Maternal Origins and Haplotype Diversity of Seven Russian Goat Populations Based on the D-loop Sequence Variability.

ABSTRACT: The territory of modern Russia lies on the crossroads of East and West and covers various geographical environments where diverse groups of local goats originated. In this work, we present the first study on the maternal origin of Russian local goats, including Altai Mountain (n = 9), Dagestan Downy (n = 18), Dagestan Local (n = 12), Dagestan Milk (n = 15), Karachaev (n = 21), Orenburg (n = 10), and Soviet Mohair (n = 7) breeds, based on 715 bp D-loop mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) sequences. Saanen goats (n = 5) were used for comparison. Our findings reveal a high haplotype (HD = 0.843-1.000) and nucleotide diversity (π = 0.0112-0.0261). A total of 59 haplotypes were determined in the Russian goat breeds, in which all differed from the ha

SUBMITTER: Deniskova T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7552281 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature