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New insights into the origin and the genetic status of the Balkan donkey from Serbia.
Animal genetics - 1 Oct 2017
Stanisic L J, Aleksic J M, Dimitrijevic V, Simeunovic P, Glavinic U, Stevanovic J, Stanimirovic Z
Abstract excerpt
The Balkan donkey (Equus asinus L.) is commonly regarded as a large-sized, unselected, unstructured and traditionally managed donkey breed. We assessed the current genetic status of the three largest E. asinus populations in the central Balkans (Serbia) by analysing the variability of nuclear microsatellites and the mitochondrial (mtDNA) control region of 77 and 49 individuals respectively. We further analysed...
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