Comparative analyses of microsatellite sequences in Suidae

A. Kozubska-Sobocinska, B. Rejduch, U. Kaczor, M. Sharan

The aim of the study was to identify genetic conservation between several species of Suidae (Sus scrofa domestica, Sus scrofa scrofa, Sus vittatus, Phacochoerus aethiopicus) and Tayassuidae (Tayassu tajacu) families, using microsatellite sequences (SW983, SWC27, SW902, SW1430, SW2411, SW2623, SW2160) characteristic of the domestic pig (Sus scrofa domestica) genome.

The results obtained in the present study made it possible to consider the analysed markers as conservative in the Suidae species (Sus scrofa domestica, Sus scrofa scrofa, Phacochoerus aethiopicus, Sus vittatus). Clear differences in relation to the Suidae species compared were shown by Tayassu tajacu, (Tayassuidae family), in which no genetic conservation was found in any of the microsatellite sequences analysed.

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