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Relationship of runs of homozygosity with adaptive and production traits in a paternal broiler line.
Animal : an international journal of animal bioscience - 1 Jun 2018
Marchesi J A P, Buzanskas M E, Cantão M E, Ibelli A M G, Peixoto J O, Joaquim L B, Moreira G C M, Godoy T F, Sbardella A P, Figueiredo E A P, Coutinho L L, Munari D P, Ledur M C
Abstract excerpt
Genomic regions under high selective pressure present specific runs of homozygosity (ROH), which provide valuable information on the genetic mechanisms underlying the adaptation to environment imposed challenges. In broiler chickens, the adaptation to conventional production systems in tropical environments lead the animals with favorable genotypes to be naturally selected, increasing the frequency of these...
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