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a Invermay Agricultural Centre, Mosgiel, New Zealand
b Woodlands Research Station, Invercargill, New Zealand
c Animal and Food Sciences Division, Lincoln University, Canterbury, New Zealand
ABSTRACT
Ovulation rate records from 1311 female progeny of 50 Coopworth rams were used to study the inheritance of ovulation rate in a screened high prolificacy sheep flock. Breeding values (BV) for ovulation rate for 33 sires used within the screened flock and ovulation rate deviations for a further 17 sires progeny tested in commercial flocks suggest that a major gene (Woodlands gene) for ovulation rate with a non-Mendelian inheritance pattern is segregating in a family line. Rams assigned as carriers of the putative gene did not produce carrier sons (zero of three), and this coupled with the observation that daughters of carrier rams had ovulation rates of 0.39 (standard error of difference [SED] = 0.06) higher than contemporaries without a significant increase in the variance of log ovulation rate strongly suggests that the gene is on the X chromosome. The evidence suggests that the gene is also maternally imprinted because ovulation rate data indicate that it is expressed where females inherit a paternal allele but is silenced when inherited on a maternal allele. Maternal granddaughters of carrier rams had mean ovulation rates that were only 0.02 (SED = 0.06) higher than noncarrier ewes from the same flock. Furthermore, carrier dams expressing the gene (paternal allele) had 24 sons, none of which had female offspring that expressed the gene, whereas carrier dams not expressing the gene (maternal allele) had 7 out of 17 sons that had female progeny expressing the gene. There is no evidence of the infertility that occurs in homozygous ewes carrying the X-linked Inverdale gene. Collectively, these results suggest the existence of a novel gene for prolificacy located on the X chromosome that is maternally imprinted. The Woodlands gene was only expressed upon paternal inheritance from carrier males that were the progeny of nonexpressing carrier dams. The gene was not expressed in ewes that received it from either carrier dams (expressing or nonexpressing) or from carrier males that were the progeny of expressing carrier dams.
First decision: 7 August 2000.
1 Correspondence: George H. Davis, Invermay Agricultural Centre, Puddle Alley Road, Private Bag 50034, Mosgiel, NZ. FAX: 64 3 489 9024; davisg{at}agresearch.cri.nz
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