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Complete mitogenomes from Kurdistani sheep: abundant centromeric nuclear copies representing diverse ancestors.
Mitochondrial DNA. Part A, DNA mapping, sequencing, and analysis - 1 Dec 2018
Mustafa Sarbast Ihsan, Schwarzacher Trude, Heslop-Harrison J S
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The geographical centre of domestication and species diversity for sheep (Ovis aries) lies around the Kurdistan region of Northern Iraq, within the 'Fertile Crescent'. From whole genome sequence reads, we assembled the mitochondrial genomes (mtDNA or mitogenome) of five animals of the two main Kurdistani sheep breeds Hamdani and Karadi and found they fitted into known sheep haplogroups (or matrilineages), with...
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