016/b978-0-12-394394-1.00001-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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In recent years, the land area under agriculture has declined as also has the rate of growth in agricultural productivity while the demand for food continues to escalate. The world population now stands at 7 billion and is expected to reach 9 billion in 2045. A broad range of agricultural genetic diversity needs to be available and utilized in order to feed this growing population. Climate change is an added threat to biodiversity that will significantly impact genetic resources for food and agriculture (GRFA) and food production. There is no simple, all-encompassing solution to the challenges of increasing productivity while conserving genetic diversity. Sustainable management of GRFA requires a multipronged approach, and as outlined in the paper, biotechnologies can provide powerful tools for the management of GRFA. These tools vary in complexity from those that are relatively simple to those that are more sophisticated. Further, advances in biotechnologies are occurring at a rapid pace and provide novel opportunities for more effective and efficient management of GRFA. Biotechnology applications must be integrated with ongoing conventional breeding and development programs in order to succeed. Additionally, the generation, adaptation, and adoption of biotechnologies require a consistent level of financial and human resources and appropriate policies need to be in place. These issues were also recognized by Member States at the FAO international technical conference on Agricultural Biotechnologies for Developing Countries (ABDC-10), which took place in March 2010 in Mexico. At the end of the conference, the Member States reached a number of key conclusions, agreeing, inter alia, that developing countries should significantly increase sustained investments in capacity building and the development and use of biotechnologies to maintain the natural resource base; that effective and enabling national biotechnology policies and science-based regulatory frameworks can facilitate the development and appropriate use of biotechnologies in developing countries; and that FAO and other relevant international organizations and donors should significantly increase their efforts to support the strengthening of national capacities in the development and appropriate use of pro-poor agricultural biotechnologies.
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- Preetmoninder Lidder
- Office of Knowledge Exchange, Research and Extension, Research and Extension Branch, Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO), Viale delle Terme di Caracalla, Rome, Italy
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- Office of Knowledge Exchange, Research and Extension, Research and Extension Branch, Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO), Viale delle Terme di Caracalla, Rome, Italy
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Computing effective population size from molecular data: The case of three rare Spanish ruminant populations. Livest Sci 2011. [DOI: 10.1016/j.livsci.2010.12.027] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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Paiva SR, Facó O, Faria DA, Lacerda T, Barretto GB, Carneiro PLS, Lobo RNB, McManus C. Molecular and pedigree analysis applied to conservation of animal genetic resources: the case of Brazilian Somali hair sheep. Trop Anim Health Prod 2011; 43:1449-57. [DOI: 10.1007/s11250-011-9873-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 04/12/2011] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Goyache F, Álvarez I, Fernández I, Pérez-Pardal L, Royo LJ, Lorenzo L. Usefulness of molecular-based methods for estimating effective population size in livestock assessed using data from the endangered black-coated Asturcón pony1. J Anim Sci 2011; 89:1251-9. [DOI: 10.2527/jas.2010-3620] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Assessing diversity losses due to selection for coat colour in the endangered bay-Asturcón pony using microsatellites. Livest Sci 2011. [DOI: 10.1016/j.livsci.2010.07.007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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Armstrong E, Leizagoyen C, Martínez A, González S, Delgado J, Postiglioni A. Genetic structure analysis of a highly inbred captive population of the African antelope Addax nasomaculatus. Conservation and management implications. Zoo Biol 2010; 30:399-411. [DOI: 10.1002/zoo.20341] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/04/2010] [Revised: 05/20/2010] [Accepted: 07/02/2010] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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Álvarez I, Gutiérrez J, Royo L, Fernández I, Goyache F. Quantifying diversity losses due to selection for scrapie resistance in three endangered Spanish sheep breeds using microsatellite information. Prev Vet Med 2009; 91:172-8. [PMID: 19625092 DOI: 10.1016/j.prevetmed.2009.06.008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/02/2008] [Revised: 06/01/2009] [Accepted: 06/21/2009] [Indexed: 10/20/2022]
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Álvarez∗ I, Traoré∗ A, Tamboura HH, Kaboré A, Royo LJ, Fernández I, Ouédraogo-Sanou G, Sawadogo L, Goyache F. Microsatellite Analysis Characterizes Burkina Faso as a Genetic Contact Zone Between Sahelian and Djallonké Sheep. Anim Biotechnol 2009; 20:47-57. [PMID: 19370454 DOI: 10.1080/10495390902786926] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/20/2022]
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Li MH, Strandén I, Kantanen J. Genetic diversity and pedigree analysis of the Finnsheep breed. J Anim Sci 2009; 87:1598-605. [PMID: 19122044 DOI: 10.2527/jas.2008-0848] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
Abstract
Genetic diversity in the Finnsheep breed was analyzed by quantifying the demographic trends, the depth of known pedigree, effective population size, and the amount of inbreeding, as well as identifying candidate rams within the current population for future breeding and conservation purposes. Pedigree records of 148,833 animals with a pedigree completeness coefficient > or =0.60 and born from 1989 to 2006 were used to estimate the parameters. Mean inbreeding coefficient increased by 0.10% (P < 0.001) and 0.15% (P < 0.001) per annum in all animals and breeding (i.e., reproducing) animals, respectively. Average relationship coefficients among rams, among ewes, and between rams and ewes in breeding animals increased over time and reached 1.67, 1.45, and 1.46% in the 2005 cohort, respectively. The average for breeding rams was above the other 2 averages in almost all birth years. The observed generally low average relationship coefficients between rams and ewes indicate that no extra restrictions on the use of the breeding animals are needed in the near future. Average generation interval was 2.85 yr in the studied period, and the effective population size was estimated to be 119 and 122 using different methods. Relationship coefficients of rams with other breeding rams and rams with breeding ewes are suggested to aid in situ and ex situ conservation decisions on maintaining genetic diversity of Finnsheep.
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- M-H Li
- Biotechnology and Food Research, MTT Agrifood Research Finland, FI-31600 Jokioinen, Finland
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Legaz E, Álvarez I, Royo L, Fernández I, Gutiérrez J, Goyache F. Genetic relationships between Spanish Assaf (Assaf.E) and Spanish native dairy sheep breeds. Small Rumin Res 2008. [DOI: 10.1016/j.smallrumres.2008.09.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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