A polymorphism and expression levels of SCD and their relationships to production traits in a Japanese farmed emu population.

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The emu is a novel poultry species producing meat, eggs, and fat. In particular, emu oil derived from the fat is considered the most important product of the emu owing to its anti-inflammatory and anti-melanin production. Meanwhile, there are few reports on the genetic improvement of economic traits in emus. In this study, we discovered a non-synonymous substitution (c.267A > C, p.Leu89Phe) in the gene encoding...

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