02638naa a2200277 a 450000100080000000500110000800800410001902400270006010000170008724501680010426000090027250000620028152016470034365300240199065300240201465300210203870000150205970000190207470000160209370000180210970000140212770000170214170000160215870000140217477301720218810606132020-03-05       2019    bl uuuu     u00u1 u    #d7 a10.1111/jbg.124242DOI1 aBERTON, M.P.  aGenetic parameter estimates for gastrointestinal nematode parasite resistance and maternal efficiency indicator traits in Santa Inês breed.h[electronic resource]  c2019  aArticle history: Date of Electronic Publication: 2019 jul  aAbstract: Infection with Haemonchus contortus is the most economically important gastrointestinal nematode parasitosis and the most important cause of mortality in sheep production. The aim of this study was to estimate variance components of gastrointestinal parasite resistance traits, maternal efficiency (ME) and ewe adult weight (AW) in Santa Inês breed in tropical conditions. The phenotypic records were collected from 700 animals, belonging to four flocks located south-east and north-east in Brazil. The evaluated traits were as follows: degree of anaemia assessed using the FAMACHA chart (FMC), haematocrit (HCT), white blood cell (WBC), red blood cell (RBC), haemoglobin (HGB), platelets (PLT), faecal egg count (EPGlog ), ME, metabolic maternal efficiency (MME), AW and metabolic ewe adult weight (MAW). From the 700 animals, 576 (82% of the evaluated population) were genotyped with the Ovine SNP12k BeadChip (Illumina, Inc.). Markers with unknown genomic position, located on sex chromosomes, monomorphic, with minor allele frequency <0.05, call rate <90% and with excess heterozygosity were excluded. The variance components were estimated using a single-trait animal model with ssGBLUP procedure. The correlation between the parasite's resistance indicators and the ME suggested that selecting animals with both higher adult weight and ME will also favour the selection of animals with better resistance to gastrointestinal nematodes parasites, specially H. contortus. Therefore, since there are few or no studies with Santa Inês breed in this area, it is important to study those traits to better manage selection programs.  aMATERNAL EFFICIENCY  aPARASITE RESISTANCE  aSANTA INES BREAD1 aSILVA, R.P1 aCARVALHO, F.E.1 aCHIAIA HLJ.1 aOLIVEIRA, PS.1 aELER, JP.1 aBANCHERO, G.1 aFERRAZ, JBS1 aBALDI, F.  tJournal Of Animal Breeding And Genetics = Zeitschrift Fur Tierzuchtung Und Zuchtungsbiologie 2019 Nov, Vol. 136 (6), p. 495-504. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/jbg.12424