@conference {40388,
	title = {Magnesium Solubility in the caecum in response to pH changes},
	booktitle = {Proceedings of the New Zealand Society of Animal Production},
	volume = {52},
	year = {1992},
	month = {Jan},
	pages = {103-106},
	publisher = {New Zealand Society of Animal Production},
	organization = {New Zealand Society of Animal Production},
	abstract = {We examined the practicality of using a combination of protein  polymorphism and DNA fingerprinting to match up hinds and calves in nine  separate mating groups of red deer with between 8 and 21 progeny each.  Variation in 10 polymorphic proteins excluded 0.61 to 0.89 of the  possible dam-calf combinations in each sire group, leaving between 2 and  200 pedigree combinations per group to be solved by DNA fingerprinting.  Of the 44 sire-dam-calf combinations tested by DNA fingerprinting, 22  were excluded, while four calves matched the parents at all bands.  However, 16 pedigrees were equivocal, due to the fact that one or both  parents were not in a lane directly adjacent to the calf on the  fingerprinting gel. The low probability of exclusion of protein testing  in some sire groups, combined with the practical limitation of having to  run each possible pedigree combination side by side on DNA  fingerprinting gels, mean that the present techniques do not provide a  routine method for identifying the dam-calf pairings in red deer mating  groups on farms.  },
	issn = {1176-5283},
	author = {Dalley DE and Isherwood P and Sykes AR and Robson AB}
}
