期刊
JOURNAL OF ANIMAL BREEDING AND GENETICS
卷 139, 期 2, 页码 145-160出版社
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/jbg.12651
关键词
ancestral breeds; coat colour; genotypic heterozygosity; population differentiation index; tropical dairy cattle
资金
- Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research (ACIAR), through the project Improving dairy cattle health
The study found that Vietnamese smallholder dairy cows (VDC) are primarily composed of Holstein genetics, but also contain small percentages of Jersey, Brown Swiss, and zebu genes. The genetic makeup of VDC consists of various dairy breeds, making them a good genetic base for selecting high milk-producing cows with some degree of adaptation to tropical conditions.
Vietnamese smallholder dairy cows (VDC) are the result of crossbreeding between different zebu (ZEB) and taurine dairy breeds through many undefined generations. Thus, the predominant breed composition of VDC is currently unknown. This study aimed to evaluate the level of genetic diversity and breed composition of VDC. The SNP data of 344 animals from 32 farms located across four dairy regions of Vietnam were collected and merged with genomic reference data, which included three ZEB breeds: Red Sindhi, Sahiwal and Brahman, three taurine breeds: Holstein (HOL), Jersey (JER) and Brown Swiss (BSW), and a composite breed: Chinese Yellow cattle. Diversity and admixture analyses were applied to the merged data set. The VDC were not excessively inbred, as indicated by very low inbreeding coefficients (Wright's F-IS ranged from -0.017 to 0.003). The genetic fractions in the test herds suggested that the VDC are primarily composed of HOL (85.0%); however, JER (6.0%), BSW 5.3%) and ZEB (4.5%) had also contributed. Furthermore, major genotype groupings in the test herds were pure HOL (48%), B3:15/16HOL_1/16ZEB (22%) and B2:7/8HOL_1/8ZEB (12%). The genetic makeup of the VDC is mainly components of various dairy breeds but also has a small percentage of ZEB; thus, the VDC could be a good genetic base for selecting high milk-producing cows with some degree of adaptation to tropical conditions.
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