Genome-wide association study of early liveweight traits in fat-tailed Akkaraman lambs.

ABSTRACT: Small ruminants, especially sheep, are essential for sustainable agricultural production systems, future food/nutrition security, and poverty reduction in developing countries. Within developed countries, the ability of sheep to survive on low-quality forage intake could act as buffer against climate change. Besides sheep's importance in sustainable agricultural production, there has been less ongoing work in terms of sheep genetics in Near East, Middle East and in Africa. For lamb meat production, body weight and average daily gain (ADG) until weaning are critical economic traits that affects the profitability of the industry. The current study aims to identify single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) that are significantly associated with pre-weaning growth traits in fat tail Akkaraman lam

SUBMITTER: Cinar MU 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10662757 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature