“…A total of 15 microsatellite markers were chosen for this study from the cattle genome based on their high polymorphism, polymorphic information content (PIC) with good heterozygosity and information available from previous studies in buffalo (Moore et al, 1995;Barker et al, 1997;Moioli et al, 2001;Tantia et al, 2006;Elbeltagy et al, 2008;Zhang et al, 2008;Bhuyan et al, 2010;Jakhesara et al, 2010;Marques et al, 2011;Vieira et al, 2011;Acosta et al, 2014;Ünal et al, 2014). These microsatellites were BMC1013, CSSM019, CSSM022, CSSM029, CSSM036, CSSM038, CSSM041, CSSM043, CSSM045, CSSM046, CSSM047, ETH3 (D19S2), BM1818, ILSTS005, and ILSTS33.…”