Preliminary Comparison of Skin Transcriptome From Sheep With Different Wool Fibre Diameters

    January 2021 in “ Animal Production Science ”
    Yunxia Qi, Shaoyin Fu, Xiaolong He … Yongbin Liu
    Studysummary In this study, 467 genes with differential expression between fine-wool and coarse-wool sheep, particularly those related to lipid metabolism, were identified as potentially influencing wool fibre diameter.
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