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SUBMITTER: E GX
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6702510 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
E Guang-Xin GX Duan Xing-Hai XH Zhang Jia-Hua JH Huang Yong-Fu YF Zhao Yong-Ju YJ Na Ri-Su RS Zhao Zhong-Quan ZQ Ma Yue-Hui YH Chu Ming-Xing MX Basang Wang-Dui WD Zhu Yan-Bin YB An Tian-Wu TW Luo Xiao-Lin XL Han Yan-Guo YG Zeng Yan Y
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Litter size is considered to be the most important index for estimating domestic animal productivity. The number of indigenous goats in China with higher litter sizes than those of commercial breeds in other countries may be helpful for accelerating genetic improvements in goat breeding. We performed a genome-wide selective sweep analysis of 31 Dazu black goats with extreme standard deviation in litter size within the third fetus to identify significant genomic regions and candidate genes throug ...[more]