European domestic horses originated in two holocene refugia

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2011, Pages

  Warmuth, Vera ^a   Eriksson, Anders ^a   Bower, Mim A ^a   Cañon, Javier ^b   Cothran, Gus ^c   Distl, Ottmar ^d   Glowatzki Mullis, Marie Louise ^e   Hunt, Harriet ^a   Luís, Cristina ^f   do Mar Oom, Maria ^f   Yupanqui, Isabel Tupac ^b   Za̧bek, Tomasz ^g   Manica, Andrea ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

^c TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF VETERINARY MEDICINE HANNOVER   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^f UNIVERSITY OF LISBON   (Portugal)

^g NATIONAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF ANIMAL PRODUCTION   (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BREEDING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA BASE; DOMESTICATION; EUROPE; FOSSIL ANIMAL; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; GEOGRAPHIC ORIGIN; HETEROZYGOSITY; HOLOCENE; HORSE; MICROSATELLITE MARKER; NONHUMAN; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SPECIES REFUGE; SPECIES RICHNESS; WILD ANIMAL; ANIMAL; ECOSYSTEM; EVOLUTION; GENE POOL; GENETICS; GEOGRAPHY; MIDDLE EAST; PHYSIOLOGY; TIME;

EQUIDAE; EQUUS CABALLUS;

MICROSATELLITE DNA;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; BREEDING; ECOSYSTEM; EUROPE; GENE POOL; GENETIC VARIATION; GEOGRAPHY; HORSES; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; MIDDLE EAST; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 79953294553     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0018194     Document Type: Article

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