Abstract
A case study on strains of Buša cattle structured into a metapopulation to show the potential for use of single-nucleotide polymorphism genotyping in the management of small, cross-border populations of livestock breeds and varieties.
Highlights
For over 20 years, SAVE Foundation has concerned itself with the conservation of European livestock breeds
The Buša is the collective term for small and robust shorthorn cattle of the Balkans. Residuals from this formerly large Population are currently present in Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Greece, Kosovo1, Montenegro, Serbia and The Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia
It is a typical example of the situation of cross-border breeds (SAVE Foundation, 2014)
Summary
For over 20 years, SAVE Foundation has concerned itself with the conservation of European livestock breeds. Together with highly similar strains in bordering countries, there may be enough animals to create a combined gene pool and to conserve the locally adapted breed. The high cost of genotyping combined with the relatively low usefulness of the results has meant that many projects carried out by SAVE and its partners have not used genotyping as a basis for conservation.
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