Study on the introgression of beef breeds in Canchim cattle using single nucleotide polymorphism markers.

The aim of this study was to evaluate the level of introgression of breeds in the Canchim (CA: 62.5% Charolais-37.5% Zebu) and MA genetic group (MA: 65.6% Charolais-34.4% Zebu) cattle using genomic information on Charolais (CH), Nelore (NE), and Indubrasil (IB) breeds. The number of animals used was...

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Main Authors: Marcos Eli Buzanskas, Ricardo Vieira Ventura, Tatiane Cristina Seleguim Chud, Priscila Arrigucci Bernardes, Daniel Jordan de Abreu Santos, Luciana Correia de Almeida Regitano, Maurício Mello de Alencar, Maurício de Alvarenga Mudadu, Ricardo Zanella, Marcos Vinícius Gualberto Barbosa da Silva, Changxi Li, Flavio Schramm Schenkel, Danísio Prado Munari
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2017-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5300224?pdf=render