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Microsatellite-based genetic monitoring to detect cryptic demographic bottleneck in Indian riverine buffaloes
Ranjit S Kataria1, Periasamy Kathiravan, Shyam S Bulandi
1National Bureau of Animal Genetic Resources, P.B. No. 129, GT Road Bypass, Karnal, Haryana, 132 001, India.
Abstract:
The present study was undertaken to evaluate different Indian riverine buffalo breeds (Bubalus bubalis) for mutation drift equilibrium and occurrence of any recent genetic bottleneck. A total of 330 animals from seven different breeds were analyzed with a set of 24 heterologous microsatellite markers. Three different tests revealed significant heterozygosity excess in all the seven buffalo breeds studied when assumed under infinite alleles model of microsatellite evolution, while it was the reverse with no significant heterozygosity excess when assumed under conservative stepwise mutation model. Under the two-phase model, all the buffalo breeds except Mehsana were found to be in mutation drift equilibrium when evaluated by all the three statistical methods. Standardized differences test and Wilcoxon signed-rank test revealed significant heterozygosity excess suggesting possible cryptic demographic bottleneck in Mehsana buffaloes of Western India.

