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GENETIC CHARACTERIZATION OF DOMESTIC GOAT (Capra hircus) USING MITOCHONDRIAL DNA
WAN NOR HASLINDA BINTI WAN AZMAN
This project is submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Bachelor of Science with Honours
(Biotechnology)
Faculty of Resource Science and Technology UNIVERSITI MALAYSIA SARA W AK
2011
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Alhamdulillah and grateful to Allah SWT because I had been completed this thesis Firstly I
would like to express my sincere gratitude and thanks to my research supervisor Dr Yuzine
Bin Esa for his guidelines attention kindness encouragement and moral support gave to me
to finish my Final Year Project
I express my gratitude to my co-supervIsor Dr Hairul Azman for his comment
guidance and recommendations during completing my thesis
The special thank go to all lab assistants postgraduate students my laboratory mate
and all my dear friends for their invaluable moral support motivation and companionship
during preparation of this thesis
Finally I declare my best appreciation to my parents and all my family for their
endless help support and confidence
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Acknowledgement I
Table of Contents II
List of Abbreviations IV
List of Tables and Figures V
Abstract
Introduction 2
Literature Reviews 5
Domestic Goat 5
Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) 7
Mitochondrial DNA 8
Cytochrome Oxidase I (COl) 9
Genetic Studies on Domestic Goat and Other Ovine 10
Materials and Methods 12
Sample Collection of Goat 12
DNA Extraction 13
Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) 14
Agarose Gel Electrophoresis 15
Purification 15
DNA Analysis 16
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Results 18
DNA Extraction and Isolation 18
PCR Amplification 190
Purification 21
DNA Sequencing Analysis 22
Phylogenetic Inference 23
Neighbour-joining (NJ) 24
Maximum Parsimony (MP) 26
Discussions 29
DNA Extraction and Isolation 29
PCR Amplification 30
Purification 31
DNA Sequencing Analysis 31
Phylogenetic Inference 31
Conclusion and Future Work 34
References 35
Appendix A 38
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LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS
Chircus
CTAB
COl
d-loop
cyt b
DNA
dNTP
PCR
MEGA
MgCl2
mtDNA
NaCI
NaOAc
Etbr
NJ
MP
PCR
Rpm
bp
~I
degC
Capra hircus
Cetyl trimethyolammonium Bromide
Cytochrome Oxidase I
Displacement Loop
Cytochrome b
Deoxyribonucleic Acid
Deoxynucleoside tryphosphate
Polymerase Chain Reaction
Molecular Evolutionary Genetic Analysis
Magnesium Chloride
Mitochondrial DNA
Sodium Chloride
Sodium Acetate
Ethidium Bromide
Neighbour-joining
Maximum Parsimony
Polymerase Chain Reaction
Rotation Per Minute
Base pair
Microliter
Degree Celcius
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LIST OF TABLES
Table 1 Scientific classification of goat 5
Table 2 Description of the goat used in this study 12
Table 3 Primers that were used in PCR amplification 14
Table 4 PCR parameters Number of cycle 35 cycles 19
Table 5 The average total nucleotide composition in goat 23
Table 6 Description of the Capra hircus in group based on Neighbor-joining 25
Table 7 Description of the Capra hircus in group based on Maximum Parsimony 27
Table 8 Pairwise distance or genetic distance among the Capra hircus and Bos Taurus (out-group) 28
Table 9 Aligned nucleotide sequences of the Cytochrome Oxidase I (COl) among Capra hircus and Bos taurus (out-group) Dote indicates nucleotide that are the same as those found in RATEN Dash indicates an insertion event 38
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LIST OF FIGURES
Figure 1 Goat (Capra hircus) (Source Handalas farm Matang Sarawak) 5
Figure 2 Mitochondrial DNA (Source Wikipedia) 8
Figure 3 DNA extraction of20 samples goat M = 100-bp ladder (Fermentas) Lane 1 = K02l lane 2 = K032 lane 3 = L395 lane 4 = P466 lane 5 = 9369172 lane 6 = B303 lane 7 = P206D2 lane 8 = P454A lane 9 = H054 lane 10= L387 lane 11 = T452 lane 12 = G313 lane 14 = K014 lane 15 = K008 lane 16 = TA82A lane 17 = K003 lane 18 = R223 lane 19 = MOKLI lane 20 = RATEN 18
Figure 4 PCR products of 6 samples of extracted DNA M = 100-bp ladder (Fermentas) lane 1 = K003 lane 2 = K032 lane 3 = L395 lane 4 = MOKLI lane 5 = P466 lane 6 = 9369172 Lane 2 to 6 represents samples of extracted DNA that success in PCR Lane 1 represents sample of extracted DNA that failed in PCR reaction 20
Figure 5 PCR products of7 samples of extracted DNA Lane 1 = RATEN lane 2 = K02l lane 3 = B303 lane 4 = P206D2 lane 5 = P454A lane 6 = H054 lane 7 = L387 M = l-Kb ladder (Fermentas) Lane 1 to 7 represents samples of extracted DNA that success in PCR
reaction 20
Figure 6 PCR products of 7 samples of extracted DNA Lane 1 = T452 lane 2 =
T478 lane 3 = G313 lane 4 = K014 lane 5 = R223 lane 6 = K008 lane 7 = TA82A M = 1-Kb ladder (F ermentas) Lane 1 to 4 and lane 6 to 7 represents samples of extracted DNA that success in PCR reaction Lane 5 represent sample of extracted DNA that failed in PCR reaction
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Figure 7 Purified PCR products Lane 1 = K032 lane 2= L395 lane 3= MOKLI lane 4 = P466 lane 5 = 9369172 lane 6 = RATEN lane 7 = K02l lane 8 = B303 lane 9 = P206D2 lane 10 = P454A lane 11 = H054 lane 12
= L387 lane 13= T452 lane 14 = T478 lane 15 = G313 lane 16 = K014 lane 17= K008 lane 18 = TA82A M= l-Kb bp ladder (Fermentas)
22
Figure 8 Neighbour- joining tree ofpartial COl mtDNA gene sequences relationship
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among Capra hircus and Bos taurus (out-group) 24
Figure 9 Maximum Parsimony tree of partial COl mtDNA gene sequences relationship among Capra hircus and Bos taurus (out-group) Numbers at branches are the percentage of bootstrap values at 1000 replicates 26
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Genetic Characterization of Domestic Goat (Capra hircus) Using Mitochondrial DNA
Wan Nor Haslinda Binti Wan Azman
Resource Biotechnology Programme Faculty of Resource Science and Technology
Universiti Malaysia Sarawak
ABSTRACT
This study examines the genetic characteristic of domestic goat Capra hircus using sequence analysis of mitochondrial DNA Cytochrome Oxidase I (COl) gene A total of 20 domestic goat samples from the Handalas Farm Matang Sarawak were examined The sequence data were analyzed using both character (Maximum Parsimony) and distance (Neighbour-joining) methods Phylogenetic tree produced showed all the goats from the Handalas Farm Matang Sarawak is clustered into a single clade The result showed that all the sequences are closely related thus all samples used in this study are possibly originated from a single gene pool of domestic goat population Overall analysis from this study showed that the COl gene is limited use in examining the genetic structure of goat population in the Handalas Farm Matang Sarawak
Key words Capra hircus mitochondrial DNA Cytochrome Oxidase I (COl) gene genetic structure
ABSTRAK
Kajian ini dijalankan untuk mengkaji ciri-ciri genetik kambing domestik iaitu Capra hircus dengan menggunakan analisis jujukan gen mitokondria DNA Sitokrom Oksides I (COl) Sejumlah 20 sampel kambing domestik dan Ladang Handalas Matang Sarawak dikaji Jujukan data dianalisis menggunakan kaedah pencirian (Maximum Parsimony) dan jarak (Neighbour-joining) Filogenetik pokok yang terhasil menunjukkan ke semua kambing dari Ladang Handa las Matang Sarawak telah dikumpulkan kedalam satu clade Keputusan menunjukkan ke semua jujukan berkait rapat dan ke semua sampel yang digunakan adalah berkemungkinan berasal dari satu kolam gen populasi kambing domestik Keseluruhannya analisis dari kajian ini menunjukkan penggunaan gen COl adalah terhad dalam mengkaji struktur genetik populasi kambing di Ladang Handalas Matang Sarawak
Kata kunci Capra hircus motokondria DNA gen Sitokrom Oksides I (COl) struktur genetik
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INTRODUCTION
The domestic goat (Capra hircus) is one of the domesticated ruminant livestock species The
goat is a member of the Bovidae family and is closely related to the sheep (Table 1) Both are
in the goat-antelope subfamily Caprinae (Table 1) There are over three hundred distinct
breeds of goats (Anom 2010 a) Goats most likely descend from the wild bezoars (Capra
aegagrus) and the origins have been confirmed by genetic studies based on mitochondrial
and nuclear DNA (Naderi et at 2007 Groeneveld et at 2009)
The classification of goat breeds is determined based on their production of goat
status such as milk and meat production or both type The domestic goat is breeds in captivity
tend to have different anatomies and behaviour from their wild ancestor Breeding of
domestic goat is controled by human either by using natural breeding or assisted reproductive
techniques (ARTs) Current stocks of goats in Malaysia are made up from Katjang Boer
JarnnapariEttawah British Alphine Saenen Toggenburg breeds as well as their crosses
(Anom 2010 b) Goat contributes income for economic importance either from natural or
renewable product such as meat milk fine leather fertilizer gelatin surgical supplies
medicine soaps luggage and others
The levels of genetic variability of domestic goat are low within a population due to
variation in performance trait An assessment of genetic variability of the breed is a step
forward conservation and improvement of genetic resources for maintaining breeding
options The assessment in animal breeding and genetics was applied for identification
animal andparentage testing gene mapping and identifying marker for performance traits As
the structure of the mitochondrial DNA in livestock species varies evaluations through
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genetic study are needed in order to gain a better understanding about genetic variation
among domestic goat
Application of molecular marker are wide spread and has been found to be a powerful
indicator to measure genetic differences within and between individuals populations and
species Mammalian mitochondrial DNA have been used to identify variation because of
their advantage features such as it has represented the most informative genomic element
whereby it has highly informative polymorphism fast mutation rate highest stability
absence of recombination evolves less rapidly and display maternal mode of genetic
transmissions Genetic marker can also determine the relationship among breed using
calculating genetic distance and construct trees (Rout ei ai 2008) Thus this study was
carried out in a purpose to characterise the genetic variation of domestic goat by using
sequence analysis of Cytochrome Oxidase I (COl)
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The Objectives of This Study are
1 To extract DNA from samples goat
2 To amplify Cytochrome Oxidase I (COl) gene using PCR
3 To characterize the genetic structure of goat population from the Handa1as
farm Matang based on mitochondrial DNA Cytochrome Oxidase I (COl)
sequences
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LITERATURE REVIEW
Domestic Goat (Capra hircus)
Figure 1 Capra hircus (Source Handalas farm Matang Sarawak)
Table 1 Scientific classification of goat
Common name Domestic goat
Kingdom Animalia
Class Mammalia
Order Artiodactyla
Suborder Ruminantia
Family Bovidae
Subfamily Caprinae
Genus Capra
Species Capra hircus
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Domestic goat is a social animal and it also known as grazing specIes grass Mileski amp
Myers (201 0) stated that domestic goat is classified as sedentary because they live under
human control They live in group called herds and the size of captive herd could be
controlled by human Herds sizes in the wild tend to be 5 to 20 members but they can be as
high as 100 The herds can contain only males only females and young or a mix of both
Goats can survive on bushes trees scrub and aromatic herbs (Haenlein 1992) and eat any
kind of plant material such as grass leaves twigs as well as stems of woody plants
Goat come in varies colour like solid black white red brown spotted two and three
coloured blended shades distinct facial stripes black and white saddles depending on
breeds (Haenlein 1992) Figure 1 show a goat from the Handalas Farm Matang Sarawak
with a combination of two colours of white and black Goat has digestive tract with four
stomach compartments of ruminants consisting of the rumen the reticulum the omasum and
the obamasum The intestinal canal of the goat is about 100 feet long (11 liters) or 25 times
the length of a goat (Haenlein 1992)
The breeding behaviour of goat is usually control by human which follows
polygynous reproductive system that involves mating of one male with more than one female
(Mileski amp Myers 2010 Anom 2010 c) The females are then inseminated either directly by
those males or by novel reproductive biotechnologies which also known as assisted
reproductive techniques (ARTs) (Mileski amp Myers 2010 Rahman et at 2008) These ARTs
include artificial insemination(AI) embryo transfer (ET) multiple ovulation embryo transfer
(MOET) estrus synchronization and superovulation laparoscopic ovum pick-up (LOPU) in
vitro maturation (lVM) in vitro fertilization (lVF) and in vitro culture(lVC) collectively
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known as in vitro production (IVP) intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI)
cryopreservation of oocytes and embryos sperm and embryos sexing embryo splitting
embryo cloning nuclear transfer (NT) gene transfer and marker-assisted selection (MAS)
By using ARTs more offspring will be produced compared to natural breeding (Rahman et
al 2008)
Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR)
PCR is a technique for amplifying DNA in vitro by incubating with a specific primer DNA
polymerase molecule and nucleotide (Campbell amp Reece 2005) PCR technique produces
many copies of a specific DNA sequences without having to clone the sequence in a host
genome (Russell 2006) The starting material for PCR is double stranded DNA containing
the target nucleotide sequence to be copied a heat resistant DNA polymerase all four
nucleotide and two short single-stranded DNA molecules that serve as primer One primer is
complementary to one strand at one end of the target sequence and the second primer is
complementary to the other strand at the other end of the sequence Applications of PCR
allow any specific segment of the target sequences within a DNA sample to be copied many
times completely in vitro and in a much shorter time (Campbell amp Reece 2005 Jain et al
2007)
(
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125 -RNA
22 tRNA n~od ng gen
13 prot~n-encOdlnQ reil ons
Ojtochrnm
Mitochondrial DNA
Control r eIoC rgt or d4oo bull
NAOH D hydroj n s
iubunlt
NADH Dehydrogenase
s u_bunts
NADH Dehydrogenasa
5U nits
Oxidase
Cytochrome Oxidase ~ubunlt~
Figure 2 Mitochondrial DNA (Source Wikipedia)
Mammalian mitochondrial genome is a closed circular double-stranded mitochondrial
genome about 15000 base pairs long The mitochondrial genome of animal encodes product
whereas the mitochondrial genome for fungi and plants have extra DNA that does not code
for any product (Russell 2006 Sutarno 2010)
mtDNA is maternally inherited and the offspring are clones for mitochondrial DNA
genes (Jiang amp Ott 2010 Russel 2006) This pattern of inheritance allows matriarchal
lineages to be traced and provides a mean for examining family structure in some population
This in conjunction with the rapid and regular rate of accumulation of nucleotide sequence
differences has allowed mitochondrial DNA to become a valuable tool for comparing closely
related lineage (Russell 2006)
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~ubunll~
ATP Synthase subunits
Mitochondrial DNA is represented the most infonnative genomIc element
polymorphic sites and simple maternal inheritance without recombination in purpose to study
the population of many organism or livestock domestication (Joshi et ai 2004 Machugh amp
Bradley 2001 N aderi et ai 2007) In addition polymorphism accumulates approximately
10 to 17 times faster in mtDNA compared with nuclear DNA (Jiang amp Ott 2010) Thus
DNA is able to provide more infonnation compare to the protein because it has many non
coding regions and declining of genetic code
Cytochrome Oxidase I (COl)
Cytochrome Oxidase I (COl) is encoded by mitochondrial genome mtDNA and was exhibit
one of the most heterogeneous rates of amino acid replacement among placental mammals
COl is important enzyme which is found in all organisms that perfonn aerobic respiration
The COl gene is short genetic sequence of 648 base pairs which can be easily extracted from
cells the most slowly evolving gene and conservative protein-coding genes in the
mitochondrial genome of mammals which was preferable for the evolutionary (Maderankova
amp Provaznik 2010 Simon et ai 1994)
Besides that mitochondrial gene COl also was applied in analysis of DNA bercoding
in screening the mtDNA gene of all species and thus creating databases of COl for assigning
of unknown individuals to species and discovery of new species COl gene is suitable for
identification of animals especially birds fish and insect but it is not suitable for plants As
COl is mitochondrial gene it evolves quickly and therefore it is possible to identify close
related species and new species (Maderankova amp Provaznik 2010)
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Genetic Studies on Domestic Goat and Other Ovine
Genetic diversity is the best measure for genetic variation within a population There are
many previous studies on genetic diversity of goat by using different kind of DNA markers
for example a study by Rout et al (2008) which analysed Indian goat using microsatellites
marker showed higher level of gene diversity compared with the European and Asian goats
breeds Studies on goat genetics by using random amplified polymorphic DNA (RAPD)
molecular marker have also proven to be an efficient tool for quantification of genetic
diversity at the population levels (Gaali amp Satti 2009 Oliveira et al 2005)
Report by Mannen et al (2001) using the displacement loop (d-loop) and cyt b gene
revealed that the domestic goats are genetically affected by two subspecies of bezoars The
HVI of the mtDNA control region have also been used in study of phylogenetic history of
human and domestic animal because it showed higher level of polymorphism (Luikart et al
2001 Naderi et al 2007) Analysis of genetic distance mismatch distribution and
comparison with wild sheep has been studied by Meadows et al (2007) where the analysis
was carried out by using the DNA sequencing consisted of mitchondrion control region (525
bp) tRNA phe and l2s rRNA (535 bp) and cyt b gene (967 bp) According to Mackay et al
(1985) and Jiang amp Ott (2010) mammalian mitochondrial DNA repeatedly contains a short
DNA d-loop at the heavy strand origin of replication and has been completely sequence in
related species to farming and agriculture
Joshi et al (2004) studied of phylogeography and origin in Indian domestic goat
using mtDNA sequence data from HVRI regions They found the evidence for population
structure and novel lineage in Indian goat that cannot merge the genetic diversity were found
within the major lineage with domestication starting 10000 years ago from a single mtDNA
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ancestor Naderi et aI (2001) used also HVI segment of the mtDNA d-Ioop in their studied
to characterize the domestic goat mtDNA diversity based on a worldwide sampling Genetic
variations were found among goat haplogroups with the weak phylogeograpfic structure The
weak phylogeographic structure has been explained by a high mobility of goat species in a
relation to human migration and commercial trade Ruo-Yu et aI (2006) have been studied
about genetic diversity of mtDNA d-Ioop and the origin of Chinese goats for protection of
goat breed resources and goat breeding
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MATERIALS AND METHODS
Sample Collection of Goats
A total of 20 samples goat (Capra hircus) used in this study (Table 2) were collected from
the Handalas farm Matang Sarawak Samples goat was sampled using buccal cell collection
The samples of buccal cells were categorised based on their gender lineage and also
morphological identities The buccal cells samples were collected by using cotton swab and
the cotton swab were preserved in each tube containing Phosphate Buffered Saline (PBS)
buffer The buccal cells were stored in -20De freezer upon returning to the laboratory for
DNA extraction
Table 2 Description of the goat used in this study
Tag name Description
RATEN Male (mating)
K021 K032 L395 MOKLI Female (mating)
P4669369172B303P206D2P454A
H054
Female offspring (mating)
L387 T452 T478 0313 K014 K008
TA82A K003 R223
Female (hybrid)
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DNA Extraction
DNA was extracted from the goat samples using the CTAB method (Grewe et al 1993) The
buccal cells sample was transfer into new 15 eppendorf tube 100 III CTAB buffer and 20 III
proteinase K was added into the eppendorf tube Another 600 III CTAB buffer was added into
the eppendorf tube and the solution was mixed well Then the eppendorf tube was incubated
in water bath for 2 to 3 hours until the DNA samples dissolve After the DNA samples was
dissolved 600 III chlorofonn-isoamyl alcohol (24 I) was added and the solution was shaken
for 2 to 3 minute followed by centrifugation of the eppendorf tube for 20 minutes at 13 000
rpm The upper layer of supernatant was transfer into a new 15 eppendorf tube
Cold absolute ethanol was added into eppendorf tube and the solution was mixed
well The eppendorf tube was sit on the bench for a few minutes followed centrifugation for
20 minutes at 13 000 rpm The ethanol was discarded carefully and the pellet was washed and
precipitated with an equal volume of ethanol and 25 III of 3M NaOAclNaCI The eppendorf
tube then was undergone centrifugation process for 20 minutes at 13 000 rpm The ethanol
was discarded carefully to ensuing the pellet is not poured out
Small droplet of liquid that was present on the eppendorftube was left for evaporation
or sucked by using tissue The pellet was suspended in 30 III distilled water (ddH20) After
DNA had been extracted quality and approximate yield was detennined by electrophoresis in
a 1 agarose gel containing ethidium bromide at 90 Volts for 30 minutes The gel was
photographed under UV light Isolated genomic DNA was used for mtDNA analysis was
place at -20degC
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Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR)
Cytochrome Oxidase I (COl) of the mtDNA gene was amplified by using Polymerase Chain
Reaction (PCR) The amplification was done on a Gradient Thermo Cycler (Biorard)
machine for 35 cycles with 25 III of reaction volume For PCR reaction the following
components were mixed in the order that containing of lOX PCR Buffer (Promega) 50 mM
Magnesium Chloride (MgCI2) 2mM Deoxyribonucleotide triphosphates mixture (dTTP
dA TP dCTP and dGTP) 1 III of template DNA molecule of each sample sterile distilled
water (ddH20) 10 pmolllli forward primer 10 pmolIll reverse primer and 5ulll Taq DNA
Polymerase
Two universal primers of COl sequence that were used in the PCR amplification below
Table 3 Primers that were used in peR amplification
Primers sequence Sequences 5 to 3
COl Forward (VRld tt) 5-TGT AAA ACG ACG GCC AGC TCT CAA
CCA ACC ACA ARG A Y A TYG G-3
COl Reverse (VRld tt) 5-CAG GAA ACA GCT ATG ACT AGA CTT
CTG GGT GGC CRA ARA A YC A-3
In every amplification one negative control was used to monitor the validity of the
PCR reaction Temperature profile for 35 amplification cycles was pre-denaturation (94degC
for 2 minutes) denaturation (94 degC for 1 minute) annealing (51degC for 1 minute) extension
(72 degC for I minute) and final extension (72 degC for 5 minutes) After amplification the PCR
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products were run on 1 agarose gel stained with ethidium bromide at 90 volts for 40
minutes and photographed under UV light in order to determine the best annealing
temperature after optimization peR products were purified prior to sequencing using
purification kit (Promega)
Agarose Gel Electrophoresis
The 05g of 1 agarose gel was prepared and mixed with Tris-Acetic acid-EDTA (IX TAE)
buffer The solution was heated for 1 minute until the agarose powder totally dissolved The
solution was poured into the clean conical flask and 1 ~l Etbr was added into it The conical
flask was shakes slowly Then the solution immediately poured into the electrophoresis tank
The solution was cooled down for 10 minutes until the gel solidify 1 ~l a Fermentas ladder
was loaded at front of the well followed 2 ~l each peR products The peR products were run
on 1 agarose gel stained with ethidium bromide at 90 volts for 40 minutes and
photographed under UV light
Purification
peR amplified products were extracted and purified before send for DNA sequencing The
purification process was done by using the purification kit (Promega) according to the
manufacturers instruction A brief summary of the protocol is as follow An equal volume
(23 ~l) of membrane binding solution was added into the peR reaction A mini column was
inserted into the collection tube and prepared peR product was transfer into the mini column
assembly The mini column was undergone centrifugation at 14000 rpm for 3 minutes and
the supernatant was discarded Then the mini column was reinserted into the collection tube
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700 fll of membrane washing buffer (within ethanol added) was added into tube and
undergone centrifugation at 14000 rpm for 2 minutes The supernatant inside tube was
discarded and the mini column was reinserted into collection tube
The DNA pellet was washed by using 500 fll washing buffer and was undergone
centrifugation at 14000 rpm for 5 minutes in order to dry the mini column and eliminate the
excess ethanol inside the mini column The mini column was transferred into new 15 ml
eppendorf tube and 28 fll of Nuclease-free water was added into mini column followed by
incubation for 1 minute Thus the mini column has undergone centrifugation at 14000 rpm
for 5 minute 2 fll of the purified PCR product was checked by running 1 agarose gel to
ensure the sufficiency recovery of the purified PCR obtained The purified DNA was then
stored at -20 0 C and sent to a commercial company First Base (First BASE Laboratories Sdn
Bhd Malaysia) for DNA sequencing Only forward primer was used to sequencing the DNA
Data Analysis
The data from DNA sequencing process was analysed using CHROMAS LITE software The
sequences then were exported to fasta format The sequence was opened in Notepad and all
the N s and ambiguities were deleting before combining all the sequences After that the
DNA sequences were aligned using CLUSTAL X (Thompson et al 1994) and the data were
save as aln and nxs file
The sequences then were further analysed in MEGA 4 using phylogenetic test The
MEGA software has been to provide tools for exploring discovering and analysing DNA
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Alhamdulillah and grateful to Allah SWT because I had been completed this thesis Firstly I
would like to express my sincere gratitude and thanks to my research supervisor Dr Yuzine
Bin Esa for his guidelines attention kindness encouragement and moral support gave to me
to finish my Final Year Project
I express my gratitude to my co-supervIsor Dr Hairul Azman for his comment
guidance and recommendations during completing my thesis
The special thank go to all lab assistants postgraduate students my laboratory mate
and all my dear friends for their invaluable moral support motivation and companionship
during preparation of this thesis
Finally I declare my best appreciation to my parents and all my family for their
endless help support and confidence
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Acknowledgement I
Table of Contents II
List of Abbreviations IV
List of Tables and Figures V
Abstract
Introduction 2
Literature Reviews 5
Domestic Goat 5
Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) 7
Mitochondrial DNA 8
Cytochrome Oxidase I (COl) 9
Genetic Studies on Domestic Goat and Other Ovine 10
Materials and Methods 12
Sample Collection of Goat 12
DNA Extraction 13
Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) 14
Agarose Gel Electrophoresis 15
Purification 15
DNA Analysis 16
II
Results 18
DNA Extraction and Isolation 18
PCR Amplification 190
Purification 21
DNA Sequencing Analysis 22
Phylogenetic Inference 23
Neighbour-joining (NJ) 24
Maximum Parsimony (MP) 26
Discussions 29
DNA Extraction and Isolation 29
PCR Amplification 30
Purification 31
DNA Sequencing Analysis 31
Phylogenetic Inference 31
Conclusion and Future Work 34
References 35
Appendix A 38
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LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS
Chircus
CTAB
COl
d-loop
cyt b
DNA
dNTP
PCR
MEGA
MgCl2
mtDNA
NaCI
NaOAc
Etbr
NJ
MP
PCR
Rpm
bp
~I
degC
Capra hircus
Cetyl trimethyolammonium Bromide
Cytochrome Oxidase I
Displacement Loop
Cytochrome b
Deoxyribonucleic Acid
Deoxynucleoside tryphosphate
Polymerase Chain Reaction
Molecular Evolutionary Genetic Analysis
Magnesium Chloride
Mitochondrial DNA
Sodium Chloride
Sodium Acetate
Ethidium Bromide
Neighbour-joining
Maximum Parsimony
Polymerase Chain Reaction
Rotation Per Minute
Base pair
Microliter
Degree Celcius
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LIST OF TABLES
Table 1 Scientific classification of goat 5
Table 2 Description of the goat used in this study 12
Table 3 Primers that were used in PCR amplification 14
Table 4 PCR parameters Number of cycle 35 cycles 19
Table 5 The average total nucleotide composition in goat 23
Table 6 Description of the Capra hircus in group based on Neighbor-joining 25
Table 7 Description of the Capra hircus in group based on Maximum Parsimony 27
Table 8 Pairwise distance or genetic distance among the Capra hircus and Bos Taurus (out-group) 28
Table 9 Aligned nucleotide sequences of the Cytochrome Oxidase I (COl) among Capra hircus and Bos taurus (out-group) Dote indicates nucleotide that are the same as those found in RATEN Dash indicates an insertion event 38
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LIST OF FIGURES
Figure 1 Goat (Capra hircus) (Source Handalas farm Matang Sarawak) 5
Figure 2 Mitochondrial DNA (Source Wikipedia) 8
Figure 3 DNA extraction of20 samples goat M = 100-bp ladder (Fermentas) Lane 1 = K02l lane 2 = K032 lane 3 = L395 lane 4 = P466 lane 5 = 9369172 lane 6 = B303 lane 7 = P206D2 lane 8 = P454A lane 9 = H054 lane 10= L387 lane 11 = T452 lane 12 = G313 lane 14 = K014 lane 15 = K008 lane 16 = TA82A lane 17 = K003 lane 18 = R223 lane 19 = MOKLI lane 20 = RATEN 18
Figure 4 PCR products of 6 samples of extracted DNA M = 100-bp ladder (Fermentas) lane 1 = K003 lane 2 = K032 lane 3 = L395 lane 4 = MOKLI lane 5 = P466 lane 6 = 9369172 Lane 2 to 6 represents samples of extracted DNA that success in PCR Lane 1 represents sample of extracted DNA that failed in PCR reaction 20
Figure 5 PCR products of7 samples of extracted DNA Lane 1 = RATEN lane 2 = K02l lane 3 = B303 lane 4 = P206D2 lane 5 = P454A lane 6 = H054 lane 7 = L387 M = l-Kb ladder (Fermentas) Lane 1 to 7 represents samples of extracted DNA that success in PCR
reaction 20
Figure 6 PCR products of 7 samples of extracted DNA Lane 1 = T452 lane 2 =
T478 lane 3 = G313 lane 4 = K014 lane 5 = R223 lane 6 = K008 lane 7 = TA82A M = 1-Kb ladder (F ermentas) Lane 1 to 4 and lane 6 to 7 represents samples of extracted DNA that success in PCR reaction Lane 5 represent sample of extracted DNA that failed in PCR reaction
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Figure 7 Purified PCR products Lane 1 = K032 lane 2= L395 lane 3= MOKLI lane 4 = P466 lane 5 = 9369172 lane 6 = RATEN lane 7 = K02l lane 8 = B303 lane 9 = P206D2 lane 10 = P454A lane 11 = H054 lane 12
= L387 lane 13= T452 lane 14 = T478 lane 15 = G313 lane 16 = K014 lane 17= K008 lane 18 = TA82A M= l-Kb bp ladder (Fermentas)
22
Figure 8 Neighbour- joining tree ofpartial COl mtDNA gene sequences relationship
VI
among Capra hircus and Bos taurus (out-group) 24
Figure 9 Maximum Parsimony tree of partial COl mtDNA gene sequences relationship among Capra hircus and Bos taurus (out-group) Numbers at branches are the percentage of bootstrap values at 1000 replicates 26
VII
11
Genetic Characterization of Domestic Goat (Capra hircus) Using Mitochondrial DNA
Wan Nor Haslinda Binti Wan Azman
Resource Biotechnology Programme Faculty of Resource Science and Technology
Universiti Malaysia Sarawak
ABSTRACT
This study examines the genetic characteristic of domestic goat Capra hircus using sequence analysis of mitochondrial DNA Cytochrome Oxidase I (COl) gene A total of 20 domestic goat samples from the Handalas Farm Matang Sarawak were examined The sequence data were analyzed using both character (Maximum Parsimony) and distance (Neighbour-joining) methods Phylogenetic tree produced showed all the goats from the Handalas Farm Matang Sarawak is clustered into a single clade The result showed that all the sequences are closely related thus all samples used in this study are possibly originated from a single gene pool of domestic goat population Overall analysis from this study showed that the COl gene is limited use in examining the genetic structure of goat population in the Handalas Farm Matang Sarawak
Key words Capra hircus mitochondrial DNA Cytochrome Oxidase I (COl) gene genetic structure
ABSTRAK
Kajian ini dijalankan untuk mengkaji ciri-ciri genetik kambing domestik iaitu Capra hircus dengan menggunakan analisis jujukan gen mitokondria DNA Sitokrom Oksides I (COl) Sejumlah 20 sampel kambing domestik dan Ladang Handalas Matang Sarawak dikaji Jujukan data dianalisis menggunakan kaedah pencirian (Maximum Parsimony) dan jarak (Neighbour-joining) Filogenetik pokok yang terhasil menunjukkan ke semua kambing dari Ladang Handa las Matang Sarawak telah dikumpulkan kedalam satu clade Keputusan menunjukkan ke semua jujukan berkait rapat dan ke semua sampel yang digunakan adalah berkemungkinan berasal dari satu kolam gen populasi kambing domestik Keseluruhannya analisis dari kajian ini menunjukkan penggunaan gen COl adalah terhad dalam mengkaji struktur genetik populasi kambing di Ladang Handalas Matang Sarawak
Kata kunci Capra hircus motokondria DNA gen Sitokrom Oksides I (COl) struktur genetik
1
INTRODUCTION
The domestic goat (Capra hircus) is one of the domesticated ruminant livestock species The
goat is a member of the Bovidae family and is closely related to the sheep (Table 1) Both are
in the goat-antelope subfamily Caprinae (Table 1) There are over three hundred distinct
breeds of goats (Anom 2010 a) Goats most likely descend from the wild bezoars (Capra
aegagrus) and the origins have been confirmed by genetic studies based on mitochondrial
and nuclear DNA (Naderi et at 2007 Groeneveld et at 2009)
The classification of goat breeds is determined based on their production of goat
status such as milk and meat production or both type The domestic goat is breeds in captivity
tend to have different anatomies and behaviour from their wild ancestor Breeding of
domestic goat is controled by human either by using natural breeding or assisted reproductive
techniques (ARTs) Current stocks of goats in Malaysia are made up from Katjang Boer
JarnnapariEttawah British Alphine Saenen Toggenburg breeds as well as their crosses
(Anom 2010 b) Goat contributes income for economic importance either from natural or
renewable product such as meat milk fine leather fertilizer gelatin surgical supplies
medicine soaps luggage and others
The levels of genetic variability of domestic goat are low within a population due to
variation in performance trait An assessment of genetic variability of the breed is a step
forward conservation and improvement of genetic resources for maintaining breeding
options The assessment in animal breeding and genetics was applied for identification
animal andparentage testing gene mapping and identifying marker for performance traits As
the structure of the mitochondrial DNA in livestock species varies evaluations through
2
genetic study are needed in order to gain a better understanding about genetic variation
among domestic goat
Application of molecular marker are wide spread and has been found to be a powerful
indicator to measure genetic differences within and between individuals populations and
species Mammalian mitochondrial DNA have been used to identify variation because of
their advantage features such as it has represented the most informative genomic element
whereby it has highly informative polymorphism fast mutation rate highest stability
absence of recombination evolves less rapidly and display maternal mode of genetic
transmissions Genetic marker can also determine the relationship among breed using
calculating genetic distance and construct trees (Rout ei ai 2008) Thus this study was
carried out in a purpose to characterise the genetic variation of domestic goat by using
sequence analysis of Cytochrome Oxidase I (COl)
3
The Objectives of This Study are
1 To extract DNA from samples goat
2 To amplify Cytochrome Oxidase I (COl) gene using PCR
3 To characterize the genetic structure of goat population from the Handa1as
farm Matang based on mitochondrial DNA Cytochrome Oxidase I (COl)
sequences
4
2 Ii i at
LITERATURE REVIEW
Domestic Goat (Capra hircus)
Figure 1 Capra hircus (Source Handalas farm Matang Sarawak)
Table 1 Scientific classification of goat
Common name Domestic goat
Kingdom Animalia
Class Mammalia
Order Artiodactyla
Suborder Ruminantia
Family Bovidae
Subfamily Caprinae
Genus Capra
Species Capra hircus
5
Domestic goat is a social animal and it also known as grazing specIes grass Mileski amp
Myers (201 0) stated that domestic goat is classified as sedentary because they live under
human control They live in group called herds and the size of captive herd could be
controlled by human Herds sizes in the wild tend to be 5 to 20 members but they can be as
high as 100 The herds can contain only males only females and young or a mix of both
Goats can survive on bushes trees scrub and aromatic herbs (Haenlein 1992) and eat any
kind of plant material such as grass leaves twigs as well as stems of woody plants
Goat come in varies colour like solid black white red brown spotted two and three
coloured blended shades distinct facial stripes black and white saddles depending on
breeds (Haenlein 1992) Figure 1 show a goat from the Handalas Farm Matang Sarawak
with a combination of two colours of white and black Goat has digestive tract with four
stomach compartments of ruminants consisting of the rumen the reticulum the omasum and
the obamasum The intestinal canal of the goat is about 100 feet long (11 liters) or 25 times
the length of a goat (Haenlein 1992)
The breeding behaviour of goat is usually control by human which follows
polygynous reproductive system that involves mating of one male with more than one female
(Mileski amp Myers 2010 Anom 2010 c) The females are then inseminated either directly by
those males or by novel reproductive biotechnologies which also known as assisted
reproductive techniques (ARTs) (Mileski amp Myers 2010 Rahman et at 2008) These ARTs
include artificial insemination(AI) embryo transfer (ET) multiple ovulation embryo transfer
(MOET) estrus synchronization and superovulation laparoscopic ovum pick-up (LOPU) in
vitro maturation (lVM) in vitro fertilization (lVF) and in vitro culture(lVC) collectively
6
i
known as in vitro production (IVP) intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI)
cryopreservation of oocytes and embryos sperm and embryos sexing embryo splitting
embryo cloning nuclear transfer (NT) gene transfer and marker-assisted selection (MAS)
By using ARTs more offspring will be produced compared to natural breeding (Rahman et
al 2008)
Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR)
PCR is a technique for amplifying DNA in vitro by incubating with a specific primer DNA
polymerase molecule and nucleotide (Campbell amp Reece 2005) PCR technique produces
many copies of a specific DNA sequences without having to clone the sequence in a host
genome (Russell 2006) The starting material for PCR is double stranded DNA containing
the target nucleotide sequence to be copied a heat resistant DNA polymerase all four
nucleotide and two short single-stranded DNA molecules that serve as primer One primer is
complementary to one strand at one end of the target sequence and the second primer is
complementary to the other strand at the other end of the sequence Applications of PCR
allow any specific segment of the target sequences within a DNA sample to be copied many
times completely in vitro and in a much shorter time (Campbell amp Reece 2005 Jain et al
2007)
(
7
125 -RNA
22 tRNA n~od ng gen
13 prot~n-encOdlnQ reil ons
Ojtochrnm
Mitochondrial DNA
Control r eIoC rgt or d4oo bull
NAOH D hydroj n s
iubunlt
NADH Dehydrogenase
s u_bunts
NADH Dehydrogenasa
5U nits
Oxidase
Cytochrome Oxidase ~ubunlt~
Figure 2 Mitochondrial DNA (Source Wikipedia)
Mammalian mitochondrial genome is a closed circular double-stranded mitochondrial
genome about 15000 base pairs long The mitochondrial genome of animal encodes product
whereas the mitochondrial genome for fungi and plants have extra DNA that does not code
for any product (Russell 2006 Sutarno 2010)
mtDNA is maternally inherited and the offspring are clones for mitochondrial DNA
genes (Jiang amp Ott 2010 Russel 2006) This pattern of inheritance allows matriarchal
lineages to be traced and provides a mean for examining family structure in some population
This in conjunction with the rapid and regular rate of accumulation of nucleotide sequence
differences has allowed mitochondrial DNA to become a valuable tool for comparing closely
related lineage (Russell 2006)
8
~ubunll~
ATP Synthase subunits
Mitochondrial DNA is represented the most infonnative genomIc element
polymorphic sites and simple maternal inheritance without recombination in purpose to study
the population of many organism or livestock domestication (Joshi et ai 2004 Machugh amp
Bradley 2001 N aderi et ai 2007) In addition polymorphism accumulates approximately
10 to 17 times faster in mtDNA compared with nuclear DNA (Jiang amp Ott 2010) Thus
DNA is able to provide more infonnation compare to the protein because it has many non
coding regions and declining of genetic code
Cytochrome Oxidase I (COl)
Cytochrome Oxidase I (COl) is encoded by mitochondrial genome mtDNA and was exhibit
one of the most heterogeneous rates of amino acid replacement among placental mammals
COl is important enzyme which is found in all organisms that perfonn aerobic respiration
The COl gene is short genetic sequence of 648 base pairs which can be easily extracted from
cells the most slowly evolving gene and conservative protein-coding genes in the
mitochondrial genome of mammals which was preferable for the evolutionary (Maderankova
amp Provaznik 2010 Simon et ai 1994)
Besides that mitochondrial gene COl also was applied in analysis of DNA bercoding
in screening the mtDNA gene of all species and thus creating databases of COl for assigning
of unknown individuals to species and discovery of new species COl gene is suitable for
identification of animals especially birds fish and insect but it is not suitable for plants As
COl is mitochondrial gene it evolves quickly and therefore it is possible to identify close
related species and new species (Maderankova amp Provaznik 2010)
9
Genetic Studies on Domestic Goat and Other Ovine
Genetic diversity is the best measure for genetic variation within a population There are
many previous studies on genetic diversity of goat by using different kind of DNA markers
for example a study by Rout et al (2008) which analysed Indian goat using microsatellites
marker showed higher level of gene diversity compared with the European and Asian goats
breeds Studies on goat genetics by using random amplified polymorphic DNA (RAPD)
molecular marker have also proven to be an efficient tool for quantification of genetic
diversity at the population levels (Gaali amp Satti 2009 Oliveira et al 2005)
Report by Mannen et al (2001) using the displacement loop (d-loop) and cyt b gene
revealed that the domestic goats are genetically affected by two subspecies of bezoars The
HVI of the mtDNA control region have also been used in study of phylogenetic history of
human and domestic animal because it showed higher level of polymorphism (Luikart et al
2001 Naderi et al 2007) Analysis of genetic distance mismatch distribution and
comparison with wild sheep has been studied by Meadows et al (2007) where the analysis
was carried out by using the DNA sequencing consisted of mitchondrion control region (525
bp) tRNA phe and l2s rRNA (535 bp) and cyt b gene (967 bp) According to Mackay et al
(1985) and Jiang amp Ott (2010) mammalian mitochondrial DNA repeatedly contains a short
DNA d-loop at the heavy strand origin of replication and has been completely sequence in
related species to farming and agriculture
Joshi et al (2004) studied of phylogeography and origin in Indian domestic goat
using mtDNA sequence data from HVRI regions They found the evidence for population
structure and novel lineage in Indian goat that cannot merge the genetic diversity were found
within the major lineage with domestication starting 10000 years ago from a single mtDNA
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ancestor Naderi et aI (2001) used also HVI segment of the mtDNA d-Ioop in their studied
to characterize the domestic goat mtDNA diversity based on a worldwide sampling Genetic
variations were found among goat haplogroups with the weak phylogeograpfic structure The
weak phylogeographic structure has been explained by a high mobility of goat species in a
relation to human migration and commercial trade Ruo-Yu et aI (2006) have been studied
about genetic diversity of mtDNA d-Ioop and the origin of Chinese goats for protection of
goat breed resources and goat breeding
11
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MATERIALS AND METHODS
Sample Collection of Goats
A total of 20 samples goat (Capra hircus) used in this study (Table 2) were collected from
the Handalas farm Matang Sarawak Samples goat was sampled using buccal cell collection
The samples of buccal cells were categorised based on their gender lineage and also
morphological identities The buccal cells samples were collected by using cotton swab and
