genotypes of iranian zel sheep for calpastatin(cast) locus were determined by polymerase chain reaction-restriction fragment length polymorphism (pcr-rflp) and polymerase chain reaction-single strand conformation polymorphism (pcr-sscp) methods and for calpain(capn) locus by pcr-sscp. blood samples were collected from 200 purebred zel sheep of zel breeding station located in golestan province i...