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Teagasc,4 Research Centre, Athenry, County Galway, Ireland
AgResearch Molecular Biology Unit,5 Department of Biochemistry, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand
Insitut National de la Recherché Agronomique,6 Laboratoire de Genetique Cellulaire, Castanet-Tolosan, France
Department of Microbiology,7 National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland
AgResearch Invermay Agricultural Centre,8 Mosgiel, New Zealand
Belclare and Cambridge are prolific sheep breeds, the origins of which involved selecting ewes with exceptionally high litter size records from commercial flocks. The variation in ovulation rate in both breeds is consistent with segregation of a gene (or genes) with a large effect on this trait. Sterile ewes, due to a failure of normal ovarian follicle development, occur in both breeds. New naturally occurring mutations in genes for the oocyte-derived growth factors growth differentiation factor 9 (GDF9) and bone morphogenetic protein 15 (BMP15) are described. These mutations are associated with increased ovulation rate in heterozygous carriers and sterility in homozygous carriers in both breeds. This is the first time that a mutation in the gene for GDF9 has been found that causes increased ovulation rate and infertility in a manner similar to inactivating mutations in BMP15, and shows that GDF9 is essential for normal folliculogenesis in sheep. Furthermore, it is shown, for the first time in any species, that individuals with mutations in both GDF9 and BMP15 have a greater ovulation rate than sheep with either of the mutations separately.
2 Correspondence. FAX: 353 91 845847; shanrahan{at}athenry.teagasc.ie
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