期刊
ANIMAL REPRODUCTION SCIENCE
卷 110, 期 1-2, 页码 139-146出版社
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.anireprosci.2008.01.005
关键词
Sheep; BMP15; GDF9; Prolificacy; Rasa Aragonesa breed
资金
- ANGRA
- DNA Sequencing Service of the University of Zaragoza
- Spanish Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food
Different Mutations in the Bone Morphogenetic Protein 15 (BMP15) and all the Growth Differentiation Factor 9 (GDF9) genes cause increased ovulation rate and infertility in it dosage-sensitive milliner in sheep. They cause increased ovulation rate and twin and triplet births in heterozygotes, and complete primary ovarian failure in homozygotes resulting in total infertility. We are here presenting a novel mutation in the second exon of the ovine BMP15 gene, found in the Spanish breed Rasa Aragonesa. It consists of it 17 bp deletion resulting in displacement of the open reading frame and premature stop codons. As a consequence, nearly 85% of the sequence of the wild type aminoacidic chain in the second exon of the BMP15 pro-protein is modified or suppressed its only the first 45 amino acids are conserved of the 245 original. The mature peptide is lost. The ewes heterozygous for this deletion present very high prolificacy (2.66 lambs/birth) when compared to a mean flock prolificacy of 1.36 lambs. The deletion causes a complete lack of functionality of the second exon of BMP 15. comparable to the effect of premature stop codons in other Mutations. Therefore. homozygous females for the deletion are expected to present primary ovarian failure. DNA sequence analysis of the GDF9 coding regions detected Only it synonymous single Nucleotide Polymorphism (SNP). apparently not linked to changes in prolificacy. (C) 2008 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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