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Genetic diversity of Ovis aries populations near domestication centers and in the New World.
Genetica - 1 Sept 2011
Blackburn H D, Toishibekov Y, Toishibekov M, Welsh C S, Spiller S F, Brown M, Paiva S R
Abstract excerpt
Domestic sheep in Kazakhstan may provide an interesting source of genetic variability due to their proximity to the center of domestication and the Silk Route. Additionally, those breeds have never been compared to New World sheep populations. This report compares genetic diversity among five Kazakhstan (KZ) and 13 United States (US) sheep breeds (N = 442) using 25 microsatellite markers from the FAO panel. The...
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