Genetic association analysis of copy number variations for meat quality in beef cattle

J Wu, T Wu, X Xie, Q Niu, Z Zhao, B Zhu, Y Chen… - Foods, 2023 - mdpi.com
Meat quality is an economically important trait for global food production. Copy number
variations (CNVs) have been previously implicated in elucidating the genetic basis of …

Genetic parameters for carcass and meat quality traits in Jinhua, Duroc, and their crossbred pigs

K Terada, T Ohtani, S Ogawa… - Journal of Animal …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Jinhua pigs have excellent meat quality and intramuscular fat content (IMF). Crossbreeding
of Jinhua with Duroc pigs with high productivity was conducted to develop a new composite …

[PDF][PDF] Structural variant landscapes reveal convergent signatures of evolution in sheep and goats

J Yang, DF Wang, JH Huang, QH Zhu, LY Luo, R Lu… - Genome Biology, 2024 - Springer
Background Sheep and goats have undergone domestication and improvement to produce
similar phenotypes, which have been greatly impacted by structural variants (SVs). Here, we …

Genetic diversity, population structure, and selective signature of sheep in the northeastern Tarim Basin

J Wang, J Suo, R Yang, C Zhang, X Li, Z Han… - Frontiers in …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Local sheep in the northeastern Tarim Basin can adapt to dry and low-rainfall regional
environments. In this study, three local sheep breeds in the northeastern Tarim Basin, LOP …