Signatures of selection are present in the genome of two close autochthonous cattle breeds raised in the North of Italy and mainly distinguished for their coat colours.

ABSTRACT: Autochthonous cattle breeds are genetic resources that, in many cases, have been fixed for inheritable exterior phenotypes useful to understand the genetic mechanisms affecting these breed-specific traits. Reggiana and Modenese are two closely related autochthonous cattle breeds mainly raised in the production area of the well-known Protected Designation of Origin Parmigiano-Reggiano cheese, in the North of Italy. These breeds can be mainly distinguished for their standard coat colour: solid red in Reggiana and solid white with pale shades of grey in Modenese. In this study we genotyped with the GeneSeek GGP Bovine 150k single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) chip almost half of the extant cattle populations of Reggiana (n = 1109 and Modenese (n = 326) and used genome-wide information in comp

SUBMITTER: Bertolini F 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9300179 | biostudies-literature | 2022 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature