1. Genetic variability among native dog breeds in Turkey
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Bertram Brenig, Cevdet Uguz, Ceyhan Özbeyaz, Mine Dosay Akbulut, Cafer Tepeli, Peter Savolainen, and Metin Erdogan
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Genetics ,Physiology ,Turkish ,Key words: Turkish dog breeds,microsatellite,F-statistics,genetic variability,factorial correspondence analysis,genetic distance ,Cell Biology ,Biology ,Microbiology ,Breed ,language.human_language ,Gene flow ,Evolutionary biology ,Genetic variation ,Genetic structure ,language ,Microsatellite ,Factorial correspondence analysis ,Genetic variability ,General Agricultural and Biological Sciences ,Molecular Biology - Abstract
In this study, the genetic structures and relationships of native Turkish dog breeds were investigated using 20 polymorphic loci (17 microsatellites and 3 proteins). For this aim, a total of 141 blood samples were taken from Turkish shepherd dogs and Turkish Greyhounds located in several geographical regions of Turkey. Multilocus F-ST values indicated that around 1.92% of the total genetic variation could be explained by breed differences and the remaining 98.08% by differences among individuals. The gene flow between populations within each generation varied between 8.4 (Akbash-White Kars Shepherd dog pairs) and 62.3 (Black-Grey Kars Shepherd dog pairs). Four different groups appeared in the 3-dimensional factorial correspondence analysis, and among these, dogs from the Akbash, Kangal, Kars Shepherd, and Turkish Greyhound breeds grouped in clearly separated clusters in distant parts of the 3-dimensional graph. These results clearly show that Akbash and Kangal Shepherd dogs are different populations with different genetic structures. Therefore, the generalised grouping of Turkish shepherd dogs into a single breed called Anatolian or Turkish shepherd dogs is incorrect.
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- 2014