SUMMARY
Article Details: Received: 2020-05-21 | Accepted: 2020-06-02 | Available online: 2020-06-30https://doi.org/10.15414/afz.2020.23.02.102-108The submission aims to present results of the five-year research project, oriented on the evaluation of genetic diversity of selected populations of economically important animal species in Slovakia, their sustainable adaptation and production potential in the context of preservation of genetic resources and food safety. Under the supervision of Department of Animal Genetics and Breeding Biology, Faculty of Agrobiology and Food Resources of the Slovak University of Agriculture in Nitra run between 2015- 2019 project called Molecular-genetic diversity and production potential of animal genetic resources in Slovakia (APVV-14-0054). Considering the difficulty and complexity of studied issues was research realized in close collaboration with the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences Vienna (BOKU) and Zagreb University. Erosion of genetic diversity represents the main threat for food safety of mankind. Individuals of economically important animal species groups accumulate risks and threats of loss of sustainable adaptation as a reaction to the environment due to intense selective breeding. It is therefore important and needed to focus on permanent monitoring and evaluation of diversity of economically important breeds based on the diverse parameter and suitable methods.Keywords: Genetic diversity, economically important breeds, Animal genetic resources, SlovakiaReferencesKADLECÍK, O., HAZUCHOVÁ, E., MORAVCÍKOVÁ, N. and KUKUCKOVÁ, V. (2017b). Genetic diversity in Slovak spotted breed. AGROFOR, 2(3), 124–131.KADLECÍK, O., HAZUCHOVÁ, E., PAVLÍK, I. and KASARDA, R. (2016). Genetická diverzita slovenského strakatého a holštajnského dobytka (1. vyd). Nitra: Slovenská polnohospodárska univerzita.KADLECÍK, O., MORAVCÍKOVÁ, N. and KASARDA, R. (2017a). Biodiverzita populácií zvierat. Nitra: Slovenská polnohospodárska univerzita.KASARDA, R., KADLECÍK, O. and MORAVCÍKOVÁ, N. (2019b). Genetická diverzita slovenského pinzgauského plemena (1. vyd). Nitra: Slovenská polnohospodárska univerzita.KASARDA, R., KADLECÍK, O., TRAKOVICKÁ, A. and MORAVCÍKOVÁ, N. (2019c). Genomic and pedigree-based inbreeding in Slovak Spotted cattle. AGROFOR, 4(1), 102–110.KASARDA, R., MORAVCÍKOVÁ, N. and KADLECÍK, O. (2016d). Spatial structure of the Lipizzan horse gene pool based on microsatellite variations analysis. AGROFOR, 1(2), 125–132.KASARDA, R., MORAVCÍKOVÁ, N. and KADLECÍK, O. (2018d). Genetic structure of warmblood horses on molecular-genetic level. Agriculture and Forestry, 64(1), 7–13.KASARDA, R., MORAVCÍKOVÁ, N. and POKORÁDI, J. (2016a). Manažment farmového chovu a biodiverzita jelena lesného na Slovensku. Nitra: Slovenská polnohospodárska univerzita.KASARDA, R., MORAVCÍKOVÁ, N. and VLCEK, M. (2018b). Genetic parameters of claw traits and milk yield in Slovak Holstein cattle. V Genetic days 2018 (s. 24). Ceské Budejovice: University of South Bohemia.KASARDA, R., MORAVCÍKOVÁ, N., CANDRÁK, J., MÉSZÁROS, G., VLCEK, M., KUKUCKOVÁ, V. and KADLECÍK, O. (2017b). Genome-wide mixed model association study in population of Slovak Pinzgau cattle. Agriculturae conspectus scientificus, 82(3), 267–271.KASARDA, R., MORAVCÍKOVÁ, N., HALO, M., HORNÝ, M., LEHOCKÁ, K., OLŠANSKÁ, B., BUJKO, J. and CANDRÁK, J. (2019e). Trend vývoja genomického inbrídingu v populácii plemena