Journal of Heredity Advance Access originally published online on August 31, 2005
Journal of Heredity 2005 96(5):494-501; doi:10.1093/jhered/esi100
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Mitochondrial Sequence Reveals High Levels of Gene Flow Between Breeds of Domestic Sheep from Asia and Europe
From CSIRO Livestock Industries, Level 5 Queensland Bioscience Precinct, 306 Carmody Rd., St. Lucia 4067, Australia (Meadows, Whan, Norris, and Kijas); Department of Gene and Cell Engineering, Institute of Animal Science, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing 10094, P.R. China (Li); Animal Production Research, MTT Agrifood Research Finland, Jokioinen, FIN-31600, Finland (Kantanen, Tapio); Clinical Department for Farm Animals and Herd Management, University of Veterinary Medicine, Vienna, A-1210 Austria (Sipos); Biochemical Sciences Division, National Chemical Laboratory, Pune, 411 008, India (Pardeshi, Gupta); and Unidad de Tecnologia en Produccion Animal, CITA, Zaragoza, 50059, Spain (Calvo)
Address correspondence to Dr. James W. Kijas at the address above, or e-mail: James.Kijas{at}csiro.au.
Sequence variation present within the mitochondrial genome was used to investigate genetic diversity within sheep breeds from Asia and Europe. Comparison of 2027 bp of sequence from 121 animals revealed 44 phylogenetically informative nucleotide positions and a single insertion/deletion. A total of 57 haplotypes were observed which formed two distinct clades. Type A haplotypes were found in breeds from Asia (India, Indonesia, Mongolia, and Tibet), while type B haplotypes were observed at the highest frequency in breeds sourced from Europe (nine breeds from Austria, Åland, Finland, Spain, and northwestern Russia). The distribution of haplotypes indicates sheep appear to have the weakest population structure and the highest rate of intercontinental dispersal of any domestic animal reported to date. Only 2.7% of the sequence variation observed was partitioned between continents, which is lower than both goat (approximately 10%) and cattle (approximately 50%). Diagnostic restriction fragment length polymorphism polymerase chain reaction (RFLP-PCR) tests which distinguish type A and B haplotypes were used to test an additional 223 animals from 17 breeds of European and Asian origin. A mixture of the two lineages was found in every breed except Suffolk and the Indian Garole, indicating introgression has played a major part during breed development and subsequent selection.
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