Hunting expressed mammary gland genes related to mastitis in dairy cattle / Descobrindo genes expressos na glândula mamária e relacionados à ocorrência e controle da mastite bovina

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2003

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Brazil is the largest cattle commercial herd in the world, mainly based in zebu (Bos indicus) with lower genetic potential than taurus-derived animals. Molecular genetics brought the possibility of better selection of animals for breeding, which increases production levels. The use of molecular methods for studying genetic variation is especially advantageous for disease resistance because of low herdability and envir onment effects. Selection by means of molecular genetics in dairy cattle can be done before production, for males and females. To identify genes responsible for conferring resistance to Mastitis, the most important cattle disease, we studied one gene from the MHC (Major Histocompatibility Complex). The experiments with this MHC gene (BoLA-DRB3) identified a new allele in cattle, developed a genotyping technique, and estimate allelic frequencies for Dairy Gir cows (Bos indicus). CDNA libraries from mammary gland tissues infected with Staphylococcus aureus were also constructed and characterized. 6,481 ESTs (Expressed Sequence Tags) were deposited in GenBank (http://www.ncbi.nih.nlm.gov/) and TIGR (http://www.tigr.org), being 5,950 from Bos indicus cows, which increased by 20-fold the volume of sequence data from the zebu transcriptome, at the time when this study was conducted.

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cattle gene expression genética molecular bovinos mastitis glândulas mamárias de aminal mastite animal resistência genética animal genome genomas mammary gland expressão gênica molecular genetis

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