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Assessing priorities for conservation in Tuscan cattle breeds using microsatellites.
Animal : an international journal of animal bioscience - 1 Feb 2012
Bozzi R, Alvarez I, Crovetti A, Fernández I, De Petris D, Goyache F
Abstract excerpt
Preservation of rare genetic stocks requires assessment of within-population genetic diversity and between-population differentiation to make inferences on their degree of uniqueness. A total of 194 Tuscan cattle (44 Calvana, 35 Chianina, 25 Garfagnina, 31 Maremmana, 31 Mucca Pisana and 28 Pontremolese) individuals were genotyped for 34 microsatellite markers. Moreover, 56 samples belonging to Argentinean Creole...
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