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Genetic diversity and substructuring of the Hungarian merino sheep breed using microsatellite markers.
Animal biotechnology - 1 Nov 2023
Loukovitis Dimitrios, Szabó Mária, Chatziplis Dimitrios, Monori István, Kusza Szilvia
Abstract excerpt
The Hungarian Merino sheep breed (Ovis aries) is the most significant animal resource of the Hungarian sheep sector which, unfortunately, has gone through a huge reduction in number during the last decades and became endangered in 2014. A modern molecular genetic survey is now becoming more than necessary in order to characterize the within-breed genetic diversity and structure. For that reason, six Hungarian...
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