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Resequencing of a Pekin duck breeding population provides insights into the genomic response to short-term artificial selection.
GigaScience - 20 Mar 2023
Yu Simeng, Liu Zihua, Li Ming, Zhou Dongke, Hua Ping, Cheng Hong, Fan Wenlei, Xu Yaxi, Liu Dapeng, Liang Suyun, Zhang Yunsheng, Xie Ming, Tang Jing, Jiang Yu, Hou Shuisheng, Zhou Zhengkui
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BACKGROUND: Short-term, intense artificial selection drives fast phenotypic changes in domestic animals and leaves imprints on their genomes. However, the genetic basis of this selection response is poorly understood. To better address this, we employed the Pekin duck Z2 pure line, in which the breast muscle weight was increased nearly 3-fold after 10 generations of breeding. We denovo assembled a high-quality...
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