The Iraqi Journal of Agricultural science (Dec 2016)

USEING OF COMET ASSAY FOR DETECTION OF THE DAMAGE IN DNA DUE TO THE INFECTION BY BLOOD PARASITES IN CYRUS GOAT KIDS

  • Firas R. Al-Samarai,
  • Nasr N. Al-Anbari,
  • Ryad H. AL-Ithawi

Journal volume & issue
Vol. 47, no. 1
pp. 358 – 364

Abstract

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This study was carried out at the Ruminants Researches Station (20 km west of Baghdad) /State Board for Agriculture Researches / Ministry of Agriculture, and Biotechnology Research Center of AL-Nahrain Univ. for the period from 1/8/213 to 1/8/2014. The aim of this study was to identify the damage in DNA according to comet assay procedure, after testing of 50 infected goats with blood parasites. Most of traits affected significantly by infection, as most of traits showed a depression due to infection. Results revealed that the effect of type on the traits of comet assay was significant (P < 0.01) in this study. The infected goat kids were surpassed the corresponding healty goat kids for all measures of comet, whereas, the healty goat kids surpassed the corresponding infected goat kids.

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