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Comparative population genomic analysis uncovers novel genomic footprints and genes associated with small body size in Chinese pony.
BMC genomics - 20 Jul 2020
Asadollahpour Nanaei Hojjat, Esmailizadeh Ali, Ayatollahi Mehrgardi Ahmad, Han Jianlin, Wu Dong-Dong, Li Yan, Zhang Ya-Ping
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Body size is considered as one of the most fundamental properties of an organism. Due to intensive breeding and artificial selection throughout the domestication history, horses exhibit striking variations for heights at withers and body sizes. Debao pony (DBP), a famous Chinese horse, is known for its small body size and lives in Guangxi mountains of southern China. In this study, we employed...
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