%0 Journal Article
%T Ascertaining gene flow patterns in livestock populations of developing countries: a case study in Burkina Faso goat
%A Amadou Traor¨¦
%A Isabel ¨¢lvarez
%A Iv¨¢n Fern¨¢ndez
%A Luc¨ªa P¨¦rez-Pardal
%A Adama Kabor¨¦
%A Gis¨¨lle MS Ou¨¦draogo-Sanou
%A Yacouba Zar¨¦
%A Hamidou H Tambour¨¢
%A F¨¦lix Goyache
%J BMC Genetics
%D 2012
%I BioMed Central
%R 10.1186/1471-2156-13-35
%X A total of 520 goat were sampled in 23 different locations of Burkina Faso and genotyped for a set of 19 microsatellites. Data deposited in the Dryad repository: http://dx.doi.org/10.5061/dryad.41h46j37 webcite. Although overall differentiation is poor (FST = 0.067 ¡À 0.003), the goat population of Burkina Faso is far from being homogeneous. Barrier analysis pointed out the existence of: a) genetic discontinuities in the Central and Southeast Burkina Faso; and b) genetic differences within the goat sampled in the Sahel or the Sudan areas of Burkina Faso. Principal component analysis and admixture proportion scores were computed for each population sampled and used to construct interpolation maps. Furthermore, Population Graph analysis revealed that the Sahel and the Sudan environmental areas of Burkina Faso were connected through a significant number of extended edges, which would be consistent with the hypothesis of long-distance dispersal. Genetic variation of Burkina Faso goat followed a geographic-related pattern. This pattern of variation is likely to be related to the presence of vectors of African animal trypanosomosis. Partial Mantel test identified the present Northern limit of trypanosome vectors as the most significant landscape boundary influencing the genetic variability of Burkina Faso goat (p = 0.008). The contribution of Sahel goat genes to the goat populations in the Northern and Eastern parts of the Sudan-Sahel area of Burkina Faso was substantial. The presence of perennial streams explains the existence of trypanosome vectors. The South half of the Nakamb¨¦ river (Southern Ouagadougou) and the Mouhoun river loop determined, respectively, the Eastern and Northern limits for the expansion of Sahelian goat genes. Furthermore, results from partial Mantel test suggest that the introgression of Sahelian goat genes into Djallonk¨¦ goat using human-influenced genetic corridors has a limited influence when compared to the biological boundary defined by the no
%U http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2156/13/35/abstract