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Global diversity and genetic contributions of chicken populations from African, Asian and European regions.
Animal genetics - 1 Dec 2014
Lyimo C M, Weigend A, Msoffe P L, Eding H, Simianer H, Weigend S
Abstract excerpt
Genetic diversity and population structure of 113 chicken populations from Africa, Asia and Europe were studied using 29 microsatellite markers. Among these, three populations of wild chickens and nine commercial purebreds were used as reference populations for comparison. Compared to commercial lines and chickens sampled from the European region, high mean numbers of alleles and a high degree of heterozygosity...
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