A comparative study on the genomes of local and exotic rabbit breeds /
دراسة مقارنة لجينوم سلالات الأرانب المحلية و الأجنبية
Hoda Adel Mohamed Ali ; Supervised Essam Abbas Elgendy , Yassin Mohamed Hafez , Mona Mohamed Abdelrahman
- Cairo : Hoda Adel Mohamed Ali , 2014
- 55 P. : charts , photographs ; 25cm
Thesis (M.Sc.) - Cairo University - Faculty of Agriculture - Department of Animal Production
The objective of this study was to evaluate genetic characteristics of local and exotic rabbit breeds in Egypt. The local breeds were Baladi white (BW) and Baladi red (BR) and the exotic breeds were American Rex (AR), chinchilla (Ch) and Newzealand White (NZW). Genome scanning was applied to the genomic DNA of all populations using 14 microsatellite primers. The microsatellite primers detected a total of 50 scorable bands in all microsatellite loci in all rabbit breeds. The band size ranged from 50 to 745 bp. The number of alleles per locus varied from one to nine and averaged 3.57. The number of detected alleles varied among rabbit breeds and averaged 2.71, 2.29, 2.64, 2.43 and 2.00 per locus in BW, BR, AR, Ch and NZW, respectively. The variability estimates in local BW and BR were in general lowly moderate and averaged 0.343 and 0.392, respectively. Low variability was shown in each of AR and Ch rabbit breeds and averaged 0.317 and 0.306, respectively. The highest variability was found in NZW rabbits and averaged 0.447. D5UTR4F showed a variability of 0.99 in BW and 0.94 in NZW