lipican. V Aktuálne smerovanie v chove koní (1. s. 32– 36). Nitra: Slovenská polnohospodárska univerzita.KASARDA, R., MORAVCÍKOVÁ, N., KADLECÍK, O., TRAKOVICKÁ, A. and CANDRÁK, J. (2018a). The impact of artificial selection on runs of homozygosity in Slovak Spotted and Pinzgau cattle. Slovak journal of animal science, 51(3), 91–103.KASARDA, R., MORAVCÍKOVÁ, N., KADLECÍK, O., TRAKOVICKÁ, A., HALO, M. and CANDRÁK, J. (2019a). Level of inbreeding in Norik of muran horse: Pedigree vs. Genomic data. Acta Universitatis Agriculturae et Silviculturae Mendelianae Brunensis, 67(6), 1457–1463.KASARDA, R., MORAVCÍKOVÁ, N., KADLECÍK, O., TRAKOVICKÁ, A., ŽITNÝ, J., TERPAJ, V.P., MINDEKOVÁ, S. and NEUPANE MLYNEKOVÁ, L. (2019d). Common origin of local cattle breeds in western region of Carpathians. Danubian Animal Genetic Resource, 4, 37–42.KASARDA, R., MORAVCÍKOVÁ, N., KUKUCKOVÁ, V., KADLECÍK, O., TRAKOVICKÁ, A. and MÉSZÁROS, G. (2016c). Evidence of selective sweeps through haplotype structure of Pinzgau cattle. Acta agriculturae Slovenica, 107(5), 160–164.KASARDA, R., MORAVCÍKOVÁ, N., KUKUCKOVÁ, V., TRAKOVICKÁ, A. and KADLECÍK, O. (2016b). Progress in methodology of genetic diversity monitoring in pinzgau cattle. Slovak journal of animal science, 49(4), 176.KASARDA, R., MORAVCÍKOVÁ, N., KUKUCKOVÁ, V., TRAKOVICKÁ, A. and KADLECÍK, O. (2017a). Characterization of Slovak dual-purpose cattle breed diversity based on genomic data. Slovak journal of animal science, 50(4), 165.KASARDA, R., MORAVCÍKOVÁ, N., TRAKOVICKÁ, A., MÉSZÁROS, G. and KADLECÍK, O. (2015). Genome-wide selection signatures in Pinzgau cattle. Potravinárstvo, 9(1), 268–274.KASARDA, R., MORAVCÍKOVÁ, N., VOSTRÁ, L., KRUPOVÁ, Z., KRUPA, E., LEHOCKÁ, K., OLŠANSKÁ, B., TRAKOVICKÁ, A., NÁDASKÝ, R., ŽIDEK, R., BELEJ, L., GOLIAN, J. and POLÁK, P. (2020). Fine-scale analysis of six beef cattle breeds revealed patterns of their genomic diversity. Italian Journal of Animal Science, in review.KASARDA, R., VLCEK, M., CANDRÁK, J. and MORAVCÍKOVÁ, N. (2018c). Estimation of heritability for claw traits in Holstein cattle using Bayesian and REML approaches. Journal of Central European Agriculture, 19(4), 784–790.KUKUCKOVÁ, V., KASARDA, R. and MORAVCÍKOVÁ, N. (2017a). Genomic characterisation of Slovak pinzgau cattle (1st ed). Praha: Wolters Kluwer.KUKUCKOVÁ, V., KASARDA, R., MORAVCÍKOVÁ, N., TRAKOVICKÁ, A., CURIK, I. and FERENCAKOVIC, M. (2016a). Extent of genome-wide linkage disequilibrium in Pinzgau cattle. Journal of Central European Agriculture, 17(1), 294–302.KUKUCKOVÁ, V., KASARDA, R., ŽITNÝ, J. and MORAVCÍKOVÁ, N. (2018a). Genetic markers and biostatistical methods as appropriate tools to preserve genetic resources. AGROFOR, 3(2), 41–48.KUKUCKOVÁ, V., MORAVCÍKOVÁ, N. and KASARDA, R. (2016c). Genomic determination of the most important father lines of Slovak Pinzgau cows. AGROFOR, 1(3), 110–118.KUKUCKOVÁ, V., MORAVCÍKOVÁ, N., CURIK, I., SIMCIC, M., MÉSZÁROS, G. and KASARDA, R. (2018b). Genetic diversity of local cattle. Acta Biochimica Polonica, 65(3), 421–424.KUKUCKOVÁ, V., MORAVCÍKOVÁ, N., FERENCAKOVIC, M., SIMCIC, M., MÉSZÁROS, G., SÖLKNER, J., TRAKOVICKÁ, A., KADLECÍK, O., CURIK, I. and KASARDA, R. (2017b). Genomic characterization of Pinzgau cattle: genetic conservation and breeding perspectives. Conservation Genetics, 18(4), 893–910.KUKUCKOVÁ, V., MORAVCÍKOVÁ, N., TRAKOVICKÁ, A., KADLECÍK, O. and KASARDA, R. (2016b). Genetic differentiation of Slovak Pinzgau, Simmental, Charolais and Holstein cattle based on the linkage disequilibrium, persistence of phase and effective population size. Acta agriculturae Slovenica, 107(Suppl. 