| breed demarcation and potential for breed allocation of horses assessed by microsatellite markers. | population demarcation of eight horse breeds was investigated using genotype information of 306 horses from 26 microsatellite loci. the breeds include the indigenous norwegian breeds fjord horse, nordland/lyngen horse, døle horse and coldblooded trotter together with icelandic horse, shetland pony, standardbred and thoroughbred. both phylogenetic analysis and a maximum likelihood method were applied to examine the potential for breed allocation of individual animals. the phylogenetic analysis ut ... | 2001 | 11421939 |