Abstract:
【Objective】 This study aims to investigate the genetic effects of lambing traits
COIL and
BMPR-
IB genes in the offspring of Duolang sheep and Hu sheep crossbreeding (Duohu sheep crossbreeding) cascade crosses by analyzing the association between
COIL and
BMPR-
IB genes and the number of lambs produced.
【Methods】 Randomly selected F
1 (228), F
2 (254), and F
3 (252) generations of Duohu crossbred sheep were subjected to whole blood DNA extraction, and the
COIL gene was genotyped using amplification refractory mutation system-PCR (ARMS-PCR) technique, and the
BMPR-
IB gene was analyzed in association with the number of lambs produced after genotyping using PCR-restriction fragment length polymorphism (PCR-RFLP) technique.
【Results】 In the Duohu F
1 sheep, the lambing numbers of the mutant pure GG type were significantly higher than those of the mutant heterozygous CG and the wild CC type (
P<0.01), and that of the mutant heterozygous CG type were significantly higher than that of the wild CC type (
P<0.01); in the Duohu F
2 sheep, the differences between the number of lambs produced by the mutant pure GG type and the mutant heterozygous CG and wild CC types were all highly significant (
P<0.01); in the Duohu F
3 sheep, the number of lambs produced by the mutant pure GG and the mutant heterozygous CG types was highly significantly higher than that of the CC type (
P<0.01), and the number of lambs produced by the GG type was highly significantly higher than that of the CG type (
P<0.05). In the Duohu F
1, F
2 and F
3 sheep, the numbers of lambs produced by the mutant pure BB type were highly significantly higher than the number of lambs produced by the mutant heterozygous B+ type and the wild++ type (
P<0.01), and the number of lambs produced by the mutant heterozygous B+ type was highly significantly higher than that of the wild++ type (
P<0.01).
【Conclusion】 Both
COIL gene and
BMPR-
IB gene have significant effect on lambing number of Duo and Hu crossbred sheep. However, the
BMPR-
IB gene has a low mutation rate in the progeny of Duohu sheep, which may not be suitable as a key gene for screening the double lambing population of Duohu sheep, and the
COIL gene can be a new candidate gene for screening the high reproduction rate of Duohu sheep.