Molecular characterization of Ghungroo pig

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  • G. Zaman Department of Animal Genetics and Breeding, College of Veterinary Science, Assam Agricultural University, Khanapara, Guwahati-781022, Assam, India Author
  • M. Chandra Shekar Department of Animal Genetics and Breeding, College of Veterinary Science, Assam Agricultural University, Khanapara, Guwahati-781022, Assam, India Author
  • A. M. Ferdoci Department of Animal Genetics and Breeding, College of Veterinary Science, Assam Agricultural University, Khanapara, Guwahati-781022, Assam, India Author
  • S. Laskar Department of Animal Genetics and Breeding, College of Veterinary Science, Assam Agricultural University, Khanapara, Guwahati-781022, Assam, India Author

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.14741/ijab/v.3.1.1

Keywords:

Ghungroo pig, Heterozygosity, Microsatellites, PIC

Abstract

Ghungroo pig is indigenous to West Bengal and has already made in road to NE India for its high productivity. A total of 21 microsatellite markers were used to study genetic diversity and population structure of Ghungroo pig. All the considered loci were highly polymorphic and a total of 103 alleles were observed across the studied loci. The range of alleles was found to be 2 to 9 with a mean of 4.9 ± 2.567. The frequency distribution of microsatellite alleles in the population was from 0.0179 to 0.9615. The calculated observed and expected heterozygosity values were 0.55 ± 0.356 and 0.58 ± 0.216 respectively. The PIC was 0.54 ± 0.22 and Shannon's information index was sufficiently high with a mean of 1.16. The overall mean of within- population inbreeding estimate (FIS) was 0.0919. The bottleneck analysis revealed that population has not undergone any recent reduction.

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10-10-2013

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