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Analysis of Genetic Diversity on Microsatellite in Six Sheep Breeds

WANG Ya-lei1,2,3,LI Jing-xin1,3,MAO Da-gan2,WANG Hui-li1,3,LI Yin-xia1,3,QIAN Yong1,3,MENG Chun-hua1,3,CAO Shao-xian1,3   

  1. (1. Institute of Animal Science, Jiangsu Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Nanjing 210014, China;2.College of Animal Science and Technology, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing 210095, China;3. Key Laboratory of Animal Breeding and Reproduction, Jiangsu Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Nanjing 210014, China)
  • Received:2013-10-23 Online:2014-04-20 Published:2014-05-27

Abstract: To detect the genetic diversity of Black bone sheep in Lanping and its genetic relationship with the other five sheep breeds (Hu sheep, Small-tail Han sheep, Dorper sheep, Texel sheep and hornless Dorset sheep), nine microsatellite loci were selected to study a total of 117 individuals, PCR amplification products of the microsatellite loci were resolved by native-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis, and POPGEN32 software was used to calculate genetic parameters. The results showed that nine microsatellite loci were high polymorphism. The mean polymorphism information content (PIC) in each sheep population was 0.7211 (Hu sheep), 0.6780(Dorset sheep), 0.6492 (Small-tail Han sheep), 0.6479 (Black bone sheep), 0.5930 (Texel sheep) and 0.5728 (Dorper sheep), respectively. Among the six breeds, the mean heterozygosity (H) of Black bone sheep was highest (0.9543), while Dorper sheep was the lowest (0.2556). UPGMA cluster analysis showed that Hu sheep and Small-tail Han sheep clustered into a first class; the later was Black bone sheep. The further genetic distance was between Black bone sheep and the three introduced species. These results suggested that Black bone sheep might be crossed with Hu sheep or Small-tail Han sheep to improve fertility, and crossed with the introduced species to improve meat performance.

Key words: sheep; microsatellite; genetic diversity; genetic distance