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Assessing genetic diversity and population structure for commercial chicken lines based on forty microsatellite analyses.
Poultry science - 1 Nov 2007
Tadano R, Nishibori M, Nagasaka N, Tsudzuki M
Abstract excerpt
The aims of the current study were to assess genetic diversity, conduct genetic characterization, and evaluate usefulness of an individual assignment test for 12 commercial chicken lines using 40 microsatellite markers. A total of 268 distinct alleles were observed across the 12 lines, and 42 of the 268 alleles (15.7%) were unique to only 1 line. Mean observed heterozygosity within a line ranged from 0.295 to...
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