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Genetic diversity of Jiangsu native chicken breeds assessed with the mitochondrial DNA D-loop region.
British poultry science - 1 Feb 2018
Jia X X, Lu J X, Tang X J, Fan Y F, Huang S H, Ge Q L, Gao Y S
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1. The objective of this study was to determine the origin and evolution of chickens from 5 native breeds that are traditionally raised in Jiangsu Province. 2. To address this question, the complete mitochondrial DNA D-loop sequence of 149 chickens from 5 native breeds of Jiangsu Province was analysed. 3. Sequence read lengths of the native breeds were 1231 to 1232 bp, with a single-base deletion from the 859 bp...
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