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Week 7 Mating system - inbreeding and crossbreeding Flashcards

1
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What are the mating strategies on animal performance

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Random mating

Assortative mating

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What are the mating strategies based on pedigree relationship

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  • inbreeding
  • linebreeding
  • outbreeding
  • Crossbreeding
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What is a random mating

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Mating system in which mates are chosen at random. This is done after selecting the best males and females.

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What is assortative mating

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Mated according to their phenotype

There are positive and negative assortative mating

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What is positive assortative mating

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Mate individuals with the similar phenotypes, Mating the best to the best. Worst to the worst

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What is the effect of positive assortative mating

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Increase the amount of variation in the population if we keep both extremes

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What is negative assortative mating

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Mating individual with unlike phenotype.

Mate the best to the worst, can be calling corrective mating and compensatory mating (remove symptoms of one kind.

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What is inbreeding

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Mating of the animals related to each other.

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What kind of inbreeding stretchiest are there?

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Mild inbreeding and intense inbreeding

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What is mild inbreeding

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Involves mating individuals that are not closely related, such as cousins

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What is intense inbreeding

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Mating individuals that are closely related such as sibs, sires and daughters, dams and sons

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What is the effect of inbreeding

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Increase the genotypic frequency

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What is line inbreeding

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Decrease variation within each line

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What is the phenotypic effect of inbreeding

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Uncovers undesirable recessive genes.
-Since inbreeding increases homozygosity, it tends to uncover lethal genes and detrimental genes that have been hidden in the heterozygotes (in the carriers)

Inbreeding tend to see more animals with genetic defects

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Does inbreeding cause genetic defects

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No, it does not create defective genes but uncovers the genes that causes defects that have been hidden in the heterozygotes.
It also uncovers detrimental genes that reduce performance (genes for slow growth)
The phenotypic mean of the population will usually decrease for most traits when inbreeding occurs

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What is the main issue with inbreeding

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Inbreeding depression

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What is inbreeding depression

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The reduction in the population mean that occurs with increase inbreeding.

Reduce performance in fertility.

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Why use inbreeding

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A superior phenotype you want to maintain in the line.
Maintaining a high proportion of the genes of an outstanding ancestor in the herd or flock.

-Inbreeding can also used to help detect and eliminate undesirable recessive genes. (Using sire x daughter mating as a test for undesirable recessive genes .

Increase prepotency

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What is prepotency

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Is the tendency of a parent, most often the sire, to stamp his characteristics on his offspring. It will be more uniform, producing lesser variation of gametes

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What is the causes of inbreeding depression

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If gene action is entirely additive inbreeding will not cause a reduction in the population mean. If the gene is control by the dominant or the epistasis gene, it will not be inherited to the next generation.
As well as overdominance and epistasis

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What is over dominance

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Refers to the situation in which the heterozygotes is superior to either f the homozygotes.

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What is additive gene,

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A phenotype that is express based on two or more genes combination

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What is epistasis

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Depends on maintaining certain favourable combinations of alleles at different loci, inbreeding changes the combination of alleles and case a decline in the population

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What are the degrees of inbreeding, from the most intense to the lease

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  • Selfing
  • full-sib mating or parent-offsprings mating (most intense form of inbreeding in animals)
  • Half-sib, Grandparent-grandoffspringm uncle-niece. (1 generation apart
  • Mating of first cousins
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What is Selfing

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Mate a plant to itself

26
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How do you know the intensity of inbreeding

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Inbreeding coefficient, F.

F represents the increase in homozygosity resulting from mating individuals that are more closely related than the average of the population

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What are the two most common forms of outbreeding

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Outcrossing

Crossbreeding

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What is outcrossing

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The mating unrelated individuals within a breed

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What is Crossbreeding

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The mating of animals from different breeds

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What are the effects of outbreeding

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Reduce homozygosity, increase heterozygosity, decrease prepotency (because it decrease the homozygous loci frequency), increase mean population

Increases the phenotypic uniformity in the first cross between inbred lines

31
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Who uses outcrossing most commonly

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Seedstock producers

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What are the effect of outcrossing

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Continually selecting the best available unrelated sires for use in herd has been responsible for most of the changes occurred in breeds of livestock
Maintain high levels of performance in herds and flocks
Relatively few of the undesirable recessive genes being uncovered

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Who uses Crossbreeding more commonly

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Commercial producers

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What is a breed

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A race of animals within a species that usually have a common origin and similar identifying. Characteristics

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What are the major reason for Crossbreeding

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Breed complementarity

Heterosis or hybrid vigor

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What is breed complementarity

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An improvement in the overall performance of crossbred offspring resulting from crossing breed of different but complementary biological types

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What is heterosis

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An increase in the performance of hybrids over that of purebreds, most noticeably in traits like fertility and survivability

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What does breed complementation involves

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Arrays of traits, crossing maternal breed(those excels in maternal traits of fertility, freedom from dystocia, etc)
With paternal breed (excel in paternal traits such as rate and efficiency of gain, meat quality etc)

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How can heterosis be useful?

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The crossbreds need to be better than either parental breed

40
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What is the heterosis that we get in the crossbred dams called

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Maternal heterosis

41
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Genetic reasons for heterosis

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Dominance
- Good traits tend to be dominant and crossbred get the good traits from each breed.

Over-dominance

  • refers to the situation in which the heterozygotes is superior to either of the homozygotes
  • Crossbreeding increase heterozygosity and the frequency of heterozygotes in the population, therefore the mean of the population will increase.

