Authors:
Ruiwen Fan, Jianshan Xie, Junming Bai, Haidong Wang, Xue Tian, Rui Bai, Xiaoyun Jia, Lei Yang, Yunfei Song, Muren Herrid, Wenjun Gao, Xiaoyan He, Jianbo Yao, George W Smith and Changsheng Dong

Date of Publication:
10 June 2013

Publication:
BMC Genomics 2013 14:389

Abstract:
Background
Previous molecular genetic studies of physiology and pigmentation of sheep skin have focused primarily on a limited number of genes and proteins. To identify additional genes that may play important roles in coat color regulation, Illumina sequencing technology was used to catalog global gene expression profiles in skin of sheep with white versus black coat color.

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