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    Identification of candidate genomic regions for chicken egg number traits based on genome-wide association study

    Since the domestication of chicken, various breeds have been developed for food production, entertainment, and so on. Compared to indigenous chicken breeds which generally do not show elite production performa...

    **urong Zhao, Changsheng Nie, **xin Zhang, **nghua Li, Tao Zhu, Zi Guan in BMC Genomics (2021)

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    Evolution of cis- and trans-regulatory divergence in the chicken genome between two contrasting breeds analyzed using three tissue types at one-day-old

    Gene expression variation is a key underlying factor influencing phenotypic variation, and can occur via cis- or trans-regulation. To understand the role of cis- and trans-regulatory variation on population di...

    Qiong Wang, Yaxiong Jia, Yuan Wang, Zhihua Jiang, **ang Zhou, Zebin Zhang in BMC Genomics (2019)

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    RNA-Seq transcriptome analysis of breast muscle in Pekin ducks supplemented with the dietary probiotic Clostridium butyricum

    Increased attention is being paid to breast muscle yield and meat quality in the duck breeding industry. Our previous report has demonstrated that dietary Clostridium butyricum (C. butyricum) can improve meat qua...

    Yanhan Liu, Yaxiong Jia, Cun Liu, Limin Ding, Zhaofei **a in BMC Genomics (2018)