Reconstruction of the origin of modern swine breeds by mitochondrial gene polymorphism

Mitochondrial DNAs of six pig breeds of Euro-American origin, one breed of Asian origin and of wild boar were studied using PCR-RFLP analysis to detect probable maternal lines of Italian origin among modern pig breeds. In the studied animals the Italian Wild boar haplotype characterized by single nucleotide substitution in the 15524 position of pig mitohondrial genome has not been detected.