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South African Journal of Animal Science
On-line version ISSN 2221-4062Print version ISSN 0375-1589
Abstract
ONER, Y. et al. Genetic diversity and population structure of Turkish native cattle breeds. S. Afr. j. anim. sci. [online]. 2019, vol.49, n.4, pp.628-635. ISSN 2221-4062. https://doi.org/10.4314/sajas.v49i4.4.
Cattle are an important livestock species for human life, but certain breeds are at risk of extinction. Maintaining genetic diversity plays an important role in sustainable breeding and conservation programmes in farm animals. The aim of this study was to determine genetic diversity among five Turkish native cattle breeds. A total of 199 Turkish native cattle of the Native Southern Yellow (n = 40), South Anatolian Red (n = 40), Anatolian Grey Cattle (n = 40), Native Black Cattle (n = 39) and East Anatolian Red (n = 40) breeds were investigated using 22 autosomal microsatellite markers. The analysis revealed considerable genetic variation among these breeds. All loci were polymorphic, and a total of 545 alleles were found. Among these loci, only INRA032 was at Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium. Thirty-four private alleles with frequencies greater than 5% were found. Expected heterozygosity and polymorphic information content indexes were 0.87 and 0.88, respectively. Native Southern Yellow, South Anatolian Red and Native Black Cattle breeds were closely related.
Keywords : animal genetic resources; microsatellite; genetic relationship; genetic conservation.