the cotton swab were preserved in each tube containing Phosphate Buffered Saline (PBS)
buffer The buccal cells were stored in -20De freezer upon returning to the laboratory for
DNA extraction
Table 2 Description of the goat used in this study
Tag name Description
RATEN Male (mating)
K021 K032 L395 MOKLI Female (mating)
P4669369172B303P206D2P454A
H054
Female offspring (mating)
L387 T452 T478 0313 K014 K008
TA82A K003 R223
Female (hybrid)
12
DNA Extraction
DNA was extracted from the goat samples using the CTAB method (Grewe et al 1993) The
buccal cells sample was transfer into new 15 eppendorf tube 100 III CTAB buffer and 20 III
proteinase K was added into the eppendorf tube Another 600 III CTAB buffer was added into
the eppendorf tube and the solution was mixed well Then the eppendorf tube was incubated
in water bath for 2 to 3 hours until the DNA samples dissolve After the DNA samples was
dissolved 600 III chlorofonn-isoamyl alcohol (24 I) was added and the solution was shaken
for 2 to 3 minute followed by centrifugation of the eppendorf tube for 20 minutes at 13 000
rpm The upper layer of supernatant was transfer into a new 15 eppendorf tube
Cold absolute ethanol was added into eppendorf tube and the solution was mixed
well The eppendorf tube was sit on the bench for a few minutes followed centrifugation for
20 minutes at 13 000 rpm The ethanol was discarded carefully and the pellet was washed and
precipitated with an equal volume of ethanol and 25 III of 3M NaOAclNaCI The eppendorf
tube then was undergone centrifugation process for 20 minutes at 13 000 rpm The ethanol
was discarded carefully to ensuing the pellet is not poured out
Small droplet of liquid that was present on the eppendorftube was left for evaporation
or sucked by using tissue The pellet was suspended in 30 III distilled water (ddH20) After
DNA had been extracted quality and approximate yield was detennined by electrophoresis in
a 1 agarose gel containing ethidium bromide at 90 Volts for 30 minutes The gel was
photographed under UV light Isolated genomic DNA was used for mtDNA analysis was
place at -20degC
13
T
Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR)
Cytochrome Oxidase I (COl) of the mtDNA gene was amplified by using Polymerase Chain
Reaction (PCR) The amplification was done on a Gradient Thermo Cycler (Biorard)
machine for 35 cycles with 25 III of reaction volume For PCR reaction the following
components were mixed in the order that containing of lOX PCR Buffer (Promega) 50 mM
Magnesium Chloride (MgCI2) 2mM Deoxyribonucleotide triphosphates mixture (dTTP
dA TP dCTP and dGTP) 1 III of template DNA molecule of each sample sterile distilled
water (ddH20) 10 pmolllli forward primer 10 pmolIll reverse primer and 5ulll Taq DNA
Polymerase
Two universal primers of COl sequence that were used in the PCR amplification below
Table 3 Primers that were used in peR amplification
Primers sequence Sequences 5 to 3
COl Forward (VRld tt) 5-TGT AAA ACG ACG GCC AGC TCT CAA
CCA ACC ACA ARG A Y A TYG G-3
COl Reverse (VRld tt) 5-CAG GAA ACA GCT ATG ACT AGA CTT
CTG GGT GGC CRA ARA A YC A-3
In every amplification one negative control was used to monitor the validity of the
PCR reaction Temperature profile for 35 amplification cycles was pre-denaturation (94degC
for 2 minutes) denaturation (94 degC for 1 minute) annealing (51degC for 1 minute) extension
(72 degC for I minute) and final extension (72 degC for 5 minutes) After amplification the PCR
14
1
products were run on 1 agarose gel stained with ethidium bromide at 90 volts for 40
minutes and photographed under UV light in order to determine the best annealing
temperature after optimization peR products were purified prior to sequencing using
purification kit (Promega)
Agarose Gel Electrophoresis
The 05g of 1 agarose gel was prepared and mixed with Tris-Acetic acid-EDTA (IX TAE)
buffer The solution was heated for 1 minute until the agarose powder totally dissolved The
solution was poured into the clean conical flask and 1 ~l Etbr was added into it The conical
flask was shakes slowly Then the solution immediately poured into the electrophoresis tank
The solution was cooled down for 10 minutes until the gel solidify 1 ~l a Fermentas ladder
was loaded at front of the well followed 2 ~l each peR products The peR products were run
on 1 agarose gel stained with ethidium bromide at 90 volts for 40 minutes and
photographed under UV light
Purification
peR amplified products were extracted and purified before send for DNA sequencing The
purification process was done by using the purification kit (Promega) according to the
manufacturers instruction A brief summary of the protocol is as follow An equal volume
(23 ~l) of membrane binding solution was added into the peR reaction A mini column was
inserted into the collection tube and prepared peR product was transfer into the mini column
assembly The mini column was undergone centrifugation at 14000 rpm for 3 minutes and
the supernatant was discarded Then the mini column was reinserted into the collection tube
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T
700 fll of membrane washing buffer (within ethanol added) was added into tube and
undergone centrifugation at 14000 rpm for 2 minutes The supernatant inside tube was
discarded and the mini column was reinserted into collection tube
The DNA pellet was washed by using 500 fll washing buffer and was undergone
centrifugation at 14000 rpm for 5 minutes in order to dry the mini column and eliminate the
excess ethanol inside the mini column The mini column was transferred into new 15 ml
eppendorf tube and 28 fll of Nuclease-free water was added into mini column followed by
incubation for 1 minute Thus the mini column has undergone centrifugation at 14000 rpm
for 5 minute 2 fll of the purified PCR product was checked by running 1 agarose gel to
ensure the sufficiency recovery of the purified PCR obtained The purified DNA was then
stored at -20 0 C and sent to a commercial company First Base (First BASE Laboratories Sdn
Bhd Malaysia) for DNA sequencing Only forward primer was used to sequencing the DNA
Data Analysis
The data from DNA sequencing process was analysed using CHROMAS LITE software The
sequences then were exported to fasta format The sequence was opened in Notepad and all
the N s and ambiguities were deleting before combining all the sequences After that the
DNA sequences were aligned using CLUSTAL X (Thompson et al 1994) and the data were
save as aln and nxs file
The sequences then were further analysed in MEGA 4 using phylogenetic test The
MEGA software has been to provide tools for exploring discovering and analysing DNA
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Acknowledgement I
Table of Contents II
List of Abbreviations IV
List of Tables and Figures V
Abstract
Introduction 2
Literature Reviews 5
Domestic Goat 5
Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) 7
Mitochondrial DNA 8
Cytochrome Oxidase I (COl) 9
Genetic Studies on Domestic Goat and Other Ovine 10
Materials and Methods 12
Sample Collection of Goat 12
DNA Extraction 13
Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) 14
Agarose Gel Electrophoresis 15
Purification 15
DNA Analysis 16
II
Results 18
DNA Extraction and Isolation 18
PCR Amplification 190
Purification 21
DNA Sequencing Analysis 22
Phylogenetic Inference 23
Neighbour-joining (NJ) 24
Maximum Parsimony (MP) 26
Discussions 29
DNA Extraction and Isolation 29
PCR Amplification 30
Purification 31
DNA Sequencing Analysis 31
Phylogenetic Inference 31
Conclusion and Future Work 34
References 35
Appendix A 38
III
LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS
Chircus
CTAB
COl
d-loop
cyt b
DNA
dNTP
PCR
MEGA
MgCl2
mtDNA
NaCI
NaOAc
Etbr
NJ
MP
PCR
Rpm
bp
~I
degC
Capra hircus
Cetyl trimethyolammonium Bromide
Cytochrome Oxidase I
Displacement Loop
Cytochrome b
Deoxyribonucleic Acid
Deoxynucleoside tryphosphate
Polymerase Chain Reaction
Molecular Evolutionary Genetic Analysis
Magnesium Chloride
Mitochondrial DNA
Sodium Chloride
Sodium Acetate
Ethidium Bromide
Neighbour-joining
Maximum Parsimony
Polymerase Chain Reaction
Rotation Per Minute
Base pair
Microliter
Degree Celcius
IV
LIST OF TABLES
Table 1 Scientific classification of goat 5
Table 2 Description of the goat used in this study 12
Table 3 Primers that were used in PCR amplification 14
Table 4 PCR parameters Number of cycle 35 cycles 19
Table 5 The average total nucleotide composition in goat 23
Table 6 Description of the Capra hircus in group based on Neighbor-joining 25
Table 7 Description of the Capra hircus in group based on Maximum Parsimony 27
Table 8 Pairwise distance or genetic distance among the Capra hircus and Bos Taurus (out-group) 28
Table 9 Aligned nucleotide sequences of the Cytochrome Oxidase I (COl) among Capra hircus and Bos taurus (out-group) Dote indicates nucleotide that are the same as those found in RATEN Dash indicates an insertion event 38
v
LIST OF FIGURES
Figure 1 Goat (Capra hircus) (Source Handalas farm Matang Sarawak) 5
Figure 2 Mitochondrial DNA (Source Wikipedia) 8
Figure 3 DNA extraction of20 samples goat M = 100-bp ladder (Fermentas) Lane 1 = K02l lane 2 = K032 lane 3 = L395 lane 4 = P466 lane 5 = 9369172 lane 6 = B303 lane 7 = P206D2 lane 8 = P454A lane 9 = H054 lane 10= L387 lane 11 = T452 lane 12 = G313 lane 14 = K014 lane 15 = K008 lane 16 = TA82A lane 17 = K003 lane 18 = R223 lane 19 = MOKLI lane 20 = RATEN 18
Figure 4 PCR products of 6 samples of extracted DNA M = 100-bp ladder (Fermentas) lane 1 = K003 lane 2 = K032 lane 3 = L395 lane 4 = MOKLI lane 5 = P466 lane 6 = 9369172 Lane 2 to 6 represents samples of extracted DNA that success in PCR Lane 1 represents sample of extracted DNA that failed in PCR reaction 20
Figure 5 PCR products of7 samples of extracted DNA Lane 1 = RATEN lane 2 = K02l lane 3 = B303 lane 4 = P206D2 lane 5 = P454A lane 6 = H054 lane 7 = L387 M = l-Kb ladder (Fermentas) Lane 1 to 7 represents samples of extracted DNA that success in PCR
reaction 20
Figure 6 PCR products of 7 samples of extracted DNA Lane 1 = T452 lane 2 =
T478 lane 3 = G313 lane 4 = K014 lane 5 = R223 lane 6 = K008 lane 7 = TA82A M = 1-Kb ladder (F ermentas) Lane 1 to 4 and lane 6 to 7 represents samples of extracted DNA that success in PCR reaction Lane 5 represent sample of extracted DNA that failed in PCR reaction
21
Figure 7 Purified PCR products Lane 1 = K032 lane 2= L395 lane 3= MOKLI lane 4 = P466 lane 5 = 9369172 lane 6 = RATEN lane 7 = K02l lane 8 = B303 lane 9 = P206D2 lane 10 = P454A lane 11 = H054 lane 12
= L387 lane 13= T452 lane 14 = T478 lane 15 = G313 lane 16 = K014 lane 17= K008 lane 18 = TA82A M= l-Kb bp ladder (Fermentas)
22
Figure 8 Neighbour- joining tree ofpartial COl mtDNA gene sequences relationship
VI
among Capra hircus and Bos taurus (out-group) 24
Figure 9 Maximum Parsimony tree of partial COl mtDNA gene sequences relationship among Capra hircus and Bos taurus (out-group) Numbers at branches are the percentage of bootstrap values at 1000 replicates 26
VII
11
Genetic Characterization of Domestic Goat (Capra hircus) Using Mitochondrial DNA
Wan Nor Haslinda Binti Wan Azman
Resource Biotechnology Programme Faculty of Resource Science and Technology
Universiti Malaysia Sarawak
ABSTRACT
This study examines the genetic characteristic of domestic goat Capra hircus using sequence analysis of mitochondrial DNA Cytochrome Oxidase I (COl) gene A total of 20 domestic goat samples from the Handalas Farm Matang Sarawak were examined The sequence data were analyzed using both character (Maximum Parsimony) and distance (Neighbour-joining) methods Phylogenetic tree produced showed all the goats from the Handalas Farm Matang Sarawak is clustered into a single clade The result showed that all the sequences are closely related thus all samples used in this study are possibly originated from a single gene pool of domestic goat population Overall analysis from this study showed that the COl gene is limited use in examining the genetic structure of goat population in the Handalas Farm Matang Sarawak
Key words Capra hircus mitochondrial DNA Cytochrome Oxidase I (COl) gene genetic structure
ABSTRAK
Kajian ini dijalankan untuk mengkaji ciri-ciri genetik kambing domestik iaitu Capra hircus dengan menggunakan analisis jujukan gen mitokondria DNA Sitokrom Oksides I (COl) Sejumlah 20 sampel kambing domestik dan Ladang Handalas Matang Sarawak dikaji Jujukan data dianalisis menggunakan kaedah pencirian (Maximum Parsimony) dan jarak (Neighbour-joining) Filogenetik pokok yang terhasil menunjukkan ke semua kambing dari Ladang Handa las Matang Sarawak telah dikumpulkan kedalam satu clade Keputusan menunjukkan ke semua jujukan berkait rapat dan ke semua sampel yang digunakan adalah berkemungkinan berasal dari satu kolam gen populasi kambing domestik Keseluruhannya analisis dari kajian ini menunjukkan penggunaan gen COl adalah terhad dalam mengkaji struktur genetik populasi kambing di Ladang Handalas Matang Sarawak
Kata kunci Capra hircus motokondria DNA gen Sitokrom Oksides I (COl) struktur genetik
1
INTRODUCTION
The domestic goat (Capra hircus) is one of the domesticated ruminant livestock species The
goat is a member of the Bovidae family and is closely related to the sheep (Table 1) Both are
in the goat-antelope subfamily Caprinae (Table 1) There are over three hundred distinct
breeds of goats (Anom 2010 a) Goats most likely descend from the wild bezoars (Capra
aegagrus) and the origins have been confirmed by genetic studies based on mitochondrial
and nuclear DNA (Naderi et at 2007 Groeneveld et at 2009)
The classification of goat breeds is determined based on their production of goat
status such as milk and meat production or both type The domestic goat is breeds in captivity
tend to have different anatomies and behaviour from their wild ancestor Breeding of
domestic goat is controled by human either by using natural breeding or assisted reproductive
techniques (ARTs) Current stocks of goats in Malaysia are made up from Katjang Boer
JarnnapariEttawah British Alphine Saenen Toggenburg breeds as well as their crosses
(Anom 2010 b) Goat contributes income for economic importance either from natural or
renewable product such as meat milk fine leather fertilizer gelatin surgical supplies
medicine soaps luggage and others
The levels of genetic variability of domestic goat are low within a population due to
variation in performance trait An assessment of genetic variability of the breed is a step
forward conservation and improvement of genetic resources for maintaining breeding
options The assessment in animal breeding and genetics was applied for identification
animal andparentage testing gene mapping and identifying marker for performance traits As
the structure of the mitochondrial DNA in livestock species varies evaluations through
2
genetic study are needed in order to gain a better understanding about genetic variation
among domestic goat
Application of molecular marker are wide spread and has been found to be a powerful
indicator to measure genetic differences within and between individuals populations and
species Mammalian mitochondrial DNA have been used to identify variation because of
their advantage features such as it has represented the most informative genomic element
whereby it has highly informative polymorphism fast mutation rate highest stability
absence of recombination evolves less rapidly and display maternal mode of genetic
transmissions Genetic marker can also determine the relationship among breed using
calculating genetic distance and construct trees (Rout ei ai 2008) Thus this study was
carried out in a purpose to characterise the genetic variation of domestic goat by using
sequence analysis of Cytochrome Oxidase I (COl)
3
The Objectives of This Study are
1 To extract DNA from samples goat
2 To amplify Cytochrome Oxidase I (COl) gene using PCR
3 To characterize the genetic structure of goat population from the Handa1as
farm Matang based on mitochondrial DNA Cytochrome Oxidase I (COl)
sequences
4
2 Ii i at
LITERATURE REVIEW
Domestic Goat (Capra hircus)
Figure 1 Capra hircus (Source Handalas farm Matang Sarawak)
Table 1 Scientific classification of goat
Common name Domestic goat
Kingdom Animalia
Class Mammalia
Order Artiodactyla
Suborder Ruminantia
Family Bovidae
Subfamily Caprinae
Genus Capra
Species Capra hircus
5
Domestic goat is a social animal and it also known as grazing specIes grass Mileski amp
Myers (201 0) stated that domestic goat is classified as sedentary because they live under
human control They live in group called herds and the size of captive herd could be
controlled by human Herds sizes in the wild tend to be 5 to 20 members but they can be as
high as 100 The herds can contain only males only females and young or a mix of both
Goats can survive on bushes trees scrub and aromatic herbs (Haenlein 1992) and eat any
kind of plant material such as grass leaves twigs as well as stems of woody plants
Goat come in varies colour like solid black white red brown spotted two and three
coloured blended shades distinct facial stripes black and white saddles depending on
breeds (Haenlein 1992) Figure 1 show a goat from the Handalas Farm Matang Sarawak
with a combination of two colours of white and black Goat has digestive tract with four
stomach compartments of ruminants consisting of the rumen the reticulum the omasum and
the obamasum The intestinal canal of the goat is about 100 feet long (11 liters) or 25 times
the length of a goat (Haenlein 1992)
The breeding behaviour of goat is usually control by human which follows
polygynous reproductive system that involves mating of one male with more than one female
(Mileski amp Myers 2010 Anom 2010 c) The females are then inseminated either directly by
those males or by novel reproductive biotechnologies which also known as assisted
reproductive techniques (ARTs) (Mileski amp Myers 2010 Rahman et at 2008) These ARTs
include artificial insemination(AI) embryo transfer (ET) multiple ovulation embryo transfer
(MOET) estrus synchronization and superovulation laparoscopic ovum pick-up (LOPU) in
vitro maturation (lVM) in vitro fertilization (lVF) and in vitro culture(lVC) collectively
6
i
known as in vitro production (IVP) intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI)
cryopreservation of oocytes and embryos sperm and embryos sexing embryo splitting
embryo cloning nuclear transfer (NT) gene transfer and marker-assisted selection (MAS)
By using ARTs more offspring will be produced compared to natural breeding (Rahman et
al 2008)
Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR)
PCR is a technique for amplifying DNA in vitro by incubating with a specific primer DNA
polymerase molecule and nucleotide (Campbell amp Reece 2005) PCR technique produces
many copies of a specific DNA sequences without having to clone the sequence in a host
genome (Russell 2006) The starting material for PCR is double stranded DNA containing
the target nucleotide sequence to be copied a heat resistant DNA polymerase all four
nucleotide and two short single-stranded DNA molecules that serve as primer One primer is
complementary to one strand at one end of the target sequence and the second primer is
complementary to the other strand at the other end of the sequence Applications of PCR
allow any specific segment of the target sequences within a DNA sample to be copied many
times completely in vitro and in a much shorter time (Campbell amp Reece 2005 Jain et al
2007)
(
7
125 -RNA
22 tRNA n~od ng gen
13 prot~n-encOdlnQ reil ons
Ojtochrnm
Mitochondrial DNA
Control r eIoC rgt or d4oo bull
NAOH D hydroj n s
iubunlt
NADH Dehydrogenase
s u_bunts
NADH Dehydrogenasa
5U nits
Oxidase
Cytochrome Oxidase ~ubunlt~
Figure 2 Mitochondrial DNA (Source Wikipedia)
Mammalian mitochondrial genome is a closed circular double-stranded mitochondrial
genome about 15000 base pairs long The mitochondrial genome of animal encodes product
whereas the mitochondrial genome for fungi and plants have extra DNA that does not code
for any product (Russell 2006 Sutarno 2010)
mtDNA is maternally inherited and the offspring are clones for mitochondrial DNA
genes (Jiang amp Ott 2010 Russel 2006) This pattern of inheritance allows matriarchal
lineages to be traced and provides a mean for examining family structure in some population
This in conjunction with the rapid and regular rate of accumulation of nucleotide sequence
differences has allowed mitochondrial DNA to become a valuable tool for comparing closely
related lineage (Russell 2006)
8
~ubunll~
ATP Synthase subunits
Mitochondrial DNA is represented the most infonnative genomIc element
polymorphic sites and simple maternal inheritance without recombination in purpose to study
the population of many organism or livestock domestication (Joshi et ai 2004 Machugh amp
Bradley 2001 N aderi et ai 2007) In addition polymorphism accumulates approximately
10 to 17 times faster in mtDNA compared with nuclear DNA (Jiang amp Ott 2010) Thus
DNA is able to provide more infonnation compare to the protein because it has many non
coding regions and declining of genetic code
Cytochrome Oxidase I (COl)
Cytochrome Oxidase I (COl) is encoded by mitochondrial genome mtDNA and was exhibit
one of the most heterogeneous rates of amino acid replacement among placental mammals
COl is important enzyme which is found in all organisms that perfonn aerobic respiration
The COl gene is short genetic sequence of 648 base pairs which can be easily extracted from
cells the most slowly evolving gene and conservative protein-coding genes in the
mitochondrial genome of mammals which was preferable for the evolutionary (Maderankova
amp Provaznik 2010 Simon et ai 1994)
Besides that mitochondrial gene COl also was applied in analysis of DNA bercoding
in screening the mtDNA gene of all species and thus creating databases of COl for assigning
of unknown individuals to species and discovery of new species COl gene is suitable for
identification of animals especially birds fish and insect but it is not suitable for plants As
COl is mitochondrial gene it evolves quickly and therefore it is possible to identify close
related species and new species (Maderankova amp Provaznik 2010)
9
Genetic Studies on Domestic Goat and Other Ovine
Genetic diversity is the best measure for genetic variation within a population There are
many previous studies on genetic diversity of goat by using different kind of DNA markers
for example a study by Rout et al (2008) which analysed Indian goat using microsatellites
marker showed higher level of gene diversity compared with the European and Asian goats
breeds Studies on goat genetics by using random amplified polymorphic DNA (RAPD)
molecular marker have also proven to be an efficient tool for quantification of genetic
diversity at the population levels (Gaali amp Satti 2009 Oliveira et al 2005)
Report by Mannen et al (2001) using the displacement loop (d-loop) and cyt b gene
revealed that the domestic goats are genetically affected by two subspecies of bezoars The
HVI of the mtDNA control region have also been used in study of phylogenetic history of
human and domestic animal because it showed higher level of polymorphism (Luikart et al
2001 Naderi et al 2007) Analysis of genetic distance mismatch distribution and
comparison with wild sheep has been studied by Meadows et al (2007) where the analysis
was carried out by using the DNA sequencing consisted of mitchondrion control region (525
bp) tRNA phe and l2s rRNA (535 bp) and cyt b gene (967 bp) According to Mackay et al
(1985) and Jiang amp Ott (2010) mammalian mitochondrial DNA repeatedly contains a short
DNA d-loop at the heavy strand origin of replication and has been completely sequence in
related species to farming and agriculture
Joshi et al (2004) studied of phylogeography and origin in Indian domestic goat
using mtDNA sequence data from HVRI regions They found the evidence for population
structure and novel lineage in Indian goat that cannot merge the genetic diversity were found
within the major lineage with domestication starting 10000 years ago from a single mtDNA
10
ancestor Naderi et aI (2001) used also HVI segment of the mtDNA d-Ioop in their studied
to characterize the domestic goat mtDNA diversity based on a worldwide sampling Genetic
variations were found among goat haplogroups with the weak phylogeograpfic structure The
weak phylogeographic structure has been explained by a high mobility of goat species in a
relation to human migration and commercial trade Ruo-Yu et aI (2006) have been studied
about genetic diversity of mtDNA d-Ioop and the origin of Chinese goats for protection of
goat breed resources and goat breeding
11
1iii
MATERIALS AND METHODS
Sample Collection of Goats
A total of 20 samples goat (Capra hircus) used in this study (Table 2) were collected from
the Handalas farm Matang Sarawak Samples goat was sampled using buccal cell collection
The samples of buccal cells were categorised based on their gender lineage and also
morphological identities The buccal cells samples were collected by using cotton swab and
the cotton swab were preserved in each tube containing Phosphate Buffered Saline (PBS)
buffer The buccal cells were stored in -20De freezer upon returning to the laboratory for
DNA extraction
Table 2 Description of the goat used in this study
Tag name Description
RATEN Male (mating)
K021 K032 L395 MOKLI Female (mating)
P4669369172B303P206D2P454A
H054
Female offspring (mating)
L387 T452 T478 0313 K014 K008
TA82A K003 R223
Female (hybrid)
12
DNA Extraction
DNA was extracted from the goat samples using the CTAB method (Grewe et al 1993) The
buccal cells sample was transfer into new 15 eppendorf tube 100 III CTAB buffer and 20 III
proteinase K was added into the eppendorf tube Another 600 III CTAB buffer was added into
the eppendorf tube and the solution was mixed well Then the eppendorf tube was incubated
in water bath for 2 to 3 hours until the DNA samples dissolve After the DNA samples was
dissolved 600 III chlorofonn-isoamyl alcohol (24 I) was added and the solution was shaken
for 2 to 3 minute followed by centrifugation of the eppendorf tube for 20 minutes at 13 000
rpm The upper layer of supernatant was transfer into a new 15 eppendorf tube
Cold absolute ethanol was added into eppendorf tube and the solution was mixed
well The eppendorf tube was sit on the bench for a few minutes followed centrifugation for
20 minutes at 13 000 rpm The ethanol was discarded carefully and the pellet was washed and
precipitated with an equal volume of ethanol and 25 III of 3M NaOAclNaCI The eppendorf
tube then was undergone centrifugation process for 20 minutes at 13 000 rpm The ethanol
was discarded carefully to ensuing the pellet is not poured out
Small droplet of liquid that was present on the eppendorftube was left for evaporation
or sucked by using tissue The pellet was suspended in 30 III distilled water (ddH20) After
DNA had been extracted quality and approximate yield was detennined by electrophoresis in
a 1 agarose gel containing ethidium bromide at 90 Volts for 30 minutes The gel was
photographed under UV light Isolated genomic DNA was used for mtDNA analysis was
place at -20degC
13
T
Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR)
Cytochrome Oxidase I (COl) of the mtDNA gene was amplified by using Polymerase Chain
Reaction (PCR) The amplification was done on a Gradient Thermo Cycler (Biorard)
machine for 35 cycles with 25 III of reaction volume For PCR reaction the following
components were mixed in the order that containing of lOX PCR Buffer (Promega) 50 mM
Magnesium Chloride (MgCI2) 2mM Deoxyribonucleotide triphosphates mixture (dTTP
dA TP dCTP and dGTP) 1 III of template DNA molecule of each sample sterile distilled
water (ddH20) 10 pmolllli forward primer 10 pmolIll reverse primer and 5ulll Taq DNA
Polymerase
Two universal primers of COl sequence that were used in the PCR amplification below
Table 3 Primers that were used in peR amplification
Primers sequence Sequences 5 to 3
COl Forward (VRld tt) 5-TGT AAA ACG ACG GCC AGC TCT CAA
CCA ACC ACA ARG A Y A TYG G-3
COl Reverse (VRld tt) 5-CAG GAA ACA GCT ATG ACT AGA CTT
CTG GGT GGC CRA ARA A YC A-3
In every amplification one negative control was used to monitor the validity of the
PCR reaction Temperature profile for 35 amplification cycles was pre-denaturation (94degC
for 2 minutes) denaturation (94 degC for 1 minute) annealing (51degC for 1 minute) extension
(72 degC for I minute) and final extension (72 degC for 5 minutes) After amplification the PCR
14
1
products were run on 1 agarose gel stained with ethidium bromide at 90 volts for 40
minutes and photographed under UV light in order to determine the best annealing
temperature after optimization peR products were purified prior to sequencing using
purification kit (Promega)
Agarose Gel Electrophoresis
The 05g of 1 agarose gel was prepared and mixed with Tris-Acetic acid-EDTA (IX TAE)
buffer The solution was heated for 1 minute until the agarose powder totally dissolved The
solution was poured into the clean conical flask and 1 ~l Etbr was added into it The conical
flask was shakes slowly Then the solution immediately poured into the electrophoresis tank
The solution was cooled down for 10 minutes until the gel solidify 1 ~l a Fermentas ladder
was loaded at front of the well followed 2 ~l each peR products The peR products were run
on 1 agarose gel stained with ethidium bromide at 90 volts for 40 minutes and
photographed under UV light
Purification
peR amplified products were extracted and purified before send for DNA sequencing The
purification process was done by using the purification kit (Promega) according to the
manufacturers instruction A brief summary of the protocol is as follow An equal volume
(23 ~l) of membrane binding solution was added into the peR reaction A mini column was
inserted into the collection tube and prepared peR product was transfer into the mini column
assembly The mini column was undergone centrifugation at 14000 rpm for 3 minutes and
the supernatant was discarded Then the mini column was reinserted into the collection tube
15
T
700 fll of membrane washing buffer (within ethanol added) was added into tube and
undergone centrifugation at 14000 rpm for 2 minutes The supernatant inside tube was
discarded and the mini column was reinserted into collection tube
The DNA pellet was washed by using 500 fll washing buffer and was undergone
centrifugation at 14000 rpm for 5 minutes in order to dry the mini column and eliminate the
excess ethanol inside the mini column The mini column was transferred into new 15 ml
eppendorf tube and 28 fll of Nuclease-free water was added into mini column followed by
incubation for 1 minute Thus the mini column has undergone centrifugation at 14000 rpm
for 5 minute 2 fll of the purified PCR product was checked by running 1 agarose gel to
ensure the sufficiency recovery of the purified PCR obtained The purified DNA was then
stored at -20 0 C and sent to a commercial company First Base (First BASE Laboratories Sdn
Bhd Malaysia) for DNA sequencing Only forward primer was used to sequencing the DNA
Data Analysis
The data from DNA sequencing process was analysed using CHROMAS LITE software The
sequences then were exported to fasta format The sequence was opened in Notepad and all
the N s and ambiguities were deleting before combining all the sequences After that the
DNA sequences were aligned using CLUSTAL X (Thompson et al 1994) and the data were
save as aln and nxs file
The sequences then were further analysed in MEGA 4 using phylogenetic test The
MEGA software has been to provide tools for exploring discovering and analysing DNA
16
Results 18
DNA Extraction and Isolation 18
PCR Amplification 190
Purification 21
DNA Sequencing Analysis 22
Phylogenetic Inference 23
Neighbour-joining (NJ) 24
Maximum Parsimony (MP) 26
Discussions 29
DNA Extraction and Isolation 29
PCR Amplification 30
Purification 31
DNA Sequencing Analysis 31
Phylogenetic Inference 31
Conclusion and Future Work 34
References 35
Appendix A 38
III
LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS
Chircus
CTAB
COl
d-loop
cyt b
DNA
dNTP
PCR
MEGA
MgCl2
mtDNA
NaCI
NaOAc
Etbr
NJ
MP
PCR
Rpm
bp
~I
degC
Capra hircus
Cetyl trimethyolammonium Bromide
Cytochrome Oxidase I
Displacement Loop
Cytochrome b
Deoxyribonucleic Acid
Deoxynucleoside tryphosphate
Polymerase Chain Reaction
Molecular Evolutionary Genetic Analysis
Magnesium Chloride
Mitochondrial DNA
Sodium Chloride
Sodium Acetate
Ethidium Bromide
Neighbour-joining
Maximum Parsimony
Polymerase Chain Reaction
Rotation Per Minute
Base pair
Microliter
Degree Celcius
IV
LIST OF TABLES
Table 1 Scientific classification of goat 5
Table 2 Description of the goat used in this study 12
Table 3 Primers that were used in PCR amplification 14
Table 4 PCR parameters Number of cycle 35 cycles 19
Table 5 The average total nucleotide composition in goat 23
Table 6 Description of the Capra hircus in group based on Neighbor-joining 25
Table 7 Description of the Capra hircus in group based on Maximum Parsimony 27
Table 8 Pairwise distance or genetic distance among the Capra hircus and Bos Taurus (out-group) 28
Table 9 Aligned nucleotide sequences of the Cytochrome Oxidase I (COl) among Capra hircus and Bos taurus (out-group) Dote indicates nucleotide that are the same as those found in RATEN Dash indicates an insertion event 38
v
LIST OF FIGURES
Figure 1 Goat (Capra hircus) (Source Handalas farm Matang Sarawak) 5
Figure 2 Mitochondrial DNA (Source Wikipedia) 8
Figure 3 DNA extraction of20 samples goat M = 100-bp ladder (Fermentas) Lane 1 = K02l lane 2 = K032 lane 3 = L395 lane 4 = P466 lane 5 = 9369172 lane 6 = B303 lane 7 = P206D2 lane 8 = P454A lane 9 = H054 lane 10= L387 lane 11 = T452 lane 12 = G313 lane 14 = K014 lane 15 = K008 lane 16 = TA82A lane 17 = K003 lane 18 = R223 lane 19 = MOKLI lane 20 = RATEN 18
Figure 4 PCR products of 6 samples of extracted DNA M = 100-bp ladder (Fermentas) lane 1 = K003 lane 2 = K032 lane 3 = L395 lane 4 = MOKLI lane 5 = P466 lane 6 = 9369172 Lane 2 to 6 represents samples of extracted DNA that success in PCR Lane 1 represents sample of extracted DNA that failed in PCR reaction 20
Figure 5 PCR products of7 samples of extracted DNA Lane 1 = RATEN lane 2 = K02l lane 3 = B303 lane 4 = P206D2 lane 5 = P454A lane 6 = H054 lane 7 = L387 M = l-Kb ladder (Fermentas) Lane 1 to 7 represents samples of extracted DNA that success in PCR
reaction 20
Figure 6 PCR products of 7 samples of extracted DNA Lane 1 = T452 lane 2 =
T478 lane 3 = G313 lane 4 = K014 lane 5 = R223 lane 6 = K008 lane 7 = TA82A M = 1-Kb ladder (F ermentas) Lane 1 to 4 and lane 6 to 7 represents samples of extracted DNA that success in PCR reaction Lane 5 represent sample of extracted DNA that failed in PCR reaction
21
Figure 7 Purified PCR products Lane 1 = K032 lane 2= L395 lane 3= MOKLI lane 4 = P466 lane 5 = 9369172 lane 6 = RATEN lane 7 = K02l lane 8 = B303 lane 9 = P206D2 lane 10 = P454A lane 11 = H054 lane 12
= L387 lane 13= T452 lane 14 = T478 lane 15 = G313 lane 16 = K014 lane 17= K008 lane 18 = TA82A M= l-Kb bp ladder (Fermentas)
22
Figure 8 Neighbour- joining tree ofpartial COl mtDNA gene sequences relationship
VI
among Capra hircus and Bos taurus (out-group) 24
Figure 9 Maximum Parsimony tree of partial COl mtDNA gene sequences relationship among Capra hircus and Bos taurus (out-group) Numbers at branches are the percentage of bootstrap values at 1000 replicates 26
VII
11
Genetic Characterization of Domestic Goat (Capra hircus) Using Mitochondrial DNA
Wan Nor Haslinda Binti Wan Azman
Resource Biotechnology Programme Faculty of Resource Science and Technology
Universiti Malaysia Sarawak
ABSTRACT
This study examines the genetic characteristic of domestic goat Capra hircus using sequence analysis of mitochondrial DNA Cytochrome Oxidase I (COl) gene A total of 20 domestic goat samples from the Handalas Farm Matang Sarawak were examined The sequence data were analyzed using both character (Maximum Parsimony) and distance (Neighbour-joining) methods Phylogenetic tree produced showed all the goats from the Handalas Farm Matang Sarawak is clustered into a single clade The result showed that all the sequences are closely related thus all samples used in this study are possibly originated from a single gene pool of domestic goat population Overall analysis from this study showed that the COl gene is limited use in examining the genetic structure of goat population in the Handalas Farm Matang Sarawak
Key words Capra hircus mitochondrial DNA Cytochrome Oxidase I (COl) gene genetic structure
ABSTRAK
Kajian ini dijalankan untuk mengkaji ciri-ciri genetik kambing domestik iaitu Capra hircus dengan menggunakan analisis jujukan gen mitokondria DNA Sitokrom Oksides I (COl) Sejumlah 20 sampel kambing domestik dan Ladang Handalas Matang Sarawak dikaji Jujukan data dianalisis menggunakan kaedah pencirian (Maximum Parsimony) dan jarak (Neighbour-joining) Filogenetik pokok yang terhasil menunjukkan ke semua kambing dari Ladang Handa las Matang Sarawak telah dikumpulkan kedalam satu clade Keputusan menunjukkan ke semua jujukan berkait rapat dan ke semua sampel yang digunakan adalah berkemungkinan berasal dari satu kolam gen populasi kambing domestik Keseluruhannya analisis dari kajian ini menunjukkan penggunaan gen COl adalah terhad dalam mengkaji struktur genetik populasi kambing di Ladang Handalas Matang Sarawak
Kata kunci Capra hircus motokondria DNA gen Sitokrom Oksides I (COl) struktur genetik
1
INTRODUCTION
The domestic goat (Capra hircus) is one of the domesticated ruminant livestock species The
goat is a member of the Bovidae family and is closely related to the sheep (Table 1) Both are
in the goat-antelope subfamily Caprinae (Table 1) There are over three hundred distinct
breeds of goats (Anom 2010 a) Goats most likely descend from the wild bezoars (Capra
aegagrus) and the origins have been confirmed by genetic studies based on mitochondrial
and nuclear DNA (Naderi et at 2007 Groeneveld et at 2009)
The classification of goat breeds is determined based on their production of goat
status such as milk and meat production or both type The domestic goat is breeds in captivity
tend to have different anatomies and behaviour from their wild ancestor Breeding of
domestic goat is controled by human either by using natural breeding or assisted reproductive
techniques (ARTs) Current stocks of goats in Malaysia are made up from Katjang Boer
JarnnapariEttawah British Alphine Saenen Toggenburg breeds as well as their crosses
(Anom 2010 b) Goat contributes income for economic importance either from natural or
renewable product such as meat milk fine leather fertilizer gelatin surgical supplies
medicine soaps luggage and others
The levels of genetic variability of domestic goat are low within a population due to
variation in performance trait An assessment of genetic variability of the breed is a step
forward conservation and improvement of genetic resources for maintaining breeding
options The assessment in animal breeding and genetics was applied for identification
animal andparentage testing gene mapping and identifying marker for performance traits As
the structure of the mitochondrial DNA in livestock species varies evaluations through
2
genetic study are needed in order to gain a better understanding about genetic variation
among domestic goat
Application of molecular marker are wide spread and has been found to be a powerful
indicator to measure genetic differences within and between individuals populations and
species Mammalian mitochondrial DNA have been used to identify variation because of
their advantage features such as it has represented the most informative genomic element
whereby it has highly informative polymorphism fast mutation rate highest stability
absence of recombination evolves less rapidly and display maternal mode of genetic
transmissions Genetic marker can also determine the relationship among breed using
calculating genetic distance and construct trees (Rout ei ai 2008) Thus this study was
carried out in a purpose to characterise the genetic variation of domestic goat by using
sequence analysis of Cytochrome Oxidase I (COl)
3
The Objectives of This Study are
1 To extract DNA from samples goat
2 To amplify Cytochrome Oxidase I (COl) gene using PCR
3 To characterize the genetic structure of goat population from the Handa1as
farm Matang based on mitochondrial DNA Cytochrome Oxidase I (COl)
sequences
4
2 Ii i at
LITERATURE REVIEW
Domestic Goat (Capra hircus)
Figure 1 Capra hircus (Source Handalas farm Matang Sarawak)
Table 1 Scientific classification of goat
Common name Domestic goat
Kingdom Animalia
Class Mammalia
Order Artiodactyla
Suborder Ruminantia
Family Bovidae
Subfamily Caprinae
Genus Capra
Species Capra hircus
5
Domestic goat is a social animal and it also known as grazing specIes grass Mileski amp
Myers (201 0) stated that domestic goat is classified as sedentary because they live under
human control They live in group called herds and the size of captive herd could be
controlled by human Herds sizes in the wild tend to be 5 to 20 members but they can be as
high as 100 The herds can contain only males only females and young or a mix of both
Goats can survive on bushes trees scrub and aromatic herbs (Haenlein 1992) and eat any
kind of plant material such as grass leaves twigs as well as stems of woody plants
Goat come in varies colour like solid black white red brown spotted two and three
coloured blended shades distinct facial stripes black and white saddles depending on
breeds (Haenlein 1992) Figure 1 show a goat from the Handalas Farm Matang Sarawak
with a combination of two colours of white and black Goat has digestive tract with four
stomach compartments of ruminants consisting of the rumen the reticulum the omasum and
the obamasum The intestinal canal of the goat is about 100 feet long (11 liters) or 25 times
the length of a goat (Haenlein 1992)
The breeding behaviour of goat is usually control by human which follows
polygynous reproductive system that involves mating of one male with more than one female
(Mileski amp Myers 2010 Anom 2010 c) The females are then inseminated either directly by
those males or by novel reproductive biotechnologies which also known as assisted
reproductive techniques (ARTs) (Mileski amp Myers 2010 Rahman et at 2008) These ARTs
include artificial insemination(AI) embryo transfer (ET) multiple ovulation embryo transfer
(MOET) estrus synchronization and superovulation laparoscopic ovum pick-up (LOPU) in
vitro maturation (lVM) in vitro fertilization (lVF) and in vitro culture(lVC) collectively
6
i
known as in vitro production (IVP) intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI)
cryopreservation of oocytes and embryos sperm and embryos sexing embryo splitting
embryo cloning nuclear transfer (NT) gene transfer and marker-assisted selection (MAS)
By using ARTs more offspring will be produced compared to natural breeding (Rahman et
al 2008)
Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR)
PCR is a technique for amplifying DNA in vitro by incubating with a specific primer DNA
polymerase molecule and nucleotide (Campbell amp Reece 2005) PCR technique produces
many copies of a specific DNA sequences without having to clone the sequence in a host
genome (Russell 2006) The starting material for PCR is double stranded DNA containing
the target nucleotide sequence to be copied a heat resistant DNA polymerase all four
nucleotide and two short single-stranded DNA molecules that serve as primer One primer is
complementary to one strand at one end of the target sequence and the second primer is
complementary to the other strand at the other end of the sequence Applications of PCR
allow any specific segment of the target sequences within a DNA sample to be copied many
times completely in vitro and in a much shorter time (Campbell amp Reece 2005 Jain et al
2007)
(
7
125 -RNA
22 tRNA n~od ng gen
13 prot~n-encOdlnQ reil ons
Ojtochrnm
Mitochondrial DNA
Control r eIoC rgt or d4oo bull
NAOH D hydroj n s
iubunlt
NADH Dehydrogenase
s u_bunts
NADH Dehydrogenasa
5U nits
Oxidase
Cytochrome Oxidase ~ubunlt~
Figure 2 Mitochondrial DNA (Source Wikipedia)
Mammalian mitochondrial genome is a closed circular double-stranded mitochondrial
genome about 15000 base pairs long The mitochondrial genome of animal encodes product
whereas the mitochondrial genome for fungi and plants have extra DNA that does not code
for any product (Russell 2006 Sutarno 2010)
mtDNA is maternally inherited and the offspring are clones for mitochondrial DNA
genes (Jiang amp Ott 2010 Russel 2006) This pattern of inheritance allows matriarchal
lineages to be traced and provides a mean for examining family structure in some population
This in conjunction with the rapid and regular rate of accumulation of nucleotide sequence
differences has allowed mitochondrial DNA to become a valuable tool for comparing closely
related lineage (Russell 2006)
8
~ubunll~
ATP Synthase subunits
Mitochondrial DNA is represented the most infonnative genomIc element
polymorphic sites and simple maternal inheritance without recombination in purpose to study
the population of many organism or livestock domestication (Joshi et ai 2004 Machugh amp
Bradley 2001 N aderi et ai 2007) In addition polymorphism accumulates approximately
10 to 17 times faster in mtDNA compared with nuclear DNA (Jiang amp Ott 2010) Thus
DNA is able to provide more infonnation compare to the protein because it has many non
coding regions and declining of genetic code
Cytochrome Oxidase I (COl)
Cytochrome Oxidase I (COl) is encoded by mitochondrial genome mtDNA and was exhibit
one of the most heterogeneous rates of amino acid replacement among placental mammals
COl is important enzyme which is found in all organisms that perfonn aerobic respiration
The COl gene is short genetic sequence of 648 base pairs which can be easily extracted from
cells the most slowly evolving gene and conservative protein-coding genes in the
mitochondrial genome of mammals which was preferable for the evolutionary (Maderankova
amp Provaznik 2010 Simon et ai 1994)
Besides that mitochondrial gene COl also was applied in analysis of DNA bercoding
in screening the mtDNA gene of all species and thus creating databases of COl for assigning
of unknown individuals to species and discovery of new species COl gene is suitable for
identification of animals especially birds fish and insect but it is not suitable for plants As
COl is mitochondrial gene it evolves quickly and therefore it is possible to identify close
related species and new species (Maderankova amp Provaznik 2010)
9
Genetic Studies on Domestic Goat and Other Ovine
Genetic diversity is the best measure for genetic variation within a population There are
many previous studies on genetic diversity of goat by using different kind of DNA markers
