“…The total number of alleles (216) observed in the present study on Nellore Brown sheep were higher than those reported by Jandruvo et al, 2005 in Czech and Slovak Republic sheep (143), Arora and Bhatia. 2006 in Magra sheep (144), Sodhi et al, 2006 in Nali and Chokla sheep (159), Arora et al, 2008 in Jaluani sheep (148), Kumarasamy et al, 2009 in Coimbatore sheep (143), Pramod et al, 2009 The allele size range (75 to 297 bp) measured in the present study were comparable to allele sizes reported by Jandruvo et al (2005) in Czech and Slovak Republic sheep, Sharma et al (2006) in Hassan sheep, Sodhi et al (2006) in Nali and Chokla sheep, Mukesh et al (2006) in Nali, Chokla and Garole sheep, Girish et al (2007) in Nilgiri sheep, Qanbari et al (2007) in Afshari sheep, Prema et al (2008a,b) in Mecheri and Madras Red sheep, Lasagna et al (2009) in Appenninica sheep, Pramod et al (2009) in Vembur sheep, Kumarasamy et al (2009) in Coimbatore sheep, Sharma et al (2010) The mean number of observed alleles (9.0 ± 1.83) estimated in the present study were in conformity with the earlier reports of Ivanikovic et al (2005) in Pag island sheep, Ligda et al (2009) in Greek sheep breeds, Jyotsana et al (2010) in Patanwadi and Marwari breeds, but, higher than the findings of Arora and Bhatia. (2004) in Magra sheep, in Nali and Chokla breeds, Qanbari et al (2007) in Afshari sheep, Arora et al (2008) in Jalauni sheep, Girish et al (2007) in Nilagiri sheep, Nahas et al (2008) in Egyptian breeds, Vani (2012) and Surekha (2015) in Nellore Jodipi sheep and lower than the findings of Crispim et al (2014) in Pantaneiro sheep, Sassidy-Zaidy et al (2014) in Barbarine sheep and Hoda et al (2014) in Albanian sheep.…”