The genetic structure of domestic rabbits

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 28, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1801-1816

  Carneiro, Miguel ^a,b,c   Afonso, Sandra ^a   Geraldes, Armando ^d   Garreau, Hervé ^e   Bolet, Gerard ^e   Boucher, Samuel ^f   Tircazes, Aurélie ^e   Queney, Guillaume ^g   Nachman, Michael W ^c   Ferrand, Nuno ^a,b  

^a CENTRO DE INVESTIGAÇÃO EM BIODIVERSIDADE E RECURSOS GENÉTICOS   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^e CEMAGREF   (France)

^f Labovet Conseil   (France)

^g Antagene Animal Genetics Laboratory   (France)

Author keywords

artificial selection; bottleneck; domestication; linkage disequilibrium; nucleotide diversity; rabbit

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL SELECTION; BOTTLENECK POPULATION; BREEDING; DOMESTIC ANIMAL; DOMESTIC RABBIT; DOMESTICATION; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; GENE LOCUS; GENE MAPPING; GENE POOL; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GROWTH RATE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPIC VARIATION; PROMOTER REGION; RABBIT; SIMULATION; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, DOMESTIC; BREEDING; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; FEMALE; GENETIC DRIFT; GENETICS, POPULATION; HAPLOTYPES; LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; PHYLOGENY; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; RABBITS; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC;

ANIMALIA; ORYCTOLAGUS CUNICULUS;

EID: 79957504787     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: 15371719     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msr003     Document Type: Article

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