Weak Genetic Structure in Northern African Dromedary Camels Reflects Their Unique Evolutionary History

Weak Genetic Structure in Northern African Dromedary Camels Reflects Their Unique Evolutionary History

Knowledge on genetic diversity and structure of camel populations is fundamental for sustainable herd management and breeding program implementation in this species. Here we characterized a total of 331 camels from Northern Africa, representative of six populations and thirteen Algerian and Egyptian...

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Veröffentlicht in:PloS one 2017-01, Vol.12 (1), p.e0168672-e0168672
Hauptverfasser: Cherifi, Youcef Amine, Gaouar, Suheil Bechir Semir, Guastamacchia, Rosangela, El-Bahrawy, Khalid Ahmed, Abushady, Asmaa Mohammed Aly, Sharaf, Abdoallah Aboelnasr, Harek, Derradji, Lacalandra, Giovanni Michele, Saïdi-Mehtar, Nadhira, Ciani, Elena
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Sprache:eng
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Africa, Northern
Algeria
Analysis
Animals
Bayes Theorem
Bayesian analysis
Biological diversity
Biological evolution
Biology and Life Sciences
Biotechnology
Breeding
Camelidae
Camels
Camelus - blood
Camelus - genetics
Camelus dromedarius
Clustering
Domestication
Earth Sciences
Ecology and Environmental Sciences
Egypt
Evolution, Molecular
Evolutionary genetics
Genetic aspects
Genetic diversity
Genetic structure
Genetic Variation
Genetics, Population
Genomes
Genotypes
Herding
Homozygote
Laboratories
Livestock
Livestock - blood
Livestock - genetics
Loci
Market penetration
Microsatellite Repeats
Network analysis
People and Places
Populations
Science
Veterinary services
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Zusammenfassung:Knowledge on genetic diversity and structure of camel populations is fundamental for sustainable herd management and breeding program implementation in this species. Here we characterized a total of 331 camels from Northern Africa, representative of six populations and thirteen Algerian and Egyptian geographic regions, using 20 STR markers. The nineteen polymorphic loci displayed an average of 9.79 ± 5.31 alleles, ranging from 2 (CVRL8) to 24 (CVRL1D). Average He was 0.647 ± 0.173. Eleven loci deviated significantly from Hardy-Weinberg proportions (P
ISSN:1932-6203
1932-6203
DOI:10.1371/journal.pone.0168672