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Origin of Chinese goldfish and sequential loss of genetic diversity accompanies new breeds.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2013
Wang Shu-Yan, Luo Jing, Murphy Robert W, Wu Shi-Fang, Zhu Chun-Ling, Gao Yun, Zhang Ya-Ping
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BACKGROUND: Goldfish, Carassius auratus, have experienced strong anthropogenic selection during their evolutionary history, generating a tremendous extent of morphological variation relative to that in native Carassius. To locate the geographic origin of goldfish, we analyzed nucleotide sequences from part of the control region (CR) and the entire cytochrome b (Cytb) mitochondrial DNA genes for 234 goldfish and a...
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