title: Analysis of geographic and pairwise distances among sheep populations.
abstract: This study investigated geographic and pairwise distances among seven Chinese local and four introduced sheep populations via analysis of 26 microsatellite DNA markers. Genetic polymorphism was rich, and the following was discovered: 348 alleles in total were detected, the average allele number was 13.38, the polymorphism information content (PIC) of loci ranged from 0.717 to 0.788, the number of effective alleles ranged from 7.046 to 7.489, and the observed heterozygosity ranged from 0.700 to 0.768 for the practical sample, and from 0.712 to 0.794 for expected heterozygosity. The Wright's F-statistic of subpopulations within the total (FST) was 0.128, the genetic differentiation coefficient (GST) was 0.115, and the average gene flow (Nm) was 1.703. The phylogenetic trees based on the neighbor-joining method by Nei's genetic distance (DA) and Nei's standard genetic distance (DS) were similar. Sheep populations clustered into group 1 (Ta, M, L, H, O, G, and Q breeds) and group 2 (PD, WS, B, and T breeds). These results will have an important value applied and directive significance for sheep breeding in the future.
authors.affiliation: Lanzhou Institute of Husbandry and Pharmaceutical Sciences of Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Lanzhou, China.
authors.forename: J B
authors.initials: JB
authors.lastname: Liu
authors.affiliation: Lanzhou Institute of Husbandry and Pharmaceutical Sciences of Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Lanzhou, China.
authors.forename: Y J
authors.initials: YJ
authors.lastname: Yue
authors.affiliation: Lanzhou Institute of Husbandry and Pharmaceutical Sciences of Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Lanzhou, China.
authors.forename: X
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Lang
authors.affiliation: Lanzhou Veterinary Research Institute of Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, China Agricultural Veterinarian Biology Science and Technology Co. Ltd., Lanzhou, China.
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.affiliation: Institute of Livestock Research, Tibet Academy of Agriculture and Animal Science, Lhasa, China.
authors.forename: X
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Zha
authors.affiliation: Lanzhou Institute of Husbandry and Pharmaceutical Sciences of Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Lanzhou, China.
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Guo
authors.affiliation: Lanzhou Institute of Husbandry and Pharmaceutical Sciences of Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Lanzhou, China.
authors.forename: R L
authors.initials: RL
authors.lastname: Feng
authors.affiliation: Lanzhou Institute of Husbandry and Pharmaceutical Sciences of Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Lanzhou, China.
authors.forename: T T
authors.initials: TT
authors.lastname: Guo
authors.affiliation: Lanzhou Institute of Husbandry and Pharmaceutical Sciences of Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Lanzhou, China.
authors.forename: B H
authors.initials: BH
authors.lastname: Yang
authors.affiliation: Lanzhou Institute of Husbandry and Pharmaceutical Sciences of Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Lanzhou, China sunxiaoping163@163.com.
authors.forename: X P
authors.initials: XP
authors.lastname: Sun
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D019143:Evolution, Molecular; D040961:Genetic Drift; D005819:Genetic Markers; D014644:Genetic Variation; D058865:Introduced Species; D018895:Microsatellite Repeats; D058974:Phylogeography; D017422:Sequence Analysis, DNA; D012756:Sheep / Q000097:blood / Q000235:genetics*
chemical_list: D005819:Genetic Markers