Analysis of Gene Diversity of Domestic Goats for Conservation of Genetic Resource

Abstract

The study was conducted to analysis of gene diversity of domestic goats for conservation of genetic resource for maintains the future breeding options. The study was conducted in well maintained goat farm at the Central Institute of Research on Goats, Makhdoom, Farah, Mathura. The experimented goats evaluated by bottleneck analysis were carried out in microsatellite in six Indian goat breeds i. e. Barbari, Jakhrana, Sirohi, Marwari, Black Bengal and Pashmina. The sample size ranged for each breeds from 35 to 49 in all population. The most diverse goat breeds were the Marwari and Jakhrana which had the highest total no. of alleles (TNA) of 181 and 167 and highest mean number of alleles (MNA) 10.6 and 9.8 respectively. The least diverse breeds was the Pashmina, which had lowest TNA of 130 and lowest MNA of 7.6 respectively. The total gene diversity varies from 0.77 to 0.79 over the breed. The highest gene diversity between individuals was 0.3009 in Black Bengal and lowest was 0.2511 in Marwari goat. This analysis showed that gene diversity was quite sustained in all the analyzed population.