Authors: A O Adebambo, Olufunmilayo Adebambo, J L Williams, Sara Blott, Barbara Urquart
Livestock Research for Rural Development 23 (2) 2011
Abstract
A panel of 21 microsatellites markers selected from bovine and caprine was used to study diversity between the Maradi and West Africa Dwarf goat DNA as a preliminary study for sustainable milk production in South West Nigeria. All the 21 markers were successfully amplified by Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) and they were tested for polymorphism. The study showed that genetic distance between Western African Dwarf goat and Maradi was 0.39.