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Journal of Animal Science, Vol 79, Issue 2 366-370, Copyright © 2001 by American Society of Animal Science

JOURNAL ARTICLE

Inbreeding and effective population size of Japanese Black cattle

T. Nomura, T. Honda and F. Mukai
Department of Biotechnology, Faculty of Engineering, Kyoto Sangyo University, Japan. nomurat@cc.kyoto-su.ac.jp

The objective of this research was to estimate the amount of inbreeding and effective population size of the Japanese Black breed using pedigree records from bulls and heifers registered between 1985 and 1997. Inbreeding was quantified by three F-statistics: actual inbreeding, inbreeding expected under random mating, and inbreeding due to population subdivision. During the period of 1985 to 1997, the inbreeding expected under random mating increased from 2.3% to 5.0%, whereas the increase of actual inbreeding was more gradual (from 4.7% to 5.4%). The inbreeding due to population subdivision decreased almost linearly and reached 0.5% in 1997, indicating that genetic subdivision of the Japanese Black cattle population has essentially disappeared. The effective size of the breed was estimated from the increasing rate of inbreeding expected under random mating. In the earlier half of this period (1986 to 1990), the breed maintained an effective size of approximately 30. However, after 1991 the effective size sharply decreased and the harmonic mean between 1993 and 1997 was only 17.2. The main cause of this reduction of the effective size was considered to be the intensive use of a few prominent sires. To increase the effective size, an upper limit in the use of AI semen per sire should be imposed.


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