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Relationship between wild greylag and European domestic geese based on mitochondrial DNA.
Animal genetics - 1 Oct 2015
Heikkinen M E, Ruokonen M, Alexander M, Aspi J, Pyhäjärvi T, Searle J B
Abstract excerpt
The origins of the European domestic goose are uncertain. The available information comes from archaeological findings and historical literature, but genetic evidence has hitherto been scarce. The domestic goose in Europe is derived from the greylag goose (Anser anser), but it is not known where the initial domestication took place and which of the two subspecies of greylag goose was ancestral. We aimed to...
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