5), 37–40.LEHOCKÁ, K., KASARDA, R., OLŠANSKÁ, B., TRAKOVICKÁ, A., KADLECÍK, O. and MORAVCÍKOVÁ, N. (2019b). Different ways to compute genomic inbreeding. V Scientific conference of PhD. students of FAFR and FBFS with international participation (1., s. 18). Nitra: Slovak University of Agriculture.LEHOCKÁ, K., KASARDA, R., TRAKOVICKÁ, A., KADLECÍK, O. and MORAVCÍKOVÁ, N. (2019a). Genomic diversity and level of admixture in the Slovak Spotted cattle. V AgroSym 2019, 1607– 1612. Bosna: University of East Sarajevo.LEHOCKÁ, K., OLŠANSKÁ, B., KASARDA, R., KADLECÍK, O., TRAKOVICKÁ, A. and MORAVCÍKOVÁ, N. (2020). The genetic structure of slovak spotted cattle based on genomewide analysis. Acta Universitatis Agriculturae et Silviculturae Mendelianae Brunensis, 68(1), 57–61.MILUCHOVÁ, M., GÁBOR, M., CANDRÁK, J., TRAKOVICKÁ, A. and CANDRÁKOVÁ, K. (2018). Association of HindIIIpolymorphism in kappa-casein gene with milk, fat and protein yield in holstein cattle. Acta Biochimica Polonica, 65(3), 403–407.MILUCHOVÁ, M., GÁBOR, M., TRAKOVICKÁ, A. and CANDRÁKOVÁ, E. (2018). Polymorphism and genetic structure CSNSI gene in Lacaune sheep population. V Genetic days 2018 (s. 59). Ceské Budejovice: University of South Bohemia.MORAVCÍKOVÁ, N., CANDRÁK, J., KADLECÍK, O., TRAKOVICKÁ, A. and KASARDA, R. (2018e). Genome-Wide Association Study for milk production traits in Slovak spotted cattle. V Genetic days 2018 (s. 21). Ceské Budejovice: University of South Bohemia.MORAVCÍKOVÁ, N., KADLECÍK, O., TRAKOVICKÁ, A. and KASARDA, R. (2018d). Autozygosity island resulting from artificial selection in Slovak spotted cattle. Agriculture and Forestry, 64(1), 21–28.MORAVCÍKOVÁ, N., KASARDA, R. and KADLECÍK, O. (2017a). Genetic improvement of cattle through low density SNP panels. V AgroSym 2017 (s. 2212–2219). Sarajevo: Univerzitet u Sarajev.MORAVCÍKOVÁ, N., KASARDA, R. and KADLECÍK, O. (2017b). The degree of genetic admixture within species from genus cervus. Agriculture and Forestry, 63(1), 137–143.MORAVCÍKOVÁ, N., KASARDA, R., HALO, M., LEHOCKÁ, K., OLŠANSKÁ, B. and CANDRÁK, J. (2019a). Vplyv selekcie na genóm slovenského teplokrvníka. V Aktuálne smerovanie v chove koní (1., s. 48–52). Nitra: Slovenská polnohospodárska univerzita.MORAVCÍKOVÁ, N., KASARDA, R., KUKUCKOVÁ, V. and KADLECÍK, O. (2017d). Effective population size and genomic inbreeding in Slovak Pinzgau cattle. Agriculturae conspectus scientificus, 82(2), 97–100.MORAVCÍKOVÁ, N., KASARDA, R., KUKUCKOVÁ, V., VOSTRÝ, L. and KADLECÍK, O. (2016). Genetic diversity of old Kladruber and Nonius horse populations through microsatellite variation analysis. Acta agriculturae Slovenica, 107(Suppl. 5), 45–49.MORAVCÍKOVÁ, N., KASARDA, R., ŽITNÝ, J., TRAKOVICKÁ, A. and KADLECÍK, O. (2018a). Validation of bovine 50K SNP chip transfer ability into non-model wild animals. Slovak journal of animal science, 51(4), 180.MORAVCÍKOVÁ, N., KUKUCKOVÁ, V., MÉSZÁROS, G., SÖLKNER, J., KADLECÍK, O. and KASARDA, R. (2017c). Assessing footprints of natural selection through PCA analysis in cattle. Acta fytotechnica et zootechnica, 20(2), 23–27.MORAVCÍKOVÁ, N., SIMCIC, M., MESZÁROŠ, G., SÖLKNER, J., KUKUCKOVÁ, V., VLCEK, M., TRAKOVICKÁ, A., KADLECÍK, O. and KASARDA, R. (2018c). Genomic response to natural selection