NCAM: a polymorphic microsatellite locus conserved across eutherian mammal species

S S Moore1, P Hale, K Byrne

  • 1CSIRO, Tropical Agriculture, Molecular Animal Genetics Centre, Indooroopilly, Queensland, Australia.

Animal Genetics
|July 31, 1998
PubMed

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