Refereed Publications

An assessment of European pig diversity using molecular markers: Partitioning of diversity among breeds (2005) Louis Ollivier, Lawrence Alderson, Gustavo C. Gandini, Jean-Louis Foulley, Chris S. Haley, Ruth Joosten, Annemieke P. Rattink, Barbara Harlizius, Martien A. M. Groenen, Yves Amigues, Marie-Yvonne Boscher, Geraldine Russell, Andy Law, Roberta Davoli, Vincenzo Russo, Donato Matassino, Céline Désautés, Erling Fimland, Meena Bagga, Juan-Vicente Delgado, Jose L. Vega-Pla, Amparo M. Martinez, Antonio M. Ramos, Peter Glodek, Johann-Nikolaus Meyer, Graham S. Plastow, Kenneth W. Siggens, Alan L. Archibald, Denis Milan, Magali San Cristobal, Guillaume Laval, Keith Hammond, Ricardo Cardellino, Claude Chevalet Conservation. Genetics (in press). Supplementary information

Genetic diversity within and between European pig breeds using microsatellite markers (2005) M. SanCristobal, C. Chevalet, C. S. Haley, R. Joosten, A.P. Rattink, B. Harlizius, M.A.M. Groenen, Y. Amigues, M.-Y. Boscher, G. Russell, A. Law, R. Davoli, V. Russo, C. Désautés, L. Alderson, E. Fimland, M. Bagga, J.V. Delgado, J.L. Vega-Pla, A. M. Martinez, M. Ramos, P. Glodek, J.N. Meyer, G. C. Gandini, D. Matassino, G. S. Plastow, K. Siggens, G. Laval, A. L. Archibald, D. Milan, K. Hammond, R. Cardellino, J.-L. Foulley and L. Ollivier Animal Genetics (in press). Supplementary information

Other Publications

Anonymous, 2000. Characterisation of genetic variation in the European pig to facilitate the maintenance and exploitation of biodiversity. In: Le Dour O., Nordstedt I., Aguilar A. (Eds) Examples of demonstration projects in the life sciences programmes. Office for Official Publications of the European Communities, Luxembourg, 68-72.

B. Danell, J.V. Delgado, P. Glodek, M. Groenen, C. Haley, K. Hammond, D. Milan, L. Ollivier and G. Plastow), 1999. A demonstration project of the EU DG XII biotechnology research programme: characterizing genetic variation in the European pig to facilitate the maintenance and exploitation of biodiversity. Book of Abstracts of the 50th Annual Meeting of the European Association for Animal Production. Zurich, Switzerland, 22-26 August 1999. Wageningen Pers, Wageningen, p.46 (poster presented).

Ollivier L., 1999. Overview of current and completed projects covering biodiversity and the type of tools and products emerging for the end user. In : Smith L., Neeteson A.-M. (Eds), Proceedings BBP and FAIP Workshop on Farm Animal Biodiversity, Utrecht, The Netherlands, 4 June 1999, 27-27.

Delgado J.V., Plastow G.S., Chevalet C., Alderson L., Cardellino R. (Eds), 2003. Proceedings of the Symposium on Pig Biodiversity, Cordoba (Spain), 7-9 November 2002. Arch. Zootec. (in press). These Proceedings include the following chapters:

Approaches and challenges in measuring genetic diversity in pigs by M.F. Rothschild.

An EC-funded project on characterisation of genetic variation in the European pig. Objectives, organisation, breeds sampling, DNA preparation and circulation by L. Ollivier, Y. Amigues and M.-Y.Boscher.

The use of microsatellite genotyping for population studies in the pig using individual and pooled DNA samples by M.A.M. Groenen, R. Joosten, M.6Y. Boscher, Y. Amigues, A Rattink, B. Harlizius, J.J. van der Poel and R. Crooijman.

Utilization of AFLP for genetic distance analysis in pigs by G.S. Plastow, K. Siggens, M. Bagga, B. Brugmans, H. Heuven and J. Peleman.

The pig genetic diversity database and the WWW by G.A. Russell, A.L. Archibald, C.S. Haley and A.S. Law.

Some methods for analysing genetic marker data in a biodiversity setting – Example of the PigBioDiv data by M. SanCristobal, C. Chevalet, J.-L. Foulley and L. Ollivier.

The FAO programme for the management of farm animal genetic resources by R. Cardellino.

Past and future activities to harmonize farm animal biodiversity studies on a global scale by H. Simianer and J.N. Meyer.

Legal issues in the exploitation of data and biological material collected in animal diversity studies by R. Cardellino.

de Vries, A., Sosnicki, A., Plastow, G.S., 2000. Aplicacion de nuevas tecnologias para la seleccion de carne de cerdo de calidad. PIC Pork Chain Conference (Spain, March 2000): Anaporc 202 p19-24

Ollivier L., 2000. A study of molecular genetic variation is the European pig. II- Congresso Ibérico sobre Recursos Genéticos Animais, Vale de Santarém, Portugal, 19-20 Octobro, 2000, abstr.

Ollivier L., Foulley J.-L., 2002. Some suggestions on how to preserve both within- and between-breed genetic diversity. Book of Abstracts of the 53rd Annual Meeting of the European Association for Animal Production, Cairo, Egypt, 1-4 September 2002. Wageningen Academic Press, Wageningen, page 2.

San Cristobal M., Chevalet C., Haley C.S., Russell G., Plastow G., Siggens K., Bagga M., Groenen M.A.M., Amigues Y., Hammond K., Laval G., Boscher M.-Y., Milan D., Law A., Fimland E., Davoli R., Russo V., Gandini G., Archibald A., Delgado J.-V., Ramos M., Désautés C., Alderson L., Glodek P., Meyer J.-N., Foulley J.-L., Ollivier L., 2002. Genetic diversity in pigs. Preliminary results on 58 European breeds and lines. World Congr. Genet. Appl. Livest. Prod., 33, 523-528.