Department of Animal Genetics and Breeding, Poultry Complex, College of Veterinary Science and Animal Husbandry, Anand Agricultural University, Anand-388 001, (Gujarat).
*Corresponding author: E-mail: jvsolanki2004@indiatimes.com
The five microsatellite markers i.e. ADL 102, ADL 123, ADL 158, ADL 171 and ADL 172 were used to evaluate genetic polymorphism in Bantam, Bantamised white leghorn and white leghorn chicken. Number of alleles at these microsatellite loci ranged from 2 to 6. The heterozygosity ranged from 0.48 (for ADL-102) to 0.78 (for ADL-171). The polymorphic information content values ranged from 0.463 (for ADL-102) to 0.683 (for ADL-171). The microsatellite marker ADL-171 was found to be most polymorphic and informative in comparison to other four microsatellite markers. A consensus tree, based on polymorphism at all the 5 microsatellite loci was obtained by bootstrapping multiple data set analysis. The tree revealed that white leghorn and bantamised white leghorn were forming one cluster with 100 percent bootstrap strength, where as Bantam branched out separately from the cluster.
Microsatellite markers, bantam chicken, heterozygocity, white leghorn, genetic polymorphism
