Genetic origin of donkeys in Brazil.
Jackeline Santos AlvesChiara Albano de Araujo OliveiraPierre Barnabé EscodroLuis Fernando Batista PintoRaphael Bermal CostaGregório Miguel Ferreira de CamargoPublished in: Tropical animal health and production (2022)
We detected five mitochondrial haplotypes with 19 polymorphic sites, two of them exclusively found in the Nordestino donkey; this group is in fact more distant from the others. Phylogenetic analysis indicates maternal contributions of two clades (Nubian and Somali) to the formation of the genetic groups of donkeys, a fact that explains the high diversity, structure, and distances of the groups, reported here for the first time. CONCLUSION : This analysis contributes production and conservation of native donkey breeds. It also gives clues about the formation of the Iberian breeds from which Brazilian donkeys originated.