Genic expression to study puberty and fertility in Brahman cattle

• Grant number: 13/12851-5
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships abroad - Research Internship - Doctorate
• Start date: January 10, 2014
• End date: December 16, 2014
• Field of knowledge: Agronomical Sciences - Animal Husbandry - Genetics and Improvement of Domestic Animals
• Principal Investigator: Humberto Tonhati
• Grantee: Gregório Miguel Ferreira de Camargo
• Supervisor: Stephen S. Moore
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Ciências Agrárias e Veterinárias (FCAV). Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP). Campus de Jaboticabal. Jaboticabal , SP, Brazil
• Institution abroad: University of Queensland, St Lucia (UQ), Australia
• Associated to the scholarship: 11/22021-4 - Search of causal polymorphisms in candidate genes previously indicated by genomic analyses and their association with sexual precocity in Nellore heifers, BP.DR

Abstract

Andrological traits are important to be evaluated in animal breeding and genetics programs. Male fertility increases the chance of success in the transmission of the genetic material and they have genetic correlation with female fertility, contributing to the productivity of the production system. However, these traits are not evaluated in animal breeding programs. So, the development of molecular markers that explain part of the variance of the trait helps the genetic evaluation of the sires. The aim of the project is to find causative mutations in candidate regions by GWAS and evaluate their effect in these traits. (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)

DE CAMARGO, G. M. F.; ASPILCUETA-BORQUIS, R. R.; FORTES, M. R. S.; PORTO-NETO, R.; CARDOSO, D. F.; SANTOS, D. J. A.; LEHNERT, S. A.; REVERTER, A.; MOORE, S. S.; TONHATI, H.. Prospecting major genes in dairy buffaloes. BMC Genomics, v. 16, OCT 28 2015. (13/12851-5, 10/20887-1)

FERREIRA DE CAMARGO, GREGORIO MIGUEL; PORTO-NETO, LAERCIO R.; KELLY, MATTHEW J.; BUNCH, ROWAN J.; MCWILLIAM, SEAN M.; TONHATI, HUMBERTO; LEHNERT, SIGRID A.; FORTES, MARINA R. S.; MOORE, STEPHEN S.. Non-synonymous mutations mapped to chromosome X associated with andrological and growth traits in beef cattle. BMC Genomics, v. 16, MAY 15 2015. (13/12851-5)