Development of an assay for rapid identification of meat from yak and cattle using polymerase chain reaction technique |
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Authors: | RH Yin WL Bai JM Wang CD Wu QL Dou RL Yin JB He GB Luo |
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Affiliation: | 1. College of Animal Science and Veterinary Medicine, Shenyang Agricultural University, Shenyang 110161, China;2. College of Agricultural and Animal Husbandry, Qinghai University, Xining 810016, China;3. College of Animal Science and Veterinary Medicine, Jilin University, Changchun 130062, China |
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Abstract: | Yak meat is of good quality with fine texture, high protein and low fat content, and rich in amino acids compared with that of cattle, and it lacks anabolic steroids or other drugs. In general terms, however, the meat yield of yak is relatively low compared with that of the cattle. In order to prevent possible adulteration of yak meat with cattle meat, based on the sequence of mitochondrial 12S rRNA gene, a multiplex PCR-based approach was proposed for rapid identification of the meat from yak and cattle using three primers designed in this work. Through the combinatorial usage of three primers with a single reaction set, two fragments of 290 and 159 bp were amplified from the cattle meat DNA, whereas only a fragment of 290 bp was obtained from the yak meat DNA. Using the assay described, satisfactory amplification was accomplished in the analysis of raw and heat-treated binary meat mixtures of yak/cattle with a detection limit of 0.1% for cattle meat. The technique is fast and straightforward. It might be a useful tool in the quality control of yak meat and meat products. |
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Keywords: | Yak meat Cattle meat Identification 12S rRNA gene Polymerase chain reaction |
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