title: Analysis of genetic structure and relationship among nine indigenous Chinese chicken populations by the Structure program.
abstract: The multi-locus model-based clustering method Structure program was used to infer the genetic structure of nine indigenous Chinese chicken (Gallus gallus) populations based on 16 microsatellite markers. Twenty runs were carried out at each chosen value of predefined cluster numbers (K) under admixture model. The Structure program properly inferred the presence of genetic structure with 0.999 probabilities. The genetic structure not only indicated that the nine kinds of chicken populations were defined actually by their locations, phenotypes or culture, but also reflected the underlying genetic variations. At K = 2, nine chicken populations were divided into two main clusters, one light-body type, including Chahua chicken (CHA), Tibet chicken (TIB), Xianju chicken (XIA), Gushi chicken (GUS) and Baier chicken (BAI); and the other heavy-body type, including Beijing You chicken (YOU), Xiaoshan chicken (XIA), Luyuan chicken (LUY) and Dagu chicken (DAG). GUS and DAG were divided into independent clusters respectively when K equaled 4, 5, or 6. XIA and BIA chicken, XIA and LUY chicken, TIB and CHA chicken still clustered together when K equaled 6, 7, and 8, respectively. These clustering results were consistent with the breeding directions of the nine chicken populations. The Structure program also identified migrants or admixed individuals. The admixed individuals were distributed in all the nine chicken populations, while migrants were only distributed in TIB, XIA and LUY populations. These results indicated that the clustering analysis using the Structure program might provide an accurate representation of the genetic relationship among the breeds.
authors.affiliation: Institute of Poultry Science, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Science, Yangzhou 225003, People's Republic of China. lhfxf_002@yahoo.com.cn
authors.forename: H F
authors.initials: HF
authors.lastname: Li
authors.forename: W
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Han
authors.forename: Y F
authors.initials: YF
authors.lastname: Zhu
authors.forename: J T
authors.initials: JT
authors.lastname: Shu
authors.forename: X Y
authors.initials: XY
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.forename: K W
authors.initials: KW
authors.lastname: Chen
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D002645:Chickens / Q000235:genetics*; D005819:Genetic Markers; D018895:Microsatellite Repeats / Q000235:genetics; D016133:Polymerase Chain Reaction; D013045:Species Specificity
chemical_list: D005819:Genetic Markers
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