African Indigenous Cattle: Unique Genetic Resources in a Rapidly Changing World |
Mwai, Okeyo
(International Livestock Research Institute)
Hanotte, Olivier (School of Life Sciences, University of Nottingham) Kwon, Young-Jun (Interdisciplinary Program in Bioinformatics, Seoul National University) Cho, Seoae (CHO&KIM genomics) |
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