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For Peer Review Only Italian Journal of Animal Science For Peer Review Only Genome -wide characterization of local cattle breeds from central and western Mediterranean Journal: Italian Journal of Animal Science Manuscript ID TJAS-2017-0356 Manuscript Type: Abstract Submission Date Submitted by the Author: 28-Feb-2017 Complete List of Authors: MASTRANGELO, Salvatore; Universita degli Studi di Palermo, Scienze Agrarie e Forestali Ben Jemaa, Slim; Institut National de Recherche Agronomique de Tunis Ourida, Rahel; Universite Abou Bekr Belkaid Tlemcen Marras, Gabriele; Parco Tecnologico Padano Landi, Vincenzo; Universidad de Cordoba, GENETICA Pilla, Fabio; Universita degli Studi del Molise, Dipartimento Agricoltura, Ambiente e Alimenti Lucchini, Rosaria; IZS delle Venezie Simcic, Mojca; Univerza v Ljubljani medugorac, ivica; LMU rocha, dominique; INRA Marroni, Fabio; UNIUDINE Bahbahani, Hussain; University of Kuwait Valentini, Alessio; Università della Tuscia Ajmone-Marsan, Paolo; Università Cattolica Sacro Cuore Decker, Jared; University of Missouri Ciani, Elena; Universita degli Studi di Bari Aldo Moro, Following-up on previous studies that investigated genetic relationships Abstract: among several world-wide cattle breeds using genome-wide SNP data, we focus here on the central and western part of the Mediterranean. Notably, URL: https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/tjas Page 1 of 1 Italian Journal of Animal Science 1 2 3 4 50K genotypes from 30 Marismeña (Spain); 24 Guelmoise (Algeria); 46 5 Brune de l’Atlas Fauve, 15 Brune de l’Atlas Grise, and 15 Blonde du Cap (Tunisia); 29 Modicana and 30 Cinisara (Sicily); 24 Podolica Italiana 6 (Southern continental Italy); 34 Chianina and 24 Romagnola (Central 7 Italy); 23 Modenese, 24 Reggiana, 23 Alpine Grey and 50 Pezzata Rossa 8 Italiana (Northern Italy); 50 Bruna Italiana and 50 Frisona Italiana were 9 considered. When included in a world-wide dataset, the three Tunisian, the 10 Algerian, the two Sicilian, the Podolica, the Chianina and the Romagnola 11 were the taurine breeds showing the highest closeness to the Indian zebu 12 group in the MDS plot of the IBS distance. These results were also 13 confirmed by ADMIXTURE analysis (K = 2). This relatively lower influence of zebu material into cattle breeds from Northern Italy suggests a major 14 For Peermaritime-mediated Review route of dispersal ofOnly zebu material into Southern 15 Europe and Northern Africa. Interestingly, breeds from the Iberian 16 peninsula showed lower evidence of zebu introgression, suggesting that 17 zebu introgression was likely not mediated by Moors, and possibly occurred 18 at earlier times. Clear evidence of more recent introgression of material 19 from improved dairy cattle breeds (Bruna Italiana and Brown Swiss) into 20 the two Brune de l’Atlas populations from Tunisia highlights the need for 21 urgent conservation of this cross-border cattle. 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 URL: https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/tjas Italian Journal of Animal Science Page 2 of 1 1 2 1 Genome-wide characterization of local cattle breeds from central and 3 western Mediterranean 4 2 5 3 6 4 Salvatore Mastrangelo 1, S. B. Jemaa 2, R. Ourida 3, G. Marras 4, Vincenzo Landi 5, Fabio Pilla 6, R. 7 5 Lucchini 7, M. Simčič 8, I. Medugorac 9, D. Rocha 10 , F. Marroni 11 , H. Bahbahani 12 , Alessio 8 6 Valentini 13 , P. Ajmone Marsan 14 , J. E. Decker 15 , E. Ciani 16 9 10 7 8 1DISAF - UNIPA – Italy; 2INRAT, Tunis – Tunisia; 3University of Tlemcen, Algeria; 4PTP, Lodi – 11 5 6 7 12 9 Italy; University of Cordoba – Spain; SAVA - UNIMOL, Campobasso – Italy; IZS delle Venezie, 8 9 10 13 10 Trento – Italy; University of Ljubljana, Slovenia; LMU, Munchen – Germany; INRA, Jouy-en- 14 11 Josas – France;For 11 University Peer of Udine, ITALY; Review 12 Kuwait University, Only Kuwait, 13DIBAF-UNITUS, 15 12 Viterbo, Italy; 14UNICATT Sacro Cuore, Piacenza – Italy; 15 University of Missouri – USA; 16 13 16DBBB-UNIBA - Italy 17 14 18 15 Corresponding author: [email protected] 19 20 21 16 Following-up on previous studies that investigated genetic relationships among several world-wide 22 17 cattle breeds using genome-wide SNP data, we focus here on the central and western part of the 23 18 Mediterranean. Notably, 50K genotypes from 30 Marismeña (Spain); 24 Guelmoise (Algeria); 46 24 19 Brune de l’Atlas Fauve, 15 Brune de l’Atlas Grise, and 15 Blonde du Cap (Tunisia); 29 Modicana 25 20 and 30 Cinisara (Sicily); 24 Podolica Italiana (Southern continental Italy); 34 Chianina and 24 26 21 Romagnola (Central Italy); 23 Modenese, 24 Reggiana, 23 Alpine Grey and 50 Pezzata Rossa 27 22 Italiana (Northern Italy); 50 Bruna Italiana and 50 Frisona Italiana were considered. When included 28 23 in a world-wide dataset, the three Tunisian, the Algerian, the two Sicilian, the Podolica, the 29 30 24 Chianina and the Romagnola were the taurine breeds showing the highest closeness to the Indian 31 25 zebu group in the MDS plot of the IBS distance. These results were also confirmed by 32 26 ADMIXTURE analysis (K = 2). This relatively lower influence of zebu material into cattle breeds 33 27 from Northern Italy suggests a major maritime-mediated route of dispersal of zebu material into 34 28 Southern Europe and Northern Africa. Interestingly, breeds from the Iberian peninsula showed 35 29 lower evidence of zebu introgression, suggesting that zebu introgression was likely not mediated by 36 30 Moors, and possibly occurred at earlier times. Clear evidence of more recent introgression of 37 31 material from improved dairy cattle breeds (Bruna Italiana and Brown Swiss) into the two Brune de 38 32 l’Atlas populations from Tunisia highlights the need for urgent conservation of this cross-border 39 40 33 cattle. 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 URL: https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/tjas.
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