Conservation Genomic Analysis of the Croatian Indigenous Black Slavonian and Turopolje Pig Breeds.

ABSTRACT: The majority of the nearly 400 existing local pig breeds are adapted to specific environments and human needs. The demand for large production quantities and the industrialized pig production have caused a rapid decline of many local pig breeds in recent decades. Black Slavonian pig and Turopolje pig, the latter highly threatened, are the two Croatian local indigenous breeds typically grown in extensive or semi-intensive systems. In order to guide a long-term breeding program to prevent the disappearance of these breeds, we analyzed their genetic diversity, inbreeding level and relationship with other local breeds across the world, as well as modern breeds and several wild populations, using high throughput genomic data obtained using the Illumina Infinium PorcineSNP60 v2 BeadChip. Multidi

SUBMITTER: Lukic B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7136467 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature