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Genetic diversity of European cattle breeds highlights the conservation value of traditional unselected breeds with high effective population size.
Molecular ecology - 1 Aug 2009
Medugorac Ivica, Medugorac Ana, Russ Ingolf, Veit-Kensch Claudia E, Taberlet Pierre, Luntz Bernhard, Mix Henry M, Förster Martin
Abstract excerpt
In times of rapid global and unforeseeable environmental changes, there is an urgent need for a sustainable cattle breeding policy, based on a global view. Most of the indigenous breeds are specialized in a particular habitat or production system but are rapidly disappearing. Thus, they represent an important resource to meet present and future breeding objectives. Based on 105 microsatellites, we obtained...
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