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Estimation of relatedness among non-pedigreed Yakutian cryo-bank bulls using molecular data: implications for conservation and breed management.
Genetics, selection, evolution : GSE - 13 Jul 2010
Tapio Ilma, Tapio Miika, Li Meng-Hua, Popov Ruslan, Ivanova Zoya, Kantanen Juha
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Yakutian cattle, the last remaining native cattle breed in Siberia, are well adapted to the extreme sub-arctic conditions. Nowadays only ca. 1200 purebred animals are left in Yakutia. The semen of six Yakutian bulls was stored in a cryo-bank without any pedigree documentation because of the traditional free herding style of the population. METHODS: To clarify the genetic relatedness between these...
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