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- Análise da estrutura genética de populações ovinas churras portuguesasPublication . Santos-Silva, F.; Ivo, R.; Sousa, M. C.; Vicente, António; Carolino, M. I.; Carolino, Nuno; Gama, LuisA diversidade e estrutura genética foram estudadas em seis raças portuguesas do grupo Churro (Badana, Galega Bragançana, Galega Mirandesa, Mondegueira, Churra da Terra Quente e Algarvia), e na raça exótica Assaf, com um conjunto de 20 microssatélites. Os dados foram analisados com a metodologia bayesiana implementada pelo software STRUCTURE. A variabilidade genética observada sugere a existência de quatro populações ancestrais na sua origem. As raças Assaf e Algarvia estão bem identificadas com populações ancestrais distintas, o que resultará do seu distanciamento geográfico relativamente às restantes raças. As outras raças Churras, cuja área de exploração é o Norte de Portugal, mostram um grau de diferenciação reduzido, e resultam de duas populações ancestrais que contribuem em maior ou menor proporção para cada raça, o que indica que provavelmente terá existido fluxo de genes entre estas raças.
- Aplicações da rastreabilidade genética na fileira de produção suínaPublication . Carolino, M. I.; Vicente, António; Gama, Luis
- Caracterização morfológica do porco "Malhado de Alcobaça"Publication . Vicente, António; Pereira, Lisbete; Carolino, Nuno; Carolino, M. I.; Gama, LuisRealizou-se um estudo da população suína Malhado de Alcobaça, com vista à sua caracterização morfológica. Para a caracterização morfológica estudaram-se os pesos dos animais (10 machos e 50 fêmeas) e diferentes medições morfométricas (14 parâmetros relativos a diferentes alturas, larguras e perímetros baseados em grelhas de medição, com diversos instrumentos de medida (craveira, bastão zootécnico, compasso e fita métrica. As variáveis biométricas obtidas foram posteriormente sujeitas a tratamento estatístico. Nas medições e pesagens efectuadas aos animais, o peso adulto desta população, apresentou valores médios de 212kg para fêmeas e 250kg para machos. Relativamente às medições biométricas e aos 14 parâmetros analisados verificou-se uma maior homogeneidade entre os animais, comparativamente ao peso vivo adulto que apresentou o maior coeficiente de variação.
- Genetic diversity in native and commercial breeds of pigs in Portugal assessed by microsatellitesPublication . Vicente, António; Carolino, M. I.; Sousa, M. C.; Ginja, C.; Silva, F. S.; Martinez, A. M.; Vega-Pla, J. L.; Carolino, Nuno; Gama, LuisPopulation structure and genetic diversity in the Portuguese native breeds of pigs Alentejano (AL), Bísaro (BI), and Malhado de Alcobaça (MA) and the exotic breeds Duroc (DU), Landrace (LR), Large White (LW), and Pietrain were analyzed by typing 22 microsatellite markers in 249 individuals. In general, the markers used were greatly polymorphic, with mean total and effective number of alleles per locus of 10.68 and 4.33, respectively, and an expected heterozygosity of 0.667 across loci. The effective number of alleles per locus and expected heterozygosity were greatest in BI, LR, and AL, and least in DU. Private alleles were found in 9 of the 22 markers analyzed, mostly in AL, but also in the other breeds, with the exception of LW. The proportion of loci not in Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium in each breed analyzed ranged between 0.23 (AL) and 0.41 (BI, LW, and Pietrain), mostly because of a less than expected number of heterozygotes in those loci. With the exception of MA, all breeds showed a significant deficit in heterozygosity (F(IS); P < 0.05), which was more pronounced in BI (F(IS) = 0.175) and AL (F(IS) = 0.139), suggesting that inbreeding is a major concern, especially in these breeds that have gone through a genetic bottleneck in the recent past. The analysis of relationships among breeds, assessed by different methods, indicates that DU and AL are the more distanced breeds relative to the others, with the closest relationship being observed between LR and MA. The degree of differentiation between subpopulations (F(ST)) indicates that 0.184 of the total genetic variability can be attributed to differences among breeds. The analysis of individual distances based on allele sharing indicates that animals of the same breed generally cluster together, but subdivision is observed in the BI and LR breeds. Furthermore, the analysis of population structure indicates there is very little admixture among breeds, with each one being identified with a single ancestral population. The results of this study confirm that native breeds of pigs represent a very interesting reservoir of allelic diversity, even though the current levels of inbreeding raise concerns. Therefore, appropriate conservation efforts should be undertaken, such as adopting strategies aimed at minimizing inbreeding, to avoid further losses of genetic diversity.
- SnaPshot based genotyping of the RYR1 mutation in Portuguese breeds of pigsPublication . Carolino, M. I.; Vicente, António; Sousa, C.; Gama, LuisThe porcine stress syndrome or malignant hyperthermia is an inherited autosomic recessive disease, which results in neuromuscular disorders leading to death in homozygous individuals and is associated with deterioration of meat quality. The defect in susceptible animals results from modifications in the calcium release channel or Ryanodine Receptor (RYR1), with a mutation leading to a C to T transition in nucleotide 1843 of the gene. The objective of this work was to develop a method based on analysis of SNPs to detect the mutation described in the RYR1 locus in pigs, and study polymorphisms of the gene in four exotic (Large White, Landrace, Duroc and Pietrain) and three native (Bísaro, Alentejano and Malhado de Alcobaça) breeds of pigs in Portugal. The method was successful in identifying the mutation by analysis of SNPs, and results indicate a high incidence of the mutant allele in Pietrain (0.75) and, to a lesser degree, in Malhado de Alcobaça (0.34) and Landrace (0.28); frequencies in Alentejano, Bísaro and Large White ranged between 0.04 and 0.09. These results suggest the need to establish breeding programs aimed at eliminating the susceptibility allele from those populations.