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Capturing goats: documenting two hundred years of mitochondrial DNA diversity among goat populations from Britain and Ireland.
Biology letters - 1 Mar 2017
Cassidy Lara M, Teasdale Matthew D, Carolan Seán, Enright Ruth, Werner Raymond, Bradley Daniel G, Finlay Emma K, Mattiangeli Valeria
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The domestic goat (Capra hircus) plays a key role in global agriculture, being especially prized in regions of marginal pasture. However, the advent of industrialized breeding has seen a dramatic reduction in genetic diversity within commercial populations, while high extinction rates among feral herds have further depleted the reservoir of genetic variation available. Here, we present the first survey of whole...
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