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Genetic structure of Eurasian and North American mallard ducks based on mtDNA data.
Animal genetics - 1 Jun 2012
Hou Z-C, Yang F-X, Qu L-J, Zheng J-X, Brun J-M, Basso B, Pitel F, Yang N, Xu G-Y
Abstract excerpt
To elucidate the origin and genetic structure of the domesticated duck in Eurasia and North America, we sequenced 114 duck D-loop sequences and retrieved 489 D-loop sequences from GenBank. In total, 603 ducks including 50 duck breeds/populations from eight countries (China, France, Russia, India, Kazakhstan, Mongolia, Thailand and USA) were used in this study. One hundred and thirty-four haplotypes and 81...
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