“…In Brazil, a few studies have recently addressed the existence of local breeds using either microsatellites or mtDNA, and all have focused on those from the northern region of the country, for example the Canindé, Graúna, Marota, Moxotó, Repartida, and Serrana Azul (Araújo et al, 2006;Menezes et al, 2006;Oliveira et al, 2007Oliveira et al, , 2010. Recently, a next-generation sequencing approach was employed to investigate genetic variation in Brazilian naturalized breeds (Moura et al, 2015).…”