Genetic and environmental factors affecting ultrasound measures of longissimus muscle area and backfat thickness in Nelore cattle

The aim of the present study was to evaluate the genetic and environmental factors affecting records of longissimus muscle area (LMA) and backfat thickness (BF) obtained between the 12th and 13th ribs, and rump fat thickness (RF) between the hook and pin bones, measured by real-time ultrasound in Nelore cattle. Also, weight records of 22,778 animals born from 1998 to 2003, in ten farms across six Brazilian states were used. Carcass traits as measured by ultrasound of the live animal were recorded from 2002 to 2004 in 2590 males and females with ages varying from 450 to 599 days. Fixed models including farm, year and season of birth, sex and type of feed effects, and the covariates age of dam (AOD) and age of animal at measurement were used to study the effect of environmental factors on these traits. The genetic parameters for LMA, BF and RF were estimated with two and three-trait animal models with 120-day weights using a restricted maximum likelihood method. All environmental effects significantly affected carcass traits, with the exception of year of birth for BF and RF and AOD for LMA. The heritability estimates for LMA, BF and RF were 0.35, 0.51 and 0.39, respectively. Standard errors obtained in one-trait analyses were from 0.07 to 0.09. Genetic correlation estimates between LMA and the two traits of subcutaneous fat were low (close to zero) and 0.74 between BF and RF, indicating that the selection for LMA should not cause antagonism in the genetic improvement of subcutaneous fat measured by real-time ultrasound.     

天津地区荷斯坦公牛CVM、DUMPS和CN遗传缺陷检测

本文旨在研究天津地区中国荷斯坦公牛脊椎畸形综合征（Complex vertebral malformation,CVM）、尿苷酸合酶缺乏症（Deftciencv of uridine monophospham synchase,DUMPS）和瓜氨酸血症（Citrullinemia,CN）3种遗传缺陷的携带者比率及系谱来源。通过PIRA—PCR和PCR—RFLP方法分别对天津奶牛发展中心参加全国青年公牛联合后裔测定和国家良种补贴项目的110头荷斯坦公牛进行了CVM、DUMPS和CN三种遗传缺陷检测。共发现6头CVM隐性有害基因携带公牛,携带者比例为5．45％,隐性有害等位基因频率为2．72％。经过系谱分析,其中4头CVM携带者均为美国公牛Carlin—MIvanhoeBell的后代,另外2头因系谱不完整而无法查询。未检测到DuMPs和CN隐性有害基因携带者。基于此,我国有必要尽快建立荷斯坦牛隐性遗传缺陷监控体系并进行系谱标注,避免携带公牛进入后裔测定和良种补贴项目,以逐步降低我国奶牛群体中遗传缺陷隐性等位基因频率。     

苜蓿新品系Dy-2006亲缘关系的SSR分析

应用SSR分子标记对苜蓿新品系Dy-2006等6个苜蓿品种(品系)亲缘关系进行了分析.8对SSR引物共扩增出128个位点,106个位点显多态性,多态位点比率82.81%;不同苜蓿品种(品系)SSR多态性百分率存在一定差异,在32.81%～45.31%之间.遗传相似度(F)和遗传距离(D)的变化分别范围在0.9062～0.9689和0.0326～0.0762.聚类分析结果显示,新品系Dy-2006与龙牧801亲缘关系相对较近,与阿尔冈金亲缘关系较远,并与其它供试品种存在一定差异,为一个相对独立的品系.     

Genetic diversity and historic introgression in German Angler and Red Dual Purpose cattle and possibilities to reverse introgression

Recovering native uniqueness has major importance for breeds with historic introgression. The aim of the study was to estimate population genetic parameters for two local red cattle breeds from Northern Germany and to study possibilities to reverse introgression. Genealogical information consisted of 90,783 individuals for German Angler and 187,255 individuals for Red Dual-Purpose cattle breed, with additional information on sex, born, breed, status, and conventional breeding values. It is concluded that the native genetic contribution could be included as an additional trait in the total merit index in order to recover a part of the native genetic background. Native contributions should be estimated in the long term from marker data in order to account for Mendelian sampling. The maintenance of a sufficient genetic diversity of native alleles can be achieved by an advanced OCS with appropriate constraints.     

