Morphometric diversity and phenotypic relationship among indigenous buffaloes of Banten, Indonesia

Abstract

Abstract. Murni D, Lestari U, Indriwati SE, Efendi A, Maryani N, Amin M. 2020. Morphometric diversity and phenotypic relationship among indigenous buffaloes of Banten, Indonesia. Biodiversitas 21: 933-940. This study aimed to describe the morphometric diversity and phenotypic relationship among indigenous buffaloes of Banten, Indonesia. In this study, 125 buffaloes from six regions were investigated based on 11 morphometric characters. Morphometric diversity was analyzed using multivariate discriminant analysis. The Euclidean genetic distances were used to estimate the phenotypic relationship among the buffalo populations. The indigenous buffaloes of Banten have high morphometric diversity, with a coefficient from 2.83 to 41.43%. The body length and chest circumference can be used as a morphometric marker to determine potential indigenous buffaloes as their high correlation coefficient value (0.506). The Serang district buffaloes have the highest mean of body length and chest circumference, which shows that this population is potential compared to the populations from other regions. The morphometric of buffalo population from Serang City, Cilegon City, Serang District, and Pandeglang District tend to be homogenous. Meanwhile, Lebak and Tangerang District population tends to heterogeneous. According to Euclidean distance analysis, the proximate phenotypic relationship was between Serang and Pandeglang District's buffalo populations. Our results indicated that morphometric diversity and phenotypic relationships of the populations were related to geographical origins and can be used to determine the potential indigenous of buffaloes.

Canonical Discriminant Analysis of Morphometric Variables of Swamp Buffalo (Bubalus bubalis) in Kalimantan Island

“…The Euclidean distance among three buffalo subpopulations in Moa Island ranged from 1.84 to 3.87 (Salamena and Papilaja 2010) and imminent to the present study (1.84 to 5.45). Meanwhile, the Euclidean distance among six buffalo subpopulations in the Banten regency ranged from 0.20 to 0.69 (de Melo et al 2018;Konda et al 2019;Murni et al 2020) and lower than the present study. The buffaloes at SK and EK were imminent and caused by an AI program with buffalo bulls from the SK region (called Kalang buffalo).…”

“…In buffalo, the CG measurement has a high correlation with body weight (Dhillod et al 2017;Husni et al 2018;Eriani et al 2019). Murni et al (2020) obtained nine discriminant variables (with five functions) from eleven morphometrical measurements in buffaloes from Banten (Indonesia) with rc value of 0.81 (function 1). Nafiu et al (2015) and Genedy et al (2019) obtained three discriminant variables (with two functions) from seven measurements in buffaloes from Bombana Regency (Indonesia) with RC value of 0.85 (function 1).…”

“…Hence, CDA of morphometric traits was used to classify animals into their original population. In addition, previous studies have been worked with CDA to classify buffalo based on milk quality (Mahmood and Naeem 2011) and morphometrical measurements (Johari et al 2009;Salamena and Papilaja 2010;Anggraeni et al 2011;Rezende et al 2017;Murni et al 2020).…”

Discriminant analysis reveals differences in breed structure in river buffaloes of Maharashtra (India)

“…According to Johari et al (2009), the highest weighting score was for body weight followed by body length, shoulder height, pelvic width, waist width, pelvic circumference, chest circumference, chest depth and chest width in male while in females body weight followed by chest circumference, pelvic width and body length in differentiating swamp buffaloes of three locations. NL was reported to be the most discriminating characteristic being having the highest canonical value (0.996) for function 1 in Banten buffaloes (Murni et al 2020).…”

Determination of Morphological Characteristics in Kuantan Cattle using Multivariate Analysis

“…Crossbreeding from far populations will increase diversity compared to crossing individuals from closely populations. Murni et al (2020) reported morphometric diversity and phenotypic relationships of the Buffalo populations in Banten, also related to geographical origins. Baccouche et al (2015), also found three cluster based on HCA analysis of native bovine population in Northen Tunisia, and each cluster consist of animal from different populations.…”