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Prioritization for conservation of northern European cattle breeds based on analysis of microsatellite data.
Conservation biology : the journal of the Society for Conservation Biology - 1 Dec 2006
Tapio I, Värv S, Bennewitz J, Maleviciute J, Fimland E, Grislis Z, Meuwissen T H E, Miceikiene I, Olsaker I, Viinalass H, Vilkki J, Kantanen J
Abstract excerpt
Northern European indigenous cattle breeds are currently endangered and at a risk of becoming extinct. We analyzed variation at 20 microsatellite loci in 23 indigenous, 3 old imported, and 9 modern commercial cattle breeds that are presently distributed in northern Europe. We measured the breeds' allelic richness and heterozygosity, and studied their genetic relationships with a neighbor-joining tree based on the...
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