Genetic Differentiation among Commercial Lines of Laying-type Japanese Quail.

ABSTRACT: Recently in Japan, approximately six million quails were primarily being reared for commercial egg production. It is believed that almost all commercial quails in the country became extinct during World War II, and that the present commercial gene pool was restored from the limited number of surviving birds. The present study evaluates the genetic diversity within and differentiation between 12 laying-type Japanese quail lines on the basis of 45 microsatellite genotypes. The mean number of alleles per locus and the expected heterozygosity within a quail line were 5.22-5.69 and 0.601-0.618, respectively. These results showed that laying-type quail lines in the present study exhibited a higher degree of genetic diversity than experimental quail lines in a previous study. Pairwise genetic dif

SUBMITTER: Shimma K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6993890 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature