Ex situ and in situ data for endangered livestock breeds in Spain
Rafael De Oliveira Silva,
Oscar Cortes Gardyn,
Sipke-Joost Hiemstra,
Joao G. Oliveira Marques,
Michèle Tixier-Boichard,
Dominic Moran
Affiliations
Rafael De Oliveira Silva
Global Academy of Agriculture and Food Security, The University of Edinburgh, Easter Bush Campus, Midlothian, EH25 9RG Edinburgh, UK; Corresponding author.
Oscar Cortes Gardyn
Animal Science Department. Faculty of Veterinary, University Complutense of Madrid, 28040 Madrid, Spain
Sipke-Joost Hiemstra
Centre for Genetic Resources, Wageningen University & Research, Wageningen Campus, Droevendaalsesteeg 1, 6700 AH Wageningen, The Netherlands
Joao G. Oliveira Marques
Global Academy of Agriculture and Food Security, The University of Edinburgh, Easter Bush Campus, Midlothian, EH25 9RG Edinburgh, UK
Michèle Tixier-Boichard
University Paris-Saclay, INRAE, AgroParisTech, GABI, Jouy-en-Josas 78350, France
Dominic Moran
Global Academy of Agriculture and Food Security, The University of Edinburgh, Easter Bush Campus, Midlothian, EH25 9RG Edinburgh, UK
Improvements in ex situ storage of genetic and reproductive materials offer an alternative for endangered livestock breed conservation. This paper presents a dataset for current ex situ collections and in situ population for 179 Spanish livestock breeds of seven species, cattle, sheep, pig, chicken, goat, horse and donkey. Ex situ data was obtained via survey administered to 18 functioning gene banks in Spain and relates to the reproductive genetic materials (semen doses) of 210 livestock breeds distributed across the gene banks. In situ data combines CENSUS information with linear regression techniques and relates to the geographic distribution of 179 Spanish autochthonous livestock breeds (2009-2018), and in situ population projections and extinction probabilities (2019-2060). We use a decision variable defining an “acceptable level of risk” that allows decision makers to specify tolerable levels of in situ breed endangerment when taking ex situ collection and storage decisions.
