African Journal of
Biotechnology

  • Abbreviation: Afr. J. Biotechnol.
  • Language: English
  • ISSN: 1684-5315
  • DOI: 10.5897/AJB
  • Start Year: 2002
  • Published Articles: 12500

Full Length Research Paper

Origin and differentiation of a special fragment from Capra hircus agouti gene

Weiwei Wu, Xianglong Li*, Rongyan Zhou, Lanhui Li and Huiqin Zheng
College of Animal Science and Technology, Agricultural University of Hebei, Baoding 071000, Hebei, China.
Email: [email protected]

  •  Accepted: 05 May 2011
  •  Published: 30 September 2011

Abstract

 

A 136 bp fragment previously considered to only exist in Capra hircus agoutigene was analyzed. The results indicated that it existed in the agouti gene ofC. hircus and Ovis aries and in other genes of O. aries and Bos taurus with forward and reverse sequences. The reverse sequences from O. aries had higher genetic diversity than forward ones. The differentiation between B. taurus and C. hircus was more obvious than that between B. taurus and O. aries. AC150540 (BACR5) from B. taurus and EE751186 (OEEF2) from O. aries could be considered as the farmost ancestral sequences.

 

Key words: Special fragment, 136 bp, Agouti gene, origin, differentiation.

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