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Brazilian pig population is made up of several naturalized breeds; among them the Piau breed is known for its rusticity and large fat stores. The naturalized breeds, in comparison with commercial ones, may have an increased resistance to diseases circulating in their territory. Thus, this study aimed to verify if there are differences between the serologic profile against Porcine circovirus 2 (PCV2) of Piau pigs and that of a commercial breed from a farm naturally infected by PCV2. The serum viral load was measured by qPCR, and levels of anti-PCV2 antibodies were measured by ELISA. The results showed that the serum viral load was similar across all animals. However, Piau piglets showed higher levels of antibodies compared to commercial piglets (P= 0.05), while sows of the commercial breed showed higher levels than the Piau breed (P< 0.01). There was not a statistical difference between pigs of different production stages in the seroprevalence of PCV2 or the blood viral load. This work demonstrates that, with regard to a natural PCV2 infection, the Piau breed has a different humoral immune response compared to the response developed by the commercial pigs. The results support the importance of conservation of native breeds. RESUMO O rebanho de suínos brasileiro é constituído por diversas raças naturalizadas, entre elas a raça Piau, que é conhecida por sua rusticidade e pela grande deposição de toucinho. As raças naturalizadas, em comparação com as linhagens comerciais, podem ter uma maior resistência a doenças que circulam em seu território. Dessa forma, o presente estudo teve como objetivo verificar se existem diferenças no perfil sorológico contra o Porcine circovirus 2 (PVC2) entre suínos da raça Piau e de uma linhagem comercial de uma granja naturalmente infectada pelo PCV2. Foram realizadas mensurações da carga viral sérica por qPCR e dos níveis de anticorpos anti-PCV2 por meio da técnica de ELISA. Os resultados mostraram que a carga viral sérica se manteve homogênea em todos os animais e que os leitões da raça Piau apresentaram níveis de anticorpos superiores em comparação com os leitões da linhagem comercial (P=0,05), enquanto as porcas de linhagem comercial apresentaram níveis superiores aos da raça Piau (P

Using principal component analysis, records of 435 animals from an F2 swine population were used to identity independent and informative variables of economically important performance. The following performance traits were recorded: litter size at birth (BL), litter size at weaning (WL), teat number (TN), birth weight (BW), weight at 21 (W21), 42 (W42), 63 (W63) and 77 (W77) days of age, average daily gain (ADG), feed intake (FI) and feed:gain ratio (FGR) from 77 to 105 days of age. Six principal components expressed variation lower than 0.7 (eigen values lower than 0.7) suggesting that six variables could be discarded with little information loss. The discarded variables present significant simple linear correlation with the retained variables. Retaining variables BL, TN, W77, FI and FGR and eliminating all the rest would retain most of the relevant information in the original data set.Dados de 435 animais de uma população F2 de suínos foram utilizados para avaliar a possibilidade de redução da dimensão do espaço multivariado, por meio da técnica de componentes principais. Foram avaliadas as seguintes características de desempenho: tamanho da leitegada ao nascer (TLN), tamanho da leitegada à desmama (TLD), número de tetos (NT), pesos ao nascer (PN), aos 21 (P21), aos 42 (P42), aos 63 (P63) e aos 77 (P77) dias de idade e ganho médio de peso diário (GPD), consumo de ração (CR) e conversão alimentar (CA) dos 77 aos 105 dias de idade. Seis componentes principais, obtidos a partir da matriz de correlação, apresentaram variância inferior a 0,7 (autovalores inferiores a 0,7), o que sugere seis variáveis para descarte, por apresentarem maiores coeficientes, em valor absoluto, a partir do último componente principal. As variáveis descartadas apresentaram correlação linear simples significativa com as demais. Em razão do grande número de variáveis redundantes, 54,5% delas podem ser eliminadas, sendo recomendada a avaliação de apenas TLN, NT, P77, CR e CA, sem que haja perda considerável da informação.

O objetivo deste trabalho foi avaliar eficiência de modelos de regressão aleatória (MRA) para detectar locus de características quantitativas (QTL) para características de crescimento, em suínos. Utilizou-se uma população divergente F2 Piau x Comercial. A eficiência da metodologia proposta na detecção de QTL foi comparada à da metodologia tradicional de regressão por intervalo de mapeamento. Para tanto, utilizaram-se MRA com efeitos aleatórios poligênicos, de ambiente permanente e de QTL, tendo-se utilizado o enfoque de matriz de covariância ?identical‑by‑descent? associada aos efeitos de QTL. Testou-se a significância dos efeitos de QTL mediante a razão de verossimilhanças, tendo-se considerado o modelo como completo quando houve efeito de QTL, ou nulo, quando não. A comparação entre os modelos foi feita nas posições dos marcadores (seis marcadores microssatélites) e nas intermediárias, entre os marcadores. O MRA detectou QTL significativo na posição 65 cM do cromossomo 7 e, portanto, foi mais eficiente que a metodologia tradicional, que não detectou QTL significativo em nenhum dos fenótipos avaliados. A metodologia proposta possibilitou a detecção de QTL com efeito sobre toda a trajetória de crescimento, dentro da amplitude de idade considerada (do nascimento aos 150 dias). Made available in DSpace on 2014-03-19T23:24:52Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 2013ResendeMapeamentoQLT.pdf: 642387 bytes, checksum: 163f261e8a020ff29deae67afa4a39e8 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2013-09-18