within alpine cattle breeds. Czech journal of animal science, 63(4), 136–143.MORAVCÍKOVÁ, N., TRAKOVICKÁ, A., KADLECÍK, O. and KASARDA, R. (2018b). Bioinformatics tools for analysis of livestock genetic diversity. V Preveda 2018 (s. 9). Banská Bystrica: Obcianske združenie Preveda.MORAVCÍKOVÁ, N., TRAKOVICKÁ, A., KADLECÍK, O. and KASARDA, R. (2019b). Genomic signatures of selection in cattle throught variation of allele frequencies and linkage disequilibrium. Journal of Central European Agriculture, 20(2), 576–580.MORAVCÍKOVÁ, N., ŽIDEK, R., KASARDA, R., JAKABOVÁ, D., GENCÍK, M., POKORÁDI, J., MAJKO, P. and FERIANCOVÁ, E. (2020). Identification of genetic families based on mitochondrial D-loop sequence in population of the Tatra chamois (Rupicapra rupicapra tatrica). Biologia, 75(1), 121–128.TRAKOVICKÁ, A., MORAVCÍKOVÁ, N. and KASARDA, R. (2017). Casein polymorphism in relation to the milk production traits of Slovak spotted cattle. Agriculturae conspectus scientificus, 82(3), 255–258.TRAKOVICKÁ, A., MORAVCÍKOVÁ, N., KUKUCKOVÁ, V., NÁDASKÝ, R. and KASARDA, R. (2016). The associations of lepr and H-FABP gene polymorphisms with carcass traits in pigs. Acta agriculturae Slovenica, 107(Suppl. 5), 189–194.TRAKOVICKÁ, A., MORAVCÍKOVÁ, N., NÁDASKÝ, R. and KASARDA, R. (2018a). Polymorphisms in candidate genes for beef quality in Pinzgau cattle. AGROFOR, 3(1), 5–10.TRAKOVICKÁ, A., MORAVCÍKOVÁ, N., NAVRÁTILOVÁ, A. and KASARDA, R. (2016). Carcass and meat quality in relation to the polymorphism in porcine MYF4 gene. Agriculture and Forestry, 62(4), 95–100.TRAKOVICKÁ, A., MORAVCÍKOVÁ, N., VAVRIŠÍNOVÁ, K., MILUCHOVÁ, M., GÁBOR, M. and KASARDA, R. (2018b). Effect of Calpastatin gene polymorphism on meat quality in cattle. V Genetic days 2018 (s. 69). Ceské Budejovice: University of South BohemiaTRAKOVICKÁ, A., VAVRIŠÍNOVÁ, K., GÁBOR, M., MILUCHOVÁ, M., KASARDA, R. and MORAVCÍKOVÁ, N. (2019). The impact of diacylglycerol O-acyltransferase 1 gene polymorphism on carcass traits in cattle. Journal of Central European Agriculture, 20(1), 12–18.TRAKOVICKÁ, A., VAVRIŠÍNOVÁ, K., MORAVCÍKOVÁ, N., MILUCHOVÁ, M., GÁBOR, M. and KASARDA, R. (2018c). The impact of polymorphism in thyroglobulin gene on beef quality. V AgroSym 2018, 1797–1801. Bosna University of East Sarajevo 2018: Bosna University of East Sarajevo.VLCEK, M. and KASARDA, R. (2017a). Genetic parameters of claw conformation in Slovak Holstein cows. V AgroSym 2017, 2208–2211. Sarajevo: Univerzitet u Sarajev.VLCEK, M. and KASARDA, R. (2017b). Metabolic status related to claw disorders. Acta fytotechnica et zootechnica, 20(1), 6–9.VLCEK, M., CANDRÁK, J. and KASARDA, R. (2016a). Fat-toprotein ratio: evaluation of metabolic disorders and milk yield. Acta agriculturae Slovenica, 107(Suppl. 5), 76–79.VLCEK, M., TOMKA, J. and KASARDA, R. (2017c). Evaluation of claw conformation by using two methods of measuring-by ruler and image analysis. Agriculturae conspectus scientificus, 82(2), 193–196.VLCEK, M., ŽITNÝ, J. and KASARDA, R. (2016b). Changes of fat-to-protein ratio from start to the mid-lactation and the impact on milk yield. Journal of Central European Agriculture, 17(4), 1194–1203.VOSTRÁ VYDROVÁ, H., VOSTRÝ, L., HOFMANOVÁ, B., MORAVCÍKOVÁ, N., VESELÁ, Z., VRTKOVÁ, I., NOVOTNÁ, A. and KASARDA, R. (2018). Genetic diversity and admixture in three native draught horse breeds assessed using microsatellite markers. Czech journal of animal science, 63(3), 85–93.