The first Brazilian bovine breed: structure and genetic diversity of the Curraleiro Pe-duro.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The production of animal-based foods from native breeds have a synergistic relationship with the regional culture, the local climate, and mainly the maintenance of alternative genetic resources for a system with a lower environmental impact. Thus the efficiency of conservation and production depends on assessing the variability of these local breeds. In the case of Curraleiro Pé-duro cattle, the most adapted individuals have undergone natural selection over five hundred years in the Brazilian savannas, mating with little or no human interference. The peculiarities of these biomes, where the regional flora is the food base and cattle is raised in extensive areas, likely influenced the genetic composition of the different groups that make up the first cattle breed of Brazi

SUBMITTER: Rocha-Silva M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10103694 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature