| Grant number: | 11/22021-4 |
| Support Opportunities: | Scholarships in Brazil - Doctorate |
| Start date: | March 01, 2012 |
| End date: | July 31, 2015 |
| Field of knowledge: | Agronomical Sciences - Animal Husbandry - Genetics and Improvement of Domestic Animals |
| Principal Investigator: | Humberto Tonhati |
| Grantee: | Gregório Miguel Ferreira de Camargo |
| Host Institution: | Faculdade de Ciências Agrárias e Veterinárias (FCAV). Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP). Campus de Jaboticabal. Jaboticabal , SP, Brazil |
| Associated scholarship(s): | 13/12851-5 - Genic expression to study puberty and fertility in Brahman cattle, BE.EP.DR |
Abstract In beef cattle production, the sexual precocity is a trait with a big importance because of the high economic value associated to it, being three times more important, in genetic-economic values, than growth traits. The genetic parameters are interesting, because it has high heritability values, permitting selection. However, in genomic analyses, is difficult to find the balance between applying a conservative or a relaxed threshold model, so new methodologies were proposed to find genes of interest using previous genomic analyses. So, it is proposed to investigate causal polymorphisms in these genes previously indicated as candidates (NCOA2 and TOX) as well as others (JY-1) and establish a possible association with sexual precocity in Nellore heifers. (AU) | |
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