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Divergent Evolutional Mode and Purifying Selection of the KIT Gene in European and Asian Domestic Pig Breeds.
BioMed research international - 1 Jan 2018
Niu Lili, Shi KeYu, Xie Jing-Jing, Liu Sen, Zhong Tao
Abstract excerpt
The recent geographic expansion of wild boars and the even more recent development of numerous domestic pigs have spurred exploration on pig domestic origins. The porcine KIT gene has been showed to affect pleiotropic effects, blood parameters, and coat colour phenotypes, especially the white colour phenotype formation in European commercial breeds. Here, we described the use of SNPs to identify different...
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