Optimal and practical strategies to manage an ovulation rate mutation located on the X chromosome in a French sheep breed

Title
Optimal and practical strategies to manage an ovulation rate mutation located on the X chromosome in a French sheep breed
Publication Date
2017
Author(s)
Raoul, Jerome
Bodin, L
Elsen, Jean-Michel
Swan, Andrew
( author )
OrcID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8048-3169
Email: aswan@une.edu.au
UNE Id une-id:aswan
Editor
Editor(s): Laercio Porto-Neto
Type of document
Conference Publication
Language
en
Entity Type
Publication
Publisher
Association for the Advancement of Animal Breeding and Genetics (AAABG)
Place of publication
Armidale, Australia
UNE publication id
une:23374
Abstract
In French sheep breeding programs, several mutations affecting ovulation rate have been discovered. For mutations located on the X chromosome, the optimal management of such genes is still a challenge because nucleus flocks are small compared to Australian or New Zealand ram breeding flocks. A deterministic model was developed, and using sequential quadratic programming methodology, the combination of mating types that maximized the profit across a range of genotype costs was determined. Results show that even if losses of genetic gain were quite high compared to the gain without the major gene, the optimal use of an ovulation rate mutation located on the X chromosome was beneficial. At the current costs, the optimal strategy that gave the maximal profit was based on four different mating types. A strategy based on only the use of carrier females mated to non-carrier males gave similar results to the optimal strategy in terms of profit and genetic gain. This strategy could be adopted by French breeding programs where this kind of mutation segregates.
Link
Citation
Proceedings of the Association for the Advancement of Animal Breeding and Genetics, v.22, p. 49-52
ISSN
1328-3227
Start page
49
End page
52

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