Phylogenetic relationships of Argentinean Creole horses and other South American and Spanish breeds inferred from mitochondrial DNA sequence.

MIROL, P; PERAL-GARCIA, P; VEGA PLA, JL; DULOUT, F.N.

ANIMAL GENETICS

Blackwell

Año: 2002 vol. 32 p. 256 - 263

0268-9146

outh American horses constitute a direct remnant of the Iberian horses brought to the New Word by de The Spanish conquerors. The source of the original was Spain, and it generally assumed that the animals belonged to the Andalusian Spanish Celtic, barb or Arabian breeds. In order to establish the relationship between Argentinean and Spanish horses , a portion of the mitochondrial D loop of 104 animals belonging to nine South American and Spanish breeders was analyzed using SSCP and DNA sequences