The design and cross-population application of a genome-wide SNP chip for the great tit Parus major

Molecular Ecology Resources

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 753-770

  Van Bers, Nikkie E M ^a,b   Santure, Anna W ^c   Van Oers, Kees ^b   De Cauwer, Isabelle ^c   Dibbits, Bert W ^a   Mateman, Christa ^b   Crooijmans, Richard P M A ^a   Sheldon, Ben C ^d   Visser, Marcel E ^b   Groenen, Martien A M ^a   Slate, Jon ^c  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE OF ECOLOGY NIOO KNAW   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Marker development; Next generation sequencing; NGS; Population genetics

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; DNA MICROARRAY; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETICS; GENOMICS; GENOTYPE; HIGH THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING; METHODOLOGY; PHENOTYPE; POPULATION GENETICS; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; SONGBIRD;

ANIMALS; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETICS, POPULATION; GENOMICS; GENOTYPE; HIGH-THROUGHPUT NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCING; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; PASSERIFORMES; PHENOTYPE; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

ANIMALIA; AVES; PARUS MAJOR; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 84862157418     PISSN: 1755098X     EISSN: 17550998     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1755-0998.2012.03141.x     Document Type: Article

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