Study on relationship of Rex Rabbit RAPD marker and reproductive performances.

RAPD (Random Amplified Polymorphic DNA) marker was applied to study the relationship between some reproductive performances in Rex Rabbit. In the study 15 random primers were selected to PCR for genomes DNA and to detect the amplification product using agarose gel electrophoresis. The study showed some relationship between four primers (OPA1, OPA7, OPA14 and OPA15) with productive performance of Rex Rabbit. From them nine, six, eight and eight bands were obtained respectively. Two groups with or without and No.2 band from OPA1 showed significant (P<0.05) and highly significant (P<0.01) differences in the birth weight and the birth litter size. As for the two groups with or without No.4 band from OPA7 showed distinguished (P<0.05) or significant distinguished (P<0.01) differences in the litter size, living litter size, birth weight and birth litter size. The two groups with or without No.6 band from OPA14 showed significant differences (P<0.05) in the birth weight and birth litter size. The two groups with or without No.2 band from OPA15 showed distinguished significant differences (P<0.01) in litter size, living litter size and birth litter size.