Advances in livestock genomics: Opening the barn door

Genome Research

Volumn 15, Issue 12, 2005, Pages 1699-1705

  Womack, James E ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURE; ANIMAL HEALTH; BUFFALO; CATTLE; CHROMOSOME; COMPARATIVE GENE MAPPING; CYTOGENETICS; GENOMICS; GENOTYPE; GOAT; HORSE; HUMAN GENOME; LIVESTOCK; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RNA INTERFERENCE; SHEEP; SWINE; X CHROMOSOME;

ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, DOMESTIC; CATTLE; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; GENOME; GENOMICS; GOATS; HORSES; HUMANS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SHEEP; SWINE;

ANIMALIA; BOS TAURUS; CAPRA HIRCUS; EQUUS CABALLUS; OVIS ARIES; SUS SCROFA;

EID: 28844456877     PISSN: 10889051     EISSN: 15495469     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gr.3809105     Document Type: Review

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