A SNP resource for studying North American moose

Background: Moose ( Alces alces) colonized the North American continent from Asia less than 15,000 years ago, and spread across the boreal forest regions of Canada and the northern United States (US). Contemporary populations have low genetic diversity, due either to low number of individuals in the...

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Published in:F1000Research
Main Authors: Kalbfleisch, Theodore S., Murdoch, Brenda M., Smith, Timothy P. L., Murdoch, James D., Heaton, Michael P., McKay, Stephanie D.
Format: Text
Language:English
Published: F1000 Research Limited 2018
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Research Article
Canada
Alces alces
Online Access:http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5801567/
https://doi.org/10.12688/f1000research.13501.1
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Summary:Background: Moose ( Alces alces) colonized the North American continent from Asia less than 15,000 years ago, and spread across the boreal forest regions of Canada and the northern United States (US). Contemporary populations have low genetic diversity, due either to low number of individuals in the original migration (founder effect), and/or subsequent population bottlenecks in North America. Genetic tests based on informative single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) markers are helpful in forensic and wildlife conservation activities, but have been difficult to develop for moose, due to the lack of a reference genome assembly and whole genome sequence (WGS) data.

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