Genetic diversity and admixture among Canadian, Mountain and Moorland and Nordic pony populations

Animal

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 19-30

  Prystupa, J M ^a,b   Juras, R ^c   Cothran, E G ^c   Buchanan, F C ^a   Plante, Y ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

^b AGRICULTURE AND AGRI FOOD CANADA   (Canada)

^c TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Canada; conservation; genetics; horse; microsatellite markers

Indexed keywords

DNA; MICROSATELLITE DNA;

ALLELE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; BLOOD; BREEDING; CANADA; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; ENDANGERED SPECIES; FEMALE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; GENOTYPING TECHNIQUE; HAIR FOLLICLE; HETEROZYGOTE; HORSE; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MALE; PHYLOGENY; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS;

ALLELES; ANIMALS; BAYES THEOREM; BREEDING; CANADA; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DNA; ENDANGERED SPECIES; FEMALE; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOTYPING TECHNIQUES; HAIR FOLLICLE; HETEROZYGOTE; HORSES; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MALE; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; PHYLOGENY;

EID: 82955193692     PISSN: 17517311     EISSN: 1751732X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1751731111001212     Document Type: Article

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