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SUBMITTER: Xu SS
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5902979 | biostudies-literature | 2018
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Xu Song-Song SS Gao Lei L Xie Xing-Long XL Ren Yan-Ling YL Shen Zhi-Qiang ZQ Wang Feng F Shen Min M Eyϸórsdóttir Emma E Hallsson Jón H JH Kiseleva Tatyana T Kantanen Juha J Li Meng-Hua MH
Frontiers in genetics 20180410
Reproduction is an important trait in sheep breeding as well as in other livestock. However, despite its importance the genetic mechanisms of litter size in domestic sheep (<i>Ovis aries</i>) are still poorly understood. To explore genetic mechanisms underlying the variation in litter size, we conducted multiple independent genome-wide association studies in five sheep breeds of high prolificacy (Wadi, Hu, Icelandic, Finnsheep, and Romanov) and one low prolificacy (Texel) using the Ovine Infiniu ...[more]