Study of structural diversity of genome Iranian native dog and wolf with the method whole genome sequencing

In this research, samples were collected from three Iranian native dogs and three wolves. Whole-genome sequencing for each individual was performed using next-generation sequencing technology. All short reads were aligned to the reference genome using BWA tool. Single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) and small insertions and deletions (Indels) were detected using the genome analysis toolkit (GATK). Structural variants were predicted using the BreakDancer software. Annotating single-nucleotide polymorphisms and small insertions and deletions was done using SnpEff Software. Nucleotide diversity values in dogs and wolves samples were calculated using VCFtools. In current researche, 12459651 SNPs were detected that 7819789 and 10454994 were for dog and wolf, respectively. Of the total number of Single-nucleotide polymorphisms, 53.57%, 31.989% and 0.811% were located within intergenic, introns and exon regions. The results showed that structural diversity of wolf genome is higher than that in dog.