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Artificial selection of the melanocortin receptor 1 gene in Chinese domestic pigs during domestication.
Heredity - 1 Sept 2010
Li J, Yang H, Li J-r, Li H-p, Ning T, Pan X-R, Shi P, Zhang Y-P
Abstract excerpt
Black coat colour is common in Chinese indigenous domestic pigs, but not among their wild ancestors, and it is thus presumed to be a 'domestication trait.' To determine whether artificial interference contributes to morphological diversification, we examined nucleotide variation from 157 Chinese...
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