A Study of the Genetic Structure of Hybrid Camels in Kazakhstan

Amandykova M. Dossybayev K. Mussayeva A. Saitou N. Zhunusbayeva Z. Bekmanov B.
July 2023 Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI)

Genes
2023 #14 Issue 7

Camel farming is gaining scientific interest due to its unique agricultural characteristics. Camels are versatile for milk and meat production, wool, racing, transport, and tourism. To use their full potential, it is essential to improve our understanding of the genetic structure of these animals. One-humped and two-humped camels have received detailed genetic descriptions, while there is no such information for their hybrids, which outperform their parent species in several agricultural characteristics. Thus, in this study, for the first time, the whole genome sequencing data (WGS) of five hybrid camels bred in the Almaty region of Kazakhstan are presented in comparison with the WGS data of one-humped, two-humped, and wild camels. A total of 43,552,164 single-nucleotide polymorphisms were found across the studied groups. Further comparison of these SNPs showed the following number of private SNPs among the populations: hybrid camels (3,271,083), wild camels (2,515,591), Bactrians (1,244,694), and dromedaries (531,224). The genetic structure of the studied animals was described, and a phylogenetic tree was built to assess their genetic distance. It was found that the studied hybrids are genetically closer to dromedaries since they were on the close branch of the phylogenetic tree.

genetic structure analysis , Kazakhstan hybrid camels , phylogenetics , single nucleotide polymorphism , whole genome sequencing

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Faculty of Biology and Biotechnology, Al-Farabi Kazakh National University, Al-Farabi Ave. 71, Almaty, 050040, Kazakhstan
Laboratory of Genetics and Cytogenetics, Institute of Genetics and Physiology SC MSHE RK, Al-Farabi Ave. 93, Almaty, 050060, Kazakhstan
Saitou Naruya Laboratory, National Institute of Genetics, 1111 Yata, Shizuoka, Mishima, 411-8540, Japan

Faculty of Biology and Biotechnology
Laboratory of Genetics and Cytogenetics
Saitou Naruya Laboratory

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