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Ministério da Agricultura, Pecuária e Abastecimento (Brasil). Empresa Brasileira de Pesquisa Agropecuária (EMBRAPA). Embrapa Pecuária Sudeste (Institutional affiliation from the last research proposal) Birthplace: Brazil
bachelor's at Medicina Veterinária from Universidade Federal do Paraná (1986), master's at Genética e Melhoramento de Plantas from Universidade de São Paulo (1991), doctorate at Genética e melhoramento de plantas from Universidade de São Paulo (1997) and visiting researcher at ARS-USDA.She has been a researcher at the Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation since 1994, and a permanent professor in the Graduate Program in Evolutionary Genetics and Molecular Biology at the Federal University of São Carlos since 1998. Is a member of the standing comitees for Animal Epigenetics and for Microbiome of the International Society for Animal Genetics (ISAG). She has experience in the area of Animal Genetics, with an emphasis on Genomics, working mainly in the mapping of genes for traits of economic interest in cattle raised under tropical conditions. She is currently developing research on the microbiota-host interaction and its implications in genetics and animal breeding. (Source: Lattes Curriculum)
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Hologenome is an evolutionary concept that both the host and its associated microorganisms (microbiota) form a cohesive biological entity known as holobionte, whose interaction affects the development and general fitness of the so-called hologenome, such that it has been considered as an independent level of selection. Particularly in ruminants, in addition to allowing to break down compl…
The São Paulo School of Advanced Science on Hologenomic Data Analysis For Agriculture is a two-week course in host-microbiome multi-omics data analyses and integration, shedding light on the understanding of the hologenome concept and discussing possibilities of application to improving food production and sustainability. Brazilian and foreign speakers, who are considered either reference…
Brazil is one of the leading producers and exporters of beef and its competitive advantage is mainly attributed to the cost of production of Brazilian beef, which is one of the lowest in the world. To increase its importance in the market, one must adapt its meat production to the standards established by external market. Among the quality attributes, tenderness, amount and composition of…
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Brazil has the second-largest commercial cattle herd in the world, estimated at 244 million head. The Nelore breed (Bos indicus) is the most important beef cattle breed in the country, representing alone or in crossbreeds approximately 80% of the national herd, mainly due to its adaptability to the tropical climate and its greater resistance to parasites. Ruminants have a complex function…
The rumen is a digestive structure found exclusively in ruminant animals, responsible for converting low-quality foods such as grass and foliage into high-quality animal proteins such as meat and milk. This transformation is carried out by a complex community of microorganisms, including bacteria, archaea, and eukaryotes. The growing global demand for animal protein has impacted feed prod…
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As Brazilian beef exports grow, the conquest of new markets is becoming more dependent on the quality of the meat of these animals. The intramuscular lipid deposition in cattle determines the superior quality of the product, mainly due to the influence on the flavor and juiciness of the meat. Negative correlations between the amount of fat deposition and the efficiency of feed usage are a…
Nelore (Bos indicus) animals and their crosses. Although these animals are better adapted to the tropical climate, they have meat with less intramuscular fat and tenderness compared to animals of taurine origin. The expression of genes potentially associated with beef quality may present distortions concerning the additive model, a model universally adopted in the predictions of animal ge…
The action of microorganisms harbored in the rumen (the microbiome) and the rumination allows ruminants to obtain nutrients and energy from the consumption of plants. In addition to modulating the health and physiology of animals, the microbiome is responsible for several phenotypes that impact environmental and economic factors. The methane produced in the rumen contributes significantly…
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The concept of hologenome has been explored to elucidate the symbiotic relationship between the microbiome and their host. This symbiotic association is biologically known as holobiont whose interaction affects directly the development and the genetic information of the hologenome. Ruminants has a large compartment, the rumen, where complex polysaccharides found in pastures are broken dow…
International initiatives have been conducted to understand the genome-to-phenome relationship. The Functional Annotation of Animal Genomes (FAANG) is a consortium working to discover basic knowledge of genome function. This initiative generated epigenetics and expression data from various tissues and species that enable the identification of regulatory elements. The allele-specific expre…
The H3K27me3 histone modification (HM) causes gene repression by heterochromatin formation. Even with recent studies aiming to compare the H3K27me3 enrichment between different bovine tissues and conditions, we did not find research focusing on the interaction of this HM and bovine phenotypes. We hypothesize that phenotypes related to diet and digestion can be linked to the variation of H…
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