Horse microsatellites and their amenability to comparative equid genetics

Animal Genetics

Volumn 37, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 258-261

  Moodley, Y ^a,b   Baumgarten, I ^a   Harley, E H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

^b CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Horse; Microsatellite; Zebra

Indexed keywords

MICROSATELLITE DNA; PRIMER DNA;

ALLELE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETICS; GENOMICS; HETEROZYGOTE; HORSE; NAMIBIA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SOUTH AFRICA;

ALLELES; ANIMALS; DNA PRIMERS; EQUIDAE; GENOMICS; HETEROZYGOTE; HORSES; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; NAMIBIA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; SOUTH AFRICA;

EQUIDAE; EQUUS CABALLUS; EQUUS ZEBRA;

EID: 33744511108     PISSN: 02689146     EISSN: 13652052     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2052.2006.01422.x     Document Type: Article

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