Nguluma, Athumani and Kyallo, Martina and Tarekegn, Getinet Mekuriaw and Loina, Rose and Nziku, Zabron and Chenyambuga, Sebastian and Pelle, Roger
(2021).
Mitochondrial DNA D-loop sequence analysis reveals high variation and multiple maternal origins of indigenous Tanzanian goat populations.
Ecology and Evolution. 11
, 15961-15971
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Abstract
The Small East African (SEA) goat are widely distributed in different agro-ecological zones of Tanzania. We report the genetic diversity, maternal origin, and phylogenetic relationship among the 12 Tanzanian indigenous goat populations, namely Fipa, Songwe, Tanga, Pwani, Iringa, Newala, Lindi, Gogo, Pare, Maasai, Sukuma, and Ujiji, based on the mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) D-loop. High haplotype (H-d = 0.9619-0.9945) and nucleotide (pi = 0.0120-0.0162) diversities were observed from a total of 389 haplotypes. The majority of the haplotypes (n = 334) belonged to Haplogroup A which was consistent with the global scenario on the genetic pattern of maternal origin of all goat breeds in the world. Haplogroup G comprised of 45 haplotypes drawn from all populations except the Ujiji goat population while Haplogroup B with 10 haplotypes was dominated by Ujiji goats (41%). Tanzanian goats shared four haplotypes with the Kenyan goats and two with goats from South Africa, Namibia, and Mozambique. There was no sharing of haplotypes observed between individuals from Tanzanian goat populations with individuals from North or West Africa. The indigenous goats in Tanzania have high genetic diversity defined by 389 haplotypes and multiple maternal origins of haplogroup A, B, and G. There is a lot of intermixing and high genetic variation within populations which represent an abundant resource for selective breeding in the different agro-ecological regions of the country.
Authors/Creators: | Nguluma, Athumani and Kyallo, Martina and Tarekegn, Getinet Mekuriaw and Loina, Rose and Nziku, Zabron and Chenyambuga, Sebastian and Pelle, Roger | ||||||
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Title: | Mitochondrial DNA D-loop sequence analysis reveals high variation and multiple maternal origins of indigenous Tanzanian goat populations | ||||||
Series Name/Journal: | Ecology and Evolution | ||||||
Year of publishing : | 2021 | ||||||
Volume: | 11 | ||||||
Page range: | 15961-15971 | ||||||
Number of Pages: | 11 | ||||||
Publisher: | WILEY | ||||||
ISSN: | 2045-7758 | ||||||
Language: | English | ||||||
Publication Type: | Research article | ||||||
Article category: | Scientific peer reviewed | ||||||
Version: | Published version | ||||||
Copyright: | Creative Commons: Attribution 4.0 | ||||||
Full Text Status: | Public | ||||||
Subjects: | (A) Swedish standard research categories 2011 > 1 Natural sciences > 106 Biological Sciences (Medical to be 3 and Agricultural to be 4) > Evolutionary Biology | ||||||
Keywords: | demographic history, genetic variation, haplogroups, indigenous goats | ||||||
URN:NBN: | urn:nbn:se:slu:epsilon-p-114348 | ||||||
Permanent URL: | http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:slu:epsilon-p-114348 | ||||||
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ID Code: | 26240 | ||||||
Faculty: | VH - Faculty of Veterinary Medicine and Animal Science | ||||||
Department: | (VH) > Dept. of Animal Breeding and Genetics | ||||||
Deposited By: | SLUpub Connector | ||||||
Deposited On: | 30 Nov 2021 08:25 | ||||||
Metadata Last Modified: | 30 Nov 2021 08:31 |
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