Title |
A SNP based linkage map of the turkey genome reveals multiple intrachromosomal rearrangements between the Turkey and Chicken genomes
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Published in |
BMC Genomics, November 2010
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DOI | 10.1186/1471-2164-11-647 |
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Authors |
Muhammad L Aslam, John WM Bastiaansen, Richard PMA Crooijmans, Addie Vereijken, Hendrik-Jan Megens, Martien AM Groenen |
Abstract |
The turkey (Meleagris gallopavo) is an important agricultural species that is the second largest contributor to the world's poultry meat production. The genomic resources of turkey provide turkey breeders with tools needed for the genetic improvement of commercial breeds of turkey for economically important traits. A linkage map of turkey is essential not only for the mapping of quantitative trait loci, but also as a framework to enable the assignment of sequence contigs to specific chromosomes. Comparative genomics with chicken provides insight into mechanisms of genome evolution and helps in identifying rare genomic events such as genomic rearrangements and duplications/deletions. |
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