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Genomic footprints of dryland stress adaptation in Egyptian fat-tail sheep and their divergence from East African and western Asia cohorts.
Scientific reports - 15 Dec 2017
Mwacharo Joram M, Kim Eui-Soo, Elbeltagy Ahmed R, Aboul-Naga Adel M, Rischkowsky Barbara A, Rothschild Max F
Abstract excerpt
African indigenous sheep are classified as fat-tail, thin-tail and fat-rump hair sheep. The fat-tail are well adapted to dryland environments, but little is known on their genome profiles. We analyzed patterns of genomic variation by genotyping, with the Ovine SNP50K microarray, 394 individuals from five populations of fat-tail sheep from a desert environment in Egypt. Comparative inferences with other East...
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