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SUBMITTER: Ye Q
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5702507 | biostudies-literature | 2017
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Ye Qiao Q Xu Jiguo J Gao Xinfeng X Ouyang Hongjia H Luo Wei W Nie Qinghua Q
PeerJ 20171123
Insulin-like growth factor 2 (IGF2) and dopamine receptor 2 (DRD2) play important roles in ovarian follicular development. In this study, we analyzed tissue-specific expression of the Muscovy duck <i>IGF2</i> and <i>DRD2</i> genes and cloned those genes transcripts. Polymorphisms in these genes were tightly linked with egg production traits and both genes were highly expressed in the ovary. Moreover, we identified five single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) for <i>IGF1</i> and 28 for <i>DRD2.</i ...[more]