Genetic diversity of indigenous chicken ecotypes in Jordan

African Journal of Biotechnology

Volumn 9, Issue 41, 2010, Pages 7014-7019

  Al Atiyat, Raed ^a  

^a MUTAH UNIVERSITY   (Jordan)

Author keywords

Allele numbers; Conservation; Genetic distance; Polymorphism; RAPD markers

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CHICKEN; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA POLYMORPHISM; ECOTYPE; GENE LOCUS; GENE NUMBER; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENETIC DISTANCE; GENETIC SIMILARITY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HETEROZYGOSITY; JORDAN; NATIVE SPECIES; NONHUMAN; RANDOM AMPLIFIED POLYMORPHIC DNA;

EID: 78049463989     PISSN: 16845315     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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