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Vietnamese chickens: a gate towards Asian genetic diversity.
BMC genetics - 18 Jun 2010
Berthouly-Salazar C, Rognon X, Van T Nhu, Gély M, Chi C Vu, Tixier-Boichard M, Bed'Hom B, Bruneau N, Verrier E, Maillard J C, Michaux J R
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BACKGROUND: Chickens represent an important animal genetic resource and the conservation of local breeds is an issue for the preservation of this resource. The genetic diversity of a breed is mainly evaluated through its nuclear diversity. However, nuclear genetic diversity does not provide the same information as mitochondrial genetic diversity. For the species Gallus gallus, at least 8 maternal lineages have...
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