Nature Communications (Jul 2018)
An intercross population study reveals genes associated with body size and plumage color in ducks
- Zhengkui Zhou,
- Ming Li,
- Hong Cheng,
- Wenlei Fan,
- Zhengrong Yuan,
- Qiang Gao,
- Yaxi Xu,
- Zhanbao Guo,
- Yunsheng Zhang,
- Jian Hu,
- Hehe Liu,
- Dapeng Liu,
- Weihuang Chen,
- Zhuqing Zheng,
- Yong Jiang,
- Zhiguo Wen,
- Yongming Liu,
- Hua Chen,
- Ming Xie,
- Qi Zhang,
- Wei Huang,
- Wen Wang,
- Shuisheng Hou,
- Yu Jiang
Affiliations
- Zhengkui Zhou
- State Key Laboratory of Animal Nutrition; Key Laboratory of Animal (Poultry) Genetics Breeding and Reproduction, Ministry of Agriculture; Institute of Animal Science, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences
- Ming Li
- College of Animal Science and Technology, Northwest A&F University
- Hong Cheng
- College of Animal Science and Technology, Northwest A&F University
- Wenlei Fan
- State Key Laboratory of Animal Nutrition; Key Laboratory of Animal (Poultry) Genetics Breeding and Reproduction, Ministry of Agriculture; Institute of Animal Science, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences
- Zhengrong Yuan
- College of Biological Sciences and Technology, Beijing Forestry University
- Qiang Gao
- Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Yaxi Xu
- State Key Laboratory of Animal Nutrition; Key Laboratory of Animal (Poultry) Genetics Breeding and Reproduction, Ministry of Agriculture; Institute of Animal Science, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences
- Zhanbao Guo
- State Key Laboratory of Animal Nutrition; Key Laboratory of Animal (Poultry) Genetics Breeding and Reproduction, Ministry of Agriculture; Institute of Animal Science, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences
- Yunsheng Zhang
- State Key Laboratory of Animal Nutrition; Key Laboratory of Animal (Poultry) Genetics Breeding and Reproduction, Ministry of Agriculture; Institute of Animal Science, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences
- Jian Hu
- State Key Laboratory of Animal Nutrition; Key Laboratory of Animal (Poultry) Genetics Breeding and Reproduction, Ministry of Agriculture; Institute of Animal Science, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences
- Hehe Liu
- State Key Laboratory of Animal Nutrition; Key Laboratory of Animal (Poultry) Genetics Breeding and Reproduction, Ministry of Agriculture; Institute of Animal Science, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences
- Dapeng Liu
- State Key Laboratory of Animal Nutrition; Key Laboratory of Animal (Poultry) Genetics Breeding and Reproduction, Ministry of Agriculture; Institute of Animal Science, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences
- Weihuang Chen
- College of Animal Science and Technology, Northwest A&F University
- Zhuqing Zheng
- College of Animal Science and Technology, Northwest A&F University
- Yong Jiang
- State Key Laboratory of Animal Nutrition; Key Laboratory of Animal (Poultry) Genetics Breeding and Reproduction, Ministry of Agriculture; Institute of Animal Science, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences
- Zhiguo Wen
- State Key Laboratory of Animal Nutrition; Key Laboratory of Animal (Poultry) Genetics Breeding and Reproduction, Ministry of Agriculture; Institute of Animal Science, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences
- Yongming Liu
- Beijing Institute of Genomics, Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Hua Chen
- Beijing Institute of Genomics, Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Ming Xie
- State Key Laboratory of Animal Nutrition; Key Laboratory of Animal (Poultry) Genetics Breeding and Reproduction, Ministry of Agriculture; Institute of Animal Science, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences
- Qi Zhang
- State Key Laboratory of Animal Nutrition; Key Laboratory of Animal (Poultry) Genetics Breeding and Reproduction, Ministry of Agriculture; Institute of Animal Science, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences
- Wei Huang
- State Key Laboratory of Animal Nutrition; Key Laboratory of Animal (Poultry) Genetics Breeding and Reproduction, Ministry of Agriculture; Institute of Animal Science, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences
- Wen Wang
- Research Center for Ecology and Environmental Sciences, Northwestern Polytechnical University
- Shuisheng Hou
- State Key Laboratory of Animal Nutrition; Key Laboratory of Animal (Poultry) Genetics Breeding and Reproduction, Ministry of Agriculture; Institute of Animal Science, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences
- Yu Jiang
- College of Animal Science and Technology, Northwest A&F University
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-04868-4
- Journal volume & issue
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Vol. 9,
no. 1
pp. 1 – 10
Abstract
Ducks, one of the most common domestic fowls, originated from mallards. Here, the authors perform whole-genome sequencing of mallards, indigenous-breed ducks, and Pekin ducks, as well as 1026 ducks from a population generated by wild × domestic crosses to identify selection signals and map variants associated with body size and plumage color.