群体遗传惯性理论与选择极限 续

2 群体遗传惯性与选择极限的理论分析根据群体遗传惯性理论,我们可以把外部力量(主要是选择)对群体的作用力称为选择压(Se-lection Pression,Sp),由这种选择压的作用而引起群体期望能获得的遗传反应称为期望选择反应(Expected Selection Respones,ER),或者简称选择反应(Selection Respones,R)。而把群体实际所获得的遗传值的变化定义为遗传增量(GeneticGain,△G),或称为获得遗传反应(Observed Se-lection Respones,OR)。这样我们就把群体的实际遗传增量定义为选择反应与群体遗传惯性力之差,即:     

Defining the immune response to Ehrlichia species using murine models

Pathogenic bacteria belonging to the family Anaplasmataceae include species of the genera Ehrlichia and Anaplasma. Ehrlichia chaffeensis, first known as the causative agent of human monocytic ehrlichiosis, also infects several vertebrate hosts including white-tailed deer, dogs, coyotes and goats. E. chaffeensis is transmitted from the bite of an infected hard tick, such as Amblyomma americanum. E. chaffeensis and other tick-transmitted pathogens have adapted to both the tick and vertebrate host cell environments. Although E. chaffeensis persists in both vertebrate and tick hosts for long periods of time, little is known about that process. Immunological studies will be valuable in assessing how the pathogen persists in nature in both vertebrate and invertebrate hosts. Understanding the host immune response to the pathogen originating from dual host backgrounds is also important to develop effective methods of diagnosis, control and treatment. In this paper, we provide our perspective of the current understanding of the immune response against E. chaffeensis in relation to other related Anaplasmataceae pathogens.     

偃麦草种质资源遗传多样性的RAPD分析

通过对DNA提取方法及RAPD反应体系进行探讨,建立了适应偃麦草基因组DNA提取的方法及优化的RAPD反应体系。在此基础上,依据Jaccard相似系数,采用UPGMA方法进行聚类,判定32份偃麦草种质材料间的亲缘关系及遗传多样性。结果表明:(1)改良常规CTAB法,即对样品先进行洗涤并提高CTAB含量到3%可提高偃麦草DNA的提取质量。(2)对100条随机引物进行筛选,共筛选出18条多态性高、重复性好的随机引物,以此对32份材料进行PCR扩增,共扩增出264条带,多态性条带为93.7%。(3)以遗传相似系数为依据,对32份偃麦草材料进行聚类分析,在相似系数为0.373处可将供试偃麦草种质资源划分为5大类群。     

凤尾桑及其芽变品系间遗传变异的ISSR分析

利用ISSR引物,从分子水平分析了凤尾桑及其芽变株系的遗传变异。从8个ISSR引物扩增结果来看,3个引物的扩增产物在株系间无差异,从变异株系扩增条带来看,凤尾芽变变异最大。本结果从分子水平证明了芽变株系的遗传结构差异。     

Responses to Selection against Clinical Mastitis in the Norwegian Cattle Population

The genetic trend for clinical mastitis was estimated for Norwegian Cattle, a population in which mastitis resistance has been included in the breeding programme since 1978. More than 1.2 million first-lactation daughters, with clinical mastitis records registered from 1978 to 1995, bred by 2043 sires, were analysed with a linear sire model. For bulls born from 1974 to 1990 a flat genetic trend for clinical mastitis was found. However, bull sires born from 1983 onwards, selected on a breeding goal with increased weight on mastitis relative to milk production, showed consistently larger and favourable selection differentials for mastitis relative to bull sires born earlier, which had an average selection differential of approximately zero. This will influence genetic trend in the population through their sons, which were born from 1990 onwards.     

我国家蚕基因组的最新研究——对家蚕基因组精细图和40个蚕类基因组遗传变异图的解读

2008年12月,西南大学家蚕基因组研究团队宣布了世界上第1张家蚕基因组精细图谱的诞生。家蚕基因组精细图和2003年发布的家蚕基因组框架图相比,具有基因覆盖度高、基因组组装更加完整、基因鉴定更加准确等特点。2009年,该研究团队在家蚕基因组精细图的基础上,选取具有代表性的29个家蚕突变品系和11个不同地理来源的中国野桑蚕品系进行了全基因组重测序与序列比较分析,共获得了29个家蚕突变品系和11个中国野桑蚕地理品系的全基因组序列,绘制完成了世界上第1张基因组水平上的蚕类单碱基遗传变异图谱,同时还发现了驯化对家蚕生物学性状影响的基因组印记,从全基因组水平上揭示了家蚕的起源进化。2009年8月,《Science》杂志发表了西南大学的研究论文"40个蚕类基因组的重测序揭示了家蚕的驯化事件及驯化相关基因",标志着家蚕基因组计划进入一个新的历史阶段。