Genetic diversity of the gazelle (gazella subgutturosa) populations of Mond and Dime protected areas

Document Type : Genetic

Author

Faculty of Biological Sciences, Varamin Pishva branch, Islamic Azad University, Varamin Pishva, Iran

Abstract

The six microsatellite markers were used to study inter and intra populations genetic diversity of gazelles (Gazella subgutturosa) of Mond and Dime Protected areas, Fecal samples were used for DNA extraction. Statistical analysis for determining different parameters was implemented using statistical software after loci amplifying by PCR and genotyping. In this research, among the studied loci, 33HDZ749 locus had the highest number of alleles (4 alleles) and the other loci had the lowest number of alleles (2 alleles). The highest level of Polymorphic information content was observed in 33HDZ749 locus. The phylogenetic studies showed, the genetic distance between two populations by Nei method was estimated 0.752. In this study, all loci were indicating Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium (P<0.05).

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