for example a study by Rout et al (2008) which analysed Indian goat using microsatellites
marker showed higher level of gene diversity compared with the European and Asian goats
breeds Studies on goat genetics by using random amplified polymorphic DNA (RAPD)
molecular marker have also proven to be an efficient tool for quantification of genetic
diversity at the population levels (Gaali amp Satti 2009 Oliveira et al 2005)
Report by Mannen et al (2001) using the displacement loop (d-loop) and cyt b gene
revealed that the domestic goats are genetically affected by two subspecies of bezoars The
HVI of the mtDNA control region have also been used in study of phylogenetic history of
human and domestic animal because it showed higher level of polymorphism (Luikart et al
2001 Naderi et al 2007) Analysis of genetic distance mismatch distribution and
comparison with wild sheep has been studied by Meadows et al (2007) where the analysis
was carried out by using the DNA sequencing consisted of mitchondrion control region (525
bp) tRNA phe and l2s rRNA (535 bp) and cyt b gene (967 bp) According to Mackay et al
(1985) and Jiang amp Ott (2010) mammalian mitochondrial DNA repeatedly contains a short
DNA d-loop at the heavy strand origin of replication and has been completely sequence in
related species to farming and agriculture
Joshi et al (2004) studied of phylogeography and origin in Indian domestic goat
using mtDNA sequence data from HVRI regions They found the evidence for population
structure and novel lineage in Indian goat that cannot merge the genetic diversity were found
within the major lineage with domestication starting 10000 years ago from a single mtDNA
10
ancestor Naderi et aI (2001) used also HVI segment of the mtDNA d-Ioop in their studied
to characterize the domestic goat mtDNA diversity based on a worldwide sampling Genetic
variations were found among goat haplogroups with the weak phylogeograpfic structure The
weak phylogeographic structure has been explained by a high mobility of goat species in a
relation to human migration and commercial trade Ruo-Yu et aI (2006) have been studied
about genetic diversity of mtDNA d-Ioop and the origin of Chinese goats for protection of
goat breed resources and goat breeding
11
1iii
MATERIALS AND METHODS
Sample Collection of Goats
A total of 20 samples goat (Capra hircus) used in this study (Table 2) were collected from
the Handalas farm Matang Sarawak Samples goat was sampled using buccal cell collection
The samples of buccal cells were categorised based on their gender lineage and also
morphological identities The buccal cells samples were collected by using cotton swab and
the cotton swab were preserved in each tube containing Phosphate Buffered Saline (PBS)
buffer The buccal cells were stored in -20De freezer upon returning to the laboratory for
DNA extraction
Table 2 Description of the goat used in this study
Tag name Description
RATEN Male (mating)
K021 K032 L395 MOKLI Female (mating)
P4669369172B303P206D2P454A
H054
Female offspring (mating)
L387 T452 T478 0313 K014 K008
TA82A K003 R223
Female (hybrid)
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DNA Extraction
DNA was extracted from the goat samples using the CTAB method (Grewe et al 1993) The
buccal cells sample was transfer into new 15 eppendorf tube 100 III CTAB buffer and 20 III
proteinase K was added into the eppendorf tube Another 600 III CTAB buffer was added into
the eppendorf tube and the solution was mixed well Then the eppendorf tube was incubated
in water bath for 2 to 3 hours until the DNA samples dissolve After the DNA samples was
dissolved 600 III chlorofonn-isoamyl alcohol (24 I) was added and the solution was shaken
for 2 to 3 minute followed by centrifugation of the eppendorf tube for 20 minutes at 13 000
rpm The upper layer of supernatant was transfer into a new 15 eppendorf tube
Cold absolute ethanol was added into eppendorf tube and the solution was mixed
well The eppendorf tube was sit on the bench for a few minutes followed centrifugation for
20 minutes at 13 000 rpm The ethanol was discarded carefully and the pellet was washed and
precipitated with an equal volume of ethanol and 25 III of 3M NaOAclNaCI The eppendorf
tube then was undergone centrifugation process for 20 minutes at 13 000 rpm The ethanol
was discarded carefully to ensuing the pellet is not poured out
Small droplet of liquid that was present on the eppendorftube was left for evaporation
or sucked by using tissue The pellet was suspended in 30 III distilled water (ddH20) After
DNA had been extracted quality and approximate yield was detennined by electrophoresis in
a 1 agarose gel containing ethidium bromide at 90 Volts for 30 minutes The gel was
photographed under UV light Isolated genomic DNA was used for mtDNA analysis was
place at -20degC
13
T
Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR)
Cytochrome Oxidase I (COl) of the mtDNA gene was amplified by using Polymerase Chain
Reaction (PCR) The amplification was done on a Gradient Thermo Cycler (Biorard)
machine for 35 cycles with 25 III of reaction volume For PCR reaction the following
components were mixed in the order that containing of lOX PCR Buffer (Promega) 50 mM
Magnesium Chloride (MgCI2) 2mM Deoxyribonucleotide triphosphates mixture (dTTP
dA TP dCTP and dGTP) 1 III of template DNA molecule of each sample sterile distilled
water (ddH20) 10 pmolllli forward primer 10 pmolIll reverse primer and 5ulll Taq DNA
Polymerase
Two universal primers of COl sequence that were used in the PCR amplification below
Table 3 Primers that were used in peR amplification
Primers sequence Sequences 5 to 3
COl Forward (VRld tt) 5-TGT AAA ACG ACG GCC AGC TCT CAA
CCA ACC ACA ARG A Y A TYG G-3
COl Reverse (VRld tt) 5-CAG GAA ACA GCT ATG ACT AGA CTT
CTG GGT GGC CRA ARA A YC A-3
In every amplification one negative control was used to monitor the validity of the
PCR reaction Temperature profile for 35 amplification cycles was pre-denaturation (94degC
for 2 minutes) denaturation (94 degC for 1 minute) annealing (51degC for 1 minute) extension
(72 degC for I minute) and final extension (72 degC for 5 minutes) After amplification the PCR
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1
products were run on 1 agarose gel stained with ethidium bromide at 90 volts for 40
minutes and photographed under UV light in order to determine the best annealing
temperature after optimization peR products were purified prior to sequencing using
purification kit (Promega)
Agarose Gel Electrophoresis
The 05g of 1 agarose gel was prepared and mixed with Tris-Acetic acid-EDTA (IX TAE)
buffer The solution was heated for 1 minute until the agarose powder totally dissolved The
solution was poured into the clean conical flask and 1 ~l Etbr was added into it The conical
flask was shakes slowly Then the solution immediately poured into the electrophoresis tank
The solution was cooled down for 10 minutes until the gel solidify 1 ~l a Fermentas ladder
was loaded at front of the well followed 2 ~l each peR products The peR products were run
on 1 agarose gel stained with ethidium bromide at 90 volts for 40 minutes and
photographed under UV light
Purification
peR amplified products were extracted and purified before send for DNA sequencing The
purification process was done by using the purification kit (Promega) according to the
manufacturers instruction A brief summary of the protocol is as follow An equal volume
(23 ~l) of membrane binding solution was added into the peR reaction A mini column was
inserted into the collection tube and prepared peR product was transfer into the mini column
assembly The mini column was undergone centrifugation at 14000 rpm for 3 minutes and
the supernatant was discarded Then the mini column was reinserted into the collection tube
15
T
700 fll of membrane washing buffer (within ethanol added) was added into tube and
undergone centrifugation at 14000 rpm for 2 minutes The supernatant inside tube was
discarded and the mini column was reinserted into collection tube
The DNA pellet was washed by using 500 fll washing buffer and was undergone
centrifugation at 14000 rpm for 5 minutes in order to dry the mini column and eliminate the
excess ethanol inside the mini column The mini column was transferred into new 15 ml
eppendorf tube and 28 fll of Nuclease-free water was added into mini column followed by
incubation for 1 minute Thus the mini column has undergone centrifugation at 14000 rpm
for 5 minute 2 fll of the purified PCR product was checked by running 1 agarose gel to
ensure the sufficiency recovery of the purified PCR obtained The purified DNA was then
stored at -20 0 C and sent to a commercial company First Base (First BASE Laboratories Sdn
Bhd Malaysia) for DNA sequencing Only forward primer was used to sequencing the DNA
Data Analysis
The data from DNA sequencing process was analysed using CHROMAS LITE software The
sequences then were exported to fasta format The sequence was opened in Notepad and all
the N s and ambiguities were deleting before combining all the sequences After that the
DNA sequences were aligned using CLUSTAL X (Thompson et al 1994) and the data were
save as aln and nxs file
The sequences then were further analysed in MEGA 4 using phylogenetic test The
MEGA software has been to provide tools for exploring discovering and analysing DNA
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LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS
Chircus
CTAB
COl
d-loop
cyt b
DNA
dNTP
PCR
MEGA
MgCl2
mtDNA
NaCI
NaOAc
Etbr
NJ
MP
PCR
Rpm
bp
~I
degC
Capra hircus
Cetyl trimethyolammonium Bromide
Cytochrome Oxidase I
Displacement Loop
Cytochrome b
Deoxyribonucleic Acid
Deoxynucleoside tryphosphate
Polymerase Chain Reaction
Molecular Evolutionary Genetic Analysis
Magnesium Chloride
Mitochondrial DNA
Sodium Chloride
Sodium Acetate
Ethidium Bromide
Neighbour-joining
Maximum Parsimony
Polymerase Chain Reaction
Rotation Per Minute
Base pair
Microliter
Degree Celcius
IV
LIST OF TABLES
Table 1 Scientific classification of goat 5
Table 2 Description of the goat used in this study 12
Table 3 Primers that were used in PCR amplification 14
Table 4 PCR parameters Number of cycle 35 cycles 19
Table 5 The average total nucleotide composition in goat 23
Table 6 Description of the Capra hircus in group based on Neighbor-joining 25
Table 7 Description of the Capra hircus in group based on Maximum Parsimony 27
Table 8 Pairwise distance or genetic distance among the Capra hircus and Bos Taurus (out-group) 28
Table 9 Aligned nucleotide sequences of the Cytochrome Oxidase I (COl) among Capra hircus and Bos taurus (out-group) Dote indicates nucleotide that are the same as those found in RATEN Dash indicates an insertion event 38
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LIST OF FIGURES
Figure 1 Goat (Capra hircus) (Source Handalas farm Matang Sarawak) 5
Figure 2 Mitochondrial DNA (Source Wikipedia) 8
Figure 3 DNA extraction of20 samples goat M = 100-bp ladder (Fermentas) Lane 1 = K02l lane 2 = K032 lane 3 = L395 lane 4 = P466 lane 5 = 9369172 lane 6 = B303 lane 7 = P206D2 lane 8 = P454A lane 9 = H054 lane 10= L387 lane 11 = T452 lane 12 = G313 lane 14 = K014 lane 15 = K008 lane 16 = TA82A lane 17 = K003 lane 18 = R223 lane 19 = MOKLI lane 20 = RATEN 18
Figure 4 PCR products of 6 samples of extracted DNA M = 100-bp ladder (Fermentas) lane 1 = K003 lane 2 = K032 lane 3 = L395 lane 4 = MOKLI lane 5 = P466 lane 6 = 9369172 Lane 2 to 6 represents samples of extracted DNA that success in PCR Lane 1 represents sample of extracted DNA that failed in PCR reaction 20
Figure 5 PCR products of7 samples of extracted DNA Lane 1 = RATEN lane 2 = K02l lane 3 = B303 lane 4 = P206D2 lane 5 = P454A lane 6 = H054 lane 7 = L387 M = l-Kb ladder (Fermentas) Lane 1 to 7 represents samples of extracted DNA that success in PCR
reaction 20
Figure 6 PCR products of 7 samples of extracted DNA Lane 1 = T452 lane 2 =
T478 lane 3 = G313 lane 4 = K014 lane 5 = R223 lane 6 = K008 lane 7 = TA82A M = 1-Kb ladder (F ermentas) Lane 1 to 4 and lane 6 to 7 represents samples of extracted DNA that success in PCR reaction Lane 5 represent sample of extracted DNA that failed in PCR reaction
21
Figure 7 Purified PCR products Lane 1 = K032 lane 2= L395 lane 3= MOKLI lane 4 = P466 lane 5 = 9369172 lane 6 = RATEN lane 7 = K02l lane 8 = B303 lane 9 = P206D2 lane 10 = P454A lane 11 = H054 lane 12
= L387 lane 13= T452 lane 14 = T478 lane 15 = G313 lane 16 = K014 lane 17= K008 lane 18 = TA82A M= l-Kb bp ladder (Fermentas)
22
Figure 8 Neighbour- joining tree ofpartial COl mtDNA gene sequences relationship
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among Capra hircus and Bos taurus (out-group) 24
Figure 9 Maximum Parsimony tree of partial COl mtDNA gene sequences relationship among Capra hircus and Bos taurus (out-group) Numbers at branches are the percentage of bootstrap values at 1000 replicates 26
VII
11
Genetic Characterization of Domestic Goat (Capra hircus) Using Mitochondrial DNA
Wan Nor Haslinda Binti Wan Azman
Resource Biotechnology Programme Faculty of Resource Science and Technology
Universiti Malaysia Sarawak
ABSTRACT
This study examines the genetic characteristic of domestic goat Capra hircus using sequence analysis of mitochondrial DNA Cytochrome Oxidase I (COl) gene A total of 20 domestic goat samples from the Handalas Farm Matang Sarawak were examined The sequence data were analyzed using both character (Maximum Parsimony) and distance (Neighbour-joining) methods Phylogenetic tree produced showed all the goats from the Handalas Farm Matang Sarawak is clustered into a single clade The result showed that all the sequences are closely related thus all samples used in this study are possibly originated from a single gene pool of domestic goat population Overall analysis from this study showed that the COl gene is limited use in examining the genetic structure of goat population in the Handalas Farm Matang Sarawak
Key words Capra hircus mitochondrial DNA Cytochrome Oxidase I (COl) gene genetic structure
ABSTRAK
Kajian ini dijalankan untuk mengkaji ciri-ciri genetik kambing domestik iaitu Capra hircus dengan menggunakan analisis jujukan gen mitokondria DNA Sitokrom Oksides I (COl) Sejumlah 20 sampel kambing domestik dan Ladang Handalas Matang Sarawak dikaji Jujukan data dianalisis menggunakan kaedah pencirian (Maximum Parsimony) dan jarak (Neighbour-joining) Filogenetik pokok yang terhasil menunjukkan ke semua kambing dari Ladang Handa las Matang Sarawak telah dikumpulkan kedalam satu clade Keputusan menunjukkan ke semua jujukan berkait rapat dan ke semua sampel yang digunakan adalah berkemungkinan berasal dari satu kolam gen populasi kambing domestik Keseluruhannya analisis dari kajian ini menunjukkan penggunaan gen COl adalah terhad dalam mengkaji struktur genetik populasi kambing di Ladang Handalas Matang Sarawak
Kata kunci Capra hircus motokondria DNA gen Sitokrom Oksides I (COl) struktur genetik
1
INTRODUCTION
The domestic goat (Capra hircus) is one of the domesticated ruminant livestock species The
goat is a member of the Bovidae family and is closely related to the sheep (Table 1) Both are
in the goat-antelope subfamily Caprinae (Table 1) There are over three hundred distinct
breeds of goats (Anom 2010 a) Goats most likely descend from the wild bezoars (Capra
aegagrus) and the origins have been confirmed by genetic studies based on mitochondrial
and nuclear DNA (Naderi et at 2007 Groeneveld et at 2009)
The classification of goat breeds is determined based on their production of goat
status such as milk and meat production or both type The domestic goat is breeds in captivity
tend to have different anatomies and behaviour from their wild ancestor Breeding of
domestic goat is controled by human either by using natural breeding or assisted reproductive
techniques (ARTs) Current stocks of goats in Malaysia are made up from Katjang Boer
JarnnapariEttawah British Alphine Saenen Toggenburg breeds as well as their crosses
(Anom 2010 b) Goat contributes income for economic importance either from natural or
renewable product such as meat milk fine leather fertilizer gelatin surgical supplies
medicine soaps luggage and others
The levels of genetic variability of domestic goat are low within a population due to
variation in performance trait An assessment of genetic variability of the breed is a step
forward conservation and improvement of genetic resources for maintaining breeding
options The assessment in animal breeding and genetics was applied for identification
animal andparentage testing gene mapping and identifying marker for performance traits As
the structure of the mitochondrial DNA in livestock species varies evaluations through
2
genetic study are needed in order to gain a better understanding about genetic variation
among domestic goat
Application of molecular marker are wide spread and has been found to be a powerful
indicator to measure genetic differences within and between individuals populations and
species Mammalian mitochondrial DNA have been used to identify variation because of
their advantage features such as it has represented the most informative genomic element
whereby it has highly informative polymorphism fast mutation rate highest stability
absence of recombination evolves less rapidly and display maternal mode of genetic
transmissions Genetic marker can also determine the relationship among breed using
calculating genetic distance and construct trees (Rout ei ai 2008) Thus this study was
carried out in a purpose to characterise the genetic variation of domestic goat by using
sequence analysis of Cytochrome Oxidase I (COl)
3
The Objectives of This Study are
1 To extract DNA from samples goat
2 To amplify Cytochrome Oxidase I (COl) gene using PCR
3 To characterize the genetic structure of goat population from the Handa1as
farm Matang based on mitochondrial DNA Cytochrome Oxidase I (COl)
sequences
4
2 Ii i at
LITERATURE REVIEW
Domestic Goat (Capra hircus)
Figure 1 Capra hircus (Source Handalas farm Matang Sarawak)
Table 1 Scientific classification of goat
Common name Domestic goat
Kingdom Animalia
Class Mammalia
Order Artiodactyla
Suborder Ruminantia
Family Bovidae
Subfamily Caprinae
Genus Capra
Species Capra hircus
5
Domestic goat is a social animal and it also known as grazing specIes grass Mileski amp
Myers (201 0) stated that domestic goat is classified as sedentary because they live under
human control They live in group called herds and the size of captive herd could be
controlled by human Herds sizes in the wild tend to be 5 to 20 members but they can be as
high as 100 The herds can contain only males only females and young or a mix of both
Goats can survive on bushes trees scrub and aromatic herbs (Haenlein 1992) and eat any
kind of plant material such as grass leaves twigs as well as stems of woody plants
Goat come in varies colour like solid black white red brown spotted two and three
coloured blended shades distinct facial stripes black and white saddles depending on
breeds (Haenlein 1992) Figure 1 show a goat from the Handalas Farm Matang Sarawak
with a combination of two colours of white and black Goat has digestive tract with four
stomach compartments of ruminants consisting of the rumen the reticulum the omasum and
the obamasum The intestinal canal of the goat is about 100 feet long (11 liters) or 25 times
the length of a goat (Haenlein 1992)
The breeding behaviour of goat is usually control by human which follows
polygynous reproductive system that involves mating of one male with more than one female
(Mileski amp Myers 2010 Anom 2010 c) The females are then inseminated either directly by
those males or by novel reproductive biotechnologies which also known as assisted
reproductive techniques (ARTs) (Mileski amp Myers 2010 Rahman et at 2008) These ARTs
include artificial insemination(AI) embryo transfer (ET) multiple ovulation embryo transfer
(MOET) estrus synchronization and superovulation laparoscopic ovum pick-up (LOPU) in
vitro maturation (lVM) in vitro fertilization (lVF) and in vitro culture(lVC) collectively
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known as in vitro production (IVP) intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI)
cryopreservation of oocytes and embryos sperm and embryos sexing embryo splitting
embryo cloning nuclear transfer (NT) gene transfer and marker-assisted selection (MAS)
By using ARTs more offspring will be produced compared to natural breeding (Rahman et
al 2008)
Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR)
PCR is a technique for amplifying DNA in vitro by incubating with a specific primer DNA
polymerase molecule and nucleotide (Campbell amp Reece 2005) PCR technique produces
many copies of a specific DNA sequences without having to clone the sequence in a host
genome (Russell 2006) The starting material for PCR is double stranded DNA containing
the target nucleotide sequence to be copied a heat resistant DNA polymerase all four
nucleotide and two short single-stranded DNA molecules that serve as primer One primer is
complementary to one strand at one end of the target sequence and the second primer is
complementary to the other strand at the other end of the sequence Applications of PCR
allow any specific segment of the target sequences within a DNA sample to be copied many
times completely in vitro and in a much shorter time (Campbell amp Reece 2005 Jain et al
2007)
(
7
125 -RNA
22 tRNA n~od ng gen
13 prot~n-encOdlnQ reil ons
Ojtochrnm
Mitochondrial DNA
Control r eIoC rgt or d4oo bull
NAOH D hydroj n s
iubunlt
NADH Dehydrogenase
s u_bunts
NADH Dehydrogenasa
5U nits
Oxidase
Cytochrome Oxidase ~ubunlt~
Figure 2 Mitochondrial DNA (Source Wikipedia)
Mammalian mitochondrial genome is a closed circular double-stranded mitochondrial
genome about 15000 base pairs long The mitochondrial genome of animal encodes product
whereas the mitochondrial genome for fungi and plants have extra DNA that does not code
for any product (Russell 2006 Sutarno 2010)
mtDNA is maternally inherited and the offspring are clones for mitochondrial DNA
genes (Jiang amp Ott 2010 Russel 2006) This pattern of inheritance allows matriarchal
lineages to be traced and provides a mean for examining family structure in some population
This in conjunction with the rapid and regular rate of accumulation of nucleotide sequence
differences has allowed mitochondrial DNA to become a valuable tool for comparing closely
related lineage (Russell 2006)
8
~ubunll~
ATP Synthase subunits
Mitochondrial DNA is represented the most infonnative genomIc element
polymorphic sites and simple maternal inheritance without recombination in purpose to study
the population of many organism or livestock domestication (Joshi et ai 2004 Machugh amp
Bradley 2001 N aderi et ai 2007) In addition polymorphism accumulates approximately
10 to 17 times faster in mtDNA compared with nuclear DNA (Jiang amp Ott 2010) Thus
DNA is able to provide more infonnation compare to the protein because it has many non
coding regions and declining of genetic code
Cytochrome Oxidase I (COl)
Cytochrome Oxidase I (COl) is encoded by mitochondrial genome mtDNA and was exhibit
one of the most heterogeneous rates of amino acid replacement among placental mammals
COl is important enzyme which is found in all organisms that perfonn aerobic respiration
The COl gene is short genetic sequence of 648 base pairs which can be easily extracted from
cells the most slowly evolving gene and conservative protein-coding genes in the
mitochondrial genome of mammals which was preferable for the evolutionary (Maderankova
amp Provaznik 2010 Simon et ai 1994)
Besides that mitochondrial gene COl also was applied in analysis of DNA bercoding
in screening the mtDNA gene of all species and thus creating databases of COl for assigning
of unknown individuals to species and discovery of new species COl gene is suitable for
identification of animals especially birds fish and insect but it is not suitable for plants As
COl is mitochondrial gene it evolves quickly and therefore it is possible to identify close
related species and new species (Maderankova amp Provaznik 2010)
9
Genetic Studies on Domestic Goat and Other Ovine
Genetic diversity is the best measure for genetic variation within a population There are
many previous studies on genetic diversity of goat by using different kind of DNA markers
for example a study by Rout et al (2008) which analysed Indian goat using microsatellites
marker showed higher level of gene diversity compared with the European and Asian goats
breeds Studies on goat genetics by using random amplified polymorphic DNA (RAPD)
molecular marker have also proven to be an efficient tool for quantification of genetic
diversity at the population levels (Gaali amp Satti 2009 Oliveira et al 2005)
Report by Mannen et al (2001) using the displacement loop (d-loop) and cyt b gene
revealed that the domestic goats are genetically affected by two subspecies of bezoars The
HVI of the mtDNA control region have also been used in study of phylogenetic history of
human and domestic animal because it showed higher level of polymorphism (Luikart et al
2001 Naderi et al 2007) Analysis of genetic distance mismatch distribution and
comparison with wild sheep has been studied by Meadows et al (2007) where the analysis
was carried out by using the DNA sequencing consisted of mitchondrion control region (525
bp) tRNA phe and l2s rRNA (535 bp) and cyt b gene (967 bp) According to Mackay et al
(1985) and Jiang amp Ott (2010) mammalian mitochondrial DNA repeatedly contains a short
DNA d-loop at the heavy strand origin of replication and has been completely sequence in
related species to farming and agriculture
Joshi et al (2004) studied of phylogeography and origin in Indian domestic goat
using mtDNA sequence data from HVRI regions They found the evidence for population
structure and novel lineage in Indian goat that cannot merge the genetic diversity were found
within the major lineage with domestication starting 10000 years ago from a single mtDNA
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ancestor Naderi et aI (2001) used also HVI segment of the mtDNA d-Ioop in their studied
to characterize the domestic goat mtDNA diversity based on a worldwide sampling Genetic
variations were found among goat haplogroups with the weak phylogeograpfic structure The
weak phylogeographic structure has been explained by a high mobility of goat species in a
relation to human migration and commercial trade Ruo-Yu et aI (2006) have been studied
about genetic diversity of mtDNA d-Ioop and the origin of Chinese goats for protection of
goat breed resources and goat breeding
11
1iii
MATERIALS AND METHODS
Sample Collection of Goats
A total of 20 samples goat (Capra hircus) used in this study (Table 2) were collected from
the Handalas farm Matang Sarawak Samples goat was sampled using buccal cell collection
The samples of buccal cells were categorised based on their gender lineage and also
morphological identities The buccal cells samples were collected by using cotton swab and
the cotton swab were preserved in each tube containing Phosphate Buffered Saline (PBS)
buffer The buccal cells were stored in -20De freezer upon returning to the laboratory for
DNA extraction
Table 2 Description of the goat used in this study
Tag name Description
RATEN Male (mating)
K021 K032 L395 MOKLI Female (mating)
P4669369172B303P206D2P454A
H054
Female offspring (mating)
L387 T452 T478 0313 K014 K008
TA82A K003 R223
Female (hybrid)
12
DNA Extraction
DNA was extracted from the goat samples using the CTAB method (Grewe et al 1993) The
buccal cells sample was transfer into new 15 eppendorf tube 100 III CTAB buffer and 20 III
proteinase K was added into the eppendorf tube Another 600 III CTAB buffer was added into
the eppendorf tube and the solution was mixed well Then the eppendorf tube was incubated
in water bath for 2 to 3 hours until the DNA samples dissolve After the DNA samples was
dissolved 600 III chlorofonn-isoamyl alcohol (24 I) was added and the solution was shaken
for 2 to 3 minute followed by centrifugation of the eppendorf tube for 20 minutes at 13 000
rpm The upper layer of supernatant was transfer into a new 15 eppendorf tube
Cold absolute ethanol was added into eppendorf tube and the solution was mixed
well The eppendorf tube was sit on the bench for a few minutes followed centrifugation for
20 minutes at 13 000 rpm The ethanol was discarded carefully and the pellet was washed and
precipitated with an equal volume of ethanol and 25 III of 3M NaOAclNaCI The eppendorf
tube then was undergone centrifugation process for 20 minutes at 13 000 rpm The ethanol
was discarded carefully to ensuing the pellet is not poured out
Small droplet of liquid that was present on the eppendorftube was left for evaporation
or sucked by using tissue The pellet was suspended in 30 III distilled water (ddH20) After
DNA had been extracted quality and approximate yield was detennined by electrophoresis in
a 1 agarose gel containing ethidium bromide at 90 Volts for 30 minutes The gel was
photographed under UV light Isolated genomic DNA was used for mtDNA analysis was
place at -20degC
13
T
Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR)
Cytochrome Oxidase I (COl) of the mtDNA gene was amplified by using Polymerase Chain
Reaction (PCR) The amplification was done on a Gradient Thermo Cycler (Biorard)
machine for 35 cycles with 25 III of reaction volume For PCR reaction the following
components were mixed in the order that containing of lOX PCR Buffer (Promega) 50 mM
Magnesium Chloride (MgCI2) 2mM Deoxyribonucleotide triphosphates mixture (dTTP
dA TP dCTP and dGTP) 1 III of template DNA molecule of each sample sterile distilled
water (ddH20) 10 pmolllli forward primer 10 pmolIll reverse primer and 5ulll Taq DNA
Polymerase
Two universal primers of COl sequence that were used in the PCR amplification below
Table 3 Primers that were used in peR amplification
Primers sequence Sequences 5 to 3
COl Forward (VRld tt) 5-TGT AAA ACG ACG GCC AGC TCT CAA
CCA ACC ACA ARG A Y A TYG G-3
COl Reverse (VRld tt) 5-CAG GAA ACA GCT ATG ACT AGA CTT
CTG GGT GGC CRA ARA A YC A-3
In every amplification one negative control was used to monitor the validity of the
PCR reaction Temperature profile for 35 amplification cycles was pre-denaturation (94degC
for 2 minutes) denaturation (94 degC for 1 minute) annealing (51degC for 1 minute) extension
(72 degC for I minute) and final extension (72 degC for 5 minutes) After amplification the PCR
14
1
products were run on 1 agarose gel stained with ethidium bromide at 90 volts for 40
minutes and photographed under UV light in order to determine the best annealing
temperature after optimization peR products were purified prior to sequencing using
purification kit (Promega)
Agarose Gel Electrophoresis
The 05g of 1 agarose gel was prepared and mixed with Tris-Acetic acid-EDTA (IX TAE)
buffer The solution was heated for 1 minute until the agarose powder totally dissolved The
solution was poured into the clean conical flask and 1 ~l Etbr was added into it The conical
flask was shakes slowly Then the solution immediately poured into the electrophoresis tank
The solution was cooled down for 10 minutes until the gel solidify 1 ~l a Fermentas ladder
was loaded at front of the well followed 2 ~l each peR products The peR products were run
on 1 agarose gel stained with ethidium bromide at 90 volts for 40 minutes and
photographed under UV light
Purification
peR amplified products were extracted and purified before send for DNA sequencing The
purification process was done by using the purification kit (Promega) according to the
manufacturers instruction A brief summary of the protocol is as follow An equal volume
(23 ~l) of membrane binding solution was added into the peR reaction A mini column was
inserted into the collection tube and prepared peR product was transfer into the mini column
assembly The mini column was undergone centrifugation at 14000 rpm for 3 minutes and
the supernatant was discarded Then the mini column was reinserted into the collection tube
15
T
700 fll of membrane washing buffer (within ethanol added) was added into tube and
undergone centrifugation at 14000 rpm for 2 minutes The supernatant inside tube was
discarded and the mini column was reinserted into collection tube
The DNA pellet was washed by using 500 fll washing buffer and was undergone
centrifugation at 14000 rpm for 5 minutes in order to dry the mini column and eliminate the
excess ethanol inside the mini column The mini column was transferred into new 15 ml
eppendorf tube and 28 fll of Nuclease-free water was added into mini column followed by
incubation for 1 minute Thus the mini column has undergone centrifugation at 14000 rpm
for 5 minute 2 fll of the purified PCR product was checked by running 1 agarose gel to
ensure the sufficiency recovery of the purified PCR obtained The purified DNA was then
stored at -20 0 C and sent to a commercial company First Base (First BASE Laboratories Sdn
Bhd Malaysia) for DNA sequencing Only forward primer was used to sequencing the DNA
Data Analysis
The data from DNA sequencing process was analysed using CHROMAS LITE software The
sequences then were exported to fasta format The sequence was opened in Notepad and all
the N s and ambiguities were deleting before combining all the sequences After that the
DNA sequences were aligned using CLUSTAL X (Thompson et al 1994) and the data were
save as aln and nxs file
The sequences then were further analysed in MEGA 4 using phylogenetic test The
MEGA software has been to provide tools for exploring discovering and analysing DNA
16
LIST OF TABLES
Table 1 Scientific classification of goat 5
Table 2 Description of the goat used in this study 12
Table 3 Primers that were used in PCR amplification 14
Table 4 PCR parameters Number of cycle 35 cycles 19
Table 5 The average total nucleotide composition in goat 23
Table 6 Description of the Capra hircus in group based on Neighbor-joining 25
Table 7 Description of the Capra hircus in group based on Maximum Parsimony 27
Table 8 Pairwise distance or genetic distance among the Capra hircus and Bos Taurus (out-group) 28
Table 9 Aligned nucleotide sequences of the Cytochrome Oxidase I (COl) among Capra hircus and Bos taurus (out-group) Dote indicates nucleotide that are the same as those found in RATEN Dash indicates an insertion event 38
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LIST OF FIGURES
Figure 1 Goat (Capra hircus) (Source Handalas farm Matang Sarawak) 5
Figure 2 Mitochondrial DNA (Source Wikipedia) 8
Figure 3 DNA extraction of20 samples goat M = 100-bp ladder (Fermentas) Lane 1 = K02l lane 2 = K032 lane 3 = L395 lane 4 = P466 lane 5 = 9369172 lane 6 = B303 lane 7 = P206D2 lane 8 = P454A lane 9 = H054 lane 10= L387 lane 11 = T452 lane 12 = G313 lane 14 = K014 lane 15 = K008 lane 16 = TA82A lane 17 = K003 lane 18 = R223 lane 19 = MOKLI lane 20 = RATEN 18
Figure 4 PCR products of 6 samples of extracted DNA M = 100-bp ladder (Fermentas) lane 1 = K003 lane 2 = K032 lane 3 = L395 lane 4 = MOKLI lane 5 = P466 lane 6 = 9369172 Lane 2 to 6 represents samples of extracted DNA that success in PCR Lane 1 represents sample of extracted DNA that failed in PCR reaction 20
Figure 5 PCR products of7 samples of extracted DNA Lane 1 = RATEN lane 2 = K02l lane 3 = B303 lane 4 = P206D2 lane 5 = P454A lane 6 = H054 lane 7 = L387 M = l-Kb ladder (Fermentas) Lane 1 to 7 represents samples of extracted DNA that success in PCR
reaction 20
Figure 6 PCR products of 7 samples of extracted DNA Lane 1 = T452 lane 2 =
T478 lane 3 = G313 lane 4 = K014 lane 5 = R223 lane 6 = K008 lane 7 = TA82A M = 1-Kb ladder (F ermentas) Lane 1 to 4 and lane 6 to 7 represents samples of extracted DNA that success in PCR reaction Lane 5 represent sample of extracted DNA that failed in PCR reaction
21
Figure 7 Purified PCR products Lane 1 = K032 lane 2= L395 lane 3= MOKLI lane 4 = P466 lane 5 = 9369172 lane 6 = RATEN lane 7 = K02l lane 8 = B303 lane 9 = P206D2 lane 10 = P454A lane 11 = H054 lane 12
= L387 lane 13= T452 lane 14 = T478 lane 15 = G313 lane 16 = K014 lane 17= K008 lane 18 = TA82A M= l-Kb bp ladder (Fermentas)
22
Figure 8 Neighbour- joining tree ofpartial COl mtDNA gene sequences relationship
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among Capra hircus and Bos taurus (out-group) 24
Figure 9 Maximum Parsimony tree of partial COl mtDNA gene sequences relationship among Capra hircus and Bos taurus (out-group) Numbers at branches are the percentage of bootstrap values at 1000 replicates 26
VII
11
Genetic Characterization of Domestic Goat (Capra hircus) Using Mitochondrial DNA
Wan Nor Haslinda Binti Wan Azman
Resource Biotechnology Programme Faculty of Resource Science and Technology
Universiti Malaysia Sarawak
ABSTRACT
This study examines the genetic characteristic of domestic goat Capra hircus using sequence analysis of mitochondrial DNA Cytochrome Oxidase I (COl) gene A total of 20 domestic goat samples from the Handalas Farm Matang Sarawak were examined The sequence data were analyzed using both character (Maximum Parsimony) and distance (Neighbour-joining) methods Phylogenetic tree produced showed all the goats from the Handalas Farm Matang Sarawak is clustered into a single clade The result showed that all the sequences are closely related thus all samples used in this study are possibly originated from a single gene pool of domestic goat population Overall analysis from this study showed that the COl gene is limited use in examining the genetic structure of goat population in the Handalas Farm Matang Sarawak
Key words Capra hircus mitochondrial DNA Cytochrome Oxidase I (COl) gene genetic structure
ABSTRAK
Kajian ini dijalankan untuk mengkaji ciri-ciri genetik kambing domestik iaitu Capra hircus dengan menggunakan analisis jujukan gen mitokondria DNA Sitokrom Oksides I (COl) Sejumlah 20 sampel kambing domestik dan Ladang Handalas Matang Sarawak dikaji Jujukan data dianalisis menggunakan kaedah pencirian (Maximum Parsimony) dan jarak (Neighbour-joining) Filogenetik pokok yang terhasil menunjukkan ke semua kambing dari Ladang Handa las Matang Sarawak telah dikumpulkan kedalam satu clade Keputusan menunjukkan ke semua jujukan berkait rapat dan ke semua sampel yang digunakan adalah berkemungkinan berasal dari satu kolam gen populasi kambing domestik Keseluruhannya analisis dari kajian ini menunjukkan penggunaan gen COl adalah terhad dalam mengkaji struktur genetik populasi kambing di Ladang Handalas Matang Sarawak
Kata kunci Capra hircus motokondria DNA gen Sitokrom Oksides I (COl) struktur genetik
1
INTRODUCTION
The domestic goat (Capra hircus) is one of the domesticated ruminant livestock species The
goat is a member of the Bovidae family and is closely related to the sheep (Table 1) Both are
in the goat-antelope subfamily Caprinae (Table 1) There are over three hundred distinct
breeds of goats (Anom 2010 a) Goats most likely descend from the wild bezoars (Capra
aegagrus) and the origins have been confirmed by genetic studies based on mitochondrial
and nuclear DNA (Naderi et at 2007 Groeneveld et at 2009)
The classification of goat breeds is determined based on their production of goat
status such as milk and meat production or both type The domestic goat is breeds in captivity
tend to have different anatomies and behaviour from their wild ancestor Breeding of
domestic goat is controled by human either by using natural breeding or assisted reproductive
techniques (ARTs) Current stocks of goats in Malaysia are made up from Katjang Boer
JarnnapariEttawah British Alphine Saenen Toggenburg breeds as well as their crosses
(Anom 2010 b) Goat contributes income for economic importance either from natural or
renewable product such as meat milk fine leather fertilizer gelatin surgical supplies
medicine soaps luggage and others
The levels of genetic variability of domestic goat are low within a population due to
variation in performance trait An assessment of genetic variability of the breed is a step
forward conservation and improvement of genetic resources for maintaining breeding
options The assessment in animal breeding and genetics was applied for identification
animal andparentage testing gene mapping and identifying marker for performance traits As
the structure of the mitochondrial DNA in livestock species varies evaluations through
2
genetic study are needed in order to gain a better understanding about genetic variation
among domestic goat
Application of molecular marker are wide spread and has been found to be a powerful
indicator to measure genetic differences within and between individuals populations and
species Mammalian mitochondrial DNA have been used to identify variation because of
their advantage features such as it has represented the most informative genomic element
whereby it has highly informative polymorphism fast mutation rate highest stability
absence of recombination evolves less rapidly and display maternal mode of genetic
transmissions Genetic marker can also determine the relationship among breed using
calculating genetic distance and construct trees (Rout ei ai 2008) Thus this study was
carried out in a purpose to characterise the genetic variation of domestic goat by using
sequence analysis of Cytochrome Oxidase I (COl)
3
The Objectives of This Study are
1 To extract DNA from samples goat
2 To amplify Cytochrome Oxidase I (COl) gene using PCR
3 To characterize the genetic structure of goat population from the Handa1as
farm Matang based on mitochondrial DNA Cytochrome Oxidase I (COl)
sequences
4
2 Ii i at
LITERATURE REVIEW
Domestic Goat (Capra hircus)
Figure 1 Capra hircus (Source Handalas farm Matang Sarawak)
Table 1 Scientific classification of goat
Common name Domestic goat
Kingdom Animalia
Class Mammalia
Order Artiodactyla
Suborder Ruminantia
Family Bovidae
Subfamily Caprinae
Genus Capra
Species Capra hircus
5
Domestic goat is a social animal and it also known as grazing specIes grass Mileski amp
Myers (201 0) stated that domestic goat is classified as sedentary because they live under
human control They live in group called herds and the size of captive herd could be
controlled by human Herds sizes in the wild tend to be 5 to 20 members but they can be as
high as 100 The herds can contain only males only females and young or a mix of both
Goats can survive on bushes trees scrub and aromatic herbs (Haenlein 1992) and eat any
kind of plant material such as grass leaves twigs as well as stems of woody plants
Goat come in varies colour like solid black white red brown spotted two and three
coloured blended shades distinct facial stripes black and white saddles depending on
breeds (Haenlein 1992) Figure 1 show a goat from the Handalas Farm Matang Sarawak
with a combination of two colours of white and black Goat has digestive tract with four
stomach compartments of ruminants consisting of the rumen the reticulum the omasum and
the obamasum The intestinal canal of the goat is about 100 feet long (11 liters) or 25 times
the length of a goat (Haenlein 1992)
The breeding behaviour of goat is usually control by human which follows
polygynous reproductive system that involves mating of one male with more than one female
(Mileski amp Myers 2010 Anom 2010 c) The females are then inseminated either directly by
those males or by novel reproductive biotechnologies which also known as assisted
reproductive techniques (ARTs) (Mileski amp Myers 2010 Rahman et at 2008) These ARTs
include artificial insemination(AI) embryo transfer (ET) multiple ovulation embryo transfer
(MOET) estrus synchronization and superovulation laparoscopic ovum pick-up (LOPU) in
vitro maturation (lVM) in vitro fertilization (lVF) and in vitro culture(lVC) collectively
6
i
known as in vitro production (IVP) intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI)
cryopreservation of oocytes and embryos sperm and embryos sexing embryo splitting
embryo cloning nuclear transfer (NT) gene transfer and marker-assisted selection (MAS)
By using ARTs more offspring will be produced compared to natural breeding (Rahman et
al 2008)
Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR)
PCR is a technique for amplifying DNA in vitro by incubating with a specific primer DNA
polymerase molecule and nucleotide (Campbell amp Reece 2005) PCR technique produces
many copies of a specific DNA sequences without having to clone the sequence in a host
genome (Russell 2006) The starting material for PCR is double stranded DNA containing
the target nucleotide sequence to be copied a heat resistant DNA polymerase all four
nucleotide and two short single-stranded DNA molecules that serve as primer One primer is
complementary to one strand at one end of the target sequence and the second primer is
complementary to the other strand at the other end of the sequence Applications of PCR
allow any specific segment of the target sequences within a DNA sample to be copied many
times completely in vitro and in a much shorter time (Campbell amp Reece 2005 Jain et al
2007)
(
7
125 -RNA
22 tRNA n~od ng gen
13 prot~n-encOdlnQ reil ons
Ojtochrnm
Mitochondrial DNA
Control r eIoC rgt or d4oo bull
NAOH D hydroj n s
iubunlt
NADH Dehydrogenase
s u_bunts
NADH Dehydrogenasa
5U nits
Oxidase
Cytochrome Oxidase ~ubunlt~
Figure 2 Mitochondrial DNA (Source Wikipedia)
Mammalian mitochondrial genome is a closed circular double-stranded mitochondrial
genome about 15000 base pairs long The mitochondrial genome of animal encodes product
whereas the mitochondrial genome for fungi and plants have extra DNA that does not code
for any product (Russell 2006 Sutarno 2010)
mtDNA is maternally inherited and the offspring are clones for mitochondrial DNA
genes (Jiang amp Ott 2010 Russel 2006) This pattern of inheritance allows matriarchal
lineages to be traced and provides a mean for examining family structure in some population
This in conjunction with the rapid and regular rate of accumulation of nucleotide sequence
differences has allowed mitochondrial DNA to become a valuable tool for comparing closely
related lineage (Russell 2006)
8
~ubunll~
ATP Synthase subunits
Mitochondrial DNA is represented the most infonnative genomIc element
polymorphic sites and simple maternal inheritance without recombination in purpose to study
the population of many organism or livestock domestication (Joshi et ai 2004 Machugh amp
Bradley 2001 N aderi et ai 2007) In addition polymorphism accumulates approximately
10 to 17 times faster in mtDNA compared with nuclear DNA (Jiang amp Ott 2010) Thus
DNA is able to provide more infonnation compare to the protein because it has many non
coding regions and declining of genetic code
Cytochrome Oxidase I (COl)
Cytochrome Oxidase I (COl) is encoded by mitochondrial genome mtDNA and was exhibit
