A partial African ancestry for the Creole cattle populations of the Caribbean

Journal of Heredity

Volumn 93, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 429-432

  Magee, D A ^a   Meghen, C ^a   Harrison, S ^a   Troy, C S ^a   Cymbron, T ^a   Gaillard, C ^b   Morrow, A ^c   Maillard, J C ^d   Bradley, D G ^a  

^a TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^d CIRAD   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

AFRICA; ALLELE; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BOS INDICUS; BOS TAURUS; BREED; CARIBBEAN ISLANDS; CATTLE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; DOMESTICATION; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE CLUSTER; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; HAPLOTYPE; INDIA; INTROGRESSION; MICROSATELLITE MARKER; NONHUMAN; NUCLEIC ACID BASE SUBSTITUTION; PHYLOGENY; POPULATION GENETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

AFRICA; ANIMALS; CARIBBEAN REGION; CATTLE; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; EUROPE; GENE AMPLIFICATION; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; PHYLOGENY; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; VARIATION (GENETICS);

ANIMALIA; BOS INDICUS; BOS TAURUS;

EID: 0036881421     PISSN: 00221503     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jhered/93.6.429     Document Type: Article

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