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Evaluation of genetic diversity and population structure of West-Central Indian cattle breeds.
Animal genetics - 1 Aug 2013
Shah Tejas M, Patel Jaina S, Bhong Chandrakant D, Doiphode Aakash, Umrikar Uday D, Parmar Shivnandan S, Rank Dharamshibhai N, Solanki Jitendra V, Joshi Chaitanya G
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Evaluations of genetic diversity in domestic livestock populations are necessary to implement region-specific conservation measures. We determined the genetic diversity and evolutionary relationships among eight geographically and phenotypically diverse cattle breeds indigenous to west-central India by genotyping these animals for 22 microsatellite loci. A total of 326 alleles were detected, and the expected...
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