Awassi sheep

Genetic distances and phylogenetic trees of different Awassi sheep populations based on DNA sequencing

R. M. Al-Atiyat and Aljumaah, R. S., Genetic distances and phylogenetic trees of different Awassi sheep populations based on DNA sequencing, vol. 13, pp. 6557-6568, 2014.

This study aimed to estimate evolutionary distances and to reconstruct phylogeny trees between different Awassi sheep populations. Thirty-two sheep individuals from three different geographical areas of Jordan and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) were randomly sampled. DNA was extracted from the tissue samples and sequenced using the T7 promoter universal primer. Different phylogenetic trees were reconstructed from 0.64-kb DNA sequences using the MEGA software with the best general time reverse distance model. Three methods of distance estimation were then used.

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