M.M. Musthafa1, T. Hussain2, M.E. Babar2, R.S. Aljumaah3, M.A. Alshaikh3, I. Muritala4, V. Landi4, A. Martinez4, M. Amills4, O. Dadi5, J.V. Delgado4, A.B.J. Aina5, A.A. Onasoga5, O.A. Adebambo5, C. Visser4,  E. Van Marle-Köster4, A.O. Adebambo5, F.M.M.T. Marikar6   1Institute of

S. Georgieva, E. Todorovska, D. Hristova, I. Dimitrova, N. Stancheva, Ts. Yablanski Abstract. In the present study 37 blood samples from Copper-Red Shumen and 38 blood samples from Karakachan sheep breeds were used to extract DNA followed by polymerase chain reaction (PCR). Based on t