Epistasis

  • the expression of the genes at one locus depends on the alleles present at one or more other loci.
  • crossing different breed or lines of animals favourable combinations of genes at different loci may be established( may get favourable epistasis combination of genes)
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What is the criteria useful for evaluating different Crossbreeding systems

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-Merit of component breeds
-Hybrid Vigor
-Breed complementarity
Consistency of performance
-Replacement of considerations
-Simplicity
-Accuracy of genetic predictions

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What are the crossbreeding system

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  1. Single cross between 2 breeds
  2. Two breeds rotational cross
  3. Three breed rotational cross
  4. Terminal sire crossbreeding
44
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What is Single Cross between 2 Breeds

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One type of crossbreeding system simply involves a single cross between two breeds
• Mate breed A males to breed B females
• For replacement animals, buy outside purebred A males and purebred B females
– Do not keep any AB crossbred progeny as replacements

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The Disadvantages of Single Cross between 2 Breeds

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Disadvantages
– Whereas this crossbreeding system gives heterosis
in the offspring, do not get any maternal heterosis from using crossbred dams
– This crossbreeding system only uses 2 breeds, so can not get the good traits from any other breeds
– Buying outside animals may increase the probability of introducing diseases into your herd
– Dependency on other producers for good animals to bring into your herd.

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What is Two-Breed Rotational Cross

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There are two breeding pastures
– Replacement females sired by breed A bulls go into
pasture 2 and are mated to breed B bulls for the
remainder of their lifetime
– Replacement females sired by breed B bulls go into
pasture 1 and are mated to breed A bulls for the rest of
their lifetime
• After a period of time, the calves from cows in pasture 1 will stabilize at about 2/3 breed A and 1/3 breed B
– 2/3 of their genes will be derived from breed A and 1/3 will be derived from breed B
• Calves in pasture 2 will eventually stabilize at 2/3 breed B and 1/3 breed A
– 2/3 of their genes will be derived from breed B and 1/3 will be derived from breed A

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what is the advantages of Two-Breed Rotational Cross

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• The producer can use his own replacement females
• Minimizes the possibility of diseases being introduced into the herd
– We get maternal heterosis from using crossbred females, as well as heterosis in the progeny
– It takes into consideration heterosis for fertility and milk production in the crossbred cow, heterosis for livability of the crossbred calf, and heterosis for growth rate in the calf

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What is Three-Breed Rotational Cross

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• Follows the same pattern as in the two-breed rotational cross, except that a third breed is added
• Replacement females sired by breed A bulls go into pasture 2 and are mated to breed B bulls for the rest of their lifetime
• Heifers sired by breed B bulls go into pasture 3 and are mated to breed C bulls for the rest of their lifetime
• Heifers sired by breed C bulls go into pasture 1 and are
mated to breed A bulls for the rest of their lifetime

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what are the advantages of Three-Breed Rotational Cross

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• The producer has complete control over selection and
management of replacement females, since he produces his own replacements instead of buying them
• Get heterosis in both the crossbred progeny and in the crossbred dams
• Gives more maternal heterosis than a two-breed rotation
• A three-breed rotation gives 87% as much maternal heterosis as in the F1 female

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What is Terminal Crossbreeding System

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• This system is also called a rota-terminal crossing system
• 3 breeding pastures and 3 sire breeds are required
• Rotational part of system - Heifers sired by breed A bulls are mated to breed B bulls and vice versa
• Terminal cross - older and poorer females from pastures 1 and 2 are taken to pasture 3 where they are
mated to breed C bulls and all offspring marketed
• The breeds used in the rotational portion of the system should be
comparable in size and milk production to minimize difficult births and to stabilise nutrition and management requirements in breeding pastures 1 and 2
• The rotational portion would involve the youngest cows in the herd
– the yearling heifers, 2-yr olds, 3-yr olds, and maybe the 4-yr olds
• Cows are not mated to the terminal sire breed until they are 4-yr-old
or older when there is less likelihood of calving difficulty
• The terminal sire breed would be one that has good growth and carcass traits, since all of the progeny from the terminal cross are marketed

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Why are heifers from the terminal sire breed not kept as replacement for Terminal Crossbreeding System

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because they are larger in size, have higher energy
requirements, and require more feed. Also, they are out of the older and poorer
cows

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What happen to Steers and poorer heifers for terminal crossbreeding system

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not kept for replacements would also be marketed from

the rotational portion of the system

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What are the advantages for Terminal Crossbreeding System

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• This system allows the producer to produce all of his own replacement females
• It uses crossbred dams
• Get individual heterosis in the crossbred offspring and
maternal heterosis from the crossbred mothers
• This system allows us to take advantage of size
complementarity, we can mate smaller dams to a larger breed of sire
– This system allows us to utilize heterosis, breed complementation, and size complementarity

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Crossbreeding Systems in Practice

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  • Modifications or combinations of one or more of these systems will probably be necessary to fit each individual operation in terms of facilities, management, labour availability, and market
  • A long-term plan should be well thought out before starting a crossbreeding program, crossbreeding will often require more labour and management decisions
  • Crossbreeding is not a cure for poor management and unproductive animals
  • Selection of breeding males and females is just as important as in any other breeding program
  • In order to maximize the performance of the animals in our herd or flock, we need to use selection in conjunction with crossbreeding

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