Nasrollah Pirany - University of Tabriz
S.P Ganpule - Genetic Mnager, Pioneer Group, Pongalur, Tamil Nadu, india
G Devegowda - Dept. of Poultry Science, University of Agricultural Sciences, Bangalore, india
D Threeta Prasad - Deptarment of Biotechnology, University of Agricultural sciences, Bangalre, india

The 16 (equal number of sexes) DNA samples from Naked Neck (NN), White Silkies (WS), commercial layer (CL) and broiler (CB), Giriraja (G, a synthetic coloured strain) and Desi (D) populations were genotyped for this study. Seven loci were polymorphic in all of the populations and the number of alleles varying from 3 to 27 per locus and 4.1 to 8.6 per population, respectively, with a total of 134 alleles. The average observed and expected heterozygosity for the populations varied from 0.56 (WS) to 0.76 (CB), and from 0.52 (CL) to 0.74 (D and G) respectively. F-statistics indicated that populations are genetically structured (FST ≈ ө=0.156; RST =0.240; P<0.001).

chicken, microsatellite, F-statistics, genetic diversity, allelic pattern