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Unveiling genomic regions that underlie differences between Afec-Assaf sheep and its parental Awassi breed

BACKGROUND: Sheep production in Israel has improved by crossing the fat-tailed local Awassi breed with the East Friesian and later, with the Booroola Merino breed, which led to the formation of the highly prolific Afec-Assaf strain. This strain differs from its parental Awassi breed in morphological...

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Autores principales: Seroussi, Eyal, Rosov, Alexander, Shirak, Andrey, Lam, Alon, Gootwine, Elisha
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5301402/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28187715
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12711-017-0296-3