Correlated response to selection for litter size environmental variability in rabbits' resilience

Animal : an International Journal of Animal Bioscience
María-José ArgenteA Blasco

Abstract

Resilience is the ability of an animal to return soon to its initial productivity after facing diverse environmental challenges. This trait is directly related to animal welfare and it plays a key role in fluctuations of livestock productivity. A divergent selection experiment for environmental variance of litter size has been performed successfully in rabbits over ten generations. The objective of this study was to analyse resilience indicators of stress and disease in the divergent lines of this experiment. The high line showed a lower survival rate at birth than the low line (-4.1%). After correcting by litter size, the difference was -3.2%. Involuntary culling rate was higher in the high than in the low line (+12.4%). Before vaccination against viral haemorrhagic disease or myxomatosis, concentration of lymphocytes, C-reactive protein (CRP), complement C3, serum bilirubin, triglycerides and cholesterol were higher in the high line than in the low line (difference between lines +4.5%, +5.6 µg/ml, +4.6 mg/ml, +7.9 mmol/l, +0.3 mmol/l and +0.4 mmol/l). Immunological and biochemical responses to the two vaccines were similar. After vaccination, the percentage of lymphocytes and CRP concentration were higher in the low line than...Continue Reading

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May 30, 2020·Animals : an Open Access Journal From MDPI·Nora Formoso-RaffertyJuan Pablo Gutiérrez
Sep 5, 2020·Animals : an Open Access Journal From MDPI·Dhekra BeloumiMaría-José Argente
Aug 28, 2019·Animals : an Open Access Journal From MDPI·Ivan AgeaMaría-José Argente
May 8, 2020·Genetics, Selection, Evolution : GSE·Cristina Casto-RebolloNoelia Ibáñez-Escriche
Dec 30, 2020·Animals : an Open Access Journal From MDPI·Iván AgeaMaría-José Argente
May 1, 2021·Animals : an Open Access Journal From MDPI·Jesús V Díaz CanoMaría-Luz García
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