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Detection of occurrence of a recent genetic bottleneck event in Indian hill cattle breed Bargur using microsatellite markers.
Tropical animal health and production - 1 Dec 2012
Ganapathi Palanisamy, Rajendran Ramanujam, Kathiravan Periasamy
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The effective number of breedable individuals is a crucial determinant for maintaining genetic variability within a population. The population of Bargur, the hill cattle of South India, has gone down drastically by more than 93 % in the past three decades, and only a few thousand animals are available at present. The present study was undertaken to evaluate Bargur cattle for mutation drift equilibrium and to...
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