one of the most heterogeneous rates of amino acid replacement among placental mammals
COl is important enzyme which is found in all organisms that perfonn aerobic respiration
The COl gene is short genetic sequence of 648 base pairs which can be easily extracted from
cells the most slowly evolving gene and conservative protein-coding genes in the
mitochondrial genome of mammals which was preferable for the evolutionary (Maderankova
amp Provaznik 2010 Simon et ai 1994)
Besides that mitochondrial gene COl also was applied in analysis of DNA bercoding
in screening the mtDNA gene of all species and thus creating databases of COl for assigning
of unknown individuals to species and discovery of new species COl gene is suitable for
identification of animals especially birds fish and insect but it is not suitable for plants As
COl is mitochondrial gene it evolves quickly and therefore it is possible to identify close
related species and new species (Maderankova amp Provaznik 2010)
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Genetic Studies on Domestic Goat and Other Ovine
Genetic diversity is the best measure for genetic variation within a population There are
many previous studies on genetic diversity of goat by using different kind of DNA markers
for example a study by Rout et al (2008) which analysed Indian goat using microsatellites
marker showed higher level of gene diversity compared with the European and Asian goats
breeds Studies on goat genetics by using random amplified polymorphic DNA (RAPD)
molecular marker have also proven to be an efficient tool for quantification of genetic
diversity at the population levels (Gaali amp Satti 2009 Oliveira et al 2005)
Report by Mannen et al (2001) using the displacement loop (d-loop) and cyt b gene
revealed that the domestic goats are genetically affected by two subspecies of bezoars The
HVI of the mtDNA control region have also been used in study of phylogenetic history of
human and domestic animal because it showed higher level of polymorphism (Luikart et al
2001 Naderi et al 2007) Analysis of genetic distance mismatch distribution and
comparison with wild sheep has been studied by Meadows et al (2007) where the analysis
was carried out by using the DNA sequencing consisted of mitchondrion control region (525
bp) tRNA phe and l2s rRNA (535 bp) and cyt b gene (967 bp) According to Mackay et al
(1985) and Jiang amp Ott (2010) mammalian mitochondrial DNA repeatedly contains a short
DNA d-loop at the heavy strand origin of replication and has been completely sequence in
related species to farming and agriculture
Joshi et al (2004) studied of phylogeography and origin in Indian domestic goat
using mtDNA sequence data from HVRI regions They found the evidence for population
structure and novel lineage in Indian goat that cannot merge the genetic diversity were found
within the major lineage with domestication starting 10000 years ago from a single mtDNA
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ancestor Naderi et aI (2001) used also HVI segment of the mtDNA d-Ioop in their studied
to characterize the domestic goat mtDNA diversity based on a worldwide sampling Genetic
variations were found among goat haplogroups with the weak phylogeograpfic structure The
weak phylogeographic structure has been explained by a high mobility of goat species in a
relation to human migration and commercial trade Ruo-Yu et aI (2006) have been studied
about genetic diversity of mtDNA d-Ioop and the origin of Chinese goats for protection of
goat breed resources and goat breeding
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MATERIALS AND METHODS
Sample Collection of Goats
A total of 20 samples goat (Capra hircus) used in this study (Table 2) were collected from
the Handalas farm Matang Sarawak Samples goat was sampled using buccal cell collection
The samples of buccal cells were categorised based on their gender lineage and also
morphological identities The buccal cells samples were collected by using cotton swab and
the cotton swab were preserved in each tube containing Phosphate Buffered Saline (PBS)
buffer The buccal cells were stored in -20De freezer upon returning to the laboratory for
DNA extraction
Table 2 Description of the goat used in this study
Tag name Description
RATEN Male (mating)
K021 K032 L395 MOKLI Female (mating)
P4669369172B303P206D2P454A
H054
Female offspring (mating)
L387 T452 T478 0313 K014 K008
TA82A K003 R223
Female (hybrid)
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DNA Extraction
DNA was extracted from the goat samples using the CTAB method (Grewe et al 1993) The
buccal cells sample was transfer into new 15 eppendorf tube 100 III CTAB buffer and 20 III
proteinase K was added into the eppendorf tube Another 600 III CTAB buffer was added into
the eppendorf tube and the solution was mixed well Then the eppendorf tube was incubated
in water bath for 2 to 3 hours until the DNA samples dissolve After the DNA samples was
dissolved 600 III chlorofonn-isoamyl alcohol (24 I) was added and the solution was shaken
for 2 to 3 minute followed by centrifugation of the eppendorf tube for 20 minutes at 13 000
rpm The upper layer of supernatant was transfer into a new 15 eppendorf tube
Cold absolute ethanol was added into eppendorf tube and the solution was mixed
well The eppendorf tube was sit on the bench for a few minutes followed centrifugation for
20 minutes at 13 000 rpm The ethanol was discarded carefully and the pellet was washed and
precipitated with an equal volume of ethanol and 25 III of 3M NaOAclNaCI The eppendorf
tube then was undergone centrifugation process for 20 minutes at 13 000 rpm The ethanol
was discarded carefully to ensuing the pellet is not poured out
Small droplet of liquid that was present on the eppendorftube was left for evaporation
or sucked by using tissue The pellet was suspended in 30 III distilled water (ddH20) After
DNA had been extracted quality and approximate yield was detennined by electrophoresis in
a 1 agarose gel containing ethidium bromide at 90 Volts for 30 minutes The gel was
photographed under UV light Isolated genomic DNA was used for mtDNA analysis was
place at -20degC
13
T
Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR)
Cytochrome Oxidase I (COl) of the mtDNA gene was amplified by using Polymerase Chain
Reaction (PCR) The amplification was done on a Gradient Thermo Cycler (Biorard)
machine for 35 cycles with 25 III of reaction volume For PCR reaction the following
components were mixed in the order that containing of lOX PCR Buffer (Promega) 50 mM
Magnesium Chloride (MgCI2) 2mM Deoxyribonucleotide triphosphates mixture (dTTP
dA TP dCTP and dGTP) 1 III of template DNA molecule of each sample sterile distilled
water (ddH20) 10 pmolllli forward primer 10 pmolIll reverse primer and 5ulll Taq DNA
Polymerase
Two universal primers of COl sequence that were used in the PCR amplification below
Table 3 Primers that were used in peR amplification
Primers sequence Sequences 5 to 3
COl Forward (VRld tt) 5-TGT AAA ACG ACG GCC AGC TCT CAA
CCA ACC ACA ARG A Y A TYG G-3
COl Reverse (VRld tt) 5-CAG GAA ACA GCT ATG ACT AGA CTT
CTG GGT GGC CRA ARA A YC A-3
In every amplification one negative control was used to monitor the validity of the
PCR reaction Temperature profile for 35 amplification cycles was pre-denaturation (94degC
for 2 minutes) denaturation (94 degC for 1 minute) annealing (51degC for 1 minute) extension
(72 degC for I minute) and final extension (72 degC for 5 minutes) After amplification the PCR
14
1
products were run on 1 agarose gel stained with ethidium bromide at 90 volts for 40
minutes and photographed under UV light in order to determine the best annealing
temperature after optimization peR products were purified prior to sequencing using
purification kit (Promega)
Agarose Gel Electrophoresis
The 05g of 1 agarose gel was prepared and mixed with Tris-Acetic acid-EDTA (IX TAE)
buffer The solution was heated for 1 minute until the agarose powder totally dissolved The
solution was poured into the clean conical flask and 1 ~l Etbr was added into it The conical
flask was shakes slowly Then the solution immediately poured into the electrophoresis tank
The solution was cooled down for 10 minutes until the gel solidify 1 ~l a Fermentas ladder
was loaded at front of the well followed 2 ~l each peR products The peR products were run
on 1 agarose gel stained with ethidium bromide at 90 volts for 40 minutes and
photographed under UV light
Purification
peR amplified products were extracted and purified before send for DNA sequencing The
purification process was done by using the purification kit (Promega) according to the
manufacturers instruction A brief summary of the protocol is as follow An equal volume
(23 ~l) of membrane binding solution was added into the peR reaction A mini column was
inserted into the collection tube and prepared peR product was transfer into the mini column
assembly The mini column was undergone centrifugation at 14000 rpm for 3 minutes and
the supernatant was discarded Then the mini column was reinserted into the collection tube
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T
700 fll of membrane washing buffer (within ethanol added) was added into tube and
undergone centrifugation at 14000 rpm for 2 minutes The supernatant inside tube was
discarded and the mini column was reinserted into collection tube
The DNA pellet was washed by using 500 fll washing buffer and was undergone
centrifugation at 14000 rpm for 5 minutes in order to dry the mini column and eliminate the
excess ethanol inside the mini column The mini column was transferred into new 15 ml
eppendorf tube and 28 fll of Nuclease-free water was added into mini column followed by
incubation for 1 minute Thus the mini column has undergone centrifugation at 14000 rpm
for 5 minute 2 fll of the purified PCR product was checked by running 1 agarose gel to
ensure the sufficiency recovery of the purified PCR obtained The purified DNA was then
stored at -20 0 C and sent to a commercial company First Base (First BASE Laboratories Sdn
Bhd Malaysia) for DNA sequencing Only forward primer was used to sequencing the DNA
Data Analysis
The data from DNA sequencing process was analysed using CHROMAS LITE software The
sequences then were exported to fasta format The sequence was opened in Notepad and all
the N s and ambiguities were deleting before combining all the sequences After that the
DNA sequences were aligned using CLUSTAL X (Thompson et al 1994) and the data were
save as aln and nxs file
The sequences then were further analysed in MEGA 4 using phylogenetic test The
MEGA software has been to provide tools for exploring discovering and analysing DNA
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LIST OF FIGURES
Figure 1 Goat (Capra hircus) (Source Handalas farm Matang Sarawak) 5
Figure 2 Mitochondrial DNA (Source Wikipedia) 8
Figure 3 DNA extraction of20 samples goat M = 100-bp ladder (Fermentas) Lane 1 = K02l lane 2 = K032 lane 3 = L395 lane 4 = P466 lane 5 = 9369172 lane 6 = B303 lane 7 = P206D2 lane 8 = P454A lane 9 = H054 lane 10= L387 lane 11 = T452 lane 12 = G313 lane 14 = K014 lane 15 = K008 lane 16 = TA82A lane 17 = K003 lane 18 = R223 lane 19 = MOKLI lane 20 = RATEN 18
Figure 4 PCR products of 6 samples of extracted DNA M = 100-bp ladder (Fermentas) lane 1 = K003 lane 2 = K032 lane 3 = L395 lane 4 = MOKLI lane 5 = P466 lane 6 = 9369172 Lane 2 to 6 represents samples of extracted DNA that success in PCR Lane 1 represents sample of extracted DNA that failed in PCR reaction 20
Figure 5 PCR products of7 samples of extracted DNA Lane 1 = RATEN lane 2 = K02l lane 3 = B303 lane 4 = P206D2 lane 5 = P454A lane 6 = H054 lane 7 = L387 M = l-Kb ladder (Fermentas) Lane 1 to 7 represents samples of extracted DNA that success in PCR
reaction 20
Figure 6 PCR products of 7 samples of extracted DNA Lane 1 = T452 lane 2 =
T478 lane 3 = G313 lane 4 = K014 lane 5 = R223 lane 6 = K008 lane 7 = TA82A M = 1-Kb ladder (F ermentas) Lane 1 to 4 and lane 6 to 7 represents samples of extracted DNA that success in PCR reaction Lane 5 represent sample of extracted DNA that failed in PCR reaction
21
Figure 7 Purified PCR products Lane 1 = K032 lane 2= L395 lane 3= MOKLI lane 4 = P466 lane 5 = 9369172 lane 6 = RATEN lane 7 = K02l lane 8 = B303 lane 9 = P206D2 lane 10 = P454A lane 11 = H054 lane 12
= L387 lane 13= T452 lane 14 = T478 lane 15 = G313 lane 16 = K014 lane 17= K008 lane 18 = TA82A M= l-Kb bp ladder (Fermentas)
22
Figure 8 Neighbour- joining tree ofpartial COl mtDNA gene sequences relationship
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among Capra hircus and Bos taurus (out-group) 24
Figure 9 Maximum Parsimony tree of partial COl mtDNA gene sequences relationship among Capra hircus and Bos taurus (out-group) Numbers at branches are the percentage of bootstrap values at 1000 replicates 26
VII
11
Genetic Characterization of Domestic Goat (Capra hircus) Using Mitochondrial DNA
Wan Nor Haslinda Binti Wan Azman
Resource Biotechnology Programme Faculty of Resource Science and Technology
Universiti Malaysia Sarawak
ABSTRACT
This study examines the genetic characteristic of domestic goat Capra hircus using sequence analysis of mitochondrial DNA Cytochrome Oxidase I (COl) gene A total of 20 domestic goat samples from the Handalas Farm Matang Sarawak were examined The sequence data were analyzed using both character (Maximum Parsimony) and distance (Neighbour-joining) methods Phylogenetic tree produced showed all the goats from the Handalas Farm Matang Sarawak is clustered into a single clade The result showed that all the sequences are closely related thus all samples used in this study are possibly originated from a single gene pool of domestic goat population Overall analysis from this study showed that the COl gene is limited use in examining the genetic structure of goat population in the Handalas Farm Matang Sarawak
Key words Capra hircus mitochondrial DNA Cytochrome Oxidase I (COl) gene genetic structure
ABSTRAK
Kajian ini dijalankan untuk mengkaji ciri-ciri genetik kambing domestik iaitu Capra hircus dengan menggunakan analisis jujukan gen mitokondria DNA Sitokrom Oksides I (COl) Sejumlah 20 sampel kambing domestik dan Ladang Handalas Matang Sarawak dikaji Jujukan data dianalisis menggunakan kaedah pencirian (Maximum Parsimony) dan jarak (Neighbour-joining) Filogenetik pokok yang terhasil menunjukkan ke semua kambing dari Ladang Handa las Matang Sarawak telah dikumpulkan kedalam satu clade Keputusan menunjukkan ke semua jujukan berkait rapat dan ke semua sampel yang digunakan adalah berkemungkinan berasal dari satu kolam gen populasi kambing domestik Keseluruhannya analisis dari kajian ini menunjukkan penggunaan gen COl adalah terhad dalam mengkaji struktur genetik populasi kambing di Ladang Handalas Matang Sarawak
Kata kunci Capra hircus motokondria DNA gen Sitokrom Oksides I (COl) struktur genetik
1
INTRODUCTION
The domestic goat (Capra hircus) is one of the domesticated ruminant livestock species The
goat is a member of the Bovidae family and is closely related to the sheep (Table 1) Both are
in the goat-antelope subfamily Caprinae (Table 1) There are over three hundred distinct
breeds of goats (Anom 2010 a) Goats most likely descend from the wild bezoars (Capra
aegagrus) and the origins have been confirmed by genetic studies based on mitochondrial
and nuclear DNA (Naderi et at 2007 Groeneveld et at 2009)
The classification of goat breeds is determined based on their production of goat
status such as milk and meat production or both type The domestic goat is breeds in captivity
tend to have different anatomies and behaviour from their wild ancestor Breeding of
domestic goat is controled by human either by using natural breeding or assisted reproductive
techniques (ARTs) Current stocks of goats in Malaysia are made up from Katjang Boer
JarnnapariEttawah British Alphine Saenen Toggenburg breeds as well as their crosses
(Anom 2010 b) Goat contributes income for economic importance either from natural or
renewable product such as meat milk fine leather fertilizer gelatin surgical supplies
medicine soaps luggage and others
The levels of genetic variability of domestic goat are low within a population due to
variation in performance trait An assessment of genetic variability of the breed is a step
forward conservation and improvement of genetic resources for maintaining breeding
options The assessment in animal breeding and genetics was applied for identification
animal andparentage testing gene mapping and identifying marker for performance traits As
the structure of the mitochondrial DNA in livestock species varies evaluations through
2
genetic study are needed in order to gain a better understanding about genetic variation
among domestic goat
Application of molecular marker are wide spread and has been found to be a powerful
indicator to measure genetic differences within and between individuals populations and
species Mammalian mitochondrial DNA have been used to identify variation because of
their advantage features such as it has represented the most informative genomic element
whereby it has highly informative polymorphism fast mutation rate highest stability
absence of recombination evolves less rapidly and display maternal mode of genetic
transmissions Genetic marker can also determine the relationship among breed using
calculating genetic distance and construct trees (Rout ei ai 2008) Thus this study was
carried out in a purpose to characterise the genetic variation of domestic goat by using
sequence analysis of Cytochrome Oxidase I (COl)
3
The Objectives of This Study are
1 To extract DNA from samples goat
2 To amplify Cytochrome Oxidase I (COl) gene using PCR
3 To characterize the genetic structure of goat population from the Handa1as
farm Matang based on mitochondrial DNA Cytochrome Oxidase I (COl)
sequences
4
2 Ii i at
LITERATURE REVIEW
Domestic Goat (Capra hircus)
Figure 1 Capra hircus (Source Handalas farm Matang Sarawak)
Table 1 Scientific classification of goat
Common name Domestic goat
Kingdom Animalia
Class Mammalia
Order Artiodactyla
Suborder Ruminantia
Family Bovidae
Subfamily Caprinae
Genus Capra
Species Capra hircus
5
Domestic goat is a social animal and it also known as grazing specIes grass Mileski amp
Myers (201 0) stated that domestic goat is classified as sedentary because they live under
human control They live in group called herds and the size of captive herd could be
controlled by human Herds sizes in the wild tend to be 5 to 20 members but they can be as
high as 100 The herds can contain only males only females and young or a mix of both
Goats can survive on bushes trees scrub and aromatic herbs (Haenlein 1992) and eat any
kind of plant material such as grass leaves twigs as well as stems of woody plants
Goat come in varies colour like solid black white red brown spotted two and three
coloured blended shades distinct facial stripes black and white saddles depending on
breeds (Haenlein 1992) Figure 1 show a goat from the Handalas Farm Matang Sarawak
with a combination of two colours of white and black Goat has digestive tract with four
stomach compartments of ruminants consisting of the rumen the reticulum the omasum and
the obamasum The intestinal canal of the goat is about 100 feet long (11 liters) or 25 times
the length of a goat (Haenlein 1992)
The breeding behaviour of goat is usually control by human which follows
polygynous reproductive system that involves mating of one male with more than one female
(Mileski amp Myers 2010 Anom 2010 c) The females are then inseminated either directly by
those males or by novel reproductive biotechnologies which also known as assisted
reproductive techniques (ARTs) (Mileski amp Myers 2010 Rahman et at 2008) These ARTs
include artificial insemination(AI) embryo transfer (ET) multiple ovulation embryo transfer
(MOET) estrus synchronization and superovulation laparoscopic ovum pick-up (LOPU) in
vitro maturation (lVM) in vitro fertilization (lVF) and in vitro culture(lVC) collectively
6
i
known as in vitro production (IVP) intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI)
cryopreservation of oocytes and embryos sperm and embryos sexing embryo splitting
embryo cloning nuclear transfer (NT) gene transfer and marker-assisted selection (MAS)
By using ARTs more offspring will be produced compared to natural breeding (Rahman et
al 2008)
Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR)
PCR is a technique for amplifying DNA in vitro by incubating with a specific primer DNA
polymerase molecule and nucleotide (Campbell amp Reece 2005) PCR technique produces
many copies of a specific DNA sequences without having to clone the sequence in a host
genome (Russell 2006) The starting material for PCR is double stranded DNA containing
the target nucleotide sequence to be copied a heat resistant DNA polymerase all four
nucleotide and two short single-stranded DNA molecules that serve as primer One primer is
complementary to one strand at one end of the target sequence and the second primer is
complementary to the other strand at the other end of the sequence Applications of PCR
allow any specific segment of the target sequences within a DNA sample to be copied many
times completely in vitro and in a much shorter time (Campbell amp Reece 2005 Jain et al
2007)
(
7
125 -RNA
22 tRNA n~od ng gen
13 prot~n-encOdlnQ reil ons
Ojtochrnm
Mitochondrial DNA
Control r eIoC rgt or d4oo bull
NAOH D hydroj n s
iubunlt
NADH Dehydrogenase
s u_bunts
NADH Dehydrogenasa
5U nits
Oxidase
Cytochrome Oxidase ~ubunlt~
Figure 2 Mitochondrial DNA (Source Wikipedia)
Mammalian mitochondrial genome is a closed circular double-stranded mitochondrial
genome about 15000 base pairs long The mitochondrial genome of animal encodes product
whereas the mitochondrial genome for fungi and plants have extra DNA that does not code
for any product (Russell 2006 Sutarno 2010)
mtDNA is maternally inherited and the offspring are clones for mitochondrial DNA
genes (Jiang amp Ott 2010 Russel 2006) This pattern of inheritance allows matriarchal
lineages to be traced and provides a mean for examining family structure in some population
This in conjunction with the rapid and regular rate of accumulation of nucleotide sequence
differences has allowed mitochondrial DNA to become a valuable tool for comparing closely
related lineage (Russell 2006)
8
~ubunll~
ATP Synthase subunits
Mitochondrial DNA is represented the most infonnative genomIc element
polymorphic sites and simple maternal inheritance without recombination in purpose to study
the population of many organism or livestock domestication (Joshi et ai 2004 Machugh amp
Bradley 2001 N aderi et ai 2007) In addition polymorphism accumulates approximately
10 to 17 times faster in mtDNA compared with nuclear DNA (Jiang amp Ott 2010) Thus
DNA is able to provide more infonnation compare to the protein because it has many non
coding regions and declining of genetic code
Cytochrome Oxidase I (COl)
Cytochrome Oxidase I (COl) is encoded by mitochondrial genome mtDNA and was exhibit
one of the most heterogeneous rates of amino acid replacement among placental mammals
COl is important enzyme which is found in all organisms that perfonn aerobic respiration
The COl gene is short genetic sequence of 648 base pairs which can be easily extracted from
cells the most slowly evolving gene and conservative protein-coding genes in the
mitochondrial genome of mammals which was preferable for the evolutionary (Maderankova
amp Provaznik 2010 Simon et ai 1994)
Besides that mitochondrial gene COl also was applied in analysis of DNA bercoding
in screening the mtDNA gene of all species and thus creating databases of COl for assigning
of unknown individuals to species and discovery of new species COl gene is suitable for
identification of animals especially birds fish and insect but it is not suitable for plants As
COl is mitochondrial gene it evolves quickly and therefore it is possible to identify close
related species and new species (Maderankova amp Provaznik 2010)
9
Genetic Studies on Domestic Goat and Other Ovine
Genetic diversity is the best measure for genetic variation within a population There are
many previous studies on genetic diversity of goat by using different kind of DNA markers
for example a study by Rout et al (2008) which analysed Indian goat using microsatellites
marker showed higher level of gene diversity compared with the European and Asian goats
breeds Studies on goat genetics by using random amplified polymorphic DNA (RAPD)
molecular marker have also proven to be an efficient tool for quantification of genetic
diversity at the population levels (Gaali amp Satti 2009 Oliveira et al 2005)
Report by Mannen et al (2001) using the displacement loop (d-loop) and cyt b gene
revealed that the domestic goats are genetically affected by two subspecies of bezoars The
HVI of the mtDNA control region have also been used in study of phylogenetic history of
human and domestic animal because it showed higher level of polymorphism (Luikart et al
2001 Naderi et al 2007) Analysis of genetic distance mismatch distribution and
comparison with wild sheep has been studied by Meadows et al (2007) where the analysis
was carried out by using the DNA sequencing consisted of mitchondrion control region (525
bp) tRNA phe and l2s rRNA (535 bp) and cyt b gene (967 bp) According to Mackay et al
(1985) and Jiang amp Ott (2010) mammalian mitochondrial DNA repeatedly contains a short
DNA d-loop at the heavy strand origin of replication and has been completely sequence in
related species to farming and agriculture
Joshi et al (2004) studied of phylogeography and origin in Indian domestic goat
using mtDNA sequence data from HVRI regions They found the evidence for population
structure and novel lineage in Indian goat that cannot merge the genetic diversity were found
within the major lineage with domestication starting 10000 years ago from a single mtDNA
10
ancestor Naderi et aI (2001) used also HVI segment of the mtDNA d-Ioop in their studied
to characterize the domestic goat mtDNA diversity based on a worldwide sampling Genetic
variations were found among goat haplogroups with the weak phylogeograpfic structure The
weak phylogeographic structure has been explained by a high mobility of goat species in a
relation to human migration and commercial trade Ruo-Yu et aI (2006) have been studied
about genetic diversity of mtDNA d-Ioop and the origin of Chinese goats for protection of
goat breed resources and goat breeding
11
1iii
MATERIALS AND METHODS
Sample Collection of Goats
A total of 20 samples goat (Capra hircus) used in this study (Table 2) were collected from
the Handalas farm Matang Sarawak Samples goat was sampled using buccal cell collection
The samples of buccal cells were categorised based on their gender lineage and also
morphological identities The buccal cells samples were collected by using cotton swab and
the cotton swab were preserved in each tube containing Phosphate Buffered Saline (PBS)
buffer The buccal cells were stored in -20De freezer upon returning to the laboratory for
DNA extraction
Table 2 Description of the goat used in this study
Tag name Description
RATEN Male (mating)
K021 K032 L395 MOKLI Female (mating)
P4669369172B303P206D2P454A
H054
Female offspring (mating)
L387 T452 T478 0313 K014 K008
TA82A K003 R223
Female (hybrid)
12
DNA Extraction
DNA was extracted from the goat samples using the CTAB method (Grewe et al 1993) The
buccal cells sample was transfer into new 15 eppendorf tube 100 III CTAB buffer and 20 III
proteinase K was added into the eppendorf tube Another 600 III CTAB buffer was added into
the eppendorf tube and the solution was mixed well Then the eppendorf tube was incubated
in water bath for 2 to 3 hours until the DNA samples dissolve After the DNA samples was
dissolved 600 III chlorofonn-isoamyl alcohol (24 I) was added and the solution was shaken
for 2 to 3 minute followed by centrifugation of the eppendorf tube for 20 minutes at 13 000
rpm The upper layer of supernatant was transfer into a new 15 eppendorf tube
Cold absolute ethanol was added into eppendorf tube and the solution was mixed
well The eppendorf tube was sit on the bench for a few minutes followed centrifugation for
20 minutes at 13 000 rpm The ethanol was discarded carefully and the pellet was washed and
precipitated with an equal volume of ethanol and 25 III of 3M NaOAclNaCI The eppendorf
tube then was undergone centrifugation process for 20 minutes at 13 000 rpm The ethanol
was discarded carefully to ensuing the pellet is not poured out
Small droplet of liquid that was present on the eppendorftube was left for evaporation
or sucked by using tissue The pellet was suspended in 30 III distilled water (ddH20) After
DNA had been extracted quality and approximate yield was detennined by electrophoresis in
a 1 agarose gel containing ethidium bromide at 90 Volts for 30 minutes The gel was
photographed under UV light Isolated genomic DNA was used for mtDNA analysis was
place at -20degC
13
T
Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR)
Cytochrome Oxidase I (COl) of the mtDNA gene was amplified by using Polymerase Chain
Reaction (PCR) The amplification was done on a Gradient Thermo Cycler (Biorard)
machine for 35 cycles with 25 III of reaction volume For PCR reaction the following
components were mixed in the order that containing of lOX PCR Buffer (Promega) 50 mM
Magnesium Chloride (MgCI2) 2mM Deoxyribonucleotide triphosphates mixture (dTTP
dA TP dCTP and dGTP) 1 III of template DNA molecule of each sample sterile distilled
water (ddH20) 10 pmolllli forward primer 10 pmolIll reverse primer and 5ulll Taq DNA
Polymerase
Two universal primers of COl sequence that were used in the PCR amplification below
Table 3 Primers that were used in peR amplification
Primers sequence Sequences 5 to 3
COl Forward (VRld tt) 5-TGT AAA ACG ACG GCC AGC TCT CAA
CCA ACC ACA ARG A Y A TYG G-3
COl Reverse (VRld tt) 5-CAG GAA ACA GCT ATG ACT AGA CTT
CTG GGT GGC CRA ARA A YC A-3
In every amplification one negative control was used to monitor the validity of the
PCR reaction Temperature profile for 35 amplification cycles was pre-denaturation (94degC
for 2 minutes) denaturation (94 degC for 1 minute) annealing (51degC for 1 minute) extension
(72 degC for I minute) and final extension (72 degC for 5 minutes) After amplification the PCR
14
1
products were run on 1 agarose gel stained with ethidium bromide at 90 volts for 40
minutes and photographed under UV light in order to determine the best annealing
temperature after optimization peR products were purified prior to sequencing using
purification kit (Promega)
Agarose Gel Electrophoresis
The 05g of 1 agarose gel was prepared and mixed with Tris-Acetic acid-EDTA (IX TAE)
buffer The solution was heated for 1 minute until the agarose powder totally dissolved The
solution was poured into the clean conical flask and 1 ~l Etbr was added into it The conical
flask was shakes slowly Then the solution immediately poured into the electrophoresis tank
The solution was cooled down for 10 minutes until the gel solidify 1 ~l a Fermentas ladder
was loaded at front of the well followed 2 ~l each peR products The peR products were run
on 1 agarose gel stained with ethidium bromide at 90 volts for 40 minutes and
photographed under UV light
Purification
peR amplified products were extracted and purified before send for DNA sequencing The
purification process was done by using the purification kit (Promega) according to the
manufacturers instruction A brief summary of the protocol is as follow An equal volume
(23 ~l) of membrane binding solution was added into the peR reaction A mini column was
inserted into the collection tube and prepared peR product was transfer into the mini column
assembly The mini column was undergone centrifugation at 14000 rpm for 3 minutes and
the supernatant was discarded Then the mini column was reinserted into the collection tube
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T
700 fll of membrane washing buffer (within ethanol added) was added into tube and
undergone centrifugation at 14000 rpm for 2 minutes The supernatant inside tube was
discarded and the mini column was reinserted into collection tube
The DNA pellet was washed by using 500 fll washing buffer and was undergone
centrifugation at 14000 rpm for 5 minutes in order to dry the mini column and eliminate the
excess ethanol inside the mini column The mini column was transferred into new 15 ml
eppendorf tube and 28 fll of Nuclease-free water was added into mini column followed by
incubation for 1 minute Thus the mini column has undergone centrifugation at 14000 rpm
for 5 minute 2 fll of the purified PCR product was checked by running 1 agarose gel to
ensure the sufficiency recovery of the purified PCR obtained The purified DNA was then
stored at -20 0 C and sent to a commercial company First Base (First BASE Laboratories Sdn
Bhd Malaysia) for DNA sequencing Only forward primer was used to sequencing the DNA
Data Analysis
The data from DNA sequencing process was analysed using CHROMAS LITE software The
sequences then were exported to fasta format The sequence was opened in Notepad and all
the N s and ambiguities were deleting before combining all the sequences After that the
DNA sequences were aligned using CLUSTAL X (Thompson et al 1994) and the data were
save as aln and nxs file
The sequences then were further analysed in MEGA 4 using phylogenetic test The
MEGA software has been to provide tools for exploring discovering and analysing DNA
16
among Capra hircus and Bos taurus (out-group) 24
Figure 9 Maximum Parsimony tree of partial COl mtDNA gene sequences relationship among Capra hircus and Bos taurus (out-group) Numbers at branches are the percentage of bootstrap values at 1000 replicates 26
VII
11
Genetic Characterization of Domestic Goat (Capra hircus) Using Mitochondrial DNA
Wan Nor Haslinda Binti Wan Azman
Resource Biotechnology Programme Faculty of Resource Science and Technology
Universiti Malaysia Sarawak
ABSTRACT
This study examines the genetic characteristic of domestic goat Capra hircus using sequence analysis of mitochondrial DNA Cytochrome Oxidase I (COl) gene A total of 20 domestic goat samples from the Handalas Farm Matang Sarawak were examined The sequence data were analyzed using both character (Maximum Parsimony) and distance (Neighbour-joining) methods Phylogenetic tree produced showed all the goats from the Handalas Farm Matang Sarawak is clustered into a single clade The result showed that all the sequences are closely related thus all samples used in this study are possibly originated from a single gene pool of domestic goat population Overall analysis from this study showed that the COl gene is limited use in examining the genetic structure of goat population in the Handalas Farm Matang Sarawak
Key words Capra hircus mitochondrial DNA Cytochrome Oxidase I (COl) gene genetic structure
ABSTRAK
Kajian ini dijalankan untuk mengkaji ciri-ciri genetik kambing domestik iaitu Capra hircus dengan menggunakan analisis jujukan gen mitokondria DNA Sitokrom Oksides I (COl) Sejumlah 20 sampel kambing domestik dan Ladang Handalas Matang Sarawak dikaji Jujukan data dianalisis menggunakan kaedah pencirian (Maximum Parsimony) dan jarak (Neighbour-joining) Filogenetik pokok yang terhasil menunjukkan ke semua kambing dari Ladang Handa las Matang Sarawak telah dikumpulkan kedalam satu clade Keputusan menunjukkan ke semua jujukan berkait rapat dan ke semua sampel yang digunakan adalah berkemungkinan berasal dari satu kolam gen populasi kambing domestik Keseluruhannya analisis dari kajian ini menunjukkan penggunaan gen COl adalah terhad dalam mengkaji struktur genetik populasi kambing di Ladang Handalas Matang Sarawak
Kata kunci Capra hircus motokondria DNA gen Sitokrom Oksides I (COl) struktur genetik
1
INTRODUCTION
The domestic goat (Capra hircus) is one of the domesticated ruminant livestock species The
goat is a member of the Bovidae family and is closely related to the sheep (Table 1) Both are
in the goat-antelope subfamily Caprinae (Table 1) There are over three hundred distinct
breeds of goats (Anom 2010 a) Goats most likely descend from the wild bezoars (Capra
aegagrus) and the origins have been confirmed by genetic studies based on mitochondrial
and nuclear DNA (Naderi et at 2007 Groeneveld et at 2009)
The classification of goat breeds is determined based on their production of goat
status such as milk and meat production or both type The domestic goat is breeds in captivity
tend to have different anatomies and behaviour from their wild ancestor Breeding of
domestic goat is controled by human either by using natural breeding or assisted reproductive
techniques (ARTs) Current stocks of goats in Malaysia are made up from Katjang Boer
JarnnapariEttawah British Alphine Saenen Toggenburg breeds as well as their crosses
(Anom 2010 b) Goat contributes income for economic importance either from natural or
renewable product such as meat milk fine leather fertilizer gelatin surgical supplies
medicine soaps luggage and others
The levels of genetic variability of domestic goat are low within a population due to
variation in performance trait An assessment of genetic variability of the breed is a step
forward conservation and improvement of genetic resources for maintaining breeding
options The assessment in animal breeding and genetics was applied for identification
animal andparentage testing gene mapping and identifying marker for performance traits As
the structure of the mitochondrial DNA in livestock species varies evaluations through
2
genetic study are needed in order to gain a better understanding about genetic variation
among domestic goat
Application of molecular marker are wide spread and has been found to be a powerful
indicator to measure genetic differences within and between individuals populations and
species Mammalian mitochondrial DNA have been used to identify variation because of
their advantage features such as it has represented the most informative genomic element
whereby it has highly informative polymorphism fast mutation rate highest stability
absence of recombination evolves less rapidly and display maternal mode of genetic
transmissions Genetic marker can also determine the relationship among breed using
calculating genetic distance and construct trees (Rout ei ai 2008) Thus this study was
carried out in a purpose to characterise the genetic variation of domestic goat by using
sequence analysis of Cytochrome Oxidase I (COl)
3
The Objectives of This Study are
1 To extract DNA from samples goat
2 To amplify Cytochrome Oxidase I (COl) gene using PCR
3 To characterize the genetic structure of goat population from the Handa1as
farm Matang based on mitochondrial DNA Cytochrome Oxidase I (COl)
sequences
4
2 Ii i at
LITERATURE REVIEW
Domestic Goat (Capra hircus)
Figure 1 Capra hircus (Source Handalas farm Matang Sarawak)
Table 1 Scientific classification of goat
Common name Domestic goat
Kingdom Animalia
Class Mammalia
Order Artiodactyla
Suborder Ruminantia
Family Bovidae
Subfamily Caprinae
Genus Capra
Species Capra hircus
5
Domestic goat is a social animal and it also known as grazing specIes grass Mileski amp
Myers (201 0) stated that domestic goat is classified as sedentary because they live under
human control They live in group called herds and the size of captive herd could be
controlled by human Herds sizes in the wild tend to be 5 to 20 members but they can be as
high as 100 The herds can contain only males only females and young or a mix of both
Goats can survive on bushes trees scrub and aromatic herbs (Haenlein 1992) and eat any
kind of plant material such as grass leaves twigs as well as stems of woody plants
Goat come in varies colour like solid black white red brown spotted two and three
coloured blended shades distinct facial stripes black and white saddles depending on
breeds (Haenlein 1992) Figure 1 show a goat from the Handalas Farm Matang Sarawak
with a combination of two colours of white and black Goat has digestive tract with four
stomach compartments of ruminants consisting of the rumen the reticulum the omasum and
the obamasum The intestinal canal of the goat is about 100 feet long (11 liters) or 25 times
the length of a goat (Haenlein 1992)
The breeding behaviour of goat is usually control by human which follows
polygynous reproductive system that involves mating of one male with more than one female
(Mileski amp Myers 2010 Anom 2010 c) The females are then inseminated either directly by
those males or by novel reproductive biotechnologies which also known as assisted
reproductive techniques (ARTs) (Mileski amp Myers 2010 Rahman et at 2008) These ARTs
include artificial insemination(AI) embryo transfer (ET) multiple ovulation embryo transfer
(MOET) estrus synchronization and superovulation laparoscopic ovum pick-up (LOPU) in
vitro maturation (lVM) in vitro fertilization (lVF) and in vitro culture(lVC) collectively
6
i
known as in vitro production (IVP) intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI)
cryopreservation of oocytes and embryos sperm and embryos sexing embryo splitting
embryo cloning nuclear transfer (NT) gene transfer and marker-assisted selection (MAS)
By using ARTs more offspring will be produced compared to natural breeding (Rahman et
al 2008)
Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR)
PCR is a technique for amplifying DNA in vitro by incubating with a specific primer DNA
polymerase molecule and nucleotide (Campbell amp Reece 2005) PCR technique produces
many copies of a specific DNA sequences without having to clone the sequence in a host
genome (Russell 2006) The starting material for PCR is double stranded DNA containing
the target nucleotide sequence to be copied a heat resistant DNA polymerase all four
nucleotide and two short single-stranded DNA molecules that serve as primer One primer is
complementary to one strand at one end of the target sequence and the second primer is
complementary to the other strand at the other end of the sequence Applications of PCR
allow any specific segment of the target sequences within a DNA sample to be copied many
times completely in vitro and in a much shorter time (Campbell amp Reece 2005 Jain et al
2007)
(
7
125 -RNA
22 tRNA n~od ng gen
13 prot~n-encOdlnQ reil ons
Ojtochrnm
Mitochondrial DNA
Control r eIoC rgt or d4oo bull
NAOH D hydroj n s
iubunlt
NADH Dehydrogenase
s u_bunts
NADH Dehydrogenasa
5U nits
Oxidase
Cytochrome Oxidase ~ubunlt~
Figure 2 Mitochondrial DNA (Source Wikipedia)
Mammalian mitochondrial genome is a closed circular double-stranded mitochondrial
genome about 15000 base pairs long The mitochondrial genome of animal encodes product
whereas the mitochondrial genome for fungi and plants have extra DNA that does not code
for any product (Russell 2006 Sutarno 2010)
mtDNA is maternally inherited and the offspring are clones for mitochondrial DNA
genes (Jiang amp Ott 2010 Russel 2006) This pattern of inheritance allows matriarchal
lineages to be traced and provides a mean for examining family structure in some population
This in conjunction with the rapid and regular rate of accumulation of nucleotide sequence
differences has allowed mitochondrial DNA to become a valuable tool for comparing closely
related lineage (Russell 2006)
8
~ubunll~
ATP Synthase subunits
Mitochondrial DNA is represented the most infonnative genomIc element
polymorphic sites and simple maternal inheritance without recombination in purpose to study
the population of many organism or livestock domestication (Joshi et ai 2004 Machugh amp
Bradley 2001 N aderi et ai 2007) In addition polymorphism accumulates approximately
10 to 17 times faster in mtDNA compared with nuclear DNA (Jiang amp Ott 2010) Thus
DNA is able to provide more infonnation compare to the protein because it has many non
coding regions and declining of genetic code
Cytochrome Oxidase I (COl)
Cytochrome Oxidase I (COl) is encoded by mitochondrial genome mtDNA and was exhibit
one of the most heterogeneous rates of amino acid replacement among placental mammals
COl is important enzyme which is found in all organisms that perfonn aerobic respiration
The COl gene is short genetic sequence of 648 base pairs which can be easily extracted from
cells the most slowly evolving gene and conservative protein-coding genes in the
mitochondrial genome of mammals which was preferable for the evolutionary (Maderankova
amp Provaznik 2010 Simon et ai 1994)
Besides that mitochondrial gene COl also was applied in analysis of DNA bercoding
in screening the mtDNA gene of all species and thus creating databases of COl for assigning
of unknown individuals to species and discovery of new species COl gene is suitable for
identification of animals especially birds fish and insect but it is not suitable for plants As
COl is mitochondrial gene it evolves quickly and therefore it is possible to identify close
related species and new species (Maderankova amp Provaznik 2010)
9
Genetic Studies on Domestic Goat and Other Ovine
Genetic diversity is the best measure for genetic variation within a population There are
many previous studies on genetic diversity of goat by using different kind of DNA markers
for example a study by Rout et al (2008) which analysed Indian goat using microsatellites
marker showed higher level of gene diversity compared with the European and Asian goats
breeds Studies on goat genetics by using random amplified polymorphic DNA (RAPD)
molecular marker have also proven to be an efficient tool for quantification of genetic
diversity at the population levels (Gaali amp Satti 2009 Oliveira et al 2005)
Report by Mannen et al (2001) using the displacement loop (d-loop) and cyt b gene
revealed that the domestic goats are genetically affected by two subspecies of bezoars The
HVI of the mtDNA control region have also been used in study of phylogenetic history of
human and domestic animal because it showed higher level of polymorphism (Luikart et al
2001 Naderi et al 2007) Analysis of genetic distance mismatch distribution and
comparison with wild sheep has been studied by Meadows et al (2007) where the analysis
was carried out by using the DNA sequencing consisted of mitchondrion control region (525
bp) tRNA phe and l2s rRNA (535 bp) and cyt b gene (967 bp) According to Mackay et al
(1985) and Jiang amp Ott (2010) mammalian mitochondrial DNA repeatedly contains a short
DNA d-loop at the heavy strand origin of replication and has been completely sequence in
related species to farming and agriculture
Joshi et al (2004) studied of phylogeography and origin in Indian domestic goat
using mtDNA sequence data from HVRI regions They found the evidence for population
