Identification of a second gene associated with variation in vertebral number in domestic pigs

BACKGROUND: The number of vertebrae in pigs varies and is associated with body size. Wild boars have 19 vertebrae, but European commercial breeds for pork production have 20 to 23 vertebrae. We previously identified two quantitative trait loci (QTLs) for number of vertebrae on Sus scrofa chromosomes...

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Autores principales: Mikawa, Satoshi, Sato, Shuji, Nii, Masahiro, Morozumi, Takeya, Yoshioka, Gou, Imaeda, Noriaki, Yamaguchi, Tsuneko, Hayashi, Takeshi, Awata, Takashi
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2011
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3024977/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21232157
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2156-12-5

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3024977/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21232157
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2156-12-5

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