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Dissection of ancestral genetic contributions to Creole goat populations

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 January 2018

N. Sevane ,
O. Cortés ,
L. T. Gama ,
A. Martínez ,
P. Zaragoza ,
M. Amills ,
D. O. Bedotti ,
C. Bruno de Sousa ,
J. Cañon  and
S. Dunner
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N. Sevane*
Affiliation:
Departamento de Producción Animal, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain
O. Cortés
Affiliation:
Departamento de Producción Animal, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain
L. T. Gama
Affiliation:
CIISA, Faculdade de Medicina Veterinária, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
A. Martínez
Affiliation:
Departamento de Genética, Universidad de Córdoba, Córdoba, Spain Animal Breeding Consulting SL, Cordoba, Spain
P. Zaragoza
Affiliation:
Laboratorio de Genética Bioquímica, Facultad de Veterinaria, Universidad de Zaragoza, Spain
M. Amills
Affiliation:
Department of Animal Genetics, Center for Research in Agricultural Genomics (CSIC-IRTA-UAB-UB), Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Bellaterra, Spain
D. O. Bedotti
Affiliation:
INTA, EEA Anguil “Ing. Agr. Guillermo Covas”, Argentina
C. Bruno de Sousa
Affiliation:
Centro de Ciências do Mar, Instituto de Higiene e Medicina Tropical (UPMM) – UNL, Universidade do Algarve, Portugal
J. Cañon
Affiliation:
Departamento de Producción Animal, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain
S. Dunner
Affiliation:
Departamento de Producción Animal, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain
C. Ginja
Affiliation:
Centro de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Recursos Genéticos (CIBIO-InBIO), Universidade do Porto, Campus Agrário de Vairão, Portugal
M. R. Lanari
Affiliation:
Area de Producción Animal, INTA EEA, Bariloche, Argentina
V. Landi
Affiliation:
Departamento de Genética, Universidad de Córdoba, Córdoba, Spain Animal Breeding Consulting SL, Cordoba, Spain
P. Sponenberg
Affiliation:
Virginia-Maryland Regional College of Veterinary Medicine, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, USA
J. V. Delgado
Affiliation:
Departamento de Genética, Universidad de Córdoba, Córdoba, Spain
The BioGoat Consortium
Affiliation:
Departamento de Producción Animal, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain CIISA, Faculdade de Medicina Veterinária, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal Departamento de Genética, Universidad de Córdoba, Córdoba, Spain Animal Breeding Consulting SL, Cordoba, Spain Laboratorio de Genética Bioquímica, Facultad de Veterinaria, Universidad de Zaragoza, Spain Department of Animal Genetics, Center for Research in Agricultural Genomics (CSIC-IRTA-UAB-UB), Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Bellaterra, Spain INTA, EEA Anguil “Ing. Agr. Guillermo Covas”, Argentina Centro de Ciências do Mar, Instituto de Higiene e Medicina Tropical (UPMM) – UNL, Universidade do Algarve, Portugal Centro de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Recursos Genéticos (CIBIO-InBIO), Universidade do Porto, Campus Agrário de Vairão, Portugal Area de Producción Animal, INTA EEA, Bariloche, Argentina Virginia-Maryland Regional College of Veterinary Medicine, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, USA
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†E-mail: nsevane@ucm.es
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Abstract

Goats have played a key role as source of nourishment for humans in their expansion all over the world in long land and sea trips. This has guaranteed a place for this species in the important and rapid episode of livestock expansion triggered by Columbus’ arrival in the Americas in the late 1400s. The aims of this study are to provide a comprehensive perspective on genetic diversity in American goat populations and to assess their origins and evolutionary trajectories. This was achieved by combining data from autosomal neutral genetic markers obtained in more than two thousand samples that encompass a wide range of Iberian, African and Creole goat breeds. In general, even though Creole populations differ clearly from each other, they lack a strong geographical pattern of differentiation, such that populations of different admixed ancestry share relatively close locations throughout the large geographical range included in this study. Important Iberian signatures were detected in most Creole populations studied, and many of them, particularly the Cuban Creole, also revealed an important contribution of African breeds. On the other hand, the Brazilian breeds showed a particular genetic structure and were clearly separated from the other Creole populations, with some influence from Cape Verde goats. These results provide a comprehensive characterisation of the present structure of goat genetic diversity, and a dissection of the Iberian and African influences that gave origin to different Creole caprine breeds, disentangling an important part of their evolutionary history. Creole breeds constitute an important reservoir of genetic diversity that justifies the development of appropriate management systems aimed at improving performance without loss of genomic diversity.

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Capra hircusIberiaAmericamicrosatellitesgenetic diversity
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animal , Volume 12 , Issue 10 , October 2018 , pp. 2017 - 2026
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© The Animal Consortium 2018 

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