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Low genetic variation in muskoxen (Ovibos moschatus) from western Greenland using microsatellites.
Molecular ecology - 1 Apr 1999
Holm L E, Forchhammer M C, Boomsma J J
Abstract excerpt
Muskoxen are large herbivores living in Arctic environments. Lack of genetic variation in allozymes has made it difficult to study the social and genetic structure of this species. In this study, we have tried to find polymorphic microsatellite loci using both cattle-derived microsatellite primers and primers developed from a genomic plasmid library of muskoxen. Only limited variation was found for both sets of...
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