structure and novel lineage in Indian goat that cannot merge the genetic diversity were found
within the major lineage with domestication starting 10000 years ago from a single mtDNA
10
ancestor Naderi et aI (2001) used also HVI segment of the mtDNA d-Ioop in their studied
to characterize the domestic goat mtDNA diversity based on a worldwide sampling Genetic
variations were found among goat haplogroups with the weak phylogeograpfic structure The
weak phylogeographic structure has been explained by a high mobility of goat species in a
relation to human migration and commercial trade Ruo-Yu et aI (2006) have been studied
about genetic diversity of mtDNA d-Ioop and the origin of Chinese goats for protection of
goat breed resources and goat breeding
11
1iii
MATERIALS AND METHODS
Sample Collection of Goats
A total of 20 samples goat (Capra hircus) used in this study (Table 2) were collected from
the Handalas farm Matang Sarawak Samples goat was sampled using buccal cell collection
The samples of buccal cells were categorised based on their gender lineage and also
morphological identities The buccal cells samples were collected by using cotton swab and
the cotton swab were preserved in each tube containing Phosphate Buffered Saline (PBS)
buffer The buccal cells were stored in -20De freezer upon returning to the laboratory for
DNA extraction
Table 2 Description of the goat used in this study
Tag name Description
RATEN Male (mating)
K021 K032 L395 MOKLI Female (mating)
P4669369172B303P206D2P454A
H054
Female offspring (mating)
L387 T452 T478 0313 K014 K008
TA82A K003 R223
Female (hybrid)
12
DNA Extraction
DNA was extracted from the goat samples using the CTAB method (Grewe et al 1993) The
buccal cells sample was transfer into new 15 eppendorf tube 100 III CTAB buffer and 20 III
proteinase K was added into the eppendorf tube Another 600 III CTAB buffer was added into
the eppendorf tube and the solution was mixed well Then the eppendorf tube was incubated
in water bath for 2 to 3 hours until the DNA samples dissolve After the DNA samples was
dissolved 600 III chlorofonn-isoamyl alcohol (24 I) was added and the solution was shaken
for 2 to 3 minute followed by centrifugation of the eppendorf tube for 20 minutes at 13 000
rpm The upper layer of supernatant was transfer into a new 15 eppendorf tube
Cold absolute ethanol was added into eppendorf tube and the solution was mixed
well The eppendorf tube was sit on the bench for a few minutes followed centrifugation for
20 minutes at 13 000 rpm The ethanol was discarded carefully and the pellet was washed and
precipitated with an equal volume of ethanol and 25 III of 3M NaOAclNaCI The eppendorf
tube then was undergone centrifugation process for 20 minutes at 13 000 rpm The ethanol
was discarded carefully to ensuing the pellet is not poured out
Small droplet of liquid that was present on the eppendorftube was left for evaporation
or sucked by using tissue The pellet was suspended in 30 III distilled water (ddH20) After
DNA had been extracted quality and approximate yield was detennined by electrophoresis in
a 1 agarose gel containing ethidium bromide at 90 Volts for 30 minutes The gel was
photographed under UV light Isolated genomic DNA was used for mtDNA analysis was
place at -20degC
13
T
Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR)
Cytochrome Oxidase I (COl) of the mtDNA gene was amplified by using Polymerase Chain
Reaction (PCR) The amplification was done on a Gradient Thermo Cycler (Biorard)
machine for 35 cycles with 25 III of reaction volume For PCR reaction the following
components were mixed in the order that containing of lOX PCR Buffer (Promega) 50 mM
Magnesium Chloride (MgCI2) 2mM Deoxyribonucleotide triphosphates mixture (dTTP
dA TP dCTP and dGTP) 1 III of template DNA molecule of each sample sterile distilled
water (ddH20) 10 pmolllli forward primer 10 pmolIll reverse primer and 5ulll Taq DNA
Polymerase
Two universal primers of COl sequence that were used in the PCR amplification below
Table 3 Primers that were used in peR amplification
Primers sequence Sequences 5 to 3
COl Forward (VRld tt) 5-TGT AAA ACG ACG GCC AGC TCT CAA
CCA ACC ACA ARG A Y A TYG G-3
COl Reverse (VRld tt) 5-CAG GAA ACA GCT ATG ACT AGA CTT
CTG GGT GGC CRA ARA A YC A-3
In every amplification one negative control was used to monitor the validity of the
PCR reaction Temperature profile for 35 amplification cycles was pre-denaturation (94degC
for 2 minutes) denaturation (94 degC for 1 minute) annealing (51degC for 1 minute) extension
(72 degC for I minute) and final extension (72 degC for 5 minutes) After amplification the PCR
14
1
products were run on 1 agarose gel stained with ethidium bromide at 90 volts for 40
minutes and photographed under UV light in order to determine the best annealing
temperature after optimization peR products were purified prior to sequencing using
purification kit (Promega)
Agarose Gel Electrophoresis
The 05g of 1 agarose gel was prepared and mixed with Tris-Acetic acid-EDTA (IX TAE)
buffer The solution was heated for 1 minute until the agarose powder totally dissolved The
solution was poured into the clean conical flask and 1 ~l Etbr was added into it The conical
flask was shakes slowly Then the solution immediately poured into the electrophoresis tank
The solution was cooled down for 10 minutes until the gel solidify 1 ~l a Fermentas ladder
was loaded at front of the well followed 2 ~l each peR products The peR products were run
on 1 agarose gel stained with ethidium bromide at 90 volts for 40 minutes and
photographed under UV light
Purification
peR amplified products were extracted and purified before send for DNA sequencing The
purification process was done by using the purification kit (Promega) according to the
manufacturers instruction A brief summary of the protocol is as follow An equal volume
(23 ~l) of membrane binding solution was added into the peR reaction A mini column was
inserted into the collection tube and prepared peR product was transfer into the mini column
assembly The mini column was undergone centrifugation at 14000 rpm for 3 minutes and
the supernatant was discarded Then the mini column was reinserted into the collection tube
15
T
700 fll of membrane washing buffer (within ethanol added) was added into tube and
undergone centrifugation at 14000 rpm for 2 minutes The supernatant inside tube was
discarded and the mini column was reinserted into collection tube
The DNA pellet was washed by using 500 fll washing buffer and was undergone
centrifugation at 14000 rpm for 5 minutes in order to dry the mini column and eliminate the
excess ethanol inside the mini column The mini column was transferred into new 15 ml
eppendorf tube and 28 fll of Nuclease-free water was added into mini column followed by
incubation for 1 minute Thus the mini column has undergone centrifugation at 14000 rpm
for 5 minute 2 fll of the purified PCR product was checked by running 1 agarose gel to
ensure the sufficiency recovery of the purified PCR obtained The purified DNA was then
stored at -20 0 C and sent to a commercial company First Base (First BASE Laboratories Sdn
Bhd Malaysia) for DNA sequencing Only forward primer was used to sequencing the DNA
Data Analysis
The data from DNA sequencing process was analysed using CHROMAS LITE software The
sequences then were exported to fasta format The sequence was opened in Notepad and all
the N s and ambiguities were deleting before combining all the sequences After that the
DNA sequences were aligned using CLUSTAL X (Thompson et al 1994) and the data were
save as aln and nxs file
The sequences then were further analysed in MEGA 4 using phylogenetic test The
MEGA software has been to provide tools for exploring discovering and analysing DNA
16
Genetic Characterization of Domestic Goat (Capra hircus) Using Mitochondrial DNA
Wan Nor Haslinda Binti Wan Azman
Resource Biotechnology Programme Faculty of Resource Science and Technology
Universiti Malaysia Sarawak
ABSTRACT
This study examines the genetic characteristic of domestic goat Capra hircus using sequence analysis of mitochondrial DNA Cytochrome Oxidase I (COl) gene A total of 20 domestic goat samples from the Handalas Farm Matang Sarawak were examined The sequence data were analyzed using both character (Maximum Parsimony) and distance (Neighbour-joining) methods Phylogenetic tree produced showed all the goats from the Handalas Farm Matang Sarawak is clustered into a single clade The result showed that all the sequences are closely related thus all samples used in this study are possibly originated from a single gene pool of domestic goat population Overall analysis from this study showed that the COl gene is limited use in examining the genetic structure of goat population in the Handalas Farm Matang Sarawak
Key words Capra hircus mitochondrial DNA Cytochrome Oxidase I (COl) gene genetic structure
ABSTRAK
Kajian ini dijalankan untuk mengkaji ciri-ciri genetik kambing domestik iaitu Capra hircus dengan menggunakan analisis jujukan gen mitokondria DNA Sitokrom Oksides I (COl) Sejumlah 20 sampel kambing domestik dan Ladang Handalas Matang Sarawak dikaji Jujukan data dianalisis menggunakan kaedah pencirian (Maximum Parsimony) dan jarak (Neighbour-joining) Filogenetik pokok yang terhasil menunjukkan ke semua kambing dari Ladang Handa las Matang Sarawak telah dikumpulkan kedalam satu clade Keputusan menunjukkan ke semua jujukan berkait rapat dan ke semua sampel yang digunakan adalah berkemungkinan berasal dari satu kolam gen populasi kambing domestik Keseluruhannya analisis dari kajian ini menunjukkan penggunaan gen COl adalah terhad dalam mengkaji struktur genetik populasi kambing di Ladang Handalas Matang Sarawak
Kata kunci Capra hircus motokondria DNA gen Sitokrom Oksides I (COl) struktur genetik
1
INTRODUCTION
The domestic goat (Capra hircus) is one of the domesticated ruminant livestock species The
goat is a member of the Bovidae family and is closely related to the sheep (Table 1) Both are
in the goat-antelope subfamily Caprinae (Table 1) There are over three hundred distinct
breeds of goats (Anom 2010 a) Goats most likely descend from the wild bezoars (Capra
aegagrus) and the origins have been confirmed by genetic studies based on mitochondrial
and nuclear DNA (Naderi et at 2007 Groeneveld et at 2009)
The classification of goat breeds is determined based on their production of goat
status such as milk and meat production or both type The domestic goat is breeds in captivity
tend to have different anatomies and behaviour from their wild ancestor Breeding of
domestic goat is controled by human either by using natural breeding or assisted reproductive
techniques (ARTs) Current stocks of goats in Malaysia are made up from Katjang Boer
JarnnapariEttawah British Alphine Saenen Toggenburg breeds as well as their crosses
(Anom 2010 b) Goat contributes income for economic importance either from natural or
renewable product such as meat milk fine leather fertilizer gelatin surgical supplies
medicine soaps luggage and others
The levels of genetic variability of domestic goat are low within a population due to
variation in performance trait An assessment of genetic variability of the breed is a step
forward conservation and improvement of genetic resources for maintaining breeding
options The assessment in animal breeding and genetics was applied for identification
animal andparentage testing gene mapping and identifying marker for performance traits As
the structure of the mitochondrial DNA in livestock species varies evaluations through
2
genetic study are needed in order to gain a better understanding about genetic variation
among domestic goat
Application of molecular marker are wide spread and has been found to be a powerful
indicator to measure genetic differences within and between individuals populations and
species Mammalian mitochondrial DNA have been used to identify variation because of
their advantage features such as it has represented the most informative genomic element
whereby it has highly informative polymorphism fast mutation rate highest stability
absence of recombination evolves less rapidly and display maternal mode of genetic
transmissions Genetic marker can also determine the relationship among breed using
calculating genetic distance and construct trees (Rout ei ai 2008) Thus this study was
carried out in a purpose to characterise the genetic variation of domestic goat by using
sequence analysis of Cytochrome Oxidase I (COl)
3
The Objectives of This Study are
1 To extract DNA from samples goat
2 To amplify Cytochrome Oxidase I (COl) gene using PCR
3 To characterize the genetic structure of goat population from the Handa1as
farm Matang based on mitochondrial DNA Cytochrome Oxidase I (COl)
sequences
4
2 Ii i at
LITERATURE REVIEW
Domestic Goat (Capra hircus)
Figure 1 Capra hircus (Source Handalas farm Matang Sarawak)
Table 1 Scientific classification of goat
Common name Domestic goat
Kingdom Animalia
Class Mammalia
Order Artiodactyla
Suborder Ruminantia
Family Bovidae
Subfamily Caprinae
Genus Capra
Species Capra hircus
5
Domestic goat is a social animal and it also known as grazing specIes grass Mileski amp
Myers (201 0) stated that domestic goat is classified as sedentary because they live under
human control They live in group called herds and the size of captive herd could be
controlled by human Herds sizes in the wild tend to be 5 to 20 members but they can be as
high as 100 The herds can contain only males only females and young or a mix of both
Goats can survive on bushes trees scrub and aromatic herbs (Haenlein 1992) and eat any
kind of plant material such as grass leaves twigs as well as stems of woody plants
Goat come in varies colour like solid black white red brown spotted two and three
coloured blended shades distinct facial stripes black and white saddles depending on
breeds (Haenlein 1992) Figure 1 show a goat from the Handalas Farm Matang Sarawak
with a combination of two colours of white and black Goat has digestive tract with four
stomach compartments of ruminants consisting of the rumen the reticulum the omasum and
the obamasum The intestinal canal of the goat is about 100 feet long (11 liters) or 25 times
the length of a goat (Haenlein 1992)
The breeding behaviour of goat is usually control by human which follows
polygynous reproductive system that involves mating of one male with more than one female
(Mileski amp Myers 2010 Anom 2010 c) The females are then inseminated either directly by
those males or by novel reproductive biotechnologies which also known as assisted
reproductive techniques (ARTs) (Mileski amp Myers 2010 Rahman et at 2008) These ARTs
include artificial insemination(AI) embryo transfer (ET) multiple ovulation embryo transfer
(MOET) estrus synchronization and superovulation laparoscopic ovum pick-up (LOPU) in
vitro maturation (lVM) in vitro fertilization (lVF) and in vitro culture(lVC) collectively
6
i
known as in vitro production (IVP) intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI)
cryopreservation of oocytes and embryos sperm and embryos sexing embryo splitting
embryo cloning nuclear transfer (NT) gene transfer and marker-assisted selection (MAS)
By using ARTs more offspring will be produced compared to natural breeding (Rahman et
al 2008)
Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR)
PCR is a technique for amplifying DNA in vitro by incubating with a specific primer DNA
polymerase molecule and nucleotide (Campbell amp Reece 2005) PCR technique produces
many copies of a specific DNA sequences without having to clone the sequence in a host
genome (Russell 2006) The starting material for PCR is double stranded DNA containing
the target nucleotide sequence to be copied a heat resistant DNA polymerase all four
nucleotide and two short single-stranded DNA molecules that serve as primer One primer is
complementary to one strand at one end of the target sequence and the second primer is
complementary to the other strand at the other end of the sequence Applications of PCR
allow any specific segment of the target sequences within a DNA sample to be copied many
times completely in vitro and in a much shorter time (Campbell amp Reece 2005 Jain et al
2007)
(
7
125 -RNA
22 tRNA n~od ng gen
13 prot~n-encOdlnQ reil ons
Ojtochrnm
Mitochondrial DNA
Control r eIoC rgt or d4oo bull
NAOH D hydroj n s
iubunlt
NADH Dehydrogenase
s u_bunts
NADH Dehydrogenasa
5U nits
Oxidase
Cytochrome Oxidase ~ubunlt~
Figure 2 Mitochondrial DNA (Source Wikipedia)
Mammalian mitochondrial genome is a closed circular double-stranded mitochondrial
genome about 15000 base pairs long The mitochondrial genome of animal encodes product
whereas the mitochondrial genome for fungi and plants have extra DNA that does not code
for any product (Russell 2006 Sutarno 2010)
mtDNA is maternally inherited and the offspring are clones for mitochondrial DNA
genes (Jiang amp Ott 2010 Russel 2006) This pattern of inheritance allows matriarchal
lineages to be traced and provides a mean for examining family structure in some population
This in conjunction with the rapid and regular rate of accumulation of nucleotide sequence
differences has allowed mitochondrial DNA to become a valuable tool for comparing closely
related lineage (Russell 2006)
8
~ubunll~
ATP Synthase subunits
Mitochondrial DNA is represented the most infonnative genomIc element
polymorphic sites and simple maternal inheritance without recombination in purpose to study
the population of many organism or livestock domestication (Joshi et ai 2004 Machugh amp
Bradley 2001 N aderi et ai 2007) In addition polymorphism accumulates approximately
10 to 17 times faster in mtDNA compared with nuclear DNA (Jiang amp Ott 2010) Thus
DNA is able to provide more infonnation compare to the protein because it has many non
coding regions and declining of genetic code
Cytochrome Oxidase I (COl)
Cytochrome Oxidase I (COl) is encoded by mitochondrial genome mtDNA and was exhibit
one of the most heterogeneous rates of amino acid replacement among placental mammals
COl is important enzyme which is found in all organisms that perfonn aerobic respiration
The COl gene is short genetic sequence of 648 base pairs which can be easily extracted from
cells the most slowly evolving gene and conservative protein-coding genes in the
mitochondrial genome of mammals which was preferable for the evolutionary (Maderankova
amp Provaznik 2010 Simon et ai 1994)
Besides that mitochondrial gene COl also was applied in analysis of DNA bercoding
in screening the mtDNA gene of all species and thus creating databases of COl for assigning
of unknown individuals to species and discovery of new species COl gene is suitable for
identification of animals especially birds fish and insect but it is not suitable for plants As
COl is mitochondrial gene it evolves quickly and therefore it is possible to identify close
related species and new species (Maderankova amp Provaznik 2010)
9
Genetic Studies on Domestic Goat and Other Ovine
Genetic diversity is the best measure for genetic variation within a population There are
many previous studies on genetic diversity of goat by using different kind of DNA markers
for example a study by Rout et al (2008) which analysed Indian goat using microsatellites
marker showed higher level of gene diversity compared with the European and Asian goats
breeds Studies on goat genetics by using random amplified polymorphic DNA (RAPD)
molecular marker have also proven to be an efficient tool for quantification of genetic
diversity at the population levels (Gaali amp Satti 2009 Oliveira et al 2005)
Report by Mannen et al (2001) using the displacement loop (d-loop) and cyt b gene
revealed that the domestic goats are genetically affected by two subspecies of bezoars The
HVI of the mtDNA control region have also been used in study of phylogenetic history of
human and domestic animal because it showed higher level of polymorphism (Luikart et al
2001 Naderi et al 2007) Analysis of genetic distance mismatch distribution and
comparison with wild sheep has been studied by Meadows et al (2007) where the analysis
was carried out by using the DNA sequencing consisted of mitchondrion control region (525
bp) tRNA phe and l2s rRNA (535 bp) and cyt b gene (967 bp) According to Mackay et al
(1985) and Jiang amp Ott (2010) mammalian mitochondrial DNA repeatedly contains a short
DNA d-loop at the heavy strand origin of replication and has been completely sequence in
related species to farming and agriculture
Joshi et al (2004) studied of phylogeography and origin in Indian domestic goat
using mtDNA sequence data from HVRI regions They found the evidence for population
structure and novel lineage in Indian goat that cannot merge the genetic diversity were found
within the major lineage with domestication starting 10000 years ago from a single mtDNA
10
ancestor Naderi et aI (2001) used also HVI segment of the mtDNA d-Ioop in their studied
to characterize the domestic goat mtDNA diversity based on a worldwide sampling Genetic
variations were found among goat haplogroups with the weak phylogeograpfic structure The
weak phylogeographic structure has been explained by a high mobility of goat species in a
relation to human migration and commercial trade Ruo-Yu et aI (2006) have been studied
about genetic diversity of mtDNA d-Ioop and the origin of Chinese goats for protection of
goat breed resources and goat breeding
11
1iii
MATERIALS AND METHODS
Sample Collection of Goats
A total of 20 samples goat (Capra hircus) used in this study (Table 2) were collected from
the Handalas farm Matang Sarawak Samples goat was sampled using buccal cell collection
The samples of buccal cells were categorised based on their gender lineage and also
morphological identities The buccal cells samples were collected by using cotton swab and
the cotton swab were preserved in each tube containing Phosphate Buffered Saline (PBS)
buffer The buccal cells were stored in -20De freezer upon returning to the laboratory for
DNA extraction
Table 2 Description of the goat used in this study
Tag name Description
RATEN Male (mating)
K021 K032 L395 MOKLI Female (mating)
P4669369172B303P206D2P454A
H054
Female offspring (mating)
L387 T452 T478 0313 K014 K008
TA82A K003 R223
Female (hybrid)
12
DNA Extraction
DNA was extracted from the goat samples using the CTAB method (Grewe et al 1993) The
buccal cells sample was transfer into new 15 eppendorf tube 100 III CTAB buffer and 20 III
proteinase K was added into the eppendorf tube Another 600 III CTAB buffer was added into
the eppendorf tube and the solution was mixed well Then the eppendorf tube was incubated
in water bath for 2 to 3 hours until the DNA samples dissolve After the DNA samples was
dissolved 600 III chlorofonn-isoamyl alcohol (24 I) was added and the solution was shaken
for 2 to 3 minute followed by centrifugation of the eppendorf tube for 20 minutes at 13 000
rpm The upper layer of supernatant was transfer into a new 15 eppendorf tube
Cold absolute ethanol was added into eppendorf tube and the solution was mixed
well The eppendorf tube was sit on the bench for a few minutes followed centrifugation for
20 minutes at 13 000 rpm The ethanol was discarded carefully and the pellet was washed and
precipitated with an equal volume of ethanol and 25 III of 3M NaOAclNaCI The eppendorf
tube then was undergone centrifugation process for 20 minutes at 13 000 rpm The ethanol
was discarded carefully to ensuing the pellet is not poured out
Small droplet of liquid that was present on the eppendorftube was left for evaporation
or sucked by using tissue The pellet was suspended in 30 III distilled water (ddH20) After
DNA had been extracted quality and approximate yield was detennined by electrophoresis in
a 1 agarose gel containing ethidium bromide at 90 Volts for 30 minutes The gel was
photographed under UV light Isolated genomic DNA was used for mtDNA analysis was
place at -20degC
13
T
Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR)
Cytochrome Oxidase I (COl) of the mtDNA gene was amplified by using Polymerase Chain
Reaction (PCR) The amplification was done on a Gradient Thermo Cycler (Biorard)
machine for 35 cycles with 25 III of reaction volume For PCR reaction the following
components were mixed in the order that containing of lOX PCR Buffer (Promega) 50 mM
Magnesium Chloride (MgCI2) 2mM Deoxyribonucleotide triphosphates mixture (dTTP
dA TP dCTP and dGTP) 1 III of template DNA molecule of each sample sterile distilled
water (ddH20) 10 pmolllli forward primer 10 pmolIll reverse primer and 5ulll Taq DNA
Polymerase
Two universal primers of COl sequence that were used in the PCR amplification below
Table 3 Primers that were used in peR amplification
Primers sequence Sequences 5 to 3
COl Forward (VRld tt) 5-TGT AAA ACG ACG GCC AGC TCT CAA
CCA ACC ACA ARG A Y A TYG G-3
COl Reverse (VRld tt) 5-CAG GAA ACA GCT ATG ACT AGA CTT
CTG GGT GGC CRA ARA A YC A-3
In every amplification one negative control was used to monitor the validity of the
PCR reaction Temperature profile for 35 amplification cycles was pre-denaturation (94degC
for 2 minutes) denaturation (94 degC for 1 minute) annealing (51degC for 1 minute) extension
(72 degC for I minute) and final extension (72 degC for 5 minutes) After amplification the PCR
14
1
products were run on 1 agarose gel stained with ethidium bromide at 90 volts for 40
minutes and photographed under UV light in order to determine the best annealing
temperature after optimization peR products were purified prior to sequencing using
purification kit (Promega)
Agarose Gel Electrophoresis
The 05g of 1 agarose gel was prepared and mixed with Tris-Acetic acid-EDTA (IX TAE)
buffer The solution was heated for 1 minute until the agarose powder totally dissolved The
solution was poured into the clean conical flask and 1 ~l Etbr was added into it The conical
flask was shakes slowly Then the solution immediately poured into the electrophoresis tank
The solution was cooled down for 10 minutes until the gel solidify 1 ~l a Fermentas ladder
was loaded at front of the well followed 2 ~l each peR products The peR products were run
on 1 agarose gel stained with ethidium bromide at 90 volts for 40 minutes and
photographed under UV light
Purification
peR amplified products were extracted and purified before send for DNA sequencing The
purification process was done by using the purification kit (Promega) according to the
manufacturers instruction A brief summary of the protocol is as follow An equal volume
(23 ~l) of membrane binding solution was added into the peR reaction A mini column was
inserted into the collection tube and prepared peR product was transfer into the mini column
assembly The mini column was undergone centrifugation at 14000 rpm for 3 minutes and
the supernatant was discarded Then the mini column was reinserted into the collection tube
15
T
700 fll of membrane washing buffer (within ethanol added) was added into tube and
undergone centrifugation at 14000 rpm for 2 minutes The supernatant inside tube was
discarded and the mini column was reinserted into collection tube
The DNA pellet was washed by using 500 fll washing buffer and was undergone
centrifugation at 14000 rpm for 5 minutes in order to dry the mini column and eliminate the
excess ethanol inside the mini column The mini column was transferred into new 15 ml
eppendorf tube and 28 fll of Nuclease-free water was added into mini column followed by
incubation for 1 minute Thus the mini column has undergone centrifugation at 14000 rpm
for 5 minute 2 fll of the purified PCR product was checked by running 1 agarose gel to
ensure the sufficiency recovery of the purified PCR obtained The purified DNA was then
stored at -20 0 C and sent to a commercial company First Base (First BASE Laboratories Sdn
Bhd Malaysia) for DNA sequencing Only forward primer was used to sequencing the DNA
Data Analysis
The data from DNA sequencing process was analysed using CHROMAS LITE software The
sequences then were exported to fasta format The sequence was opened in Notepad and all
the N s and ambiguities were deleting before combining all the sequences After that the
DNA sequences were aligned using CLUSTAL X (Thompson et al 1994) and the data were
save as aln and nxs file
The sequences then were further analysed in MEGA 4 using phylogenetic test The
MEGA software has been to provide tools for exploring discovering and analysing DNA
16
INTRODUCTION
The domestic goat (Capra hircus) is one of the domesticated ruminant livestock species The
goat is a member of the Bovidae family and is closely related to the sheep (Table 1) Both are
in the goat-antelope subfamily Caprinae (Table 1) There are over three hundred distinct
breeds of goats (Anom 2010 a) Goats most likely descend from the wild bezoars (Capra
aegagrus) and the origins have been confirmed by genetic studies based on mitochondrial
and nuclear DNA (Naderi et at 2007 Groeneveld et at 2009)
The classification of goat breeds is determined based on their production of goat
status such as milk and meat production or both type The domestic goat is breeds in captivity
tend to have different anatomies and behaviour from their wild ancestor Breeding of
domestic goat is controled by human either by using natural breeding or assisted reproductive
techniques (ARTs) Current stocks of goats in Malaysia are made up from Katjang Boer
JarnnapariEttawah British Alphine Saenen Toggenburg breeds as well as their crosses
(Anom 2010 b) Goat contributes income for economic importance either from natural or
renewable product such as meat milk fine leather fertilizer gelatin surgical supplies
medicine soaps luggage and others
The levels of genetic variability of domestic goat are low within a population due to
variation in performance trait An assessment of genetic variability of the breed is a step
forward conservation and improvement of genetic resources for maintaining breeding
options The assessment in animal breeding and genetics was applied for identification
animal andparentage testing gene mapping and identifying marker for performance traits As
the structure of the mitochondrial DNA in livestock species varies evaluations through
2
genetic study are needed in order to gain a better understanding about genetic variation
among domestic goat
Application of molecular marker are wide spread and has been found to be a powerful
indicator to measure genetic differences within and between individuals populations and
species Mammalian mitochondrial DNA have been used to identify variation because of
their advantage features such as it has represented the most informative genomic element
whereby it has highly informative polymorphism fast mutation rate highest stability
absence of recombination evolves less rapidly and display maternal mode of genetic
transmissions Genetic marker can also determine the relationship among breed using
calculating genetic distance and construct trees (Rout ei ai 2008) Thus this study was
carried out in a purpose to characterise the genetic variation of domestic goat by using
sequence analysis of Cytochrome Oxidase I (COl)
3
The Objectives of This Study are
1 To extract DNA from samples goat
2 To amplify Cytochrome Oxidase I (COl) gene using PCR
3 To characterize the genetic structure of goat population from the Handa1as
farm Matang based on mitochondrial DNA Cytochrome Oxidase I (COl)
sequences
4
2 Ii i at
LITERATURE REVIEW
Domestic Goat (Capra hircus)
Figure 1 Capra hircus (Source Handalas farm Matang Sarawak)
Table 1 Scientific classification of goat
Common name Domestic goat
Kingdom Animalia
Class Mammalia
Order Artiodactyla
Suborder Ruminantia
Family Bovidae
Subfamily Caprinae
Genus Capra
Species Capra hircus
5
Domestic goat is a social animal and it also known as grazing specIes grass Mileski amp
Myers (201 0) stated that domestic goat is classified as sedentary because they live under
human control They live in group called herds and the size of captive herd could be
controlled by human Herds sizes in the wild tend to be 5 to 20 members but they can be as
high as 100 The herds can contain only males only females and young or a mix of both
Goats can survive on bushes trees scrub and aromatic herbs (Haenlein 1992) and eat any
kind of plant material such as grass leaves twigs as well as stems of woody plants
Goat come in varies colour like solid black white red brown spotted two and three
coloured blended shades distinct facial stripes black and white saddles depending on
breeds (Haenlein 1992) Figure 1 show a goat from the Handalas Farm Matang Sarawak
with a combination of two colours of white and black Goat has digestive tract with four
stomach compartments of ruminants consisting of the rumen the reticulum the omasum and
the obamasum The intestinal canal of the goat is about 100 feet long (11 liters) or 25 times
the length of a goat (Haenlein 1992)
The breeding behaviour of goat is usually control by human which follows
polygynous reproductive system that involves mating of one male with more than one female
(Mileski amp Myers 2010 Anom 2010 c) The females are then inseminated either directly by
those males or by novel reproductive biotechnologies which also known as assisted
reproductive techniques (ARTs) (Mileski amp Myers 2010 Rahman et at 2008) These ARTs
include artificial insemination(AI) embryo transfer (ET) multiple ovulation embryo transfer
(MOET) estrus synchronization and superovulation laparoscopic ovum pick-up (LOPU) in
vitro maturation (lVM) in vitro fertilization (lVF) and in vitro culture(lVC) collectively
6
i
known as in vitro production (IVP) intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI)
cryopreservation of oocytes and embryos sperm and embryos sexing embryo splitting
embryo cloning nuclear transfer (NT) gene transfer and marker-assisted selection (MAS)
By using ARTs more offspring will be produced compared to natural breeding (Rahman et
al 2008)
Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR)
PCR is a technique for amplifying DNA in vitro by incubating with a specific primer DNA
polymerase molecule and nucleotide (Campbell amp Reece 2005) PCR technique produces
many copies of a specific DNA sequences without having to clone the sequence in a host
genome (Russell 2006) The starting material for PCR is double stranded DNA containing
the target nucleotide sequence to be copied a heat resistant DNA polymerase all four
nucleotide and two short single-stranded DNA molecules that serve as primer One primer is
complementary to one strand at one end of the target sequence and the second primer is
complementary to the other strand at the other end of the sequence Applications of PCR
allow any specific segment of the target sequences within a DNA sample to be copied many
times completely in vitro and in a much shorter time (Campbell amp Reece 2005 Jain et al
2007)
(
7
125 -RNA
22 tRNA n~od ng gen
13 prot~n-encOdlnQ reil ons
Ojtochrnm
Mitochondrial DNA
Control r eIoC rgt or d4oo bull
NAOH D hydroj n s
iubunlt
NADH Dehydrogenase
s u_bunts
NADH Dehydrogenasa
5U nits
Oxidase
Cytochrome Oxidase ~ubunlt~
Figure 2 Mitochondrial DNA (Source Wikipedia)
Mammalian mitochondrial genome is a closed circular double-stranded mitochondrial
genome about 15000 base pairs long The mitochondrial genome of animal encodes product
whereas the mitochondrial genome for fungi and plants have extra DNA that does not code
for any product (Russell 2006 Sutarno 2010)
mtDNA is maternally inherited and the offspring are clones for mitochondrial DNA
genes (Jiang amp Ott 2010 Russel 2006) This pattern of inheritance allows matriarchal
lineages to be traced and provides a mean for examining family structure in some population
This in conjunction with the rapid and regular rate of accumulation of nucleotide sequence
differences has allowed mitochondrial DNA to become a valuable tool for comparing closely
related lineage (Russell 2006)
8
~ubunll~
ATP Synthase subunits
Mitochondrial DNA is represented the most infonnative genomIc element
polymorphic sites and simple maternal inheritance without recombination in purpose to study
the population of many organism or livestock domestication (Joshi et ai 2004 Machugh amp
Bradley 2001 N aderi et ai 2007) In addition polymorphism accumulates approximately
10 to 17 times faster in mtDNA compared with nuclear DNA (Jiang amp Ott 2010) Thus
DNA is able to provide more infonnation compare to the protein because it has many non
coding regions and declining of genetic code
Cytochrome Oxidase I (COl)
Cytochrome Oxidase I (COl) is encoded by mitochondrial genome mtDNA and was exhibit
one of the most heterogeneous rates of amino acid replacement among placental mammals
COl is important enzyme which is found in all organisms that perfonn aerobic respiration
The COl gene is short genetic sequence of 648 base pairs which can be easily extracted from
cells the most slowly evolving gene and conservative protein-coding genes in the
mitochondrial genome of mammals which was preferable for the evolutionary (Maderankova
amp Provaznik 2010 Simon et ai 1994)
Besides that mitochondrial gene COl also was applied in analysis of DNA bercoding
in screening the mtDNA gene of all species and thus creating databases of COl for assigning
of unknown individuals to species and discovery of new species COl gene is suitable for
identification of animals especially birds fish and insect but it is not suitable for plants As
COl is mitochondrial gene it evolves quickly and therefore it is possible to identify close
related species and new species (Maderankova amp Provaznik 2010)
9
Genetic Studies on Domestic Goat and Other Ovine
Genetic diversity is the best measure for genetic variation within a population There are
many previous studies on genetic diversity of goat by using different kind of DNA markers
for example a study by Rout et al (2008) which analysed Indian goat using microsatellites
marker showed higher level of gene diversity compared with the European and Asian goats
breeds Studies on goat genetics by using random amplified polymorphic DNA (RAPD)
molecular marker have also proven to be an efficient tool for quantification of genetic
diversity at the population levels (Gaali amp Satti 2009 Oliveira et al 2005)
Report by Mannen et al (2001) using the displacement loop (d-loop) and cyt b gene
revealed that the domestic goats are genetically affected by two subspecies of bezoars The
HVI of the mtDNA control region have also been used in study of phylogenetic history of
human and domestic animal because it showed higher level of polymorphism (Luikart et al
2001 Naderi et al 2007) Analysis of genetic distance mismatch distribution and
comparison with wild sheep has been studied by Meadows et al (2007) where the analysis
was carried out by using the DNA sequencing consisted of mitchondrion control region (525
bp) tRNA phe and l2s rRNA (535 bp) and cyt b gene (967 bp) According to Mackay et al
(1985) and Jiang amp Ott (2010) mammalian mitochondrial DNA repeatedly contains a short
DNA d-loop at the heavy strand origin of replication and has been completely sequence in
related species to farming and agriculture
Joshi et al (2004) studied of phylogeography and origin in Indian domestic goat
using mtDNA sequence data from HVRI regions They found the evidence for population
structure and novel lineage in Indian goat that cannot merge the genetic diversity were found
within the major lineage with domestication starting 10000 years ago from a single mtDNA
10
ancestor Naderi et aI (2001) used also HVI segment of the mtDNA d-Ioop in their studied
to characterize the domestic goat mtDNA diversity based on a worldwide sampling Genetic
variations were found among goat haplogroups with the weak phylogeograpfic structure The
weak phylogeographic structure has been explained by a high mobility of goat species in a
relation to human migration and commercial trade Ruo-Yu et aI (2006) have been studied
about genetic diversity of mtDNA d-Ioop and the origin of Chinese goats for protection of
goat breed resources and goat breeding
11
1iii
MATERIALS AND METHODS
Sample Collection of Goats
A total of 20 samples goat (Capra hircus) used in this study (Table 2) were collected from
the Handalas farm Matang Sarawak Samples goat was sampled using buccal cell collection
The samples of buccal cells were categorised based on their gender lineage and also
morphological identities The buccal cells samples were collected by using cotton swab and
the cotton swab were preserved in each tube containing Phosphate Buffered Saline (PBS)
buffer The buccal cells were stored in -20De freezer upon returning to the laboratory for
DNA extraction
Table 2 Description of the goat used in this study
Tag name Description
RATEN Male (mating)
K021 K032 L395 MOKLI Female (mating)
P4669369172B303P206D2P454A
H054
Female offspring (mating)
L387 T452 T478 0313 K014 K008
TA82A K003 R223
Female (hybrid)
12
DNA Extraction
DNA was extracted from the goat samples using the CTAB method (Grewe et al 1993) The
buccal cells sample was transfer into new 15 eppendorf tube 100 III CTAB buffer and 20 III
proteinase K was added into the eppendorf tube Another 600 III CTAB buffer was added into
the eppendorf tube and the solution was mixed well Then the eppendorf tube was incubated
in water bath for 2 to 3 hours until the DNA samples dissolve After the DNA samples was
dissolved 600 III chlorofonn-isoamyl alcohol (24 I) was added and the solution was shaken
for 2 to 3 minute followed by centrifugation of the eppendorf tube for 20 minutes at 13 000
rpm The upper layer of supernatant was transfer into a new 15 eppendorf tube
Cold absolute ethanol was added into eppendorf tube and the solution was mixed
well The eppendorf tube was sit on the bench for a few minutes followed centrifugation for
20 minutes at 13 000 rpm The ethanol was discarded carefully and the pellet was washed and
precipitated with an equal volume of ethanol and 25 III of 3M NaOAclNaCI The eppendorf
tube then was undergone centrifugation process for 20 minutes at 13 000 rpm The ethanol
was discarded carefully to ensuing the pellet is not poured out
Small droplet of liquid that was present on the eppendorftube was left for evaporation
or sucked by using tissue The pellet was suspended in 30 III distilled water (ddH20) After
DNA had been extracted quality and approximate yield was detennined by electrophoresis in
a 1 agarose gel containing ethidium bromide at 90 Volts for 30 minutes The gel was
photographed under UV light Isolated genomic DNA was used for mtDNA analysis was
place at -20degC
13
T
Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR)
Cytochrome Oxidase I (COl) of the mtDNA gene was amplified by using Polymerase Chain
Reaction (PCR) The amplification was done on a Gradient Thermo Cycler (Biorard)
machine for 35 cycles with 25 III of reaction volume For PCR reaction the following
components were mixed in the order that containing of lOX PCR Buffer (Promega) 50 mM
Magnesium Chloride (MgCI2) 2mM Deoxyribonucleotide triphosphates mixture (dTTP
dA TP dCTP and dGTP) 1 III of template DNA molecule of each sample sterile distilled
water (ddH20) 10 pmolllli forward primer 10 pmolIll reverse primer and 5ulll Taq DNA
Polymerase
Two universal primers of COl sequence that were used in the PCR amplification below
Table 3 Primers that were used in peR amplification
Primers sequence Sequences 5 to 3
COl Forward (VRld tt) 5-TGT AAA ACG ACG GCC AGC TCT CAA
CCA ACC ACA ARG A Y A TYG G-3
COl Reverse (VRld tt) 5-CAG GAA ACA GCT ATG ACT AGA CTT
CTG GGT GGC CRA ARA A YC A-3
In every amplification one negative control was used to monitor the validity of the
PCR reaction Temperature profile for 35 amplification cycles was pre-denaturation (94degC
for 2 minutes) denaturation (94 degC for 1 minute) annealing (51degC for 1 minute) extension
(72 degC for I minute) and final extension (72 degC for 5 minutes) After amplification the PCR
14
1
products were run on 1 agarose gel stained with ethidium bromide at 90 volts for 40
minutes and photographed under UV light in order to determine the best annealing
temperature after optimization peR products were purified prior to sequencing using
purification kit (Promega)
Agarose Gel Electrophoresis
The 05g of 1 agarose gel was prepared and mixed with Tris-Acetic acid-EDTA (IX TAE)
buffer The solution was heated for 1 minute until the agarose powder totally dissolved The
solution was poured into the clean conical flask and 1 ~l Etbr was added into it The conical
flask was shakes slowly Then the solution immediately poured into the electrophoresis tank
The solution was cooled down for 10 minutes until the gel solidify 1 ~l a Fermentas ladder
was loaded at front of the well followed 2 ~l each peR products The peR products were run
on 1 agarose gel stained with ethidium bromide at 90 volts for 40 minutes and
photographed under UV light
Purification
peR amplified products were extracted and purified before send for DNA sequencing The
purification process was done by using the purification kit (Promega) according to the
manufacturers instruction A brief summary of the protocol is as follow An equal volume
(23 ~l) of membrane binding solution was added into the peR reaction A mini column was
inserted into the collection tube and prepared peR product was transfer into the mini column
assembly The mini column was undergone centrifugation at 14000 rpm for 3 minutes and
the supernatant was discarded Then the mini column was reinserted into the collection tube
15
T
700 fll of membrane washing buffer (within ethanol added) was added into tube and
undergone centrifugation at 14000 rpm for 2 minutes The supernatant inside tube was
discarded and the mini column was reinserted into collection tube
The DNA pellet was washed by using 500 fll washing buffer and was undergone
centrifugation at 14000 rpm for 5 minutes in order to dry the mini column and eliminate the
excess ethanol inside the mini column The mini column was transferred into new 15 ml
eppendorf tube and 28 fll of Nuclease-free water was added into mini column followed by
incubation for 1 minute Thus the mini column has undergone centrifugation at 14000 rpm
for 5 minute 2 fll of the purified PCR product was checked by running 1 agarose gel to
ensure the sufficiency recovery of the purified PCR obtained The purified DNA was then
stored at -20 0 C and sent to a commercial company First Base (First BASE Laboratories Sdn
Bhd Malaysia) for DNA sequencing Only forward primer was used to sequencing the DNA
Data Analysis
The data from DNA sequencing process was analysed using CHROMAS LITE software The
sequences then were exported to fasta format The sequence was opened in Notepad and all
the N s and ambiguities were deleting before combining all the sequences After that the
DNA sequences were aligned using CLUSTAL X (Thompson et al 1994) and the data were
