Nuclear microsatellite data for 230 sheep, ewes and rams, from three breeds, Bardoka, Karakachan sheep and Ile-de-France from Serbia

The dataset was generated and used in the publication entitled: "Towards genetically informed conservation of the Bardoka and Karakachan sheep breeds autochthonous to Serbia". We use 14 nuclear microsatellites recommended by the International Society for Animal Genetics (ISAG) and Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO UN) for sheep genotyping to analyze 230 animals, ewes and rams, belonging to two autochthonous breeds, Bardoka and Karakachan sheep from Serbia, and one commercial breed, Ile-de-France, used as an outgroup. We We take advantage of genetic data to assess inbreeding values of individuals (I) and pairwise relatedness (r) traditionally inferred from the pedigree data which, however, are incomplete in studied autochthonous breeds, and use these data to assemble a data set of unrelated individuals for subsequent genetic analyses to assess levels of genetic diversity and genetic structure in autochthonous breeds. We use genetic data to set the grounds for the implementation of the genetically informed conservation of Bardoka and Karakachan sheep in Serbia..