“…The full length of the IGFBP3 is 8.9 kb and it contains five encoding exons (Kim et al, 2005). Nucleotide sequences of the IGFBP3 have been determined in cattle (Haegeman et al, 1999;Maciulla et al, 1997;Shukla, 2001;Sun et al, 2002), buffaloes (Kumar et al, 2004;Padma et al, 2004), sheep (Kumar et al, 2002) and goats (Lan et al, 2007a(Lan et al, , 2007b, and association of the IGFBP3 genotypes with production traits has been reported for cattle (Choudhary et al, 2007;Sun et al, 2002). Due to the remoteness of their habitats and to socio-political and ecological factors, the gayal is one of the least studied ungulates (Mohan et al, 2007) and no such information is available for this interesting species.…”