save as aln and nxs file
The sequences then were further analysed in MEGA 4 using phylogenetic test The
MEGA software has been to provide tools for exploring discovering and analysing DNA
16
genetic study are needed in order to gain a better understanding about genetic variation
among domestic goat
Application of molecular marker are wide spread and has been found to be a powerful
indicator to measure genetic differences within and between individuals populations and
species Mammalian mitochondrial DNA have been used to identify variation because of
their advantage features such as it has represented the most informative genomic element
whereby it has highly informative polymorphism fast mutation rate highest stability
absence of recombination evolves less rapidly and display maternal mode of genetic
transmissions Genetic marker can also determine the relationship among breed using
calculating genetic distance and construct trees (Rout ei ai 2008) Thus this study was
carried out in a purpose to characterise the genetic variation of domestic goat by using
sequence analysis of Cytochrome Oxidase I (COl)
3
The Objectives of This Study are
1 To extract DNA from samples goat
2 To amplify Cytochrome Oxidase I (COl) gene using PCR
3 To characterize the genetic structure of goat population from the Handa1as
farm Matang based on mitochondrial DNA Cytochrome Oxidase I (COl)
sequences
4
2 Ii i at
LITERATURE REVIEW
Domestic Goat (Capra hircus)
Figure 1 Capra hircus (Source Handalas farm Matang Sarawak)
Table 1 Scientific classification of goat
Common name Domestic goat
Kingdom Animalia
Class Mammalia
Order Artiodactyla
Suborder Ruminantia
Family Bovidae
Subfamily Caprinae
Genus Capra
Species Capra hircus
5
Domestic goat is a social animal and it also known as grazing specIes grass Mileski amp
Myers (201 0) stated that domestic goat is classified as sedentary because they live under
human control They live in group called herds and the size of captive herd could be
controlled by human Herds sizes in the wild tend to be 5 to 20 members but they can be as
high as 100 The herds can contain only males only females and young or a mix of both
Goats can survive on bushes trees scrub and aromatic herbs (Haenlein 1992) and eat any
kind of plant material such as grass leaves twigs as well as stems of woody plants
Goat come in varies colour like solid black white red brown spotted two and three
coloured blended shades distinct facial stripes black and white saddles depending on
breeds (Haenlein 1992) Figure 1 show a goat from the Handalas Farm Matang Sarawak
with a combination of two colours of white and black Goat has digestive tract with four
stomach compartments of ruminants consisting of the rumen the reticulum the omasum and
the obamasum The intestinal canal of the goat is about 100 feet long (11 liters) or 25 times
the length of a goat (Haenlein 1992)
The breeding behaviour of goat is usually control by human which follows
polygynous reproductive system that involves mating of one male with more than one female
(Mileski amp Myers 2010 Anom 2010 c) The females are then inseminated either directly by
those males or by novel reproductive biotechnologies which also known as assisted
reproductive techniques (ARTs) (Mileski amp Myers 2010 Rahman et at 2008) These ARTs
include artificial insemination(AI) embryo transfer (ET) multiple ovulation embryo transfer
(MOET) estrus synchronization and superovulation laparoscopic ovum pick-up (LOPU) in
vitro maturation (lVM) in vitro fertilization (lVF) and in vitro culture(lVC) collectively
6
i
known as in vitro production (IVP) intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI)
cryopreservation of oocytes and embryos sperm and embryos sexing embryo splitting
embryo cloning nuclear transfer (NT) gene transfer and marker-assisted selection (MAS)
By using ARTs more offspring will be produced compared to natural breeding (Rahman et
al 2008)
Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR)
PCR is a technique for amplifying DNA in vitro by incubating with a specific primer DNA
polymerase molecule and nucleotide (Campbell amp Reece 2005) PCR technique produces
many copies of a specific DNA sequences without having to clone the sequence in a host
genome (Russell 2006) The starting material for PCR is double stranded DNA containing
the target nucleotide sequence to be copied a heat resistant DNA polymerase all four
nucleotide and two short single-stranded DNA molecules that serve as primer One primer is
complementary to one strand at one end of the target sequence and the second primer is
complementary to the other strand at the other end of the sequence Applications of PCR
allow any specific segment of the target sequences within a DNA sample to be copied many
times completely in vitro and in a much shorter time (Campbell amp Reece 2005 Jain et al
2007)
(
7
125 -RNA
22 tRNA n~od ng gen
13 prot~n-encOdlnQ reil ons
Ojtochrnm
Mitochondrial DNA
Control r eIoC rgt or d4oo bull
NAOH D hydroj n s
iubunlt
NADH Dehydrogenase
s u_bunts
NADH Dehydrogenasa
5U nits
Oxidase
Cytochrome Oxidase ~ubunlt~
Figure 2 Mitochondrial DNA (Source Wikipedia)
Mammalian mitochondrial genome is a closed circular double-stranded mitochondrial
genome about 15000 base pairs long The mitochondrial genome of animal encodes product
whereas the mitochondrial genome for fungi and plants have extra DNA that does not code
for any product (Russell 2006 Sutarno 2010)
mtDNA is maternally inherited and the offspring are clones for mitochondrial DNA
genes (Jiang amp Ott 2010 Russel 2006) This pattern of inheritance allows matriarchal
lineages to be traced and provides a mean for examining family structure in some population
This in conjunction with the rapid and regular rate of accumulation of nucleotide sequence
differences has allowed mitochondrial DNA to become a valuable tool for comparing closely
related lineage (Russell 2006)
8
~ubunll~
ATP Synthase subunits
Mitochondrial DNA is represented the most infonnative genomIc element
polymorphic sites and simple maternal inheritance without recombination in purpose to study
the population of many organism or livestock domestication (Joshi et ai 2004 Machugh amp
Bradley 2001 N aderi et ai 2007) In addition polymorphism accumulates approximately
10 to 17 times faster in mtDNA compared with nuclear DNA (Jiang amp Ott 2010) Thus
DNA is able to provide more infonnation compare to the protein because it has many non
coding regions and declining of genetic code
Cytochrome Oxidase I (COl)
Cytochrome Oxidase I (COl) is encoded by mitochondrial genome mtDNA and was exhibit
one of the most heterogeneous rates of amino acid replacement among placental mammals
COl is important enzyme which is found in all organisms that perfonn aerobic respiration
The COl gene is short genetic sequence of 648 base pairs which can be easily extracted from
cells the most slowly evolving gene and conservative protein-coding genes in the
mitochondrial genome of mammals which was preferable for the evolutionary (Maderankova
amp Provaznik 2010 Simon et ai 1994)
Besides that mitochondrial gene COl also was applied in analysis of DNA bercoding
in screening the mtDNA gene of all species and thus creating databases of COl for assigning
of unknown individuals to species and discovery of new species COl gene is suitable for
identification of animals especially birds fish and insect but it is not suitable for plants As
COl is mitochondrial gene it evolves quickly and therefore it is possible to identify close
related species and new species (Maderankova amp Provaznik 2010)
9
Genetic Studies on Domestic Goat and Other Ovine
Genetic diversity is the best measure for genetic variation within a population There are
many previous studies on genetic diversity of goat by using different kind of DNA markers
for example a study by Rout et al (2008) which analysed Indian goat using microsatellites
marker showed higher level of gene diversity compared with the European and Asian goats
breeds Studies on goat genetics by using random amplified polymorphic DNA (RAPD)
molecular marker have also proven to be an efficient tool for quantification of genetic
diversity at the population levels (Gaali amp Satti 2009 Oliveira et al 2005)
Report by Mannen et al (2001) using the displacement loop (d-loop) and cyt b gene
revealed that the domestic goats are genetically affected by two subspecies of bezoars The
HVI of the mtDNA control region have also been used in study of phylogenetic history of
human and domestic animal because it showed higher level of polymorphism (Luikart et al
2001 Naderi et al 2007) Analysis of genetic distance mismatch distribution and
comparison with wild sheep has been studied by Meadows et al (2007) where the analysis
was carried out by using the DNA sequencing consisted of mitchondrion control region (525
bp) tRNA phe and l2s rRNA (535 bp) and cyt b gene (967 bp) According to Mackay et al
(1985) and Jiang amp Ott (2010) mammalian mitochondrial DNA repeatedly contains a short
DNA d-loop at the heavy strand origin of replication and has been completely sequence in
related species to farming and agriculture
Joshi et al (2004) studied of phylogeography and origin in Indian domestic goat
using mtDNA sequence data from HVRI regions They found the evidence for population
structure and novel lineage in Indian goat that cannot merge the genetic diversity were found
within the major lineage with domestication starting 10000 years ago from a single mtDNA
10
ancestor Naderi et aI (2001) used also HVI segment of the mtDNA d-Ioop in their studied
to characterize the domestic goat mtDNA diversity based on a worldwide sampling Genetic
variations were found among goat haplogroups with the weak phylogeograpfic structure The
weak phylogeographic structure has been explained by a high mobility of goat species in a
relation to human migration and commercial trade Ruo-Yu et aI (2006) have been studied
about genetic diversity of mtDNA d-Ioop and the origin of Chinese goats for protection of
goat breed resources and goat breeding
11
1iii
MATERIALS AND METHODS
Sample Collection of Goats
A total of 20 samples goat (Capra hircus) used in this study (Table 2) were collected from
the Handalas farm Matang Sarawak Samples goat was sampled using buccal cell collection
The samples of buccal cells were categorised based on their gender lineage and also
morphological identities The buccal cells samples were collected by using cotton swab and
the cotton swab were preserved in each tube containing Phosphate Buffered Saline (PBS)
buffer The buccal cells were stored in -20De freezer upon returning to the laboratory for
DNA extraction
Table 2 Description of the goat used in this study
Tag name Description
RATEN Male (mating)
K021 K032 L395 MOKLI Female (mating)
P4669369172B303P206D2P454A
H054
Female offspring (mating)
L387 T452 T478 0313 K014 K008
TA82A K003 R223
Female (hybrid)
12
DNA Extraction
DNA was extracted from the goat samples using the CTAB method (Grewe et al 1993) The
buccal cells sample was transfer into new 15 eppendorf tube 100 III CTAB buffer and 20 III
proteinase K was added into the eppendorf tube Another 600 III CTAB buffer was added into
the eppendorf tube and the solution was mixed well Then the eppendorf tube was incubated
in water bath for 2 to 3 hours until the DNA samples dissolve After the DNA samples was
dissolved 600 III chlorofonn-isoamyl alcohol (24 I) was added and the solution was shaken
for 2 to 3 minute followed by centrifugation of the eppendorf tube for 20 minutes at 13 000
rpm The upper layer of supernatant was transfer into a new 15 eppendorf tube
Cold absolute ethanol was added into eppendorf tube and the solution was mixed
well The eppendorf tube was sit on the bench for a few minutes followed centrifugation for
20 minutes at 13 000 rpm The ethanol was discarded carefully and the pellet was washed and
precipitated with an equal volume of ethanol and 25 III of 3M NaOAclNaCI The eppendorf
tube then was undergone centrifugation process for 20 minutes at 13 000 rpm The ethanol
was discarded carefully to ensuing the pellet is not poured out
Small droplet of liquid that was present on the eppendorftube was left for evaporation
or sucked by using tissue The pellet was suspended in 30 III distilled water (ddH20) After
DNA had been extracted quality and approximate yield was detennined by electrophoresis in
a 1 agarose gel containing ethidium bromide at 90 Volts for 30 minutes The gel was
photographed under UV light Isolated genomic DNA was used for mtDNA analysis was
place at -20degC
13
T
Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR)
Cytochrome Oxidase I (COl) of the mtDNA gene was amplified by using Polymerase Chain
Reaction (PCR) The amplification was done on a Gradient Thermo Cycler (Biorard)
machine for 35 cycles with 25 III of reaction volume For PCR reaction the following
components were mixed in the order that containing of lOX PCR Buffer (Promega) 50 mM
Magnesium Chloride (MgCI2) 2mM Deoxyribonucleotide triphosphates mixture (dTTP
dA TP dCTP and dGTP) 1 III of template DNA molecule of each sample sterile distilled
water (ddH20) 10 pmolllli forward primer 10 pmolIll reverse primer and 5ulll Taq DNA
Polymerase
Two universal primers of COl sequence that were used in the PCR amplification below
Table 3 Primers that were used in peR amplification
Primers sequence Sequences 5 to 3
COl Forward (VRld tt) 5-TGT AAA ACG ACG GCC AGC TCT CAA
CCA ACC ACA ARG A Y A TYG G-3
COl Reverse (VRld tt) 5-CAG GAA ACA GCT ATG ACT AGA CTT
CTG GGT GGC CRA ARA A YC A-3
In every amplification one negative control was used to monitor the validity of the
PCR reaction Temperature profile for 35 amplification cycles was pre-denaturation (94degC
for 2 minutes) denaturation (94 degC for 1 minute) annealing (51degC for 1 minute) extension
(72 degC for I minute) and final extension (72 degC for 5 minutes) After amplification the PCR
14
1
products were run on 1 agarose gel stained with ethidium bromide at 90 volts for 40
minutes and photographed under UV light in order to determine the best annealing
temperature after optimization peR products were purified prior to sequencing using
purification kit (Promega)
Agarose Gel Electrophoresis
The 05g of 1 agarose gel was prepared and mixed with Tris-Acetic acid-EDTA (IX TAE)
buffer The solution was heated for 1 minute until the agarose powder totally dissolved The
solution was poured into the clean conical flask and 1 ~l Etbr was added into it The conical
flask was shakes slowly Then the solution immediately poured into the electrophoresis tank
The solution was cooled down for 10 minutes until the gel solidify 1 ~l a Fermentas ladder
was loaded at front of the well followed 2 ~l each peR products The peR products were run
on 1 agarose gel stained with ethidium bromide at 90 volts for 40 minutes and
photographed under UV light
Purification
peR amplified products were extracted and purified before send for DNA sequencing The
purification process was done by using the purification kit (Promega) according to the
manufacturers instruction A brief summary of the protocol is as follow An equal volume
(23 ~l) of membrane binding solution was added into the peR reaction A mini column was
inserted into the collection tube and prepared peR product was transfer into the mini column
assembly The mini column was undergone centrifugation at 14000 rpm for 3 minutes and
the supernatant was discarded Then the mini column was reinserted into the collection tube
15
T
700 fll of membrane washing buffer (within ethanol added) was added into tube and
undergone centrifugation at 14000 rpm for 2 minutes The supernatant inside tube was
discarded and the mini column was reinserted into collection tube
The DNA pellet was washed by using 500 fll washing buffer and was undergone
centrifugation at 14000 rpm for 5 minutes in order to dry the mini column and eliminate the
excess ethanol inside the mini column The mini column was transferred into new 15 ml
eppendorf tube and 28 fll of Nuclease-free water was added into mini column followed by
incubation for 1 minute Thus the mini column has undergone centrifugation at 14000 rpm
for 5 minute 2 fll of the purified PCR product was checked by running 1 agarose gel to
ensure the sufficiency recovery of the purified PCR obtained The purified DNA was then
stored at -20 0 C and sent to a commercial company First Base (First BASE Laboratories Sdn
Bhd Malaysia) for DNA sequencing Only forward primer was used to sequencing the DNA
Data Analysis
The data from DNA sequencing process was analysed using CHROMAS LITE software The
sequences then were exported to fasta format The sequence was opened in Notepad and all
the N s and ambiguities were deleting before combining all the sequences After that the
DNA sequences were aligned using CLUSTAL X (Thompson et al 1994) and the data were
save as aln and nxs file
The sequences then were further analysed in MEGA 4 using phylogenetic test The
MEGA software has been to provide tools for exploring discovering and analysing DNA
16
The Objectives of This Study are
1 To extract DNA from samples goat
2 To amplify Cytochrome Oxidase I (COl) gene using PCR
3 To characterize the genetic structure of goat population from the Handa1as
farm Matang based on mitochondrial DNA Cytochrome Oxidase I (COl)
sequences
4
2 Ii i at
LITERATURE REVIEW
Domestic Goat (Capra hircus)
Figure 1 Capra hircus (Source Handalas farm Matang Sarawak)
Table 1 Scientific classification of goat
Common name Domestic goat
Kingdom Animalia
Class Mammalia
Order Artiodactyla
Suborder Ruminantia
Family Bovidae
Subfamily Caprinae
Genus Capra
Species Capra hircus
5
Domestic goat is a social animal and it also known as grazing specIes grass Mileski amp
Myers (201 0) stated that domestic goat is classified as sedentary because they live under
human control They live in group called herds and the size of captive herd could be
controlled by human Herds sizes in the wild tend to be 5 to 20 members but they can be as
high as 100 The herds can contain only males only females and young or a mix of both
Goats can survive on bushes trees scrub and aromatic herbs (Haenlein 1992) and eat any
kind of plant material such as grass leaves twigs as well as stems of woody plants
Goat come in varies colour like solid black white red brown spotted two and three
coloured blended shades distinct facial stripes black and white saddles depending on
breeds (Haenlein 1992) Figure 1 show a goat from the Handalas Farm Matang Sarawak
with a combination of two colours of white and black Goat has digestive tract with four
stomach compartments of ruminants consisting of the rumen the reticulum the omasum and
the obamasum The intestinal canal of the goat is about 100 feet long (11 liters) or 25 times
the length of a goat (Haenlein 1992)
The breeding behaviour of goat is usually control by human which follows
polygynous reproductive system that involves mating of one male with more than one female
(Mileski amp Myers 2010 Anom 2010 c) The females are then inseminated either directly by
those males or by novel reproductive biotechnologies which also known as assisted
reproductive techniques (ARTs) (Mileski amp Myers 2010 Rahman et at 2008) These ARTs
include artificial insemination(AI) embryo transfer (ET) multiple ovulation embryo transfer
(MOET) estrus synchronization and superovulation laparoscopic ovum pick-up (LOPU) in
vitro maturation (lVM) in vitro fertilization (lVF) and in vitro culture(lVC) collectively
6
i
known as in vitro production (IVP) intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI)
cryopreservation of oocytes and embryos sperm and embryos sexing embryo splitting
embryo cloning nuclear transfer (NT) gene transfer and marker-assisted selection (MAS)
By using ARTs more offspring will be produced compared to natural breeding (Rahman et
al 2008)
Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR)
PCR is a technique for amplifying DNA in vitro by incubating with a specific primer DNA
polymerase molecule and nucleotide (Campbell amp Reece 2005) PCR technique produces
many copies of a specific DNA sequences without having to clone the sequence in a host
genome (Russell 2006) The starting material for PCR is double stranded DNA containing
the target nucleotide sequence to be copied a heat resistant DNA polymerase all four
nucleotide and two short single-stranded DNA molecules that serve as primer One primer is
complementary to one strand at one end of the target sequence and the second primer is
complementary to the other strand at the other end of the sequence Applications of PCR
allow any specific segment of the target sequences within a DNA sample to be copied many
times completely in vitro and in a much shorter time (Campbell amp Reece 2005 Jain et al
2007)
(
7
125 -RNA
22 tRNA n~od ng gen
13 prot~n-encOdlnQ reil ons
Ojtochrnm
Mitochondrial DNA
Control r eIoC rgt or d4oo bull
NAOH D hydroj n s
iubunlt
NADH Dehydrogenase
s u_bunts
NADH Dehydrogenasa
5U nits
Oxidase
Cytochrome Oxidase ~ubunlt~
Figure 2 Mitochondrial DNA (Source Wikipedia)
Mammalian mitochondrial genome is a closed circular double-stranded mitochondrial
genome about 15000 base pairs long The mitochondrial genome of animal encodes product
whereas the mitochondrial genome for fungi and plants have extra DNA that does not code
for any product (Russell 2006 Sutarno 2010)
mtDNA is maternally inherited and the offspring are clones for mitochondrial DNA
genes (Jiang amp Ott 2010 Russel 2006) This pattern of inheritance allows matriarchal
lineages to be traced and provides a mean for examining family structure in some population
This in conjunction with the rapid and regular rate of accumulation of nucleotide sequence
differences has allowed mitochondrial DNA to become a valuable tool for comparing closely
related lineage (Russell 2006)
8
~ubunll~
ATP Synthase subunits
Mitochondrial DNA is represented the most infonnative genomIc element
polymorphic sites and simple maternal inheritance without recombination in purpose to study
the population of many organism or livestock domestication (Joshi et ai 2004 Machugh amp
Bradley 2001 N aderi et ai 2007) In addition polymorphism accumulates approximately
10 to 17 times faster in mtDNA compared with nuclear DNA (Jiang amp Ott 2010) Thus
DNA is able to provide more infonnation compare to the protein because it has many non
coding regions and declining of genetic code
Cytochrome Oxidase I (COl)
Cytochrome Oxidase I (COl) is encoded by mitochondrial genome mtDNA and was exhibit
one of the most heterogeneous rates of amino acid replacement among placental mammals
COl is important enzyme which is found in all organisms that perfonn aerobic respiration
The COl gene is short genetic sequence of 648 base pairs which can be easily extracted from
cells the most slowly evolving gene and conservative protein-coding genes in the
mitochondrial genome of mammals which was preferable for the evolutionary (Maderankova
amp Provaznik 2010 Simon et ai 1994)
Besides that mitochondrial gene COl also was applied in analysis of DNA bercoding
in screening the mtDNA gene of all species and thus creating databases of COl for assigning
of unknown individuals to species and discovery of new species COl gene is suitable for
identification of animals especially birds fish and insect but it is not suitable for plants As
COl is mitochondrial gene it evolves quickly and therefore it is possible to identify close
related species and new species (Maderankova amp Provaznik 2010)
9
Genetic Studies on Domestic Goat and Other Ovine
Genetic diversity is the best measure for genetic variation within a population There are
many previous studies on genetic diversity of goat by using different kind of DNA markers
for example a study by Rout et al (2008) which analysed Indian goat using microsatellites
marker showed higher level of gene diversity compared with the European and Asian goats
breeds Studies on goat genetics by using random amplified polymorphic DNA (RAPD)
molecular marker have also proven to be an efficient tool for quantification of genetic
diversity at the population levels (Gaali amp Satti 2009 Oliveira et al 2005)
Report by Mannen et al (2001) using the displacement loop (d-loop) and cyt b gene
revealed that the domestic goats are genetically affected by two subspecies of bezoars The
HVI of the mtDNA control region have also been used in study of phylogenetic history of
human and domestic animal because it showed higher level of polymorphism (Luikart et al
2001 Naderi et al 2007) Analysis of genetic distance mismatch distribution and
comparison with wild sheep has been studied by Meadows et al (2007) where the analysis
was carried out by using the DNA sequencing consisted of mitchondrion control region (525
bp) tRNA phe and l2s rRNA (535 bp) and cyt b gene (967 bp) According to Mackay et al
(1985) and Jiang amp Ott (2010) mammalian mitochondrial DNA repeatedly contains a short
DNA d-loop at the heavy strand origin of replication and has been completely sequence in
related species to farming and agriculture
Joshi et al (2004) studied of phylogeography and origin in Indian domestic goat
using mtDNA sequence data from HVRI regions They found the evidence for population
structure and novel lineage in Indian goat that cannot merge the genetic diversity were found
within the major lineage with domestication starting 10000 years ago from a single mtDNA
10
ancestor Naderi et aI (2001) used also HVI segment of the mtDNA d-Ioop in their studied
to characterize the domestic goat mtDNA diversity based on a worldwide sampling Genetic
variations were found among goat haplogroups with the weak phylogeograpfic structure The
weak phylogeographic structure has been explained by a high mobility of goat species in a
relation to human migration and commercial trade Ruo-Yu et aI (2006) have been studied
about genetic diversity of mtDNA d-Ioop and the origin of Chinese goats for protection of
goat breed resources and goat breeding
11
1iii
MATERIALS AND METHODS
Sample Collection of Goats
A total of 20 samples goat (Capra hircus) used in this study (Table 2) were collected from
the Handalas farm Matang Sarawak Samples goat was sampled using buccal cell collection
The samples of buccal cells were categorised based on their gender lineage and also
morphological identities The buccal cells samples were collected by using cotton swab and
the cotton swab were preserved in each tube containing Phosphate Buffered Saline (PBS)
buffer The buccal cells were stored in -20De freezer upon returning to the laboratory for
DNA extraction
Table 2 Description of the goat used in this study
Tag name Description
RATEN Male (mating)
K021 K032 L395 MOKLI Female (mating)
P4669369172B303P206D2P454A
H054
Female offspring (mating)
L387 T452 T478 0313 K014 K008
TA82A K003 R223
Female (hybrid)
12
DNA Extraction
DNA was extracted from the goat samples using the CTAB method (Grewe et al 1993) The
buccal cells sample was transfer into new 15 eppendorf tube 100 III CTAB buffer and 20 III
proteinase K was added into the eppendorf tube Another 600 III CTAB buffer was added into
the eppendorf tube and the solution was mixed well Then the eppendorf tube was incubated
in water bath for 2 to 3 hours until the DNA samples dissolve After the DNA samples was
dissolved 600 III chlorofonn-isoamyl alcohol (24 I) was added and the solution was shaken
for 2 to 3 minute followed by centrifugation of the eppendorf tube for 20 minutes at 13 000
rpm The upper layer of supernatant was transfer into a new 15 eppendorf tube
Cold absolute ethanol was added into eppendorf tube and the solution was mixed
well The eppendorf tube was sit on the bench for a few minutes followed centrifugation for
20 minutes at 13 000 rpm The ethanol was discarded carefully and the pellet was washed and
precipitated with an equal volume of ethanol and 25 III of 3M NaOAclNaCI The eppendorf
tube then was undergone centrifugation process for 20 minutes at 13 000 rpm The ethanol
was discarded carefully to ensuing the pellet is not poured out
Small droplet of liquid that was present on the eppendorftube was left for evaporation
or sucked by using tissue The pellet was suspended in 30 III distilled water (ddH20) After
DNA had been extracted quality and approximate yield was detennined by electrophoresis in
a 1 agarose gel containing ethidium bromide at 90 Volts for 30 minutes The gel was
photographed under UV light Isolated genomic DNA was used for mtDNA analysis was
place at -20degC
13
T
Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR)
Cytochrome Oxidase I (COl) of the mtDNA gene was amplified by using Polymerase Chain
Reaction (PCR) The amplification was done on a Gradient Thermo Cycler (Biorard)
machine for 35 cycles with 25 III of reaction volume For PCR reaction the following
components were mixed in the order that containing of lOX PCR Buffer (Promega) 50 mM
Magnesium Chloride (MgCI2) 2mM Deoxyribonucleotide triphosphates mixture (dTTP
dA TP dCTP and dGTP) 1 III of template DNA molecule of each sample sterile distilled
water (ddH20) 10 pmolllli forward primer 10 pmolIll reverse primer and 5ulll Taq DNA
Polymerase
Two universal primers of COl sequence that were used in the PCR amplification below
Table 3 Primers that were used in peR amplification
Primers sequence Sequences 5 to 3
COl Forward (VRld tt) 5-TGT AAA ACG ACG GCC AGC TCT CAA
CCA ACC ACA ARG A Y A TYG G-3
COl Reverse (VRld tt) 5-CAG GAA ACA GCT ATG ACT AGA CTT
CTG GGT GGC CRA ARA A YC A-3
In every amplification one negative control was used to monitor the validity of the
PCR reaction Temperature profile for 35 amplification cycles was pre-denaturation (94degC
for 2 minutes) denaturation (94 degC for 1 minute) annealing (51degC for 1 minute) extension
(72 degC for I minute) and final extension (72 degC for 5 minutes) After amplification the PCR
14
1
products were run on 1 agarose gel stained with ethidium bromide at 90 volts for 40
minutes and photographed under UV light in order to determine the best annealing
temperature after optimization peR products were purified prior to sequencing using
purification kit (Promega)
Agarose Gel Electrophoresis
The 05g of 1 agarose gel was prepared and mixed with Tris-Acetic acid-EDTA (IX TAE)
buffer The solution was heated for 1 minute until the agarose powder totally dissolved The
solution was poured into the clean conical flask and 1 ~l Etbr was added into it The conical
flask was shakes slowly Then the solution immediately poured into the electrophoresis tank
The solution was cooled down for 10 minutes until the gel solidify 1 ~l a Fermentas ladder
was loaded at front of the well followed 2 ~l each peR products The peR products were run
on 1 agarose gel stained with ethidium bromide at 90 volts for 40 minutes and
photographed under UV light
Purification
peR amplified products were extracted and purified before send for DNA sequencing The
purification process was done by using the purification kit (Promega) according to the
manufacturers instruction A brief summary of the protocol is as follow An equal volume
(23 ~l) of membrane binding solution was added into the peR reaction A mini column was
inserted into the collection tube and prepared peR product was transfer into the mini column
assembly The mini column was undergone centrifugation at 14000 rpm for 3 minutes and
the supernatant was discarded Then the mini column was reinserted into the collection tube
15
T
700 fll of membrane washing buffer (within ethanol added) was added into tube and
undergone centrifugation at 14000 rpm for 2 minutes The supernatant inside tube was
discarded and the mini column was reinserted into collection tube
The DNA pellet was washed by using 500 fll washing buffer and was undergone
centrifugation at 14000 rpm for 5 minutes in order to dry the mini column and eliminate the
excess ethanol inside the mini column The mini column was transferred into new 15 ml
eppendorf tube and 28 fll of Nuclease-free water was added into mini column followed by
incubation for 1 minute Thus the mini column has undergone centrifugation at 14000 rpm
for 5 minute 2 fll of the purified PCR product was checked by running 1 agarose gel to
ensure the sufficiency recovery of the purified PCR obtained The purified DNA was then
stored at -20 0 C and sent to a commercial company First Base (First BASE Laboratories Sdn
Bhd Malaysia) for DNA sequencing Only forward primer was used to sequencing the DNA
Data Analysis
The data from DNA sequencing process was analysed using CHROMAS LITE software The
sequences then were exported to fasta format The sequence was opened in Notepad and all
the N s and ambiguities were deleting before combining all the sequences After that the
DNA sequences were aligned using CLUSTAL X (Thompson et al 1994) and the data were
save as aln and nxs file
The sequences then were further analysed in MEGA 4 using phylogenetic test The
MEGA software has been to provide tools for exploring discovering and analysing DNA
16
LITERATURE REVIEW
Domestic Goat (Capra hircus)
Figure 1 Capra hircus (Source Handalas farm Matang Sarawak)
Table 1 Scientific classification of goat
Common name Domestic goat
Kingdom Animalia
Class Mammalia
Order Artiodactyla
Suborder Ruminantia
Family Bovidae
Subfamily Caprinae
Genus Capra
Species Capra hircus
5
Domestic goat is a social animal and it also known as grazing specIes grass Mileski amp
Myers (201 0) stated that domestic goat is classified as sedentary because they live under
human control They live in group called herds and the size of captive herd could be
controlled by human Herds sizes in the wild tend to be 5 to 20 members but they can be as
high as 100 The herds can contain only males only females and young or a mix of both
Goats can survive on bushes trees scrub and aromatic herbs (Haenlein 1992) and eat any
kind of plant material such as grass leaves twigs as well as stems of woody plants
Goat come in varies colour like solid black white red brown spotted two and three
coloured blended shades distinct facial stripes black and white saddles depending on
breeds (Haenlein 1992) Figure 1 show a goat from the Handalas Farm Matang Sarawak
with a combination of two colours of white and black Goat has digestive tract with four
stomach compartments of ruminants consisting of the rumen the reticulum the omasum and
the obamasum The intestinal canal of the goat is about 100 feet long (11 liters) or 25 times
the length of a goat (Haenlein 1992)
The breeding behaviour of goat is usually control by human which follows
polygynous reproductive system that involves mating of one male with more than one female
(Mileski amp Myers 2010 Anom 2010 c) The females are then inseminated either directly by
those males or by novel reproductive biotechnologies which also known as assisted
reproductive techniques (ARTs) (Mileski amp Myers 2010 Rahman et at 2008) These ARTs
include artificial insemination(AI) embryo transfer (ET) multiple ovulation embryo transfer
(MOET) estrus synchronization and superovulation laparoscopic ovum pick-up (LOPU) in
vitro maturation (lVM) in vitro fertilization (lVF) and in vitro culture(lVC) collectively
6
i
known as in vitro production (IVP) intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI)
cryopreservation of oocytes and embryos sperm and embryos sexing embryo splitting
embryo cloning nuclear transfer (NT) gene transfer and marker-assisted selection (MAS)
By using ARTs more offspring will be produced compared to natural breeding (Rahman et
al 2008)
Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR)
PCR is a technique for amplifying DNA in vitro by incubating with a specific primer DNA
polymerase molecule and nucleotide (Campbell amp Reece 2005) PCR technique produces
many copies of a specific DNA sequences without having to clone the sequence in a host
genome (Russell 2006) The starting material for PCR is double stranded DNA containing
the target nucleotide sequence to be copied a heat resistant DNA polymerase all four
nucleotide and two short single-stranded DNA molecules that serve as primer One primer is
complementary to one strand at one end of the target sequence and the second primer is
complementary to the other strand at the other end of the sequence Applications of PCR
allow any specific segment of the target sequences within a DNA sample to be copied many
times completely in vitro and in a much shorter time (Campbell amp Reece 2005 Jain et al
2007)
(
7
125 -RNA
22 tRNA n~od ng gen
13 prot~n-encOdlnQ reil ons
Ojtochrnm
Mitochondrial DNA
Control r eIoC rgt or d4oo bull
NAOH D hydroj n s
iubunlt
NADH Dehydrogenase
s u_bunts
NADH Dehydrogenasa
5U nits
Oxidase
Cytochrome Oxidase ~ubunlt~
Figure 2 Mitochondrial DNA (Source Wikipedia)
Mammalian mitochondrial genome is a closed circular double-stranded mitochondrial
genome about 15000 base pairs long The mitochondrial genome of animal encodes product
whereas the mitochondrial genome for fungi and plants have extra DNA that does not code
for any product (Russell 2006 Sutarno 2010)
mtDNA is maternally inherited and the offspring are clones for mitochondrial DNA
genes (Jiang amp Ott 2010 Russel 2006) This pattern of inheritance allows matriarchal
lineages to be traced and provides a mean for examining family structure in some population
This in conjunction with the rapid and regular rate of accumulation of nucleotide sequence
differences has allowed mitochondrial DNA to become a valuable tool for comparing closely
related lineage (Russell 2006)
8
~ubunll~
ATP Synthase subunits
Mitochondrial DNA is represented the most infonnative genomIc element
polymorphic sites and simple maternal inheritance without recombination in purpose to study
the population of many organism or livestock domestication (Joshi et ai 2004 Machugh amp
Bradley 2001 N aderi et ai 2007) In addition polymorphism accumulates approximately
10 to 17 times faster in mtDNA compared with nuclear DNA (Jiang amp Ott 2010) Thus
DNA is able to provide more infonnation compare to the protein because it has many non
coding regions and declining of genetic code
Cytochrome Oxidase I (COl)
Cytochrome Oxidase I (COl) is encoded by mitochondrial genome mtDNA and was exhibit
one of the most heterogeneous rates of amino acid replacement among placental mammals
COl is important enzyme which is found in all organisms that perfonn aerobic respiration
The COl gene is short genetic sequence of 648 base pairs which can be easily extracted from
cells the most slowly evolving gene and conservative protein-coding genes in the
mitochondrial genome of mammals which was preferable for the evolutionary (Maderankova
amp Provaznik 2010 Simon et ai 1994)
Besides that mitochondrial gene COl also was applied in analysis of DNA bercoding
in screening the mtDNA gene of all species and thus creating databases of COl for assigning
of unknown individuals to species and discovery of new species COl gene is suitable for
identification of animals especially birds fish and insect but it is not suitable for plants As
COl is mitochondrial gene it evolves quickly and therefore it is possible to identify close
related species and new species (Maderankova amp Provaznik 2010)
9
Genetic Studies on Domestic Goat and Other Ovine
Genetic diversity is the best measure for genetic variation within a population There are
many previous studies on genetic diversity of goat by using different kind of DNA markers
for example a study by Rout et al (2008) which analysed Indian goat using microsatellites
marker showed higher level of gene diversity compared with the European and Asian goats
breeds Studies on goat genetics by using random amplified polymorphic DNA (RAPD)
molecular marker have also proven to be an efficient tool for quantification of genetic
diversity at the population levels (Gaali amp Satti 2009 Oliveira et al 2005)
Report by Mannen et al (2001) using the displacement loop (d-loop) and cyt b gene
revealed that the domestic goats are genetically affected by two subspecies of bezoars The
HVI of the mtDNA control region have also been used in study of phylogenetic history of
human and domestic animal because it showed higher level of polymorphism (Luikart et al
2001 Naderi et al 2007) Analysis of genetic distance mismatch distribution and
comparison with wild sheep has been studied by Meadows et al (2007) where the analysis
was carried out by using the DNA sequencing consisted of mitchondrion control region (525
bp) tRNA phe and l2s rRNA (535 bp) and cyt b gene (967 bp) According to Mackay et al
(1985) and Jiang amp Ott (2010) mammalian mitochondrial DNA repeatedly contains a short
DNA d-loop at the heavy strand origin of replication and has been completely sequence in
related species to farming and agriculture
Joshi et al (2004) studied of phylogeography and origin in Indian domestic goat
using mtDNA sequence data from HVRI regions They found the evidence for population
structure and novel lineage in Indian goat that cannot merge the genetic diversity were found
within the major lineage with domestication starting 10000 years ago from a single mtDNA
10
ancestor Naderi et aI (2001) used also HVI segment of the mtDNA d-Ioop in their studied
to characterize the domestic goat mtDNA diversity based on a worldwide sampling Genetic
variations were found among goat haplogroups with the weak phylogeograpfic structure The
weak phylogeographic structure has been explained by a high mobility of goat species in a
relation to human migration and commercial trade Ruo-Yu et aI (2006) have been studied
about genetic diversity of mtDNA d-Ioop and the origin of Chinese goats for protection of
goat breed resources and goat breeding
11
1iii
MATERIALS AND METHODS
Sample Collection of Goats
A total of 20 samples goat (Capra hircus) used in this study (Table 2) were collected from
the Handalas farm Matang Sarawak Samples goat was sampled using buccal cell collection
The samples of buccal cells were categorised based on their gender lineage and also
morphological identities The buccal cells samples were collected by using cotton swab and
the cotton swab were preserved in each tube containing Phosphate Buffered Saline (PBS)
buffer The buccal cells were stored in -20De freezer upon returning to the laboratory for
DNA extraction
Table 2 Description of the goat used in this study
Tag name Description
RATEN Male (mating)
K021 K032 L395 MOKLI Female (mating)
P4669369172B303P206D2P454A
H054
Female offspring (mating)
L387 T452 T478 0313 K014 K008
TA82A K003 R223
Female (hybrid)
12
DNA Extraction
DNA was extracted from the goat samples using the CTAB method (Grewe et al 1993) The
buccal cells sample was transfer into new 15 eppendorf tube 100 III CTAB buffer and 20 III
proteinase K was added into the eppendorf tube Another 600 III CTAB buffer was added into
the eppendorf tube and the solution was mixed well Then the eppendorf tube was incubated
in water bath for 2 to 3 hours until the DNA samples dissolve After the DNA samples was
dissolved 600 III chlorofonn-isoamyl alcohol (24 I) was added and the solution was shaken
for 2 to 3 minute followed by centrifugation of the eppendorf tube for 20 minutes at 13 000
rpm The upper layer of supernatant was transfer into a new 15 eppendorf tube
Cold absolute ethanol was added into eppendorf tube and the solution was mixed
well The eppendorf tube was sit on the bench for a few minutes followed centrifugation for
20 minutes at 13 000 rpm The ethanol was discarded carefully and the pellet was washed and
precipitated with an equal volume of ethanol and 25 III of 3M NaOAclNaCI The eppendorf
tube then was undergone centrifugation process for 20 minutes at 13 000 rpm The ethanol
was discarded carefully to ensuing the pellet is not poured out
Small droplet of liquid that was present on the eppendorftube was left for evaporation
or sucked by using tissue The pellet was suspended in 30 III distilled water (ddH20) After
DNA had been extracted quality and approximate yield was detennined by electrophoresis in
a 1 agarose gel containing ethidium bromide at 90 Volts for 30 minutes The gel was
photographed under UV light Isolated genomic DNA was used for mtDNA analysis was
place at -20degC
13
T
Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR)
Cytochrome Oxidase I (COl) of the mtDNA gene was amplified by using Polymerase Chain
Reaction (PCR) The amplification was done on a Gradient Thermo Cycler (Biorard)
machine for 35 cycles with 25 III of reaction volume For PCR reaction the following
components were mixed in the order that containing of lOX PCR Buffer (Promega) 50 mM
Magnesium Chloride (MgCI2) 2mM Deoxyribonucleotide triphosphates mixture (dTTP
dA TP dCTP and dGTP) 1 III of template DNA molecule of each sample sterile distilled
water (ddH20) 10 pmolllli forward primer 10 pmolIll reverse primer and 5ulll Taq DNA
Polymerase
Two universal primers of COl sequence that were used in the PCR amplification below
Table 3 Primers that were used in peR amplification
Primers sequence Sequences 5 to 3
COl Forward (VRld tt) 5-TGT AAA ACG ACG GCC AGC TCT CAA
CCA ACC ACA ARG A Y A TYG G-3
COl Reverse (VRld tt) 5-CAG GAA ACA GCT ATG ACT AGA CTT
CTG GGT GGC CRA ARA A YC A-3
In every amplification one negative control was used to monitor the validity of the
PCR reaction Temperature profile for 35 amplification cycles was pre-denaturation (94degC
for 2 minutes) denaturation (94 degC for 1 minute) annealing (51degC for 1 minute) extension
(72 degC for I minute) and final extension (72 degC for 5 minutes) After amplification the PCR
14
1
products were run on 1 agarose gel stained with ethidium bromide at 90 volts for 40
minutes and photographed under UV light in order to determine the best annealing
temperature after optimization peR products were purified prior to sequencing using
purification kit (Promega)
Agarose Gel Electrophoresis
The 05g of 1 agarose gel was prepared and mixed with Tris-Acetic acid-EDTA (IX TAE)
buffer The solution was heated for 1 minute until the agarose powder totally dissolved The
solution was poured into the clean conical flask and 1 ~l Etbr was added into it The conical
flask was shakes slowly Then the solution immediately poured into the electrophoresis tank
The solution was cooled down for 10 minutes until the gel solidify 1 ~l a Fermentas ladder
was loaded at front of the well followed 2 ~l each peR products The peR products were run
on 1 agarose gel stained with ethidium bromide at 90 volts for 40 minutes and
photographed under UV light
Purification
peR amplified products were extracted and purified before send for DNA sequencing The
purification process was done by using the purification kit (Promega) according to the
manufacturers instruction A brief summary of the protocol is as follow An equal volume
(23 ~l) of membrane binding solution was added into the peR reaction A mini column was
