Genome-Wide SNP Discovery and Analysis of Genetic Diversity in Farmed Sika Deer (Cervus nippon) in Northeast China Using Double-Digest Restriction Site-Associated DNA Sequencing.

Abstract excerpt

Sika deer are an economically valuable species owing to their use in traditional Chinese medicine, particularly their velvet antlers. Sika deer in northeast China are mostly farmed in enclosure. Therefore, genetic management of farmed sika deer would benefit from detailed knowledge of their genetic diversity. In this study, we generated over 1.45 billion high-quality paired-end reads (288 Gbp) across 42 unrelated...

Topics

• Animals
• China
• Deer
• Gene Frequency
• Genetic Variation
• Genetics, Population
• Genome
• Genome-Wide Association Study
• High-Throughput Nucleotide Sequencing
• Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide
• Sequence Analysis, DNA