Table 3.

Genetic diversity indices across sheep breeds of Northern temperate region of India.

Breed	No. of alleles		Heterozygosity		Reference
Observed	Effective	Observed	Expected
Rampur Bushair	6.000	3.471	0.515	0.675	Pandey et al. (2008)
Gurej	6.280	3.340	0.490	0.660	Gupta et al. (2007)
Karnah	6.830	3.960	0.530	0.680	Gupta and Gannai (2007)
Changthangi	8.760	4.539	0.691	0.716	Sharma et al. (2010)
Tibetan	5.920	3.700	0.473	0.672	Present study