inserted into the collection tube and prepared peR product was transfer into the mini column
assembly The mini column was undergone centrifugation at 14000 rpm for 3 minutes and
the supernatant was discarded Then the mini column was reinserted into the collection tube
15
T
700 fll of membrane washing buffer (within ethanol added) was added into tube and
undergone centrifugation at 14000 rpm for 2 minutes The supernatant inside tube was
discarded and the mini column was reinserted into collection tube
The DNA pellet was washed by using 500 fll washing buffer and was undergone
centrifugation at 14000 rpm for 5 minutes in order to dry the mini column and eliminate the
excess ethanol inside the mini column The mini column was transferred into new 15 ml
eppendorf tube and 28 fll of Nuclease-free water was added into mini column followed by
incubation for 1 minute Thus the mini column has undergone centrifugation at 14000 rpm
for 5 minute 2 fll of the purified PCR product was checked by running 1 agarose gel to
ensure the sufficiency recovery of the purified PCR obtained The purified DNA was then
stored at -20 0 C and sent to a commercial company First Base (First BASE Laboratories Sdn
Bhd Malaysia) for DNA sequencing Only forward primer was used to sequencing the DNA
Data Analysis
The data from DNA sequencing process was analysed using CHROMAS LITE software The
sequences then were exported to fasta format The sequence was opened in Notepad and all
the N s and ambiguities were deleting before combining all the sequences After that the
DNA sequences were aligned using CLUSTAL X (Thompson et al 1994) and the data were
save as aln and nxs file
The sequences then were further analysed in MEGA 4 using phylogenetic test The
MEGA software has been to provide tools for exploring discovering and analysing DNA
16
Domestic goat is a social animal and it also known as grazing specIes grass Mileski amp
Myers (201 0) stated that domestic goat is classified as sedentary because they live under
human control They live in group called herds and the size of captive herd could be
controlled by human Herds sizes in the wild tend to be 5 to 20 members but they can be as
high as 100 The herds can contain only males only females and young or a mix of both
Goats can survive on bushes trees scrub and aromatic herbs (Haenlein 1992) and eat any
kind of plant material such as grass leaves twigs as well as stems of woody plants
Goat come in varies colour like solid black white red brown spotted two and three
coloured blended shades distinct facial stripes black and white saddles depending on
breeds (Haenlein 1992) Figure 1 show a goat from the Handalas Farm Matang Sarawak
with a combination of two colours of white and black Goat has digestive tract with four
stomach compartments of ruminants consisting of the rumen the reticulum the omasum and
the obamasum The intestinal canal of the goat is about 100 feet long (11 liters) or 25 times
the length of a goat (Haenlein 1992)
The breeding behaviour of goat is usually control by human which follows
polygynous reproductive system that involves mating of one male with more than one female
(Mileski amp Myers 2010 Anom 2010 c) The females are then inseminated either directly by
those males or by novel reproductive biotechnologies which also known as assisted
reproductive techniques (ARTs) (Mileski amp Myers 2010 Rahman et at 2008) These ARTs
include artificial insemination(AI) embryo transfer (ET) multiple ovulation embryo transfer
(MOET) estrus synchronization and superovulation laparoscopic ovum pick-up (LOPU) in
vitro maturation (lVM) in vitro fertilization (lVF) and in vitro culture(lVC) collectively
6
i
known as in vitro production (IVP) intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI)
cryopreservation of oocytes and embryos sperm and embryos sexing embryo splitting
embryo cloning nuclear transfer (NT) gene transfer and marker-assisted selection (MAS)
By using ARTs more offspring will be produced compared to natural breeding (Rahman et
al 2008)
Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR)
PCR is a technique for amplifying DNA in vitro by incubating with a specific primer DNA
polymerase molecule and nucleotide (Campbell amp Reece 2005) PCR technique produces
many copies of a specific DNA sequences without having to clone the sequence in a host
genome (Russell 2006) The starting material for PCR is double stranded DNA containing
the target nucleotide sequence to be copied a heat resistant DNA polymerase all four
nucleotide and two short single-stranded DNA molecules that serve as primer One primer is
complementary to one strand at one end of the target sequence and the second primer is
complementary to the other strand at the other end of the sequence Applications of PCR
allow any specific segment of the target sequences within a DNA sample to be copied many
times completely in vitro and in a much shorter time (Campbell amp Reece 2005 Jain et al
2007)
(
7
125 -RNA
22 tRNA n~od ng gen
13 prot~n-encOdlnQ reil ons
Ojtochrnm
Mitochondrial DNA
Control r eIoC rgt or d4oo bull
NAOH D hydroj n s
iubunlt
NADH Dehydrogenase
s u_bunts
NADH Dehydrogenasa
5U nits
Oxidase
Cytochrome Oxidase ~ubunlt~
Figure 2 Mitochondrial DNA (Source Wikipedia)
Mammalian mitochondrial genome is a closed circular double-stranded mitochondrial
genome about 15000 base pairs long The mitochondrial genome of animal encodes product
whereas the mitochondrial genome for fungi and plants have extra DNA that does not code
for any product (Russell 2006 Sutarno 2010)
mtDNA is maternally inherited and the offspring are clones for mitochondrial DNA
genes (Jiang amp Ott 2010 Russel 2006) This pattern of inheritance allows matriarchal
lineages to be traced and provides a mean for examining family structure in some population
This in conjunction with the rapid and regular rate of accumulation of nucleotide sequence
differences has allowed mitochondrial DNA to become a valuable tool for comparing closely
related lineage (Russell 2006)
8
~ubunll~
ATP Synthase subunits
Mitochondrial DNA is represented the most infonnative genomIc element
polymorphic sites and simple maternal inheritance without recombination in purpose to study
the population of many organism or livestock domestication (Joshi et ai 2004 Machugh amp
Bradley 2001 N aderi et ai 2007) In addition polymorphism accumulates approximately
10 to 17 times faster in mtDNA compared with nuclear DNA (Jiang amp Ott 2010) Thus
DNA is able to provide more infonnation compare to the protein because it has many non
coding regions and declining of genetic code
Cytochrome Oxidase I (COl)
Cytochrome Oxidase I (COl) is encoded by mitochondrial genome mtDNA and was exhibit
one of the most heterogeneous rates of amino acid replacement among placental mammals
COl is important enzyme which is found in all organisms that perfonn aerobic respiration
The COl gene is short genetic sequence of 648 base pairs which can be easily extracted from
cells the most slowly evolving gene and conservative protein-coding genes in the
mitochondrial genome of mammals which was preferable for the evolutionary (Maderankova
amp Provaznik 2010 Simon et ai 1994)
Besides that mitochondrial gene COl also was applied in analysis of DNA bercoding
in screening the mtDNA gene of all species and thus creating databases of COl for assigning
of unknown individuals to species and discovery of new species COl gene is suitable for
identification of animals especially birds fish and insect but it is not suitable for plants As
COl is mitochondrial gene it evolves quickly and therefore it is possible to identify close
related species and new species (Maderankova amp Provaznik 2010)
9
Genetic Studies on Domestic Goat and Other Ovine
Genetic diversity is the best measure for genetic variation within a population There are
many previous studies on genetic diversity of goat by using different kind of DNA markers
for example a study by Rout et al (2008) which analysed Indian goat using microsatellites
marker showed higher level of gene diversity compared with the European and Asian goats
breeds Studies on goat genetics by using random amplified polymorphic DNA (RAPD)
molecular marker have also proven to be an efficient tool for quantification of genetic
diversity at the population levels (Gaali amp Satti 2009 Oliveira et al 2005)
Report by Mannen et al (2001) using the displacement loop (d-loop) and cyt b gene
revealed that the domestic goats are genetically affected by two subspecies of bezoars The
HVI of the mtDNA control region have also been used in study of phylogenetic history of
human and domestic animal because it showed higher level of polymorphism (Luikart et al
2001 Naderi et al 2007) Analysis of genetic distance mismatch distribution and
comparison with wild sheep has been studied by Meadows et al (2007) where the analysis
was carried out by using the DNA sequencing consisted of mitchondrion control region (525
bp) tRNA phe and l2s rRNA (535 bp) and cyt b gene (967 bp) According to Mackay et al
(1985) and Jiang amp Ott (2010) mammalian mitochondrial DNA repeatedly contains a short
DNA d-loop at the heavy strand origin of replication and has been completely sequence in
related species to farming and agriculture
Joshi et al (2004) studied of phylogeography and origin in Indian domestic goat
using mtDNA sequence data from HVRI regions They found the evidence for population
structure and novel lineage in Indian goat that cannot merge the genetic diversity were found
within the major lineage with domestication starting 10000 years ago from a single mtDNA
10
ancestor Naderi et aI (2001) used also HVI segment of the mtDNA d-Ioop in their studied
to characterize the domestic goat mtDNA diversity based on a worldwide sampling Genetic
variations were found among goat haplogroups with the weak phylogeograpfic structure The
weak phylogeographic structure has been explained by a high mobility of goat species in a
relation to human migration and commercial trade Ruo-Yu et aI (2006) have been studied
about genetic diversity of mtDNA d-Ioop and the origin of Chinese goats for protection of
goat breed resources and goat breeding
11
1iii
MATERIALS AND METHODS
Sample Collection of Goats
A total of 20 samples goat (Capra hircus) used in this study (Table 2) were collected from
the Handalas farm Matang Sarawak Samples goat was sampled using buccal cell collection
The samples of buccal cells were categorised based on their gender lineage and also
morphological identities The buccal cells samples were collected by using cotton swab and
the cotton swab were preserved in each tube containing Phosphate Buffered Saline (PBS)
buffer The buccal cells were stored in -20De freezer upon returning to the laboratory for
DNA extraction
Table 2 Description of the goat used in this study
Tag name Description
RATEN Male (mating)
K021 K032 L395 MOKLI Female (mating)
P4669369172B303P206D2P454A
H054
Female offspring (mating)
L387 T452 T478 0313 K014 K008
TA82A K003 R223
Female (hybrid)
12
DNA Extraction
DNA was extracted from the goat samples using the CTAB method (Grewe et al 1993) The
buccal cells sample was transfer into new 15 eppendorf tube 100 III CTAB buffer and 20 III
proteinase K was added into the eppendorf tube Another 600 III CTAB buffer was added into
the eppendorf tube and the solution was mixed well Then the eppendorf tube was incubated
in water bath for 2 to 3 hours until the DNA samples dissolve After the DNA samples was
dissolved 600 III chlorofonn-isoamyl alcohol (24 I) was added and the solution was shaken
for 2 to 3 minute followed by centrifugation of the eppendorf tube for 20 minutes at 13 000
rpm The upper layer of supernatant was transfer into a new 15 eppendorf tube
Cold absolute ethanol was added into eppendorf tube and the solution was mixed
well The eppendorf tube was sit on the bench for a few minutes followed centrifugation for
20 minutes at 13 000 rpm The ethanol was discarded carefully and the pellet was washed and
precipitated with an equal volume of ethanol and 25 III of 3M NaOAclNaCI The eppendorf
tube then was undergone centrifugation process for 20 minutes at 13 000 rpm The ethanol
was discarded carefully to ensuing the pellet is not poured out
Small droplet of liquid that was present on the eppendorftube was left for evaporation
or sucked by using tissue The pellet was suspended in 30 III distilled water (ddH20) After
DNA had been extracted quality and approximate yield was detennined by electrophoresis in
a 1 agarose gel containing ethidium bromide at 90 Volts for 30 minutes The gel was
photographed under UV light Isolated genomic DNA was used for mtDNA analysis was
place at -20degC
13
T
Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR)
Cytochrome Oxidase I (COl) of the mtDNA gene was amplified by using Polymerase Chain
Reaction (PCR) The amplification was done on a Gradient Thermo Cycler (Biorard)
machine for 35 cycles with 25 III of reaction volume For PCR reaction the following
components were mixed in the order that containing of lOX PCR Buffer (Promega) 50 mM
Magnesium Chloride (MgCI2) 2mM Deoxyribonucleotide triphosphates mixture (dTTP
dA TP dCTP and dGTP) 1 III of template DNA molecule of each sample sterile distilled
water (ddH20) 10 pmolllli forward primer 10 pmolIll reverse primer and 5ulll Taq DNA
Polymerase
Two universal primers of COl sequence that were used in the PCR amplification below
Table 3 Primers that were used in peR amplification
Primers sequence Sequences 5 to 3
COl Forward (VRld tt) 5-TGT AAA ACG ACG GCC AGC TCT CAA
CCA ACC ACA ARG A Y A TYG G-3
COl Reverse (VRld tt) 5-CAG GAA ACA GCT ATG ACT AGA CTT
CTG GGT GGC CRA ARA A YC A-3
In every amplification one negative control was used to monitor the validity of the
PCR reaction Temperature profile for 35 amplification cycles was pre-denaturation (94degC
for 2 minutes) denaturation (94 degC for 1 minute) annealing (51degC for 1 minute) extension
(72 degC for I minute) and final extension (72 degC for 5 minutes) After amplification the PCR
14
1
products were run on 1 agarose gel stained with ethidium bromide at 90 volts for 40
minutes and photographed under UV light in order to determine the best annealing
temperature after optimization peR products were purified prior to sequencing using
purification kit (Promega)
Agarose Gel Electrophoresis
The 05g of 1 agarose gel was prepared and mixed with Tris-Acetic acid-EDTA (IX TAE)
buffer The solution was heated for 1 minute until the agarose powder totally dissolved The
solution was poured into the clean conical flask and 1 ~l Etbr was added into it The conical
flask was shakes slowly Then the solution immediately poured into the electrophoresis tank
The solution was cooled down for 10 minutes until the gel solidify 1 ~l a Fermentas ladder
was loaded at front of the well followed 2 ~l each peR products The peR products were run
on 1 agarose gel stained with ethidium bromide at 90 volts for 40 minutes and
photographed under UV light
Purification
peR amplified products were extracted and purified before send for DNA sequencing The
purification process was done by using the purification kit (Promega) according to the
manufacturers instruction A brief summary of the protocol is as follow An equal volume
(23 ~l) of membrane binding solution was added into the peR reaction A mini column was
inserted into the collection tube and prepared peR product was transfer into the mini column
assembly The mini column was undergone centrifugation at 14000 rpm for 3 minutes and
the supernatant was discarded Then the mini column was reinserted into the collection tube
15
T
700 fll of membrane washing buffer (within ethanol added) was added into tube and
undergone centrifugation at 14000 rpm for 2 minutes The supernatant inside tube was
discarded and the mini column was reinserted into collection tube
The DNA pellet was washed by using 500 fll washing buffer and was undergone
centrifugation at 14000 rpm for 5 minutes in order to dry the mini column and eliminate the
excess ethanol inside the mini column The mini column was transferred into new 15 ml
eppendorf tube and 28 fll of Nuclease-free water was added into mini column followed by
incubation for 1 minute Thus the mini column has undergone centrifugation at 14000 rpm
for 5 minute 2 fll of the purified PCR product was checked by running 1 agarose gel to
ensure the sufficiency recovery of the purified PCR obtained The purified DNA was then
stored at -20 0 C and sent to a commercial company First Base (First BASE Laboratories Sdn
Bhd Malaysia) for DNA sequencing Only forward primer was used to sequencing the DNA
Data Analysis
The data from DNA sequencing process was analysed using CHROMAS LITE software The
sequences then were exported to fasta format The sequence was opened in Notepad and all
the N s and ambiguities were deleting before combining all the sequences After that the
DNA sequences were aligned using CLUSTAL X (Thompson et al 1994) and the data were
save as aln and nxs file
The sequences then were further analysed in MEGA 4 using phylogenetic test The
MEGA software has been to provide tools for exploring discovering and analysing DNA
16
known as in vitro production (IVP) intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI)
cryopreservation of oocytes and embryos sperm and embryos sexing embryo splitting
embryo cloning nuclear transfer (NT) gene transfer and marker-assisted selection (MAS)
By using ARTs more offspring will be produced compared to natural breeding (Rahman et
al 2008)
Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR)
PCR is a technique for amplifying DNA in vitro by incubating with a specific primer DNA
polymerase molecule and nucleotide (Campbell amp Reece 2005) PCR technique produces
many copies of a specific DNA sequences without having to clone the sequence in a host
genome (Russell 2006) The starting material for PCR is double stranded DNA containing
the target nucleotide sequence to be copied a heat resistant DNA polymerase all four
nucleotide and two short single-stranded DNA molecules that serve as primer One primer is
complementary to one strand at one end of the target sequence and the second primer is
complementary to the other strand at the other end of the sequence Applications of PCR
allow any specific segment of the target sequences within a DNA sample to be copied many
times completely in vitro and in a much shorter time (Campbell amp Reece 2005 Jain et al
2007)
(
7
125 -RNA
22 tRNA n~od ng gen
13 prot~n-encOdlnQ reil ons
Ojtochrnm
Mitochondrial DNA
Control r eIoC rgt or d4oo bull
NAOH D hydroj n s
iubunlt
NADH Dehydrogenase
s u_bunts
NADH Dehydrogenasa
5U nits
Oxidase
Cytochrome Oxidase ~ubunlt~
Figure 2 Mitochondrial DNA (Source Wikipedia)
Mammalian mitochondrial genome is a closed circular double-stranded mitochondrial
genome about 15000 base pairs long The mitochondrial genome of animal encodes product
whereas the mitochondrial genome for fungi and plants have extra DNA that does not code
for any product (Russell 2006 Sutarno 2010)
mtDNA is maternally inherited and the offspring are clones for mitochondrial DNA
genes (Jiang amp Ott 2010 Russel 2006) This pattern of inheritance allows matriarchal
lineages to be traced and provides a mean for examining family structure in some population
This in conjunction with the rapid and regular rate of accumulation of nucleotide sequence
differences has allowed mitochondrial DNA to become a valuable tool for comparing closely
related lineage (Russell 2006)
8
~ubunll~
ATP Synthase subunits
Mitochondrial DNA is represented the most infonnative genomIc element
polymorphic sites and simple maternal inheritance without recombination in purpose to study
the population of many organism or livestock domestication (Joshi et ai 2004 Machugh amp
Bradley 2001 N aderi et ai 2007) In addition polymorphism accumulates approximately
10 to 17 times faster in mtDNA compared with nuclear DNA (Jiang amp Ott 2010) Thus
DNA is able to provide more infonnation compare to the protein because it has many non
coding regions and declining of genetic code
Cytochrome Oxidase I (COl)
Cytochrome Oxidase I (COl) is encoded by mitochondrial genome mtDNA and was exhibit
one of the most heterogeneous rates of amino acid replacement among placental mammals
COl is important enzyme which is found in all organisms that perfonn aerobic respiration
The COl gene is short genetic sequence of 648 base pairs which can be easily extracted from
cells the most slowly evolving gene and conservative protein-coding genes in the
mitochondrial genome of mammals which was preferable for the evolutionary (Maderankova
amp Provaznik 2010 Simon et ai 1994)
Besides that mitochondrial gene COl also was applied in analysis of DNA bercoding
in screening the mtDNA gene of all species and thus creating databases of COl for assigning
of unknown individuals to species and discovery of new species COl gene is suitable for
identification of animals especially birds fish and insect but it is not suitable for plants As
COl is mitochondrial gene it evolves quickly and therefore it is possible to identify close
related species and new species (Maderankova amp Provaznik 2010)
9
Genetic Studies on Domestic Goat and Other Ovine
Genetic diversity is the best measure for genetic variation within a population There are
many previous studies on genetic diversity of goat by using different kind of DNA markers
for example a study by Rout et al (2008) which analysed Indian goat using microsatellites
marker showed higher level of gene diversity compared with the European and Asian goats
breeds Studies on goat genetics by using random amplified polymorphic DNA (RAPD)
molecular marker have also proven to be an efficient tool for quantification of genetic
diversity at the population levels (Gaali amp Satti 2009 Oliveira et al 2005)
Report by Mannen et al (2001) using the displacement loop (d-loop) and cyt b gene
revealed that the domestic goats are genetically affected by two subspecies of bezoars The
HVI of the mtDNA control region have also been used in study of phylogenetic history of
human and domestic animal because it showed higher level of polymorphism (Luikart et al
2001 Naderi et al 2007) Analysis of genetic distance mismatch distribution and
comparison with wild sheep has been studied by Meadows et al (2007) where the analysis
was carried out by using the DNA sequencing consisted of mitchondrion control region (525
bp) tRNA phe and l2s rRNA (535 bp) and cyt b gene (967 bp) According to Mackay et al
(1985) and Jiang amp Ott (2010) mammalian mitochondrial DNA repeatedly contains a short
DNA d-loop at the heavy strand origin of replication and has been completely sequence in
related species to farming and agriculture
Joshi et al (2004) studied of phylogeography and origin in Indian domestic goat
using mtDNA sequence data from HVRI regions They found the evidence for population
structure and novel lineage in Indian goat that cannot merge the genetic diversity were found
within the major lineage with domestication starting 10000 years ago from a single mtDNA
10
ancestor Naderi et aI (2001) used also HVI segment of the mtDNA d-Ioop in their studied
to characterize the domestic goat mtDNA diversity based on a worldwide sampling Genetic
variations were found among goat haplogroups with the weak phylogeograpfic structure The
weak phylogeographic structure has been explained by a high mobility of goat species in a
relation to human migration and commercial trade Ruo-Yu et aI (2006) have been studied
about genetic diversity of mtDNA d-Ioop and the origin of Chinese goats for protection of
goat breed resources and goat breeding
11
1iii
MATERIALS AND METHODS
Sample Collection of Goats
A total of 20 samples goat (Capra hircus) used in this study (Table 2) were collected from
the Handalas farm Matang Sarawak Samples goat was sampled using buccal cell collection
The samples of buccal cells were categorised based on their gender lineage and also
morphological identities The buccal cells samples were collected by using cotton swab and
the cotton swab were preserved in each tube containing Phosphate Buffered Saline (PBS)
buffer The buccal cells were stored in -20De freezer upon returning to the laboratory for
DNA extraction
Table 2 Description of the goat used in this study
Tag name Description
RATEN Male (mating)
K021 K032 L395 MOKLI Female (mating)
P4669369172B303P206D2P454A
H054
Female offspring (mating)
L387 T452 T478 0313 K014 K008
TA82A K003 R223
Female (hybrid)
12
DNA Extraction
DNA was extracted from the goat samples using the CTAB method (Grewe et al 1993) The
buccal cells sample was transfer into new 15 eppendorf tube 100 III CTAB buffer and 20 III
proteinase K was added into the eppendorf tube Another 600 III CTAB buffer was added into
the eppendorf tube and the solution was mixed well Then the eppendorf tube was incubated
in water bath for 2 to 3 hours until the DNA samples dissolve After the DNA samples was
dissolved 600 III chlorofonn-isoamyl alcohol (24 I) was added and the solution was shaken
for 2 to 3 minute followed by centrifugation of the eppendorf tube for 20 minutes at 13 000
rpm The upper layer of supernatant was transfer into a new 15 eppendorf tube
Cold absolute ethanol was added into eppendorf tube and the solution was mixed
well The eppendorf tube was sit on the bench for a few minutes followed centrifugation for
20 minutes at 13 000 rpm The ethanol was discarded carefully and the pellet was washed and
precipitated with an equal volume of ethanol and 25 III of 3M NaOAclNaCI The eppendorf
tube then was undergone centrifugation process for 20 minutes at 13 000 rpm The ethanol
was discarded carefully to ensuing the pellet is not poured out
Small droplet of liquid that was present on the eppendorftube was left for evaporation
or sucked by using tissue The pellet was suspended in 30 III distilled water (ddH20) After
DNA had been extracted quality and approximate yield was detennined by electrophoresis in
a 1 agarose gel containing ethidium bromide at 90 Volts for 30 minutes The gel was
photographed under UV light Isolated genomic DNA was used for mtDNA analysis was
place at -20degC
13
T
Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR)
Cytochrome Oxidase I (COl) of the mtDNA gene was amplified by using Polymerase Chain
Reaction (PCR) The amplification was done on a Gradient Thermo Cycler (Biorard)
machine for 35 cycles with 25 III of reaction volume For PCR reaction the following
components were mixed in the order that containing of lOX PCR Buffer (Promega) 50 mM
Magnesium Chloride (MgCI2) 2mM Deoxyribonucleotide triphosphates mixture (dTTP
dA TP dCTP and dGTP) 1 III of template DNA molecule of each sample sterile distilled
water (ddH20) 10 pmolllli forward primer 10 pmolIll reverse primer and 5ulll Taq DNA
Polymerase
Two universal primers of COl sequence that were used in the PCR amplification below
Table 3 Primers that were used in peR amplification
Primers sequence Sequences 5 to 3
COl Forward (VRld tt) 5-TGT AAA ACG ACG GCC AGC TCT CAA
CCA ACC ACA ARG A Y A TYG G-3
COl Reverse (VRld tt) 5-CAG GAA ACA GCT ATG ACT AGA CTT
CTG GGT GGC CRA ARA A YC A-3
In every amplification one negative control was used to monitor the validity of the
PCR reaction Temperature profile for 35 amplification cycles was pre-denaturation (94degC
for 2 minutes) denaturation (94 degC for 1 minute) annealing (51degC for 1 minute) extension
(72 degC for I minute) and final extension (72 degC for 5 minutes) After amplification the PCR
14
1
products were run on 1 agarose gel stained with ethidium bromide at 90 volts for 40
minutes and photographed under UV light in order to determine the best annealing
temperature after optimization peR products were purified prior to sequencing using
purification kit (Promega)
Agarose Gel Electrophoresis
The 05g of 1 agarose gel was prepared and mixed with Tris-Acetic acid-EDTA (IX TAE)
buffer The solution was heated for 1 minute until the agarose powder totally dissolved The
solution was poured into the clean conical flask and 1 ~l Etbr was added into it The conical
flask was shakes slowly Then the solution immediately poured into the electrophoresis tank
The solution was cooled down for 10 minutes until the gel solidify 1 ~l a Fermentas ladder
was loaded at front of the well followed 2 ~l each peR products The peR products were run
on 1 agarose gel stained with ethidium bromide at 90 volts for 40 minutes and
photographed under UV light
Purification
peR amplified products were extracted and purified before send for DNA sequencing The
purification process was done by using the purification kit (Promega) according to the
manufacturers instruction A brief summary of the protocol is as follow An equal volume
(23 ~l) of membrane binding solution was added into the peR reaction A mini column was
inserted into the collection tube and prepared peR product was transfer into the mini column
assembly The mini column was undergone centrifugation at 14000 rpm for 3 minutes and
the supernatant was discarded Then the mini column was reinserted into the collection tube
15
T
700 fll of membrane washing buffer (within ethanol added) was added into tube and
undergone centrifugation at 14000 rpm for 2 minutes The supernatant inside tube was
discarded and the mini column was reinserted into collection tube
The DNA pellet was washed by using 500 fll washing buffer and was undergone
centrifugation at 14000 rpm for 5 minutes in order to dry the mini column and eliminate the
excess ethanol inside the mini column The mini column was transferred into new 15 ml
eppendorf tube and 28 fll of Nuclease-free water was added into mini column followed by
incubation for 1 minute Thus the mini column has undergone centrifugation at 14000 rpm
for 5 minute 2 fll of the purified PCR product was checked by running 1 agarose gel to
ensure the sufficiency recovery of the purified PCR obtained The purified DNA was then
stored at -20 0 C and sent to a commercial company First Base (First BASE Laboratories Sdn
Bhd Malaysia) for DNA sequencing Only forward primer was used to sequencing the DNA
Data Analysis
The data from DNA sequencing process was analysed using CHROMAS LITE software The
sequences then were exported to fasta format The sequence was opened in Notepad and all
the N s and ambiguities were deleting before combining all the sequences After that the
DNA sequences were aligned using CLUSTAL X (Thompson et al 1994) and the data were
save as aln and nxs file
The sequences then were further analysed in MEGA 4 using phylogenetic test The
MEGA software has been to provide tools for exploring discovering and analysing DNA
16
125 -RNA
22 tRNA n~od ng gen
13 prot~n-encOdlnQ reil ons
Ojtochrnm
Mitochondrial DNA
Control r eIoC rgt or d4oo bull
NAOH D hydroj n s
iubunlt
NADH Dehydrogenase
s u_bunts
NADH Dehydrogenasa
5U nits
Oxidase
Cytochrome Oxidase ~ubunlt~
Figure 2 Mitochondrial DNA (Source Wikipedia)
Mammalian mitochondrial genome is a closed circular double-stranded mitochondrial
genome about 15000 base pairs long The mitochondrial genome of animal encodes product
whereas the mitochondrial genome for fungi and plants have extra DNA that does not code
for any product (Russell 2006 Sutarno 2010)
mtDNA is maternally inherited and the offspring are clones for mitochondrial DNA
genes (Jiang amp Ott 2010 Russel 2006) This pattern of inheritance allows matriarchal
lineages to be traced and provides a mean for examining family structure in some population
This in conjunction with the rapid and regular rate of accumulation of nucleotide sequence
differences has allowed mitochondrial DNA to become a valuable tool for comparing closely
related lineage (Russell 2006)
8
~ubunll~
ATP Synthase subunits
Mitochondrial DNA is represented the most infonnative genomIc element
polymorphic sites and simple maternal inheritance without recombination in purpose to study
the population of many organism or livestock domestication (Joshi et ai 2004 Machugh amp
Bradley 2001 N aderi et ai 2007) In addition polymorphism accumulates approximately
10 to 17 times faster in mtDNA compared with nuclear DNA (Jiang amp Ott 2010) Thus
DNA is able to provide more infonnation compare to the protein because it has many non
coding regions and declining of genetic code
Cytochrome Oxidase I (COl)
Cytochrome Oxidase I (COl) is encoded by mitochondrial genome mtDNA and was exhibit
one of the most heterogeneous rates of amino acid replacement among placental mammals
COl is important enzyme which is found in all organisms that perfonn aerobic respiration
The COl gene is short genetic sequence of 648 base pairs which can be easily extracted from
cells the most slowly evolving gene and conservative protein-coding genes in the
mitochondrial genome of mammals which was preferable for the evolutionary (Maderankova
amp Provaznik 2010 Simon et ai 1994)
Besides that mitochondrial gene COl also was applied in analysis of DNA bercoding
in screening the mtDNA gene of all species and thus creating databases of COl for assigning
of unknown individuals to species and discovery of new species COl gene is suitable for
identification of animals especially birds fish and insect but it is not suitable for plants As
COl is mitochondrial gene it evolves quickly and therefore it is possible to identify close
related species and new species (Maderankova amp Provaznik 2010)
9
Genetic Studies on Domestic Goat and Other Ovine
Genetic diversity is the best measure for genetic variation within a population There are
many previous studies on genetic diversity of goat by using different kind of DNA markers
for example a study by Rout et al (2008) which analysed Indian goat using microsatellites
marker showed higher level of gene diversity compared with the European and Asian goats
breeds Studies on goat genetics by using random amplified polymorphic DNA (RAPD)
molecular marker have also proven to be an efficient tool for quantification of genetic
diversity at the population levels (Gaali amp Satti 2009 Oliveira et al 2005)
Report by Mannen et al (2001) using the displacement loop (d-loop) and cyt b gene
revealed that the domestic goats are genetically affected by two subspecies of bezoars The
HVI of the mtDNA control region have also been used in study of phylogenetic history of
human and domestic animal because it showed higher level of polymorphism (Luikart et al
2001 Naderi et al 2007) Analysis of genetic distance mismatch distribution and
comparison with wild sheep has been studied by Meadows et al (2007) where the analysis
was carried out by using the DNA sequencing consisted of mitchondrion control region (525
bp) tRNA phe and l2s rRNA (535 bp) and cyt b gene (967 bp) According to Mackay et al
(1985) and Jiang amp Ott (2010) mammalian mitochondrial DNA repeatedly contains a short
DNA d-loop at the heavy strand origin of replication and has been completely sequence in
related species to farming and agriculture
Joshi et al (2004) studied of phylogeography and origin in Indian domestic goat
using mtDNA sequence data from HVRI regions They found the evidence for population
structure and novel lineage in Indian goat that cannot merge the genetic diversity were found
within the major lineage with domestication starting 10000 years ago from a single mtDNA
10
ancestor Naderi et aI (2001) used also HVI segment of the mtDNA d-Ioop in their studied
to characterize the domestic goat mtDNA diversity based on a worldwide sampling Genetic
variations were found among goat haplogroups with the weak phylogeograpfic structure The
weak phylogeographic structure has been explained by a high mobility of goat species in a
relation to human migration and commercial trade Ruo-Yu et aI (2006) have been studied
about genetic diversity of mtDNA d-Ioop and the origin of Chinese goats for protection of
goat breed resources and goat breeding
11
1iii
MATERIALS AND METHODS
Sample Collection of Goats
A total of 20 samples goat (Capra hircus) used in this study (Table 2) were collected from
the Handalas farm Matang Sarawak Samples goat was sampled using buccal cell collection
The samples of buccal cells were categorised based on their gender lineage and also
morphological identities The buccal cells samples were collected by using cotton swab and
the cotton swab were preserved in each tube containing Phosphate Buffered Saline (PBS)
buffer The buccal cells were stored in -20De freezer upon returning to the laboratory for
DNA extraction
Table 2 Description of the goat used in this study
Tag name Description
RATEN Male (mating)
K021 K032 L395 MOKLI Female (mating)
P4669369172B303P206D2P454A
H054
Female offspring (mating)
L387 T452 T478 0313 K014 K008
TA82A K003 R223
Female (hybrid)
12
DNA Extraction
DNA was extracted from the goat samples using the CTAB method (Grewe et al 1993) The
buccal cells sample was transfer into new 15 eppendorf tube 100 III CTAB buffer and 20 III
proteinase K was added into the eppendorf tube Another 600 III CTAB buffer was added into
the eppendorf tube and the solution was mixed well Then the eppendorf tube was incubated
in water bath for 2 to 3 hours until the DNA samples dissolve After the DNA samples was
dissolved 600 III chlorofonn-isoamyl alcohol (24 I) was added and the solution was shaken
for 2 to 3 minute followed by centrifugation of the eppendorf tube for 20 minutes at 13 000
rpm The upper layer of supernatant was transfer into a new 15 eppendorf tube
Cold absolute ethanol was added into eppendorf tube and the solution was mixed
well The eppendorf tube was sit on the bench for a few minutes followed centrifugation for
20 minutes at 13 000 rpm The ethanol was discarded carefully and the pellet was washed and
precipitated with an equal volume of ethanol and 25 III of 3M NaOAclNaCI The eppendorf
tube then was undergone centrifugation process for 20 minutes at 13 000 rpm The ethanol
was discarded carefully to ensuing the pellet is not poured out
Small droplet of liquid that was present on the eppendorftube was left for evaporation
or sucked by using tissue The pellet was suspended in 30 III distilled water (ddH20) After
DNA had been extracted quality and approximate yield was detennined by electrophoresis in
a 1 agarose gel containing ethidium bromide at 90 Volts for 30 minutes The gel was
photographed under UV light Isolated genomic DNA was used for mtDNA analysis was
place at -20degC
13
T
Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR)
Cytochrome Oxidase I (COl) of the mtDNA gene was amplified by using Polymerase Chain
Reaction (PCR) The amplification was done on a Gradient Thermo Cycler (Biorard)
machine for 35 cycles with 25 III of reaction volume For PCR reaction the following
components were mixed in the order that containing of lOX PCR Buffer (Promega) 50 mM
Magnesium Chloride (MgCI2) 2mM Deoxyribonucleotide triphosphates mixture (dTTP
dA TP dCTP and dGTP) 1 III of template DNA molecule of each sample sterile distilled
water (ddH20) 10 pmolllli forward primer 10 pmolIll reverse primer and 5ulll Taq DNA
Polymerase
Two universal primers of COl sequence that were used in the PCR amplification below
Table 3 Primers that were used in peR amplification
Primers sequence Sequences 5 to 3
COl Forward (VRld tt) 5-TGT AAA ACG ACG GCC AGC TCT CAA
CCA ACC ACA ARG A Y A TYG G-3
COl Reverse (VRld tt) 5-CAG GAA ACA GCT ATG ACT AGA CTT
CTG GGT GGC CRA ARA A YC A-3
In every amplification one negative control was used to monitor the validity of the
PCR reaction Temperature profile for 35 amplification cycles was pre-denaturation (94degC
for 2 minutes) denaturation (94 degC for 1 minute) annealing (51degC for 1 minute) extension
(72 degC for I minute) and final extension (72 degC for 5 minutes) After amplification the PCR
14
1
products were run on 1 agarose gel stained with ethidium bromide at 90 volts for 40
minutes and photographed under UV light in order to determine the best annealing
temperature after optimization peR products were purified prior to sequencing using
purification kit (Promega)
Agarose Gel Electrophoresis
The 05g of 1 agarose gel was prepared and mixed with Tris-Acetic acid-EDTA (IX TAE)
buffer The solution was heated for 1 minute until the agarose powder totally dissolved The
solution was poured into the clean conical flask and 1 ~l Etbr was added into it The conical
flask was shakes slowly Then the solution immediately poured into the electrophoresis tank
The solution was cooled down for 10 minutes until the gel solidify 1 ~l a Fermentas ladder
was loaded at front of the well followed 2 ~l each peR products The peR products were run
on 1 agarose gel stained with ethidium bromide at 90 volts for 40 minutes and
photographed under UV light
Purification
peR amplified products were extracted and purified before send for DNA sequencing The
purification process was done by using the purification kit (Promega) according to the
manufacturers instruction A brief summary of the protocol is as follow An equal volume
(23 ~l) of membrane binding solution was added into the peR reaction A mini column was
inserted into the collection tube and prepared peR product was transfer into the mini column
assembly The mini column was undergone centrifugation at 14000 rpm for 3 minutes and
the supernatant was discarded Then the mini column was reinserted into the collection tube
15
T
700 fll of membrane washing buffer (within ethanol added) was added into tube and
undergone centrifugation at 14000 rpm for 2 minutes The supernatant inside tube was
discarded and the mini column was reinserted into collection tube
The DNA pellet was washed by using 500 fll washing buffer and was undergone
centrifugation at 14000 rpm for 5 minutes in order to dry the mini column and eliminate the
excess ethanol inside the mini column The mini column was transferred into new 15 ml
eppendorf tube and 28 fll of Nuclease-free water was added into mini column followed by
incubation for 1 minute Thus the mini column has undergone centrifugation at 14000 rpm
for 5 minute 2 fll of the purified PCR product was checked by running 1 agarose gel to
ensure the sufficiency recovery of the purified PCR obtained The purified DNA was then
stored at -20 0 C and sent to a commercial company First Base (First BASE Laboratories Sdn
Bhd Malaysia) for DNA sequencing Only forward primer was used to sequencing the DNA
Data Analysis
The data from DNA sequencing process was analysed using CHROMAS LITE software The
sequences then were exported to fasta format The sequence was opened in Notepad and all
the N s and ambiguities were deleting before combining all the sequences After that the
DNA sequences were aligned using CLUSTAL X (Thompson et al 1994) and the data were
save as aln and nxs file
The sequences then were further analysed in MEGA 4 using phylogenetic test The
MEGA software has been to provide tools for exploring discovering and analysing DNA
16
Mitochondrial DNA is represented the most infonnative genomIc element
polymorphic sites and simple maternal inheritance without recombination in purpose to study
the population of many organism or livestock domestication (Joshi et ai 2004 Machugh amp
Bradley 2001 N aderi et ai 2007) In addition polymorphism accumulates approximately
10 to 17 times faster in mtDNA compared with nuclear DNA (Jiang amp Ott 2010) Thus
DNA is able to provide more infonnation compare to the protein because it has many non
coding regions and declining of genetic code
Cytochrome Oxidase I (COl)
Cytochrome Oxidase I (COl) is encoded by mitochondrial genome mtDNA and was exhibit
one of the most heterogeneous rates of amino acid replacement among placental mammals
COl is important enzyme which is found in all organisms that perfonn aerobic respiration
The COl gene is short genetic sequence of 648 base pairs which can be easily extracted from
cells the most slowly evolving gene and conservative protein-coding genes in the
mitochondrial genome of mammals which was preferable for the evolutionary (Maderankova
amp Provaznik 2010 Simon et ai 1994)
Besides that mitochondrial gene COl also was applied in analysis of DNA bercoding
in screening the mtDNA gene of all species and thus creating databases of COl for assigning
of unknown individuals to species and discovery of new species COl gene is suitable for
identification of animals especially birds fish and insect but it is not suitable for plants As
COl is mitochondrial gene it evolves quickly and therefore it is possible to identify close
related species and new species (Maderankova amp Provaznik 2010)
9
Genetic Studies on Domestic Goat and Other Ovine
Genetic diversity is the best measure for genetic variation within a population There are
many previous studies on genetic diversity of goat by using different kind of DNA markers
for example a study by Rout et al (2008) which analysed Indian goat using microsatellites
marker showed higher level of gene diversity compared with the European and Asian goats
breeds Studies on goat genetics by using random amplified polymorphic DNA (RAPD)
molecular marker have also proven to be an efficient tool for quantification of genetic
diversity at the population levels (Gaali amp Satti 2009 Oliveira et al 2005)
Report by Mannen et al (2001) using the displacement loop (d-loop) and cyt b gene
revealed that the domestic goats are genetically affected by two subspecies of bezoars The
HVI of the mtDNA control region have also been used in study of phylogenetic history of
human and domestic animal because it showed higher level of polymorphism (Luikart et al
2001 Naderi et al 2007) Analysis of genetic distance mismatch distribution and
comparison with wild sheep has been studied by Meadows et al (2007) where the analysis
was carried out by using the DNA sequencing consisted of mitchondrion control region (525
bp) tRNA phe and l2s rRNA (535 bp) and cyt b gene (967 bp) According to Mackay et al
(1985) and Jiang amp Ott (2010) mammalian mitochondrial DNA repeatedly contains a short
DNA d-loop at the heavy strand origin of replication and has been completely sequence in
related species to farming and agriculture
Joshi et al (2004) studied of phylogeography and origin in Indian domestic goat
using mtDNA sequence data from HVRI regions They found the evidence for population
structure and novel lineage in Indian goat that cannot merge the genetic diversity were found
within the major lineage with domestication starting 10000 years ago from a single mtDNA
10
ancestor Naderi et aI (2001) used also HVI segment of the mtDNA d-Ioop in their studied
to characterize the domestic goat mtDNA diversity based on a worldwide sampling Genetic
variations were found among goat haplogroups with the weak phylogeograpfic structure The
weak phylogeographic structure has been explained by a high mobility of goat species in a
relation to human migration and commercial trade Ruo-Yu et aI (2006) have been studied
