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Nine fine-wool sheep breeds from Russia, Kazakhstan, and Azerbaijan are analyzed with respect to 20 microsatellite genes. A high level of heterozygosity for each locus is shown. A low level of interbreed differentiation (θ = 1.9%) is established. A complex origin of the investigated Merino sheep breeds is shown genetically.
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Original Russian Text © M.Yu. Ozerov, N.S. Marzanov, M. Tapio, F.R. Feizullaev, A.A. Burabaev, Kh.A. Amerkhanov, S.N. Petrov, L.K. Marzanova, S.A. Gostishchev, J. Kantanen, 2008, published in Doklady Rossiiskoi Akademii Sel’skokhozyaistvennykh Nauk, 2008, No. 5, pp. 50–54.
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Ozerov, M.Y., Marzanov, N.S., Tapio, M. et al. Microsatellite characterization of closely related fine-wool sheep breeds. Russ. Agricult. Sci. 34, 343–347 (2008). https://doi.org/10.3103/S1068367408050182
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