Neighbor-joining phylogenetic tree based on nucleotide sequences of α-LA gene exon III fragments of Egyptian goats (NCBI accession No.MT163744.1 and MT163745.1), with six α-LA reference sequences of goats retrieved from GenBank (NCBI accession No. KF781121.1 and KP940442.1 and DQ673921.1 and DQ629104.1 and M63868 and EU573193.1), Ovis aries (NCBI accession No. KY485140.1). Bubalus bubalis (NCBI accession No. KC415276.1) and Bos taurus (NCBI accession No. JN258330.1) species act as out-group.