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CROMOSOMAL PROFILE OF BLACK BENGAL GOAT

Alok Bharti1, Abhay Kumar2 Banani Mandal3

1.Krishi Vigyan Kendra, Rohtas


2.Krishi Vigyan Kendra,
3.PG Scholar, Ranchi Veterinary College

Key Words- Black Bengal goat, Cytogenetic, Karyotype, Chromosome number.

Black Bengal goats from Instructional Farm Small ruminants, Birsa agricultural university
were utilized by short term lymphocyte culture technique. The diploid chromosome no was
found to be 60, XY consisting of 29 pairs of acrocentric autosomes and a pair of allosomes.
The X chromosome was the longest and Y chromosome was suspected to be sub metacentric.
The mean relative length of autosome ranged from5.22±0.03 to 1.92±0.02 percent and
relative length of X and Y chromosomes were 5.76±0.05 and 1.47±0.03, respectively. The
effect of sex was significant on relative length of some of the autosome.

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