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Journal of Animal Science, Vol 78, Issue 5 1191-1198, Copyright © 2000 by American Society of Animal Science

JOURNAL ARTICLE

Impacts of an endophyte-infected fescue seed diet on traits of mouse lines divergently selected for response to that same diet

C. R. Wagner, T. M. Howell, W. D. Hohenboken and D. J. Blodgett
Department of Animal and Poultry Sciences, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg 24061-0306, USA.

In previous work, mouse lines were selected for eight generations for resistance (R) or susceptibility (S) to endophyte-infected fescue toxicosis using depression in postweaning gain caused by a toxin-containing diet as the selection criterion. Characterizing biological changes associated with resistance or susceptibility in those mice might suggest genetic or therapeutic approaches to alleviate fescue toxicosis in cattle. The first objective of the current experiment was to determine whether the toxin-containing diet depressed reproduction and mature size more severely in S than in R mice. The second was to investigate line and diet effects on hepatic glutathione-S-epoxytransferase (GST) and uridine diphosphate glucuronosyl-transferase (UDPGT) activities and to relate enzyme activities to reproduction within line by diet groups. Twenty-eight pairs per line (S or R) x diet (toxin-containing [+] or toxin-absent [-]) group cohabitated for 36 wk. The + diet depressed the number of pups born and weaned and litter weight weaned (P < .01) within the first two litters produced. Diet effects were greatest early in the experiment. Percentage changes in reproduction caused by the + diet for R and S pairs, respectively, were -13 and -28 for total pups born, -10 and -25 for total pups weaned, -13 and -14 for total litters produced, and -30 and -42 for total litter weight weaned. The S line mice were heavier than R line mice on both diets, but the + diet had a larger depressing effect on mature size of S line than of R line males (line x diet interaction, P = .09) and females (interaction not significant). Averaged across diets, GST activity was higher in R than in S dams (P = .05) at 44 wk of age but was not affected by diet or line x diet. Activity of GST was correlated with number of pups born (-.50), number of litters produced (-.44), and survival percentage (.40) within the R- group; in the R+ group, GST activity was correlated only with survival percentage (.37). In the S- and S+ groups, GST activity was not correlated with any reproductive trait. Line, diet, and their interaction did not affect UDPGT activity, and UDPGT activity was not correlated with any reproductive trait in any line x diet group. Selected lines differed in response to a toxin-containing diet as measured by its effect on reproduction and mature size. The R and S mice also differed in GST activity, but GST activity was correlated with reproductive traits only in R-line mice.


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