Genetic diversity among horse populations with a special focus on the Franches-Montagnes breed

Animal Genetics

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 33-39

  Glowatzki Mullis, M L ^a   Muntwyler, J ^a   Pfister, W ^a   Marti, E ^a   Rieder, S ^b   Poncet, P A ^c   Gaillard, C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b Swiss College of Agriculture   (Switzerland)

^c Haras National Suisse   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Assignment; Clustering; Franches Montagnes; Genetic diversity; Horse; Microsatellites

Indexed keywords

MICROSATELLITE DNA;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; HETEROZYGOTE; HORSE; POPULATION GENETICS; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ANIMALS; BAYES THEOREM; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETICS, POPULATION; HETEROZYGOTE; HORSES; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; VARIATION (GENETICS);

EQUIDAE; EQUUS CABALLUS;

EID: 33644889903     PISSN: 02689146     EISSN: 13652052     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2052.2005.01376.x     Document Type: Article

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