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Establishment of the biochemical and endocrine blood profiles in the Majorera and Palmera dairy goat breeds: the effect of feed restriction

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 August 2015

Joana R Lérias ,
Raquel Peña ,
Lorenzo E Hernández-Castellano ,
Juan Capote ,
Noemí Castro ,
Anastasio Argüello ,
Susana S Araújo ,
Yolanda Saco ,
Anna Bassols  and
André M Almeida
Joana R Lérias
Affiliation:
IICT – Instituto de Investigação Científica Tropical and CIISA – Centro Interdisciplinar de Investigação em Sanidade Animal, Centro de Veterinária e Zootecnia, Faculdade de Medicina Veterinária, Av. Univ. Técnica, 1300-477 Lisboa, Portugal IBET – Instituto de Biologia Experimental e Tecnológica, Av. República, 2780-157 Oeiras, Portugal
Raquel Peña
Affiliation:
Departament de Bioquímica i Biologia Molecular, Facultat de Veterinària., Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 08193 Bellaterra, Spain
Lorenzo E Hernández-Castellano
Affiliation:
Department of Animal Science, Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, 35413 Arucas, Spain Veterinary Physiology, Vetsuisse Faculty, University of Bern, Bremgartenstrasse 109a, CH-3001 Bern, Switzerland
Juan Capote
Affiliation:
ICIA – Instituto Canario de Investigaciones Agrarias, P.O. Box 60 La Laguna, Spain
Noemí Castro
Affiliation:
Department of Animal Science, Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, 35413 Arucas, Spain
Anastasio Argüello
Affiliation:
Department of Animal Science, Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, 35413 Arucas, Spain
Susana S Araújo
Affiliation:
IICT – Instituto de Investigação Científica Tropical and CIISA – Centro Interdisciplinar de Investigação em Sanidade Animal, Centro de Veterinária e Zootecnia, Faculdade de Medicina Veterinária, Av. Univ. Técnica, 1300-477 Lisboa, Portugal ITQB – Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica, Oeiras, Portugal Plant Biotechnology Laboratory, Department of Biology and Biotechnology ‘L. Spallanzani’, Università degli Studi di Pavia, via Ferrata 1, 27100 Pavia, Italy
Yolanda Saco
Affiliation:
Departament de Bioquímica i Biologia Molecular, Facultat de Veterinària., Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 08193 Bellaterra, Spain
Anna Bassols
Affiliation:
Departament de Bioquímica i Biologia Molecular, Facultat de Veterinària., Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 08193 Bellaterra, Spain
André M Almeida*
Affiliation:
IICT – Instituto de Investigação Científica Tropical and CIISA – Centro Interdisciplinar de Investigação em Sanidade Animal, Centro de Veterinária e Zootecnia, Faculdade de Medicina Veterinária, Av. Univ. Técnica, 1300-477 Lisboa, Portugal IBET – Instituto de Biologia Experimental e Tecnológica, Av. República, 2780-157 Oeiras, Portugal ITQB – Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica, Oeiras, Portugal
*
*For correspondence; e-mail: adealmeida@rossvet.edu.kn
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Abstract

Feed restriction, and seasonal weight loss (SWL), are major setbacks for animal production in the tropics and the Mediterranean. They may be solved through the use of autochthonous breeds particularly well adapted to SWL. It is therefore of major importance to determine markers of tolerance to feed restriction of putative use in animal selection. Two indigenous breeds from the Canary Islands, Palmera and Majorera, are commonly used by dairy goat farmers and, interestingly, have different phenotype characteristics albeit with a common ancestry. Indeed, Majorera is well adapted to feed restriction whereas the Palmera is susceptible to feed restriction. In addition, regardless of their importance in dairy production, there are only a limited number of reports relating to these breeds and, to the best of our knowledge, there is no description of their blood metabolite standard values under control conditions or as affected by feed restriction. In this study we analysed the blood metabolite profiles in Majorera and Palmera goats aiming to establish the differential responses to feed restriction between the two breeds and to characterise their metabolite standard values under control conditions. We observed significant differences in creatinine, urea, non-esterified fatty acids (NEFAs), cholesterol, IGF-1 and T3 due to underfeeding. Furthermore, a PCA analysis, revealed that animals submitted to undernutrition could be distinguished from the control groups, with the formation of three separate clusters (Palmera individuals after 22 d of subnutrition (PE22); Majorera individuals after 22 d of subnutrition (ME22) and animals assigned to control conditions (MC0, MC22, PC0 and PC22)), highlighting different responses of the two breeds to undernutrition.

Keywords

Blood metabolitesseasonal weight lossgoatMajoreraPalmera
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Research Article
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Journal of Dairy Research , Volume 82 , Issue 4 , November 2015 , pp. 416 - 425
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