O objetivo deste trabalho foi avaliar a eficiência do método de regressão via componentes independentes (ICR) na estimação de valores genéticos genômicos e dos efeitos de marcadores SNP para características de carcaça de uma população F2 de suínos (Piau x linhagem comercial). Os métodos foram avaliados por meio da concordância entre os valores genéticos preditos e os fenótipos corrigidos, observados por validação cruzada, e também foram comparados com outros métodos geralmente utilizados para os mesmos propósitos, tais como RR-BLUP, PCR e PLS. Os métodos ICR e PCR apresentam resultados similares, mas o método ICR apresenta maiores valores de acurácia. Made available in DSpace on 2014-03-19T23:24:55Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 2013ResendeRegressaoComponentes.pdf: 511760 bytes, checksum: 9a8b7781767cd925c8897aef3d8ac6ff (MD5) Previous issue date: 2013-10-24

Made available in DSpace on 2013-08-12T17:52:52Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2012-04-01 Made available in DSpace on 2013-09-30T19:12:20Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2012-04-01 Submitted by Vitor Silverio Rodrigues (vitorsrodrigues@reitoria.unesp.br) on 2014-05-20T15:30:46Z No. of bitstreams: 0 Made available in DSpace on 2014-05-20T15:30:46Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2012-04-01 The present work aimed to estimate heritability and genetic correlations of reproductive features of Nellore bulls, offspring of mothers classified as superprecocious (M1), precocious (M2) and normal (M3). Twenty one thousand hundred and eighty-six animals with average age of 21.29 months were used, evaluated through the breeding soundness evaluation from 1999 to 2008. The breeding soundness features included physical semen evaluation (progressive sperm motility and sperm vigour), semen morphology (major, minor and total sperm defects), scrotal circumference (SC), testicular volume (TV) and SC at 18 months of age (SC18). The components of variance, heritability and genetic correlations for and between the features were estimated simultaneously by restricted maximum likelihood, with the use of the vce software system vs 6. The heritability estimates were high for SC18, SC and TV (0.43, 0.63 and 0.54; 0.45, 0.45 and 0.44; 0.42, 0.45 and 0.41, respectively for the categories of mothers M1, M2 and M3) and low for physical and morphological semen aspects. The genetic correlations between SC18 and SC were high, as well as between these variables with TV. High and positive genetic correlations were recorded among SC18, SC and TV with the physical aspects of the semen, although no favourable association was verified with the morphological aspects, for the three categories of mothers. It can be concluded that the mothers sexual precocity did not affect the heritability of their offspring reproduction features. Universidade Federal de Viçosa (UFV), BR-36570000 Vicosa, MG, Brazil Fed Univ Espirito Santo UFES, Alegre, Spain UNESP, Fac Vet Med & Anim Sci FMVZ, Botucatu, SP, Brazil Municipal Fdn Higher Educ Braganca Paulista FESB, Braganca, SP, Brazil Univ São Paulo, Coll Anim Sci & Foods Engn, Pirassununga, SP, Brazil AgroPecuaria CFM Ltda, Sao Jose do Rio Preto, SP, Brazil UNESP, Fac Vet Med & Anim Sci FMVZ, Botucatu, SP, Brazil

Skeletal muscle development is a complex process involving the coordinated expression of thousands of genes. The aim of this study was to identify differentially expressed genes in longissimus dorsi (LD) muscle of pigs at 40 and 70 days (d) of gestation (developmental stages encompassing primary and secondary fibre formation) in Yorkshire–Landrace (YL) cross-bred pigs and Piau pigs (a naturalized Brazilian breed), which are two breed types that differ in muscularity. Foetuses were obtained from gilts at each gestational age (n = 3 YL; n = 4 Piau), and transcriptional profiling was performed using the Pigoligoarray microarray containing 20 400 oligonucleotides. A total of 486 oligonucleotides were differentially expressed (fold change (FC) ‡ 1.5; false discovery rate (FDR) £ 0.05) between 40 and 70 d gestation in either YL or Piau pigs, and a total of 1300 oligonucleotides were differentially expressed (FC ‡ 1.5; FDR £ 0.05) between YL and Piau pigs at either age. Gene ontology annotation and pathway analyses determined functional classifications for differentially expressed genes and revealed breed type–specific developmental expression patterns. Thirteen genes were selected for confirmation by qRT-PCR analyses, and expression patterns for most of these genes were confirmed, providing further insight into the roles of these genes in pig muscle development. This study revealed both developmental and breed type–specific patterns of gene expression in foetal pig skeletal muscle, including genes not previously associated with myogenesis. This information will contribute to future pig genetic improvement efforts.

A total of 292 animals from three breeds (Alpine and Saanen dairy breeds, and the Brazilian naturalized breed Moxotó) were genotyped, comprising 276 paternity cases. Statistical analyses were carried out by using TFPGA and CERVUS programs. Heterozygosis ranged from 0.542 (ILSTS005) to 0.825 (INRA006), with an average of 0.717 for all loci. Polymorphic information content (PIC) was 0.676 and 0.542, and combined exclusion probabilities (EP) were 0.999591 and 0.988375 for known and unknown maternal genotypes, respectively. The microsatellite system reveals 10% of paternity misidentification in evaluated registers. Made available in DSpace on 2011-04-09T19:02:02Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 8520.pdf: 44836 bytes, checksum: 3dcfefe013ba4ddd93a03313dfa5588a (MD5) Previous issue date: 2011-02-18