title: Determination of genetic relationships among five indigenous Chinese goat breeds with six microsatellite markers.
abstract: Microsatellite variation was analyzed in five Chinese indigenous goat breeds, which include four Cashmere breeds (Tibetan, Neimonggol, Liaoning, Taihang) and one Hubei local breed (Matou) used for meat production. Five ovine and one bovine microsatellites, selected from eight ovine microsatellites and five bovine microsatellites were suitable for use in this study. With these six microsatellites, allele frequencies, heterozygosity, polymorphism information content (PIC) and effective allele number were calculated. A neighbor-joining tree was constructed using Nei's standard genetic distance (1978). In the tree, Neimonggol and Liaoning were grouped together, then with Taihang; while Tibetan and Matou individually had their own branch. The genetic relationship of five breeds corresponds to their history and geographic origins.
authors.affiliation: Laboratory of Molecular Biology & Animal Breeding, School of Animal Science and Veterinary Medicine, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, P.R. China.
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Yang
authors.forename: S H
authors.initials: SH
authors.lastname: Zhao
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Li
authors.forename: Z Z
authors.initials: ZZ
authors.lastname: Peng
authors.forename: G W
authors.initials: GW
authors.lastname: Montgomery
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D002417:Cattle; D005787:Gene Frequency; D006041:Goats / Q000235:genetics*; D018895:Microsatellite Repeats; D016133:Polymerase Chain Reaction / Q000662:veterinary