Published in Scientific Papers. Series D. Animal Science, Vol. LXVII, Issue 1
Written by Nevyana STANCHEVA, Ivona DIMITROVA, Milena BOZHILOVA-SAKOVA, Todor TZONEV
The purpose of the research is to explore the relationship of the polymorphism of the FABP3 gene with milk yield per standard 120-day milking period (TMM120) in ewes from the Bulgarian Dairy Synthetic population from the herd of the Agricultural Institute-Shumen. In the experiment were involved 111 ewes of different lactations. Ewes were selected by birth type (single, twins, triplets) and had 343 milk yield records for a standard 120 days milking period. Two alleles and two genotypes were identified in the studied animals in exon 2 of the FABP3 gene (SNP3) by the PCR-RFLP technique with BseDI endonuclease. The association of the FABP3 gene polymorphism with the milk productivity of sheep was investigated by the one-way analysis of variance ANOVA model. In this study of BDSP ewes, the presence of a homozygous GG genotype at SNP3 of FABP3 resulted in increased milk yield in 2nd lactation ewes and in co-twin ewes.
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{simplepopup popup="false" name="Citation9"}STANCHEVA N., DIMITROVA I., BOZHILOVA-SAKOVA M., TZONEV T. 2024, ASSOCIATION OF FABP3 GENE POLYMORPHISM WITH MILK PRODUCTION IN EWES FROM THE BULGARIAN DAIRY SYNTHETIC POPULATION. Scientific Papers. Series D. Animal Science, Vol. LXVII, Issue 1, ISSN 2285-5750, 74-82. {/simplepopup}