RESEARCH ARTICLES
CHROMOSOME COMPLEMENT OF MALABARI GOAT
K. A.Bindu, K.V. Raghunandanan and G. Mukundan
Journal of Veterinary and Animal Sciences.1994. 25:153-155.
Copyright: © 1994 K.A.Bindu et.al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Abstract
The chromosome complement of Malabari goat and its crosses with Saanen and Alpine revealed a diploid number of 60. The karyotype comprised of 29 pairs of acrocentric autosomes and one pair of sex chromosomes. The X chromosome was the longest and acrocentric whereas the Y chromosome was the smallest and the only metacentric in the goat chromosome complement. Analysis of the relative lengths the X chromosome and the Y chromosome revealed significutt differences between breeds.
