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2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 32-37
Author(s):  
Hawraa Al-Mohamadawi ◽  
Asaad Y. Ayied

The origin of animals is usually determined by their paternal genotypes of the genes on the Y chromosome. In addition to the genes and their polymorphisms in the genome of mitochondria that are inherited through dams. In view of the lack of studies focusing on the genes of the Y chromosome in the world and their absence in Iraq. The aim of the present study was to identify the multiple genetic polymorphisms of the SRYM18 gene in the Arabi and Awassi sheep raised in Iraq. The study was conducted in the Genetic Engineering Laboratories - College of Agriculture, University of Basra, as well as in the Basra Genome Laboratory. The amplification of the SRYM18 gene showed genetic polymorphisms and gave a gene segment of (103-880) bp. The number of alleles of the SRYm18 gene was 13 alleles in the Arabi and 16 alleles in the Awassi breeds. The equilibrium test showed that the two breeds were under equilibrium. The two breeds were identical with nine alleles, while the number of special alleles for the Arabi breed was two, while the Awassi breed was distinguished by five. The number of rare alleles reached 20, of which seven were of the Arabi breed, and 13 of them were of the Awassi breed. Mean expected heterozygosity was 0.6386 with nonsignificant Fis for Arabi breed (0.1541) but significant for Awassi breed (0.2213). Mean neutrality was close to lower bound (0.1721) and (0.1270) for Arabi and Awassi breeds respectively


2021 ◽  
Vol 34 (2) ◽  
pp. 107-117
Author(s):  
Thamer R. S. Aljubouri ◽  
Firas M. Al-Khafaji ◽  
& Mohammed Baqur S. Al-Shuhaib

This study was conducted in the animal field of the Al-Kafeel Company from November 2019 till May 2020 to investigate the possible association between growth hormone (GH) and thyroxine (T4) with the growth traits in Awassi and Karakul sheep. The total number of animals which used in the study was 60 lambs, 28 (13 males and 15 females) from Karakul and 32 (18 males and 14 females) from Awassi. Blood samples were collected at birth, weaning, and six months of age, and both GH and T4 concentrations were measured. Results showed higher values of T4 for Karakul as compared with Awassi at birth and weaning. Karakul breed was also exhibited significantly higher values of GH over Awassi breed only at weaning, while, no significant differences were observed at birth and six months of age. Karakul lambs showed higher weights as compared with Awassi lambs at all studied periods. A highly significant (p < 0.01) positive correlation was observed between T4 concentration and the weight of lambs at most studied periods. Whereas, GH did not exhibit any correlation with growth traits measured in both breeds. The elevated T4 might be one of the reasons for superiority of Karakul over Awassi breed in live body weights. This high correlation between T4 and growth traits could be used in the early selection of lambs to improve the weights of sheep at marketing.


2020 ◽  
Vol 51 (5) ◽  
pp. 1367-1374
Author(s):  
Hadi & et al.

Genotypes and allele frequency values ​​were studied to determine the genetic diversity of three microsatellite markers (BM1329, BM134 and CSSM66) in two local Iraqi sheep breeds (50 Awasi ewes (AW) and 50 Naimi ewes (NA)) and breed in one Agricultural Stations in middle of Al-Furut Iraq (Karbala Governorate). The Genetic analyses for the study were carried out at the Biotechnology Research Center /  Al-Nahrain University using PCR technology to obtain alleles for the studied microsatellites. The results of this study indicate that there is a multiplicity of genotypes and alleles resulting from these markers among the members of the single breed and between the studied breeds. It was revealed that the allele frequency values showed the presence of alleles dominant on the rest of alleles produce in this sample studied, the BM1329 microsatellite of the Awassi breed produced the dominant allele frequency in 195(0.25) and 320 (0.25), While in the Naimi breed were the values ​​of the dominant allele frequency of the195(0.22), 220(0.21) and 230(0.24), and the dominant allelic frequency of (BM134) marker in the Awassi breed was 118 and 135 and repeated (0.21 and 0.26, respectively). For CSSM66 microsatellite, the dominant allelic results and their allelic frequency values ​​were (195 (0.20), 205 (0.23) and 220 (0.25)) for Awasi breed, whereas it was 180 (0.24), 195 (0.28) and 220 (0.22) for Nuaimi breed. These results enable us to use these markers as a means of determining the diversity and genetic relationships between individuals of a single breed as well as between breeds.


2020 ◽  
Vol 52 (6) ◽  
pp. 3631-3638
Author(s):  
Tahreer M. Al-Thuwaini ◽  
Mohammed Baqur S. Al-Shuhaib ◽  
Frederic Lepretre ◽  
Zainab A. Mahdi
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Fat Tail ◽  

2019 ◽  
pp. 6793-6804

1 ABSTRACT This experiment was conducted to study the effect of fat tail docking on Awassi lamb sheep’s meat in comparison with thin-tail Lacaune sheep’s meat (imported breed in Lebanon). Twenty seven ram lambs were divided into three groups, intact fat-tail Awassi (IA), docked fat-tail Awassi (DA), and imported thin-tail Lacaune (IL). Docking was performed at one week of age, by applying tight rubber rings on the tail. Animals having the same body weight were slaughtered at one year of age. Three samples of muscles were excised from each carcass; Biceps Femoris (Bf), Longissimus Dorsii (Ld) and Gluteus Medius (Gm). Samples were wrapped in an oxygen permeable film and stored at 4°C and - 30°C for the assessment of pH, and meat quality traits. The ultimate pH was significantly higher (P<0.01) in Lacaune breed as compared to both docked and intact Awassi breed. DA animals had significantly higher (P<0.01) fat content in Ld muscle than IA and IL lambs. Both Awassi groups presented higher L* values than Lacaune animals (P< 0.05). In addition for Awassi breed, L* values of Bf and Gm muscles were significantly greater (P< 0.05) than that of Ld muscle. b* values were significantly greater (P< 0.05) in Gm of all animals under study. Lacaune group had lower drip loss values than Awassi groups (P< 0.05 in Bf and Gm muscles and P< 0.01 in Ld muscle). However for Awassi breed, the drip loss in Ld muscle of DA animals was significantly lower (P<0.01) than IA ones. Furthermore, thawing and cooking losses were neither affected by breed nor by docking. Regarding the PND values, the Ld muscle of DA group presented higher values (P< 0.05) than Bf and Gm muscles of both intact groups. In addition, cooked meat PND values were significantly higher (P< 0.05) in Ld muscle of DA when compared to intact groups. Due to the scarcity of information in this area of research, further investigations are needed.


2017 ◽  
Vol 49 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Eyal Seroussi ◽  
Alexander Rosov ◽  
Andrey Shirak ◽  
Alon Lam ◽  
Elisha Gootwine
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2016 ◽  
Vol 62 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Nikola PACINOVSKI ◽  
Vladimir DZABIRSKI ◽  
Dimitar NAKOV ◽  
Koco PORCU ◽  
Metodija TRAJCHEV ◽  
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