A framework radiation hybrid map of buffalo chromosome 1 ordering scaffolds from buffalo genome sequence assembly

N B Stafuzza1, B C M Naressi1, E Yang2

  • 1Departamento de Biologia, Instituto de Biociências, Letras e Ciências Exatas, Universidade Estadual Paulista Júlio de Mesquita Filho, São José do Rio Preto, SP, Brasil.

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