The sheep genome illuminates biology of the rumen and lipid metabolism.

Jiang, Yu; Xie, Min; Chen, Wenbin; Talbot, Richard; F Maddox, Jillian; Faraut, Thomas; Wu, Chunhua; M Muzny, Donna; Li, Yuxiang; Zhang, Wenguang; Stanton, Jo-Ann; Brauning, Rudiger; C Barris, Wesley; Hourlier, Thibaut; L Aken, Bronwen; M J Searle, Stephen; L Adelson, David; Bian, Chao; R Cam, Graham; Chen, Yulin; Cheng, Shifeng; DeSilva, Udaya; Dixen, Karen; Dong, Yang; Fan, Guangyi; R Franklin, Ian; Fu, Shaoyin; Guan, Rui; A Highland, Margaret; E Holder, Michael; Huang, Guodong; B Ingham, Aaron; N Jhangiani, Shalini; Kalra, Divya; L Kovar, Christie; L Lee, Sandra; Liu, Weiqing; Liu, Xin; Lu, Changxin; Lv, Tian; Mathew, Tittu; McWilliam, Sean; Menzies, Moira; Pan, Shengkai; Robelin, David; Servin, Bertrand; Townley, David; Wang, Wenliang; Wei, Bin; N White, Stephen

doi:10.1126/science.1252806

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The sheep genome illuminates biology of the rumen and lipid metabolism.

Published in Science (New York, N.Y.) • Jun 6, 2014

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Authors:

Yu Jiang

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Min Xie

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Wenbin Chen

Abstract

Sheep (Ovis aries) are a major source of meat, milk, and fiber in the form of wool and represent a distinct class of animals that have a specialized digestive organ, the rumen, that carries out the initial digestion of plant material. We have developed and analyzed a high-quality reference sheep gen...

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