Biogenic synthesis of silver nanoparticles from Dodonaea viscosa Linn. and its
effective antibacterial activity

Abstract :

Genetic variation in Nilgiri sheep, an apparel wool breed of South India, was studied using four microsatellite markers as recommended by FAO. The number of observed alleles ranged from 5 to 9 with a mean of 7 across all loci. The size of alleles ranged from 106 to 198 bp. In total, 28 alleles were observed in 4 loci. The frequency of alleles ranged from 0.0104 to 0.8085. The effective number of alleles ranged from 1.48 to 5.78 with a mean of 4.114 ± 1.888. The polymorphism information content (PIC) values varied from 0.2991 to 0.8062. The overall means for observed and expected heterozygosities were 0.5796 ± 0.3251 and 0.6781 ± 0.2367, respectively. The within population inbreeding estimate indicates heterozygote deficiency of 0.1451. Mode shift analysis revealed a normal L-shaped curve indicating that Nilgiri sheep population is non-bottlenecked. The markers used in the study were highly informative and high heterozygosity value is indicative of the high amount of genetic variability that can be exploited for their further improvement.