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Population variability of Tibetan Terrier

The Tibetan terrier is considered to be one of the dog breeds descending from the most ancient dogs. Due to geographic isolation and wide spread belief that selling of these dogs would cause bad luck, the breed remained quite isolated over centuries. In the early 20iest of the last century, the first couple was brought to Europe and the first litter outside Tibet was registered as Lhasa Terriers, the name which has been changed by the Kennel Club of India to Tibetan terrier in 1930. During the history of the breed, two lines of Tibetan Terriers were established, Lamleh and Luneville. The western population represents a relative narrow gene pool, which has been enriched by several outbreeding episodes during the history of the breed with dogs of similar appearance. Recently, we got the opportunity to sample the original population of Tibetan terriers as well as F1 crosses with representatives of the western Tibetan terrier population. In the present study we analysed 18 microsatellite loci and sequenced the 5'‐ end of the mtDNA D‐loop region. Based on our results, we can confirm the assumption that western Tibetan terrier population only represents a tiny part of genetic variation present in the indigenous population.

Tibetan terrier, microsatellites, mtDNA, population structure

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