Ovine alpha-amylase genes: Isolation, linkage mapping and association analysis with milk traits

Animal Genetics

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 329-332

  Calvo, J H ^a,c   Marcos, S ^a   Beattie, A E ^b   Gonzalez, C ^a   Jurado, J J ^a   Serrano, M ^a  

^a INIA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

^c Unidad de Tecnologia en Produccion Animal   (Spain)

Author keywords

Amylase gene; Association; Linkage mapping; Sheep

Indexed keywords

AMYLASE; PRIMER DNA;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY; CHROMOSOME MAP; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETICS; MILK; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MUTATION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; SHEEP; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

ALPHA-AMYLASE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; DNA PRIMERS; MILK; MODELS, GENETIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SHEEP;

ANIMALIA; BOS TAURUS; MAMMALIA; OVIS; OVIS ARIES;

EID: 3843098122     PISSN: 02689146     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2052.2004.01156.x     Document Type: Article

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