Agriculture (Sep 2023)

Combining Nucleotide Sequence Variants and Transcript Levels of Immune and Antioxidant Markers for Selection and Improvement of Mastitis Resistance in Dromedary Camels

  • Ahmed Ateya,
  • Fatmah A. Safhi,
  • Huda El-Emam,
  • Marawan A. Marawan,
  • Hayat Fayed,
  • Amgad Kadah,
  • Maha Mamdouh,
  • Manar M. Hizam,
  • Muath Q. Al-Ghadi,
  • Mohamed Abdo,
  • Liana Fericean,
  • Rada Olga,
  • Ostan Mihaela

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3390/agriculture13101909
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 10
p. 1909

Abstract

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The immune and antioxidant genetic factors that could converse with mastitis susceptibility in dromedary camels were looked at in this research. Of 120 female dromedary camels (60 healthy, and 60 with mastitis) were utilised. Each camel’s jugular vein was pierced to obtain five millilitres of blood. The blood was placed within tubes containing sodium fluoride or EDTA anticoagulants to obtain whole blood and extract DNA and RNA. The immunological (OTUD3, TLR2, TLR4, STAB2, MBL2, TRAPPC9, and C4A) and antioxidant (CAT, SOD3, PRDX6, OXSR1, NDUFS6, SERP2, and ST1P1) genes’ nucleotide sequence polymorphisms between healthy and mastitis affected she-camels were discovered using PCR-DNA sequencing. Fisher’s exact test revealed that camel groups with and without mastitis had noticeably different odds of all major nucleotide alterations propagating (p OTUD3, TLR2, TLR4, STAB2, MBL2, TRAPPC9, C4A, OXSR1, SERP2, and ST1P1 genes (p CAT, SOD3, PRDX6, and NDUFS6 genes elicited a different pattern. The results may be used to develop management strategies and support the significance of nucleotide differences and gene expression patterns in these markers as indicators of the incidence of mastitis.

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