Animal Production Department, Agricultural and Biological Research Institute, National Research Centre, Dokki, Giza 12622, Egypt
Research Article
Growth associated molecular markers and assessment of relatedness among four domestic quail genotypes in Egypt
Author(s): Gomaa Said Ramadan, Esteftah Mohamed El-Komy, Reda El-wany. Moghaieb, Farid Kamal Ramzi Stino and Mona Mohamed Ghaly*
The DNA polymorphisms by microsatellites technique was applied to four genotypes of Japanese quail; Stino, White, Golden, and Japanese quail. The Stino quail had significantly the highest body weight at all ages followed by the White quail. The live body weight of both the Golden and Brown quail showed lower reciprocity order attitude across ages. The weight gain and growth rate of Stino and White quail were significantly the highest at almost periods. The mean number of alleles per locus (Na), effective allele (Ne), expected heterozygosity (He), Shannon's Information index (I) scored lower values for both Stino and the White quail (3.89, 2.97, 0.72, and 1.17), than the Golden and Brown quail. Stino quail had a higher Polymorphic information content value (0.81) than the White one (0.79) and they both scored lower values than the Golden and Brown quail (0.84 and 0.82), respectivel.. Read More»