Recommendations for the use of microsatellite markers for parental reconstruction in rural sheep and goat populations

Proper knowledge about individual origin and pedigree is a major point for animal breeding and genetic livestock improvement. Mainly for goat, but also for sheep, breeding in Sicily information on these points is limited, and sometimes even misleading. Sheep and goat milk production is, in many regi...

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Main Authors: Egbert Frank Knol, Maria Siwek
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Taylor & Francis Group 2010-09-01
Series:Italian Journal of Animal Science
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Online Access:http://www.aspajournal.it/index.php/ijas/article/view/625