about genetic diversity of mtDNA d-Ioop and the origin of Chinese goats for protection of
goat breed resources and goat breeding
11
1iii
MATERIALS AND METHODS
Sample Collection of Goats
A total of 20 samples goat (Capra hircus) used in this study (Table 2) were collected from
the Handalas farm Matang Sarawak Samples goat was sampled using buccal cell collection
The samples of buccal cells were categorised based on their gender lineage and also
morphological identities The buccal cells samples were collected by using cotton swab and
the cotton swab were preserved in each tube containing Phosphate Buffered Saline (PBS)
buffer The buccal cells were stored in -20De freezer upon returning to the laboratory for
DNA extraction
Table 2 Description of the goat used in this study
Tag name Description
RATEN Male (mating)
K021 K032 L395 MOKLI Female (mating)
P4669369172B303P206D2P454A
H054
Female offspring (mating)
L387 T452 T478 0313 K014 K008
TA82A K003 R223
Female (hybrid)
12
DNA Extraction
DNA was extracted from the goat samples using the CTAB method (Grewe et al 1993) The
buccal cells sample was transfer into new 15 eppendorf tube 100 III CTAB buffer and 20 III
proteinase K was added into the eppendorf tube Another 600 III CTAB buffer was added into
the eppendorf tube and the solution was mixed well Then the eppendorf tube was incubated
in water bath for 2 to 3 hours until the DNA samples dissolve After the DNA samples was
dissolved 600 III chlorofonn-isoamyl alcohol (24 I) was added and the solution was shaken
for 2 to 3 minute followed by centrifugation of the eppendorf tube for 20 minutes at 13 000
rpm The upper layer of supernatant was transfer into a new 15 eppendorf tube
Cold absolute ethanol was added into eppendorf tube and the solution was mixed
well The eppendorf tube was sit on the bench for a few minutes followed centrifugation for
20 minutes at 13 000 rpm The ethanol was discarded carefully and the pellet was washed and
precipitated with an equal volume of ethanol and 25 III of 3M NaOAclNaCI The eppendorf
tube then was undergone centrifugation process for 20 minutes at 13 000 rpm The ethanol
was discarded carefully to ensuing the pellet is not poured out
Small droplet of liquid that was present on the eppendorftube was left for evaporation
or sucked by using tissue The pellet was suspended in 30 III distilled water (ddH20) After
DNA had been extracted quality and approximate yield was detennined by electrophoresis in
a 1 agarose gel containing ethidium bromide at 90 Volts for 30 minutes The gel was
photographed under UV light Isolated genomic DNA was used for mtDNA analysis was
place at -20degC
13
T
Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR)
Cytochrome Oxidase I (COl) of the mtDNA gene was amplified by using Polymerase Chain
Reaction (PCR) The amplification was done on a Gradient Thermo Cycler (Biorard)
machine for 35 cycles with 25 III of reaction volume For PCR reaction the following
components were mixed in the order that containing of lOX PCR Buffer (Promega) 50 mM
Magnesium Chloride (MgCI2) 2mM Deoxyribonucleotide triphosphates mixture (dTTP
dA TP dCTP and dGTP) 1 III of template DNA molecule of each sample sterile distilled
water (ddH20) 10 pmolllli forward primer 10 pmolIll reverse primer and 5ulll Taq DNA
Polymerase
Two universal primers of COl sequence that were used in the PCR amplification below
Table 3 Primers that were used in peR amplification
Primers sequence Sequences 5 to 3
COl Forward (VRld tt) 5-TGT AAA ACG ACG GCC AGC TCT CAA
CCA ACC ACA ARG A Y A TYG G-3
COl Reverse (VRld tt) 5-CAG GAA ACA GCT ATG ACT AGA CTT
CTG GGT GGC CRA ARA A YC A-3
In every amplification one negative control was used to monitor the validity of the
PCR reaction Temperature profile for 35 amplification cycles was pre-denaturation (94degC
for 2 minutes) denaturation (94 degC for 1 minute) annealing (51degC for 1 minute) extension
(72 degC for I minute) and final extension (72 degC for 5 minutes) After amplification the PCR
14
1
products were run on 1 agarose gel stained with ethidium bromide at 90 volts for 40
minutes and photographed under UV light in order to determine the best annealing
temperature after optimization peR products were purified prior to sequencing using
purification kit (Promega)
Agarose Gel Electrophoresis
The 05g of 1 agarose gel was prepared and mixed with Tris-Acetic acid-EDTA (IX TAE)
buffer The solution was heated for 1 minute until the agarose powder totally dissolved The
solution was poured into the clean conical flask and 1 ~l Etbr was added into it The conical
flask was shakes slowly Then the solution immediately poured into the electrophoresis tank
The solution was cooled down for 10 minutes until the gel solidify 1 ~l a Fermentas ladder
was loaded at front of the well followed 2 ~l each peR products The peR products were run
on 1 agarose gel stained with ethidium bromide at 90 volts for 40 minutes and
photographed under UV light
Purification
peR amplified products were extracted and purified before send for DNA sequencing The
purification process was done by using the purification kit (Promega) according to the
manufacturers instruction A brief summary of the protocol is as follow An equal volume
(23 ~l) of membrane binding solution was added into the peR reaction A mini column was
inserted into the collection tube and prepared peR product was transfer into the mini column
assembly The mini column was undergone centrifugation at 14000 rpm for 3 minutes and
the supernatant was discarded Then the mini column was reinserted into the collection tube
15
T
700 fll of membrane washing buffer (within ethanol added) was added into tube and
undergone centrifugation at 14000 rpm for 2 minutes The supernatant inside tube was
discarded and the mini column was reinserted into collection tube
The DNA pellet was washed by using 500 fll washing buffer and was undergone
centrifugation at 14000 rpm for 5 minutes in order to dry the mini column and eliminate the
excess ethanol inside the mini column The mini column was transferred into new 15 ml
eppendorf tube and 28 fll of Nuclease-free water was added into mini column followed by
incubation for 1 minute Thus the mini column has undergone centrifugation at 14000 rpm
for 5 minute 2 fll of the purified PCR product was checked by running 1 agarose gel to
ensure the sufficiency recovery of the purified PCR obtained The purified DNA was then
stored at -20 0 C and sent to a commercial company First Base (First BASE Laboratories Sdn
Bhd Malaysia) for DNA sequencing Only forward primer was used to sequencing the DNA
Data Analysis
The data from DNA sequencing process was analysed using CHROMAS LITE software The
sequences then were exported to fasta format The sequence was opened in Notepad and all
the N s and ambiguities were deleting before combining all the sequences After that the
DNA sequences were aligned using CLUSTAL X (Thompson et al 1994) and the data were
save as aln and nxs file
The sequences then were further analysed in MEGA 4 using phylogenetic test The
MEGA software has been to provide tools for exploring discovering and analysing DNA
16
Genetic Studies on Domestic Goat and Other Ovine
Genetic diversity is the best measure for genetic variation within a population There are
many previous studies on genetic diversity of goat by using different kind of DNA markers
for example a study by Rout et al (2008) which analysed Indian goat using microsatellites
marker showed higher level of gene diversity compared with the European and Asian goats
breeds Studies on goat genetics by using random amplified polymorphic DNA (RAPD)
molecular marker have also proven to be an efficient tool for quantification of genetic
diversity at the population levels (Gaali amp Satti 2009 Oliveira et al 2005)
Report by Mannen et al (2001) using the displacement loop (d-loop) and cyt b gene
revealed that the domestic goats are genetically affected by two subspecies of bezoars The
HVI of the mtDNA control region have also been used in study of phylogenetic history of
human and domestic animal because it showed higher level of polymorphism (Luikart et al
2001 Naderi et al 2007) Analysis of genetic distance mismatch distribution and
comparison with wild sheep has been studied by Meadows et al (2007) where the analysis
was carried out by using the DNA sequencing consisted of mitchondrion control region (525
bp) tRNA phe and l2s rRNA (535 bp) and cyt b gene (967 bp) According to Mackay et al
(1985) and Jiang amp Ott (2010) mammalian mitochondrial DNA repeatedly contains a short
DNA d-loop at the heavy strand origin of replication and has been completely sequence in
related species to farming and agriculture
Joshi et al (2004) studied of phylogeography and origin in Indian domestic goat
using mtDNA sequence data from HVRI regions They found the evidence for population
structure and novel lineage in Indian goat that cannot merge the genetic diversity were found
within the major lineage with domestication starting 10000 years ago from a single mtDNA
10
ancestor Naderi et aI (2001) used also HVI segment of the mtDNA d-Ioop in their studied
to characterize the domestic goat mtDNA diversity based on a worldwide sampling Genetic
variations were found among goat haplogroups with the weak phylogeograpfic structure The
weak phylogeographic structure has been explained by a high mobility of goat species in a
relation to human migration and commercial trade Ruo-Yu et aI (2006) have been studied
about genetic diversity of mtDNA d-Ioop and the origin of Chinese goats for protection of
goat breed resources and goat breeding
11
1iii
MATERIALS AND METHODS
Sample Collection of Goats
A total of 20 samples goat (Capra hircus) used in this study (Table 2) were collected from
the Handalas farm Matang Sarawak Samples goat was sampled using buccal cell collection
The samples of buccal cells were categorised based on their gender lineage and also
morphological identities The buccal cells samples were collected by using cotton swab and
the cotton swab were preserved in each tube containing Phosphate Buffered Saline (PBS)
buffer The buccal cells were stored in -20De freezer upon returning to the laboratory for
DNA extraction
Table 2 Description of the goat used in this study
Tag name Description
RATEN Male (mating)
K021 K032 L395 MOKLI Female (mating)
P4669369172B303P206D2P454A
H054
Female offspring (mating)
L387 T452 T478 0313 K014 K008
TA82A K003 R223
Female (hybrid)
12
DNA Extraction
DNA was extracted from the goat samples using the CTAB method (Grewe et al 1993) The
buccal cells sample was transfer into new 15 eppendorf tube 100 III CTAB buffer and 20 III
proteinase K was added into the eppendorf tube Another 600 III CTAB buffer was added into
the eppendorf tube and the solution was mixed well Then the eppendorf tube was incubated
in water bath for 2 to 3 hours until the DNA samples dissolve After the DNA samples was
dissolved 600 III chlorofonn-isoamyl alcohol (24 I) was added and the solution was shaken
for 2 to 3 minute followed by centrifugation of the eppendorf tube for 20 minutes at 13 000
rpm The upper layer of supernatant was transfer into a new 15 eppendorf tube
Cold absolute ethanol was added into eppendorf tube and the solution was mixed
well The eppendorf tube was sit on the bench for a few minutes followed centrifugation for
20 minutes at 13 000 rpm The ethanol was discarded carefully and the pellet was washed and
precipitated with an equal volume of ethanol and 25 III of 3M NaOAclNaCI The eppendorf
tube then was undergone centrifugation process for 20 minutes at 13 000 rpm The ethanol
was discarded carefully to ensuing the pellet is not poured out
Small droplet of liquid that was present on the eppendorftube was left for evaporation
or sucked by using tissue The pellet was suspended in 30 III distilled water (ddH20) After
DNA had been extracted quality and approximate yield was detennined by electrophoresis in
a 1 agarose gel containing ethidium bromide at 90 Volts for 30 minutes The gel was
photographed under UV light Isolated genomic DNA was used for mtDNA analysis was
place at -20degC
13
T
Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR)
Cytochrome Oxidase I (COl) of the mtDNA gene was amplified by using Polymerase Chain
Reaction (PCR) The amplification was done on a Gradient Thermo Cycler (Biorard)
machine for 35 cycles with 25 III of reaction volume For PCR reaction the following
components were mixed in the order that containing of lOX PCR Buffer (Promega) 50 mM
Magnesium Chloride (MgCI2) 2mM Deoxyribonucleotide triphosphates mixture (dTTP
dA TP dCTP and dGTP) 1 III of template DNA molecule of each sample sterile distilled
water (ddH20) 10 pmolllli forward primer 10 pmolIll reverse primer and 5ulll Taq DNA
Polymerase
Two universal primers of COl sequence that were used in the PCR amplification below
Table 3 Primers that were used in peR amplification
Primers sequence Sequences 5 to 3
COl Forward (VRld tt) 5-TGT AAA ACG ACG GCC AGC TCT CAA
CCA ACC ACA ARG A Y A TYG G-3
COl Reverse (VRld tt) 5-CAG GAA ACA GCT ATG ACT AGA CTT
CTG GGT GGC CRA ARA A YC A-3
In every amplification one negative control was used to monitor the validity of the
PCR reaction Temperature profile for 35 amplification cycles was pre-denaturation (94degC
for 2 minutes) denaturation (94 degC for 1 minute) annealing (51degC for 1 minute) extension
(72 degC for I minute) and final extension (72 degC for 5 minutes) After amplification the PCR
14
1
products were run on 1 agarose gel stained with ethidium bromide at 90 volts for 40
minutes and photographed under UV light in order to determine the best annealing
temperature after optimization peR products were purified prior to sequencing using
purification kit (Promega)
Agarose Gel Electrophoresis
The 05g of 1 agarose gel was prepared and mixed with Tris-Acetic acid-EDTA (IX TAE)
buffer The solution was heated for 1 minute until the agarose powder totally dissolved The
solution was poured into the clean conical flask and 1 ~l Etbr was added into it The conical
flask was shakes slowly Then the solution immediately poured into the electrophoresis tank
The solution was cooled down for 10 minutes until the gel solidify 1 ~l a Fermentas ladder
was loaded at front of the well followed 2 ~l each peR products The peR products were run
on 1 agarose gel stained with ethidium bromide at 90 volts for 40 minutes and
photographed under UV light
Purification
peR amplified products were extracted and purified before send for DNA sequencing The
purification process was done by using the purification kit (Promega) according to the
manufacturers instruction A brief summary of the protocol is as follow An equal volume
(23 ~l) of membrane binding solution was added into the peR reaction A mini column was
inserted into the collection tube and prepared peR product was transfer into the mini column
assembly The mini column was undergone centrifugation at 14000 rpm for 3 minutes and
the supernatant was discarded Then the mini column was reinserted into the collection tube
15
T
700 fll of membrane washing buffer (within ethanol added) was added into tube and
undergone centrifugation at 14000 rpm for 2 minutes The supernatant inside tube was
discarded and the mini column was reinserted into collection tube
The DNA pellet was washed by using 500 fll washing buffer and was undergone
centrifugation at 14000 rpm for 5 minutes in order to dry the mini column and eliminate the
excess ethanol inside the mini column The mini column was transferred into new 15 ml
eppendorf tube and 28 fll of Nuclease-free water was added into mini column followed by
incubation for 1 minute Thus the mini column has undergone centrifugation at 14000 rpm
for 5 minute 2 fll of the purified PCR product was checked by running 1 agarose gel to
ensure the sufficiency recovery of the purified PCR obtained The purified DNA was then
stored at -20 0 C and sent to a commercial company First Base (First BASE Laboratories Sdn
Bhd Malaysia) for DNA sequencing Only forward primer was used to sequencing the DNA
Data Analysis
The data from DNA sequencing process was analysed using CHROMAS LITE software The
sequences then were exported to fasta format The sequence was opened in Notepad and all
the N s and ambiguities were deleting before combining all the sequences After that the
DNA sequences were aligned using CLUSTAL X (Thompson et al 1994) and the data were
save as aln and nxs file
The sequences then were further analysed in MEGA 4 using phylogenetic test The
MEGA software has been to provide tools for exploring discovering and analysing DNA
16
ancestor Naderi et aI (2001) used also HVI segment of the mtDNA d-Ioop in their studied
to characterize the domestic goat mtDNA diversity based on a worldwide sampling Genetic
variations were found among goat haplogroups with the weak phylogeograpfic structure The
weak phylogeographic structure has been explained by a high mobility of goat species in a
relation to human migration and commercial trade Ruo-Yu et aI (2006) have been studied
about genetic diversity of mtDNA d-Ioop and the origin of Chinese goats for protection of
goat breed resources and goat breeding
11
1iii
MATERIALS AND METHODS
Sample Collection of Goats
A total of 20 samples goat (Capra hircus) used in this study (Table 2) were collected from
the Handalas farm Matang Sarawak Samples goat was sampled using buccal cell collection
The samples of buccal cells were categorised based on their gender lineage and also
morphological identities The buccal cells samples were collected by using cotton swab and
the cotton swab were preserved in each tube containing Phosphate Buffered Saline (PBS)
buffer The buccal cells were stored in -20De freezer upon returning to the laboratory for
DNA extraction
Table 2 Description of the goat used in this study
Tag name Description
RATEN Male (mating)
K021 K032 L395 MOKLI Female (mating)
P4669369172B303P206D2P454A
H054
Female offspring (mating)
L387 T452 T478 0313 K014 K008
TA82A K003 R223
Female (hybrid)
12
DNA Extraction
DNA was extracted from the goat samples using the CTAB method (Grewe et al 1993) The
buccal cells sample was transfer into new 15 eppendorf tube 100 III CTAB buffer and 20 III
proteinase K was added into the eppendorf tube Another 600 III CTAB buffer was added into
the eppendorf tube and the solution was mixed well Then the eppendorf tube was incubated
in water bath for 2 to 3 hours until the DNA samples dissolve After the DNA samples was
dissolved 600 III chlorofonn-isoamyl alcohol (24 I) was added and the solution was shaken
for 2 to 3 minute followed by centrifugation of the eppendorf tube for 20 minutes at 13 000
rpm The upper layer of supernatant was transfer into a new 15 eppendorf tube
Cold absolute ethanol was added into eppendorf tube and the solution was mixed
well The eppendorf tube was sit on the bench for a few minutes followed centrifugation for
20 minutes at 13 000 rpm The ethanol was discarded carefully and the pellet was washed and
precipitated with an equal volume of ethanol and 25 III of 3M NaOAclNaCI The eppendorf
tube then was undergone centrifugation process for 20 minutes at 13 000 rpm The ethanol
was discarded carefully to ensuing the pellet is not poured out
Small droplet of liquid that was present on the eppendorftube was left for evaporation
or sucked by using tissue The pellet was suspended in 30 III distilled water (ddH20) After
DNA had been extracted quality and approximate yield was detennined by electrophoresis in
a 1 agarose gel containing ethidium bromide at 90 Volts for 30 minutes The gel was
photographed under UV light Isolated genomic DNA was used for mtDNA analysis was
place at -20degC
13
T
Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR)
Cytochrome Oxidase I (COl) of the mtDNA gene was amplified by using Polymerase Chain
Reaction (PCR) The amplification was done on a Gradient Thermo Cycler (Biorard)
machine for 35 cycles with 25 III of reaction volume For PCR reaction the following
components were mixed in the order that containing of lOX PCR Buffer (Promega) 50 mM
Magnesium Chloride (MgCI2) 2mM Deoxyribonucleotide triphosphates mixture (dTTP
dA TP dCTP and dGTP) 1 III of template DNA molecule of each sample sterile distilled
water (ddH20) 10 pmolllli forward primer 10 pmolIll reverse primer and 5ulll Taq DNA
Polymerase
Two universal primers of COl sequence that were used in the PCR amplification below
Table 3 Primers that were used in peR amplification
Primers sequence Sequences 5 to 3
COl Forward (VRld tt) 5-TGT AAA ACG ACG GCC AGC TCT CAA
CCA ACC ACA ARG A Y A TYG G-3
COl Reverse (VRld tt) 5-CAG GAA ACA GCT ATG ACT AGA CTT
CTG GGT GGC CRA ARA A YC A-3
In every amplification one negative control was used to monitor the validity of the
PCR reaction Temperature profile for 35 amplification cycles was pre-denaturation (94degC
for 2 minutes) denaturation (94 degC for 1 minute) annealing (51degC for 1 minute) extension
(72 degC for I minute) and final extension (72 degC for 5 minutes) After amplification the PCR
14
1
products were run on 1 agarose gel stained with ethidium bromide at 90 volts for 40
minutes and photographed under UV light in order to determine the best annealing
temperature after optimization peR products were purified prior to sequencing using
purification kit (Promega)
Agarose Gel Electrophoresis
The 05g of 1 agarose gel was prepared and mixed with Tris-Acetic acid-EDTA (IX TAE)
buffer The solution was heated for 1 minute until the agarose powder totally dissolved The
solution was poured into the clean conical flask and 1 ~l Etbr was added into it The conical
flask was shakes slowly Then the solution immediately poured into the electrophoresis tank
The solution was cooled down for 10 minutes until the gel solidify 1 ~l a Fermentas ladder
was loaded at front of the well followed 2 ~l each peR products The peR products were run
on 1 agarose gel stained with ethidium bromide at 90 volts for 40 minutes and
photographed under UV light
Purification
peR amplified products were extracted and purified before send for DNA sequencing The
purification process was done by using the purification kit (Promega) according to the
manufacturers instruction A brief summary of the protocol is as follow An equal volume
(23 ~l) of membrane binding solution was added into the peR reaction A mini column was
inserted into the collection tube and prepared peR product was transfer into the mini column
assembly The mini column was undergone centrifugation at 14000 rpm for 3 minutes and
the supernatant was discarded Then the mini column was reinserted into the collection tube
15
T
700 fll of membrane washing buffer (within ethanol added) was added into tube and
undergone centrifugation at 14000 rpm for 2 minutes The supernatant inside tube was
discarded and the mini column was reinserted into collection tube
The DNA pellet was washed by using 500 fll washing buffer and was undergone
centrifugation at 14000 rpm for 5 minutes in order to dry the mini column and eliminate the
excess ethanol inside the mini column The mini column was transferred into new 15 ml
eppendorf tube and 28 fll of Nuclease-free water was added into mini column followed by
incubation for 1 minute Thus the mini column has undergone centrifugation at 14000 rpm
for 5 minute 2 fll of the purified PCR product was checked by running 1 agarose gel to
ensure the sufficiency recovery of the purified PCR obtained The purified DNA was then
stored at -20 0 C and sent to a commercial company First Base (First BASE Laboratories Sdn
Bhd Malaysia) for DNA sequencing Only forward primer was used to sequencing the DNA
Data Analysis
The data from DNA sequencing process was analysed using CHROMAS LITE software The
sequences then were exported to fasta format The sequence was opened in Notepad and all
the N s and ambiguities were deleting before combining all the sequences After that the
DNA sequences were aligned using CLUSTAL X (Thompson et al 1994) and the data were
save as aln and nxs file
The sequences then were further analysed in MEGA 4 using phylogenetic test The
MEGA software has been to provide tools for exploring discovering and analysing DNA
16
MATERIALS AND METHODS
Sample Collection of Goats
A total of 20 samples goat (Capra hircus) used in this study (Table 2) were collected from
the Handalas farm Matang Sarawak Samples goat was sampled using buccal cell collection
The samples of buccal cells were categorised based on their gender lineage and also
morphological identities The buccal cells samples were collected by using cotton swab and
the cotton swab were preserved in each tube containing Phosphate Buffered Saline (PBS)
buffer The buccal cells were stored in -20De freezer upon returning to the laboratory for
DNA extraction
Table 2 Description of the goat used in this study
Tag name Description
RATEN Male (mating)
K021 K032 L395 MOKLI Female (mating)
P4669369172B303P206D2P454A
H054
Female offspring (mating)
L387 T452 T478 0313 K014 K008
TA82A K003 R223
Female (hybrid)
12
DNA Extraction
DNA was extracted from the goat samples using the CTAB method (Grewe et al 1993) The
buccal cells sample was transfer into new 15 eppendorf tube 100 III CTAB buffer and 20 III
proteinase K was added into the eppendorf tube Another 600 III CTAB buffer was added into
the eppendorf tube and the solution was mixed well Then the eppendorf tube was incubated
in water bath for 2 to 3 hours until the DNA samples dissolve After the DNA samples was
dissolved 600 III chlorofonn-isoamyl alcohol (24 I) was added and the solution was shaken
for 2 to 3 minute followed by centrifugation of the eppendorf tube for 20 minutes at 13 000
rpm The upper layer of supernatant was transfer into a new 15 eppendorf tube
Cold absolute ethanol was added into eppendorf tube and the solution was mixed
well The eppendorf tube was sit on the bench for a few minutes followed centrifugation for
20 minutes at 13 000 rpm The ethanol was discarded carefully and the pellet was washed and
precipitated with an equal volume of ethanol and 25 III of 3M NaOAclNaCI The eppendorf
tube then was undergone centrifugation process for 20 minutes at 13 000 rpm The ethanol
was discarded carefully to ensuing the pellet is not poured out
Small droplet of liquid that was present on the eppendorftube was left for evaporation
or sucked by using tissue The pellet was suspended in 30 III distilled water (ddH20) After
DNA had been extracted quality and approximate yield was detennined by electrophoresis in
a 1 agarose gel containing ethidium bromide at 90 Volts for 30 minutes The gel was
photographed under UV light Isolated genomic DNA was used for mtDNA analysis was
place at -20degC
13
T
Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR)
Cytochrome Oxidase I (COl) of the mtDNA gene was amplified by using Polymerase Chain
Reaction (PCR) The amplification was done on a Gradient Thermo Cycler (Biorard)
machine for 35 cycles with 25 III of reaction volume For PCR reaction the following
components were mixed in the order that containing of lOX PCR Buffer (Promega) 50 mM
Magnesium Chloride (MgCI2) 2mM Deoxyribonucleotide triphosphates mixture (dTTP
dA TP dCTP and dGTP) 1 III of template DNA molecule of each sample sterile distilled
water (ddH20) 10 pmolllli forward primer 10 pmolIll reverse primer and 5ulll Taq DNA
Polymerase
Two universal primers of COl sequence that were used in the PCR amplification below
Table 3 Primers that were used in peR amplification
Primers sequence Sequences 5 to 3
COl Forward (VRld tt) 5-TGT AAA ACG ACG GCC AGC TCT CAA
CCA ACC ACA ARG A Y A TYG G-3
COl Reverse (VRld tt) 5-CAG GAA ACA GCT ATG ACT AGA CTT
CTG GGT GGC CRA ARA A YC A-3
In every amplification one negative control was used to monitor the validity of the
PCR reaction Temperature profile for 35 amplification cycles was pre-denaturation (94degC
for 2 minutes) denaturation (94 degC for 1 minute) annealing (51degC for 1 minute) extension
(72 degC for I minute) and final extension (72 degC for 5 minutes) After amplification the PCR
14
1
products were run on 1 agarose gel stained with ethidium bromide at 90 volts for 40
minutes and photographed under UV light in order to determine the best annealing
temperature after optimization peR products were purified prior to sequencing using
purification kit (Promega)
Agarose Gel Electrophoresis
The 05g of 1 agarose gel was prepared and mixed with Tris-Acetic acid-EDTA (IX TAE)
buffer The solution was heated for 1 minute until the agarose powder totally dissolved The
solution was poured into the clean conical flask and 1 ~l Etbr was added into it The conical
flask was shakes slowly Then the solution immediately poured into the electrophoresis tank
The solution was cooled down for 10 minutes until the gel solidify 1 ~l a Fermentas ladder
was loaded at front of the well followed 2 ~l each peR products The peR products were run
on 1 agarose gel stained with ethidium bromide at 90 volts for 40 minutes and
photographed under UV light
Purification
peR amplified products were extracted and purified before send for DNA sequencing The
purification process was done by using the purification kit (Promega) according to the
manufacturers instruction A brief summary of the protocol is as follow An equal volume
(23 ~l) of membrane binding solution was added into the peR reaction A mini column was
inserted into the collection tube and prepared peR product was transfer into the mini column
assembly The mini column was undergone centrifugation at 14000 rpm for 3 minutes and
the supernatant was discarded Then the mini column was reinserted into the collection tube
15
T
700 fll of membrane washing buffer (within ethanol added) was added into tube and
undergone centrifugation at 14000 rpm for 2 minutes The supernatant inside tube was
discarded and the mini column was reinserted into collection tube
The DNA pellet was washed by using 500 fll washing buffer and was undergone
centrifugation at 14000 rpm for 5 minutes in order to dry the mini column and eliminate the
excess ethanol inside the mini column The mini column was transferred into new 15 ml
eppendorf tube and 28 fll of Nuclease-free water was added into mini column followed by
incubation for 1 minute Thus the mini column has undergone centrifugation at 14000 rpm
for 5 minute 2 fll of the purified PCR product was checked by running 1 agarose gel to
ensure the sufficiency recovery of the purified PCR obtained The purified DNA was then
stored at -20 0 C and sent to a commercial company First Base (First BASE Laboratories Sdn
Bhd Malaysia) for DNA sequencing Only forward primer was used to sequencing the DNA
Data Analysis
The data from DNA sequencing process was analysed using CHROMAS LITE software The
sequences then were exported to fasta format The sequence was opened in Notepad and all
the N s and ambiguities were deleting before combining all the sequences After that the
DNA sequences were aligned using CLUSTAL X (Thompson et al 1994) and the data were
save as aln and nxs file
The sequences then were further analysed in MEGA 4 using phylogenetic test The
MEGA software has been to provide tools for exploring discovering and analysing DNA
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DNA Extraction
DNA was extracted from the goat samples using the CTAB method (Grewe et al 1993) The
buccal cells sample was transfer into new 15 eppendorf tube 100 III CTAB buffer and 20 III
proteinase K was added into the eppendorf tube Another 600 III CTAB buffer was added into
the eppendorf tube and the solution was mixed well Then the eppendorf tube was incubated
in water bath for 2 to 3 hours until the DNA samples dissolve After the DNA samples was
dissolved 600 III chlorofonn-isoamyl alcohol (24 I) was added and the solution was shaken
for 2 to 3 minute followed by centrifugation of the eppendorf tube for 20 minutes at 13 000
rpm The upper layer of supernatant was transfer into a new 15 eppendorf tube
Cold absolute ethanol was added into eppendorf tube and the solution was mixed
well The eppendorf tube was sit on the bench for a few minutes followed centrifugation for
20 minutes at 13 000 rpm The ethanol was discarded carefully and the pellet was washed and
precipitated with an equal volume of ethanol and 25 III of 3M NaOAclNaCI The eppendorf
tube then was undergone centrifugation process for 20 minutes at 13 000 rpm The ethanol
was discarded carefully to ensuing the pellet is not poured out
Small droplet of liquid that was present on the eppendorftube was left for evaporation
or sucked by using tissue The pellet was suspended in 30 III distilled water (ddH20) After
DNA had been extracted quality and approximate yield was detennined by electrophoresis in
a 1 agarose gel containing ethidium bromide at 90 Volts for 30 minutes The gel was
photographed under UV light Isolated genomic DNA was used for mtDNA analysis was
place at -20degC
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Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR)
Cytochrome Oxidase I (COl) of the mtDNA gene was amplified by using Polymerase Chain
Reaction (PCR) The amplification was done on a Gradient Thermo Cycler (Biorard)
machine for 35 cycles with 25 III of reaction volume For PCR reaction the following
components were mixed in the order that containing of lOX PCR Buffer (Promega) 50 mM
Magnesium Chloride (MgCI2) 2mM Deoxyribonucleotide triphosphates mixture (dTTP
dA TP dCTP and dGTP) 1 III of template DNA molecule of each sample sterile distilled
water (ddH20) 10 pmolllli forward primer 10 pmolIll reverse primer and 5ulll Taq DNA
Polymerase
Two universal primers of COl sequence that were used in the PCR amplification below
Table 3 Primers that were used in peR amplification
Primers sequence Sequences 5 to 3
COl Forward (VRld tt) 5-TGT AAA ACG ACG GCC AGC TCT CAA
CCA ACC ACA ARG A Y A TYG G-3
COl Reverse (VRld tt) 5-CAG GAA ACA GCT ATG ACT AGA CTT
CTG GGT GGC CRA ARA A YC A-3
In every amplification one negative control was used to monitor the validity of the
PCR reaction Temperature profile for 35 amplification cycles was pre-denaturation (94degC
for 2 minutes) denaturation (94 degC for 1 minute) annealing (51degC for 1 minute) extension
(72 degC for I minute) and final extension (72 degC for 5 minutes) After amplification the PCR
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products were run on 1 agarose gel stained with ethidium bromide at 90 volts for 40
minutes and photographed under UV light in order to determine the best annealing
temperature after optimization peR products were purified prior to sequencing using
purification kit (Promega)
Agarose Gel Electrophoresis
The 05g of 1 agarose gel was prepared and mixed with Tris-Acetic acid-EDTA (IX TAE)
buffer The solution was heated for 1 minute until the agarose powder totally dissolved The
solution was poured into the clean conical flask and 1 ~l Etbr was added into it The conical
flask was shakes slowly Then the solution immediately poured into the electrophoresis tank
The solution was cooled down for 10 minutes until the gel solidify 1 ~l a Fermentas ladder
was loaded at front of the well followed 2 ~l each peR products The peR products were run
on 1 agarose gel stained with ethidium bromide at 90 volts for 40 minutes and
photographed under UV light
Purification
peR amplified products were extracted and purified before send for DNA sequencing The
purification process was done by using the purification kit (Promega) according to the
manufacturers instruction A brief summary of the protocol is as follow An equal volume
(23 ~l) of membrane binding solution was added into the peR reaction A mini column was
inserted into the collection tube and prepared peR product was transfer into the mini column
assembly The mini column was undergone centrifugation at 14000 rpm for 3 minutes and
the supernatant was discarded Then the mini column was reinserted into the collection tube
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700 fll of membrane washing buffer (within ethanol added) was added into tube and
undergone centrifugation at 14000 rpm for 2 minutes The supernatant inside tube was
discarded and the mini column was reinserted into collection tube
The DNA pellet was washed by using 500 fll washing buffer and was undergone
centrifugation at 14000 rpm for 5 minutes in order to dry the mini column and eliminate the
excess ethanol inside the mini column The mini column was transferred into new 15 ml
eppendorf tube and 28 fll of Nuclease-free water was added into mini column followed by
incubation for 1 minute Thus the mini column has undergone centrifugation at 14000 rpm
for 5 minute 2 fll of the purified PCR product was checked by running 1 agarose gel to
ensure the sufficiency recovery of the purified PCR obtained The purified DNA was then
stored at -20 0 C and sent to a commercial company First Base (First BASE Laboratories Sdn
Bhd Malaysia) for DNA sequencing Only forward primer was used to sequencing the DNA
Data Analysis
The data from DNA sequencing process was analysed using CHROMAS LITE software The
sequences then were exported to fasta format The sequence was opened in Notepad and all
the N s and ambiguities were deleting before combining all the sequences After that the
DNA sequences were aligned using CLUSTAL X (Thompson et al 1994) and the data were
save as aln and nxs file
The sequences then were further analysed in MEGA 4 using phylogenetic test The
MEGA software has been to provide tools for exploring discovering and analysing DNA
16
T
Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR)
Cytochrome Oxidase I (COl) of the mtDNA gene was amplified by using Polymerase Chain
Reaction (PCR) The amplification was done on a Gradient Thermo Cycler (Biorard)
machine for 35 cycles with 25 III of reaction volume For PCR reaction the following
components were mixed in the order that containing of lOX PCR Buffer (Promega) 50 mM
Magnesium Chloride (MgCI2) 2mM Deoxyribonucleotide triphosphates mixture (dTTP
dA TP dCTP and dGTP) 1 III of template DNA molecule of each sample sterile distilled
water (ddH20) 10 pmolllli forward primer 10 pmolIll reverse primer and 5ulll Taq DNA
Polymerase
Two universal primers of COl sequence that were used in the PCR amplification below
Table 3 Primers that were used in peR amplification
Primers sequence Sequences 5 to 3
COl Forward (VRld tt) 5-TGT AAA ACG ACG GCC AGC TCT CAA
CCA ACC ACA ARG A Y A TYG G-3
COl Reverse (VRld tt) 5-CAG GAA ACA GCT ATG ACT AGA CTT
CTG GGT GGC CRA ARA A YC A-3
In every amplification one negative control was used to monitor the validity of the
PCR reaction Temperature profile for 35 amplification cycles was pre-denaturation (94degC
for 2 minutes) denaturation (94 degC for 1 minute) annealing (51degC for 1 minute) extension
(72 degC for I minute) and final extension (72 degC for 5 minutes) After amplification the PCR
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products were run on 1 agarose gel stained with ethidium bromide at 90 volts for 40
minutes and photographed under UV light in order to determine the best annealing
temperature after optimization peR products were purified prior to sequencing using
purification kit (Promega)
Agarose Gel Electrophoresis
The 05g of 1 agarose gel was prepared and mixed with Tris-Acetic acid-EDTA (IX TAE)
buffer The solution was heated for 1 minute until the agarose powder totally dissolved The
solution was poured into the clean conical flask and 1 ~l Etbr was added into it The conical
flask was shakes slowly Then the solution immediately poured into the electrophoresis tank
The solution was cooled down for 10 minutes until the gel solidify 1 ~l a Fermentas ladder
was loaded at front of the well followed 2 ~l each peR products The peR products were run
on 1 agarose gel stained with ethidium bromide at 90 volts for 40 minutes and
photographed under UV light
Purification
peR amplified products were extracted and purified before send for DNA sequencing The
purification process was done by using the purification kit (Promega) according to the
manufacturers instruction A brief summary of the protocol is as follow An equal volume
(23 ~l) of membrane binding solution was added into the peR reaction A mini column was
inserted into the collection tube and prepared peR product was transfer into the mini column
assembly The mini column was undergone centrifugation at 14000 rpm for 3 minutes and
the supernatant was discarded Then the mini column was reinserted into the collection tube
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700 fll of membrane washing buffer (within ethanol added) was added into tube and
undergone centrifugation at 14000 rpm for 2 minutes The supernatant inside tube was
discarded and the mini column was reinserted into collection tube
The DNA pellet was washed by using 500 fll washing buffer and was undergone
centrifugation at 14000 rpm for 5 minutes in order to dry the mini column and eliminate the
excess ethanol inside the mini column The mini column was transferred into new 15 ml
eppendorf tube and 28 fll of Nuclease-free water was added into mini column followed by
incubation for 1 minute Thus the mini column has undergone centrifugation at 14000 rpm
for 5 minute 2 fll of the purified PCR product was checked by running 1 agarose gel to
ensure the sufficiency recovery of the purified PCR obtained The purified DNA was then
stored at -20 0 C and sent to a commercial company First Base (First BASE Laboratories Sdn
Bhd Malaysia) for DNA sequencing Only forward primer was used to sequencing the DNA
Data Analysis
The data from DNA sequencing process was analysed using CHROMAS LITE software The
sequences then were exported to fasta format The sequence was opened in Notepad and all
the N s and ambiguities were deleting before combining all the sequences After that the
DNA sequences were aligned using CLUSTAL X (Thompson et al 1994) and the data were
save as aln and nxs file
The sequences then were further analysed in MEGA 4 using phylogenetic test The
MEGA software has been to provide tools for exploring discovering and analysing DNA
16
1
products were run on 1 agarose gel stained with ethidium bromide at 90 volts for 40
minutes and photographed under UV light in order to determine the best annealing
temperature after optimization peR products were purified prior to sequencing using
purification kit (Promega)
Agarose Gel Electrophoresis
The 05g of 1 agarose gel was prepared and mixed with Tris-Acetic acid-EDTA (IX TAE)
buffer The solution was heated for 1 minute until the agarose powder totally dissolved The
solution was poured into the clean conical flask and 1 ~l Etbr was added into it The conical
flask was shakes slowly Then the solution immediately poured into the electrophoresis tank
The solution was cooled down for 10 minutes until the gel solidify 1 ~l a Fermentas ladder
was loaded at front of the well followed 2 ~l each peR products The peR products were run
on 1 agarose gel stained with ethidium bromide at 90 volts for 40 minutes and
photographed under UV light
Purification
peR amplified products were extracted and purified before send for DNA sequencing The
purification process was done by using the purification kit (Promega) according to the
manufacturers instruction A brief summary of the protocol is as follow An equal volume
(23 ~l) of membrane binding solution was added into the peR reaction A mini column was
inserted into the collection tube and prepared peR product was transfer into the mini column
assembly The mini column was undergone centrifugation at 14000 rpm for 3 minutes and
the supernatant was discarded Then the mini column was reinserted into the collection tube
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T
700 fll of membrane washing buffer (within ethanol added) was added into tube and
undergone centrifugation at 14000 rpm for 2 minutes The supernatant inside tube was
discarded and the mini column was reinserted into collection tube
The DNA pellet was washed by using 500 fll washing buffer and was undergone
centrifugation at 14000 rpm for 5 minutes in order to dry the mini column and eliminate the
excess ethanol inside the mini column The mini column was transferred into new 15 ml
eppendorf tube and 28 fll of Nuclease-free water was added into mini column followed by
incubation for 1 minute Thus the mini column has undergone centrifugation at 14000 rpm
for 5 minute 2 fll of the purified PCR product was checked by running 1 agarose gel to
ensure the sufficiency recovery of the purified PCR obtained The purified DNA was then
stored at -20 0 C and sent to a commercial company First Base (First BASE Laboratories Sdn
Bhd Malaysia) for DNA sequencing Only forward primer was used to sequencing the DNA
Data Analysis
The data from DNA sequencing process was analysed using CHROMAS LITE software The
sequences then were exported to fasta format The sequence was opened in Notepad and all
the N s and ambiguities were deleting before combining all the sequences After that the
DNA sequences were aligned using CLUSTAL X (Thompson et al 1994) and the data were
save as aln and nxs file
The sequences then were further analysed in MEGA 4 using phylogenetic test The
MEGA software has been to provide tools for exploring discovering and analysing DNA
16
T
700 fll of membrane washing buffer (within ethanol added) was added into tube and
undergone centrifugation at 14000 rpm for 2 minutes The supernatant inside tube was
discarded and the mini column was reinserted into collection tube
The DNA pellet was washed by using 500 fll washing buffer and was undergone
centrifugation at 14000 rpm for 5 minutes in order to dry the mini column and eliminate the
excess ethanol inside the mini column The mini column was transferred into new 15 ml
eppendorf tube and 28 fll of Nuclease-free water was added into mini column followed by
incubation for 1 minute Thus the mini column has undergone centrifugation at 14000 rpm
for 5 minute 2 fll of the purified PCR product was checked by running 1 agarose gel to
ensure the sufficiency recovery of the purified PCR obtained The purified DNA was then
stored at -20 0 C and sent to a commercial company First Base (First BASE Laboratories Sdn
Bhd Malaysia) for DNA sequencing Only forward primer was used to sequencing the DNA
Data Analysis
The data from DNA sequencing process was analysed using CHROMAS LITE software The
sequences then were exported to fasta format The sequence was opened in Notepad and all
the N s and ambiguities were deleting before combining all the sequences After that the
DNA sequences were aligned using CLUSTAL X (Thompson et al 1994) and the data were
save as aln and nxs file
The sequences then were further analysed in MEGA 4 using phylogenetic test The
MEGA software has been to provide tools for exploring discovering and analysing DNA
16