Development of a high-throughput microsatellite typing approach for forensic and population genetic analysis of wild and domestic African Bovini

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Greyling, Barend Jacobus
Kryger, Per
Du Plessis, S.
Van Hooft, W.F.
Van Helden, Paul David
Getz, Wayne Marcus
Bastos, Armanda D.S.

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Conservation management and forensic traceability of African buffalo and cattle rely on the timely provision of unbiased and accurate genetic information. An approach in which 17 cattle microsatellite markers are co-electrophoresed, following amplification in three core multiplex reactions was established for this purpose. Mean allelic richness per locus was 8.24 and 6.47, for buffalo and Bonsmara cattle, respectively, whilst an unbiased match probability of 6.5x10-17 and 1.03 x 10-16 was obtained for each. These results confirm the usefulness of this rapid, cost-effective typing approach for forensic, paternity and fine-scale genetic analyses of wild and domestic African Bovini tribe members.

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African buffalo, Microsatellite, Forensic, Traceability, Typing, Bovini, Africa, Bonsmara cattle

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Greyling, BJ, Kryger, P, Du Plessis, S, Van Hooft, WF, Van Helden, P, Getz, WM & Bastos, ADS 2008, ‘African Journal of Biotechnology, vol. 7, no. 5, pp. 655-660. [http://www.academicjournals.org/AJB/]