Applying QTL analysis to conservation genetics

Conservation Genetics

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 399-408

  Besnier, François ^a   Le Rouzic, Arnaud ^b,c   Álvarez Castro, José M ^d  

^a SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^c France and University of Paris Sud   (France)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Chicken; Genetic modeling; QTL analysis; Segregation of alleles; Wild domestic hybrids

Indexed keywords

ALLELE; CONSERVATION GENETICS; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETICS; HYBRID; POULTRY; WILD POPULATION;

EID: 77952093179     PISSN: 15660621     EISSN: 15729737     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10592-009-0036-5     Document Type: Article

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