KARYOTYPE OF ANATOLIAN WATER BUFFALO (BUBALUS BUBALIS)
Makaleler > Tam Makale · 2014
Yazarlar: Nefise Ülkü KARABAY YAVAŞOĞLU, C. Koksal, Yalçın Yaman, Cemal ÜN
Buffalo Bulletin, Uluslararası, Wos, 2014, cilt 33, ss 337-342
Özet
The water buffalo is an important farm animal raised all over the world but mostly in Asia. They were distributed from southern Asia to Europe during the Pleistocene Epoch. They are classifi ed according to their chromosome number and morphological data either as river type (2n=50) or swamp type (2n=48). Anatolian water buffalo was classifi ed as river type and no further karyotyping specifi cation was made up to now. Previous studies have shown that classifi cation based solely on morphological data is not adequate. Therefore we have applied a procedure in order to identify the chromosome number of the Anatolian water buffalo for the purpose of proving them to be of the river type. Our study has shown that Anatolian water buffalo possess 50 chromosomes which proves their classifi cation as river type buffalos.