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A genome map of divergent artificial selection between Bos taurus dairy cattle and Bos taurus beef cattle.
Animal genetics - 1 Apr 2009
Hayes B J, Chamberlain A J, Maceachern S, Savin K, McPartlan H, MacLeod I, Sethuraman L, Goddard M E
Abstract excerpt
A number of cattle breeds have become highly specialized for milk or beef production, following strong artificial selection for these traits. In this paper, we compare allele frequencies from 9323 single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) markers genotyped in dairy and beef cattle breeds averaged in sliding windows across the genome, with the aim of identifying divergently selected regions of the genome between the...
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