Mitochondrial control region diversity in Polish sheep breeds

Koseniuk, Anna; Słota, Ewa

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/aab-59-227-2016

Articles | Volume 59, issue 2

https://doi.org/10.5194/aab-59-227-2016

© Author(s) 2016. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

https://doi.org/10.5194/aab-59-227-2016

© Author(s) 2016. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

Articles | Volume 59, issue 2

Original study

|

30 May 2016

Original study |

| 30 May 2016

Mitochondrial control region diversity in Polish sheep breeds

Anna Koseniuk and Ewa Słota

Data sets

Ovis aries isolates, D-loop, partial sequences; mitochondrial National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/nuccore/KT158312

Sheep Biodiversity, Genetic Resources Programme National Research Institute of Animal Production (NRIAP) http://owce.bioroznorodnosc.izoo.krakow.pl

Short summary

This paper contributes considerably to our knowledge about phylogenetic relations in four Polish sheep breeds as well as the genetic origin of them. We analysed polymorphisms of the mitochondrial control region (D-loop) in the following sheep breeds: Wrzosówka, Świniarka, Pomorska, and Wielkopolska. All but Swiniarka represent the two main mitochondrial haplogroups, i.e. haplogroup B (more frequent) and haplogroup A. The Świniarka breed is exclusively made up of haplogroup B sequences.