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Microsatellite based genetic diversity and relationships among ten Creole and commercial cattle breeds raised in Brazil.
BMC genetics - 7 Dec 2007
Egito Andréa A, Paiva Samuel R, Albuquerque Maria do Socorro M, Mariante Arthur S, Almeida Leonardo D, Castro Silvia R, Grattapaglia Dario
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Brazil holds the largest commercial cattle populations worldwide. Local cattle breeds can be classified according to their origin, as exotic or Creole. Exotic breeds imported in the last 100 years, both zebuine and taurine, currently make up the bulk of the intensively managed populations. Locally adapted Creole breeds, originated from cattle introduced by the European conquerors derive from natural...
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