Cabra Majorera de Costa
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| Spain, E | |
| Location | Fuerteventura Island (Canary Islands, Spain) |
| Species | Goat |
| Management | extensively managed |
| History | The economy of the Fuerteventura Island (Canary Islands, Spain) is based in the caprine exploitation, fundamentally the Majorera goat. There are two different ways of management: 1) an intensive or semiextensive production system and 2) an extensive production where the animals have not owner. The last one is a feral goat denominated Guanil or de Costa goat. The Majorera goat is very important due to its high productivity associated to rusticity and adaptability to the dessert environment characteristic of the Fuerteventura Island. |
| Need for Action | In this work the main goal is to do the genetic characterisation of the Majorera goat existing in Fuerteventura Island, including the Guanil goat. It has been studied 96 animals with 22 microsatellites. Ovine and bovine microsatellites recommended by FAO, ISAG and other authors in the bibliography have been used. These markers were amplified by mean of the Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) technique and to get the size separation of the obtained fragments we have developed electrophoresis in polyacrylamide gel in an automatic sequencer ABI 377XL (Applied Biosystems, Foster City, CA, USA) |
| Source of information | Juanvi Delgado |
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| Juan Vincente Delgado, Spain |
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