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Somatic cell mapping of β-defensin genes to cattle syntenic group U25 and fluorescence in situ localization to Chromosome 27

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Gallagher, D.S., Ryan, A.M., Diamond, G. et al. Somatic cell mapping of β-defensin genes to cattle syntenic group U25 and fluorescence in situ localization to Chromosome 27. Mammalian Genome 6, 554–556 (1995). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00356177

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