Fenomics of fetal programming effects on beef cattle production: a systemic approach

• Grant number: 17/12105-2
• Support Opportunities: Research Grants - Young Investigators Grants
• Duration: March 01, 2018 - February 29, 2024
• Field of knowledge: Agronomical Sciences - Animal Husbandry - Genetics and Improvement of Domestic Animals
• Principal Investigator: Miguel Henrique de Almeida Santana
• Grantee: Miguel Henrique de Almeida Santana
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Zootecnia e Engenharia de Alimentos (FZEA). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Pirassununga , SP, Brazil
• Associated researchers: Heidge Fukumasu ; José Bento Sterman Ferraz ; Paulo Roberto Leme ; Pedro Ratto Lisboa Pires ; Saulo da Luz e Silva
• Associated scholarship(s): 22/07130-6 - Training in the collection, processing and storage of biological samples for omics analysis, BP.TT; 21/03265-1 - Use of systems biology tools to evaluate the effects of fetal programming in beef cattle, BP.DR; 21/03802-7 - Effects of fetal programming of Nellore steers on quality meat and muscle and fat metabolome, BP.MS; + associated scholarships 20/15192-6 - Microbiome and epithelial characterization of beef cattle under fetal programming, BP.MS; 20/15165-9 - Effects of fetal programming on growth of Nellore breed calves, BP.IC; 20/11515-5 - Nutriepigenetics of muscle development in fetal programed beef cattle, BP.MS; 20/12522-5 - Effects of fetal programming on the reproductive efficiency of Nellore heifers, BP.IC; 19/22465-1 - Metabolic evaluation of feed efficiency of finishing Nellore steers, BP.IC; 19/02310-3 - Evaluation of genes and metabolites of sexual, tissue and morphological development of Nellore cattle submitted to fetal programming, BP.MS; 18/20754-3 - Metabolic effects of fetal programming in Nellore dams and calves evaluated by nitrogen isotopic fractionation, BP.IC; 18/10503-3 - Training in the collection, processing and storage of biological samples for omics analysis, BP.TT; 18/05805-0 - Body development of Nelore calves submitted to fetal programming, BP.IC; 18/04188-8 - Fenomics of fetal programming effects on beef cattle production: a systemic approach, BP.JP - associated scholarships

Abstract

Evidences that disturbances in critical phases of pre and postnatal life cause permanent effects on health and productivity in mammalian life, known as Fetal Programming (PF), are not novel in the scientific literature. However, there is a lack of knowledge about the mechanisms of these nutritional stimuli/deficiencies during gestation, especially the quantitative importance of the phenomenon in relation to its effects on the productive efficiency of cattle. In the specific case of Brazil, where the Nellore breed predominates, from the middle third of gestation, there is a nutritional deficit at this time where pastures no longer quali-quantitatively supply the necessary nutrients for the pregnant cow. Additionally, in the final third of gestation, when there is a greater demand of the fetus, the nutritional deficit is aggravated by the dry season. In the present project, the physiological, morphological and economic effects of nutritional stimuli during Nellore gestation on reproduction, performance, intake, feed efficiency, carcass characteristics and meat quality of their progenies will be studied by a systemic approach. We will evaluate 150 pregnant cows from a single bull. During gestation, ⅓ of the matrices will receive protein-energetic supplementation throughout gestation, another ⅓ of matrices only in the final third and ⅓ will not receive this nutritional stimulus. Cows and their offspring will be evaluated in life-cycle beef cattle production by system biology via physiological, morphological and omics methods (nutrigenomics, genomics, transcriptomics, proteomics and metabolomics). In addition, the economic viability of the PF will be evaluated in the sale of the calf at weaning and in the income obtained at slaughter. The results of this project will help to determine the physiological mechanisms of PF throughout the production cycle of beef cattle; as well can pave the way for the development of new evaluation approaches that could positively affect beef cattle production. (AU)

Scientific publications

(References retrieved automatically from Web of Science and SciELO through information on FAPESP grants and their corresponding numbers as mentioned in the publications by the authors)

GEBIM POLIZEL, GUILHERME HENRIQUE; STREFEZZI, RICARDO DE FRANCISCO; CRACCO, ROBERTA CAVALCANTE; FERNANDES, ARICIA CHRISTOFARO; ZUCA, CASSIANO BORDIGNON; CASTELLAR, HENRIQUE HESPANHOL; BALDIN, GEOVANA CAMILA; DE ALMEIDA SANTANA, MIGUEL HENRIQUE. Effects of different maternal nutrition approaches on weight gain and on adipose and muscle tissue development of young bulls in the rearing phase. TROPICAL ANIMAL HEALTH AND PRODUCTION, v. 53, n. 6, DEC 2021. (19/02310-3, 17/12105-2)

CRACCO, ROBERTA CAVALCANTE; BUSSIMAN, FERNANDO DE OLIVEIRA; POLIZEL, GUILHERME HENRIQUE GEBIM; FURLAN, EDISON; GARCIA, NARA PONTES; POIT, DIEGO ANGELO SCHMIDT; PUGLIESI, GUILHERME; SANTANA, MIGUEL HENRIQUE DE ALMEIDA. Effects of Maternal Nutrition on Female Offspring Weight Gain and Sexual Development. FRONTIERS IN GENETICS, v. 12, NOV 23 2021. (20/11515-5, 17/12105-2)

GEBIM POLIZEL, GUILHERME HENRIQUE; FANTINATO-NETO, PAULO; RANGEL, RAISSA BRAIDO; GRIGOLETTO, LAIS; BUSSIMAN, FERNANDO DE OLIVEIRA; CRACCO, ROBERTA CAVALCANTE; GARCIA, NARA PONTES; RUY, ISABELA MODOLO; STERMAN FERRAZ, JOSE BENTO; DE ALMEIDA SANTANA, MIGUEL HENRIQUE. Evaluation of reproductive traits and the effect of nutrigenetics on bulls submitted to fetal programming. LIVESTOCK SCIENCE, v. 247, MAY 2021. (17/12105-2, 19/02310-3)