the pituitary-specific transcription factor (pit-1) gene is a candidate gene for growth, carcass and also for milk yield traits. in dairy farm animals, the main goal of the selection is the improvement of milk yield and composition. the genes of milk proteins and hormones are excellent candidate genes for linkage analysis with quantitative trait loci (qtl) because of their biological significan...

Parentage testing is an important tool in farm animals for genetically determining the accuracy of pedigree information. The objective of the current study was to implication of multiplexing 14 microsatellite markers for routine parentage testings. The twenty-four lambs were crossbred of Ghazel × Baluchi, Ghazel × Baluchi × Merinos, and Baluchi × Moghani × Merinos breeds. The genomic DNA was ex...

Fourteen new microsatellite loci were developed and tested on Atlantic herring Clupea harengus with 39 individuals from Iceland and 49 individuals from Norway. The microsatellites, which contain di, tri and tetranucleotide repeats, are polymorphic (7-30 alleles), with observed heterozygosity ranging between 0·69 and 1·00 and expected heterozygosity between 0·55 and 0·97.

the objective of this study was to estimate the effective number of breeders in sarabi cattle population using heterozygote-excess method based on single nucleotide polymorphism markers. data consisted of 20 sarabi cows. snp genotyping was performed using illumina high-density bovine beadchip designed to genotype 777,962 snps. average observed heterozygosity, expected heterozygosity, minor alle...

calpastatin (cast) is a specific inhibiter of calpains, playing a role in meat tenderization and myogenesis. in the present study the polymorphism of the cast gene ofkhalkhali goat in azerbaijan province in iran was investigated by polymerase chain reaction and restriction fragment length polymorphism technique (pcr-rflp). genomic dna was extracted from whole blood samples collected from 200 kh...

UNLABELLED PREMISE OF THE STUDY Microsatellite primers were developed for Geranium carolinanum, a North American winter annual herb, for use in population genetic analyses. • METHODS AND RESULTS Genomic DNA enriched for repeat-containing fragments was sequenced on the Roche 454 Titanium platform, resulting in 470 primer pairs developed from 1115 microsatellite-containing sequences. A subse...

pistacia atlantica subsp. mutica is one of the most valuable forest tree species in iran that has been severely exploited for a long time. therefore, understanding the genetic diversity of different populations can be an important step towards the development and restoration of the habitat of this invaluable tree species. in this study, in order to study the genetic diversity, 10 populations in...

Data regarding genetic diversity of Arabian oryx(Oryx leucoryx)in Wadi Rum area of Jordan is not available so far. Therefore, the current study aimed to evaluate the genetic composition and structure of the Arabian oryx(Oryx leucoryx)herd in Wadi Rum area of Jordan using microsatellite marker analysis.Forty-nine Arabian oryx individuals were captured using a dart gun. Blood samples were obtaine...

This study was carried out to investigate the genetic diversity and population structure of 90 specimens of Oxynoemacheilus argyrogramma collected from Sepidbarg, Gamasiab and Ghaleji rivers, in the west of Iran. Analyses using three microsatellite loci indicated that the average number of alleles in the population was 12, which was well above the reported values for freshwater fishes. The expe...