Origin of Chinese goldfish and sequential loss of genetic diversity accompanies new breeds.

Goldfish, Carassius auratus, have experienced strong anthropogenic selection during their evolutionary history, generating a tremendous extent of morphological variation relative to that in native Carassius. To locate the geographic origin of goldfish, we analyzed nucleotide sequences from part of t...

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Main Authors: Shu-Yan Wang, Jing Luo, Robert W Murphy, Shi-Fang Wu, Chun-Ling Zhu, Yun Gao, Ya-Ping Zhang
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3602300?pdf=render