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ABSTRACT:
ORGANISM(S): Oncorhynchus mykiss
SUBMITTER: Wendy Tymchuk
PROVIDER: E-GEOD-16903 | biostudies-arrayexpress |
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-arrayexpress
Tymchuk Wendy W Sakhrani Dionne D Devlin Robert R
General and comparative endocrinology 20090527 2-3
Domestication has produced faster-growing strains of animals for use in agriculture, but selection has been applied with little knowledge of the underlying genetic changes that arose throughout the process. Mammals and birds have been domesticated for thousands of years whereas fish have been domesticated only recently; therefore, wild progenitor strains remain for comparison. Rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) have undergone intensive selection and domesticated strains grow more rapidly than e ...[more]