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Origin and domestication history of Peking ducks deltermined through microsatellite and mitochondrial marker analysis.
Science in China. Series C, Life sciences - 1 Nov 2009
Qu LuJiang, Liu Wei, Yang FangXi, Hou ZhuoCheng, Zheng JiangXia, Xu GuiYun, Yang Ning
Abstract excerpt
In order to elucidate the domestication history of Peking ducks, 190 blood samples from six Chinese indigenous duck breeds were collected with 186 individuals genotyped by 15 microsatellite markers. Both the F(ST) and Nei's standard genetic distances (D(s)) from the microsatellite data indicated...
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