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| Author(s): |
Weruska Karyna Freitas Santos Biase
Total Authors: 1
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| Document type: | Master's Dissertation |
| Press: | Pirassununga. |
| Institution: | Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Faculdade de Zootecnica e Engenharia de Alimentos (FZE/BT) |
| Defense date: | 2008-06-09 |
| Examining board members: |
Flávio Vieira Meirelles;
Júlio Cesar de Carvalho Balieiro;
Luciana Correia de Almeida Regitano
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| Advisor: | Flávio Vieira Meirelles |
| Abstract | |
Brazil is the country with the biggest number of ovum pick up (OPU) collection for bovine in vitro embryo production. This strategy is used to increase the number of calves born per cow per year. The objective of this work was to identify polymorphisms in genes related in folliculogenesis and associate some of the resulted gene variants with the number of pre antral follicle recruited in bovines, estimated by the number of oocytes collected by OPU. Records of open filed OPUs performed in Nelore cows (Bos taurus indicus) were obtained from two independent enterprises, and 30 females were used for single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) prospection, 218 females for genotype and allelic population analysis and 193 females used for identification of genetic variation effects over the number of viable oocytes collected by OPU. Twenty Holstein cows (Bos taurus taurus) were also genotyped for identification of taurine and zebuine specific alleles. Segments of genes Gdf9, Fgf8, Fgf10 and BmprII were amplified by polymerase chain reaction (PCR) and sequenced for SNP prospection. Four polymorphisms were genotyped by means of enzymatic DNA digestion (PCR-RFLP, genes: Gdf9, Fgf8, Lhr and mitochondrial DNA - mtDNA) or real time PCR using allelic specific probes (Gene: BmprII). Genetic marker effect over the analyzed characteristic was realized by analysis of variance using mixed models with repeated data, in which the number of viable oocytes were set as dependent variable, the females were considered random variable, OPU place, OPU year and SNP were fixed effects. The same model was used for average allelic substitution effect estimation, where the genetic marker class was changed by a numeric covariant. The least square means (LSM) differences were estimated by contrasts and the significance evaluated by t test. Fixed effects or LSMs differences were considered significant when P<0.05. Nineteen SNPs were identified, from which ten were polymorphic among Nelore cows, four were expected to cause amino acid changes in protein. Among the nuclear genome markers genotyped (Gdf9, A318C; Fgf8, C1027G; BmprII, A40048G; Lhr C62478T, all resulted in allelic segregation equilibrium within marker and genotypic segregation equilibrium between markers (P>0.05). The SNPs in genes Gdf9, BmprII and Lhr genotyped in Nelore and Holstein cows were fixed in the last breed. SNPs in genes Gdf9, Fgf8, BmprII and Lhr affected the characteristic (P<0.05), however the mtDNA variants did not. The LSMs differences confirmed the ANOVA results. Heterozygote females for SNPs in genes Gdf9, BmprII and Lhr tend to have smaller LSMs than homozygous ones. On the other hand, there is indication of additive allelic interaction between alleles of SNP in gene Fgf8, for which an average allele substitution was estimated in 1.13±0.01 viable oocytes for a C/G change. We concluded that genetic variations were responsible for variable number of follicles present in ovaries, estimated by OPU. (AU) | |