graduation at Zootecnia from Universidade Estadual Paulista Júlio de Mesquita Filho (1980), master's at Zoothecny from Universidade Estadual Paulista Júlio de Mesquita Filho (1985) and doctorate at Genetics from Universidade de São Paulo (1994). Has experience in Zoothecny, focusing on Genetics and Improvement of Domestic Animals, acting on the following subjects: leite, bufalo, produção de leite, bovinos and nelore. (Source: Lattes Curriculum)
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Buffalo (Bubalus bubalis) are domestic animals of great socio-economic importance, as they are located mainly in developing countries producing meat, milk and work, especially in rice crops, staple food of Asian peoples. In Brazil, these animals stand out in the dairy activity due to the appreciation of mozarella cheese and other products on the market. In animal breeding, the genomic inf…
In Brazil, buffaloes stand out in dairy farming due to profit generated. However, economic losses due to changes in the production and composition of milk, making it less suitable for consumption and processing, are caused by mastitis, an infection of the mammary gland caused by a reaction to metabolic and physiological changes, trauma, or microorganism's invasion. Thus, the objective of …
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Copy Number Variation (CNVs) is a structural variant involving changes in copy number of specific regions of DNA (insertion or deletion). Compared to SNP, CNV may show more drastic effects on gene expression and function. Currently, SNP panels have been commonly used for the detection of CNVs in humans, which is also an interesting option for animals of production, since SNP panels have b…
Longevity is a trait highly related to the profitability of dairy activity. The stayability of a female in the herd mostly depends a lot on its milk yield. Therefore, the selection based on milk yield may indirectly improve longevity. Nowadays, the genomic selection approach has been widely intensified in many livestock breeding programs. This has allowed increasing the accuracy and to re…
Genomic availability tools has led to the identification of loci related to some economic importance traits, however, there are no association between multiracial populations of animals, since individuals are genetically distant, and the linkage disequilibrium between markers and QTL decays what turns hard the application of the Genome-wide Association Study (GWAS). Therefore, this projec…
The lactation curves can be modeled by different mathematical functions (Wood, Brody, Wilmink), which present a reduced number of parameters with biological interpretations, such as the initial yield (parameter a), the ascending phase of the curve (parameter b) and the descending phase of the curve (parameter c). Thus, desirable changes in the shape of the curves can be obtained by consid…
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Lactation curves can be modeled by different mathematical functions that present a small number of parameters with biological interpretations. Thus, desirable changes in the shape of curves can be obtained by considering the estimates of these parameters as phenotypic observations in genetic evaluation statistical models. Given the importance of genomic information, the use of these pheno…
Inbreeding results in progeny with reduced heterozygosity, increasing the risk of inbreeding depression (ID), which reduces the average phenotypic value of traits of economic interest. Estimating the coefficient of inbreeding (F) and ID can support breeding programs, enabling the control and maintenance of genetic diversity and avoiding the effects of ID. The aim of this study is to estim…
Approaches combining different univariate statistics into a unique composite metric are suggested improving the power to discern true selection signatures in population genomic data. Here we proposed the genome-wide scan for selection signatures in Nelore and Angus breeds, applying the 'de-correlated composite of multiple signals' method (DCMS), which gather a total of eight distinct stat…
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