Polymorphism in exon2 of BMP15 gene in Iranian sangsari sheep

Document Type : Genetics & breeding

Authors

• zana pirkhezranian ¹
• Arezoo Mohammadhashemi ¹
• Mojtaba Tahmoorespur ¹
• Nasrollah Pirany ²

¹ Department of Animal Sciences, Faculty of Agriculture, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Mashhad, Iran

² Department of Animal Science, Faculty of Agriculture, Shahrekord University, Iran.

10.22067/ijasr.v6i4.27504

Abstract

Fertility rate is an economically important trait in sheep, which is influenced by genetic and environment. So far, three genes have been identified that affects this trait, one of them would be the BMP family, the most famous one is BMP15. Different mutations in the BMP15 gene, increases reproductive performance and growth rate in sheep. The aim of this study was to investigate the genetic and phylogenetic of BMP15 gene sequence in Iranian Sangsari sheep. For this purpose, the blood samples from 20 animal of Damghan station were collected. After DNA extracting, a segment of 222 bp of exon 2 of BMP15 gene was amplified using polymerase chain reaction. Then, all of the PCR products were sequenced. The results showed existence of four haplotypes and three significant mutations of the gene that which one of them was seen for first. In order to determine the genetic distance of Sansari sheep with other animals especially sheep breeds about 103 sequences were taken from Genebank, Then, phylogenetic trees were drawn. Genetic distances and nucleotide differences were calculated. The results showed that goat, cattle and buffalo have minimum genetic distance and monkey, human and mouse have maximum distance with Sangsari sheep and native Hindi and Kashmiri sheep have not any differences with Iranian Sangsari sheep.

Keywords

• Sangsari Sheep
• BMP15 gene
• phylogenetic tree
• Genetic distance

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