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SUBMITTER: Dai B
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7022706 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Dai Bai B Liang Hao H Guo Dong-Dong DD Bi Zhao-Wei ZW Yuan Jian-Long JL Jin Yong Y Huan Lei L Guo Xu-Dong XD Cang Ming M Liu Dong-Jun DJ
Animals : an open access journal from MDPI 20191231 1
Increased cashmere yield and improved quality are some goals of cashmere goat breeding. Thymosin beta-4 (Tβ4) plays a key role in the growth and development of hair follicles. For the past ten years, we have evaluated the role of Tβ4 by establishing a flock of 15 cashmere goats that specifically overexpress the <i>Tβ4</i> gene in the hair follicles. These Tβ4 overexpression (Tβ4-OE) cashmere goats had more secondary hair follicles than the WT goats and produced more cashmere. Meanwhile, combined ...[more]