Article
Y-specific microsatellites reveal an African subfamily in taurine (Bos taurus) cattle.
Animal genetics - 1 Jun 2010
Pérez-Pardal L, Royo L J, Beja-Pereira A, Curik I, Traoré A, Fernández I, Sölkner J, Alonso J, Alvarez I, Bozzi R, Chen S, Ponce de León F A, Goyache F
Abstract excerpt
Five cattle Y-specific microsatellites, totalling six loci, were selected from a set of 44 markers and genotyped on 608 Bos taurus males belonging to 45 cattle populations from Europe and Africa. A total of 38 haplotypes were identified. Haplogroups (Y1 and Y2) previously defined using single nucleotide polymorphisms did not share haplotypes. Nine of the 27 Y2-haplotypes were only present in African cattle....
Topics
- Africa
- Animals
- Cattle
- Chromosomes, Mammalian
- Europe
- Male
- Microsatellite Repeats
- Phylogeny
- Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide
- Y Chromosome