Article
Genetic diversity measures of local European beef cattle breeds for conservation purposes.
Genetics, selection, evolution : GSE - 1 Jan 2000
Cañón J, Alexandrino P, Bessa I, Carleos C, Carretero Y, Dunner S, Ferran N, Garcia D, Jordana J, Laloë D, Pereira A, Sanchez A, Moazami-Goudarzi K
Abstract excerpt
This study was undertaken to determine the genetic structure, evolutionary relationships, and the genetic diversity among 18 local cattle breeds from Spain, Portugal, and France using 16 microsatellites. Heterozygosities, estimates of Fst, genetic distances, multivariate and diversity analyses, and assignment tests were performed. Heterozygosities ranged from 0.54 in the Pirenaica breed to 0.72 in the Barrosã...
Topics
- Algorithms
- Animals
- Cattle
- Evolution, Molecular
- Female
- France
- Gene Frequency
- Genetic Linkage
- Genetic Variation
- Heterozygote
- Likelihood Functions
