Affiliation:
1. Department of Animal Science, College of Agriculture Lafia, Nasarawa State, P.M.B. Lafia
Abstract
The key element of the system regulating food intake has proven to be the
Leptin. It act as hunger centre in the hypothalamus and affects the
regulation of appetite. It has also been shown that Leptin gene influence
milk performance in sheep, cattle and reproduction performance in beef
cattle. Genetic characterization to assess the existing biodiversity and
differences among the important livestock breeds is an essential
pre-requisite to facilitate the conservation program in an effective and
meaningful way. This paper sought to study the diversity analysis of Leptin
gene in some ruminant and non-ruminant animal species. A total of twenty
three (23) Leptin gene sequences belonging to eight (8) species: Cattle (3),
Sheep (3), Goat (3), Swine (3), Horse (2), Camel (3), Mouse (3) and Rabbit
(3) were retrieved from Genbank (www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov). Sequences alignment,
translation and comparison were done using ClustalW of the MEGA 6.0. The
minimum distance matrix (Dxy) value (0.02) was observed between the sequence
of cattle and goat while the maximum Dxy value (2.72) was seen between
cattle and sheep in ruminant species. In non-ruminant species the highest
Dxy value (17.61) was seen between rabbit and camel while the minimum Dxy
value (0.18) was observed between mouse and camel respectively. The smaller
the distance matrix value, the closer the sequence of the species and the
lesser the genetic distance among or between species whereas the larger the
Dxy value, the higher the genetic distance among and between species
investigated. This finding could provide basis for selection when
considering evolution and differentiation among species.
Publisher
National Library of Serbia
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