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A new transferrin allele in Australian goats
Author(s) -
VANKAN D. M.,
BELL K.
Publication year - 1992
Publication title -
animal genetics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.756
H-Index - 81
eISSN - 1365-2052
pISSN - 0268-9146
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-2052.1992.tb02166.x
Subject(s) - biology , transferrin , allele , genetics , allele frequency , breed , cashmere goat , gene , zoology , endocrinology
Summary. Subdivision of TF B into two variants, B 1 (faster) and B 2 (slower) in Australian goat breeds was accomplished by high voltage, thin layer polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis at pH 7.9. The genes controlling the caprine transferrins were shown to be autosomal codominant alleles, TF A , TF B1 , TF B2 and TF C and in the various breeds of goats, the alleles were in Hardy‐Weinberg equilibrium. TF A was the most common allele in the Australian and Texan Angora, Cashmere and Dairy breeds with gene frequencies ranging from 0.652 to 0.977. TF B1 and TF B2 occurred in all four breeds while TF was only observed in very low frequencies in Australian Angora and Cashmere breeds.