Ontology highlight
ABSTRACT:
INSTRUMENT(S): Illumina HiSeq 2500
ORGANISM(S): Ovis aries
SUBMITTER: Frances Turner
PROVIDER: E-MTAB-3838 | biostudies-arrayexpress |
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-arrayexpress
Science (New York, N.Y.) 20140601 6188
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 genome and transcriptomes from 40 different tissues. We identified highly expressed genes encoding keratin cross-linking proteins associated with rumen evolution. We also identified genes involved in lip ...[more]