Genetic diversity in a feral horse population from Sable Island, Canada

Journal of Heredity

Volumn 98, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 594-602

  Plante, Yves ^a   Vega Pla, Jose Luis ^b   Lucas, Zoe ^c   Colling, Dave ^d   De March, Brigitte ^e   Buchanan, Fiona ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

^b Laboratorio de Genética Molecular   (Spain)

^c Sable Island Green Horse Society Canada   (Canada)

^d FOOD AND RURAL AFFAIRS   (Canada)

^e University of Saskatchewan ^*  (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLELE; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BREED; CANADA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DONKEY; FERAL ANIMAL; GENE CLUSTER; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC DISTANCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HETEROZYGOSITY; HORSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, WILD; ATLANTIC ISLANDS; BREEDING; ECOSYSTEM; FEMALE; HORSES; MALE; PEDIGREE; SASKATCHEWAN; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; VARIATION (GENETICS);

EQUIDAE;

EID: 34848869956     PISSN: 00221503     EISSN: 14657333     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jhered/esm064     Document Type: Article

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