Journal of Animal Breeding and Genomics (J Anim Breed Genom)
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OPEN ACCESS, PEER REVIEWED
pISSN 1226-5543
eISSN 2586-4297
Short Communication

Gender test of unhatched egg in Yeonsan Ogye using PCR technique

1Division of Animal & Dairy Science, Chungnam National University, 34134 Korea
2Jisan Farm, Nonsan 29009, Korea

*These authors equally contributed to this work.

Correspondence to Jun Heon Lee, E-mail: junheon@cnu.ac.kr

Volume 3, Number 2, Pages 69-72, June 2019.
Journal of Animal Breeding and Genomics 2019, 3(2), 69-72. https://doi.org/10.12972/jabng.20190008
Published on June 30, 2019.
Copyright © 2019 Korean Society of Animal Breeding and Genetics.
This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0).

ABSTRACT

Yeonsan Ogye is a unique chicken breed with pure black color in both skin and bones, even internal organs. It is an indigenous native chicken species in Korea which has been registered in a national treasure. Recently, Yeonsan Ogye has been suffering for the conservation problems due to differences in sex ratio. Therefore, the purpose of this study is to identify the sex ratio in unhatched eggs in the Yeonsan Ogye population using PCR amplification. The chi-square test was performed using R software to determine significant differences between the observed and expected values ​​of the sexes in unhatched eggs. The results of the experiment showed that 91 out of 153 unhatched eggs were females and 62 eggs were males. This indicated that female birds were higher in unhatched eggs than male birds (p-value < 0.05). Based on the results of this study, it is considered that the sex ratio imbalance in Ogye due to the higher mortality rate of females at the fetal stage. For the further studies, this study is very important basic research data for Yeonsan Ogye conservation and breeding programs.

KEYWORDS

CHD gene, Gender test, Polymerase chain reaction, Yeonsan Ogye

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

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