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Polymorphism of Prophet of Pit-1 gene and its relationship with litter size of Small Tail Han sheep

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This work was supported by the Agricultural Science and Technology Innovation Programme of China (no. ASTIP-IAS13), the Earmarked Fund for China Agriculture Research System (no. CARS-39), Genetically Modified Organisms Breeding Major Programme of China (no. 2013ZX08010-006).

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  1. Key Laboratory of Farm Animal Genetic Resources and Germplasm Innovation of Ministry of Agriculture, Institute of Animal Science, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, 100193, People’s Republic of China

    QIUYUE LIU, MINGXING CHU, RAN DI & TAO FENG

  2. College of Life Sciences, Anhui Agricultural University, Hefei, 230036, People’s Republic of China

    CAIXIA GENG & HONGQUAN CHEN

  3. College of Life Science, Liaoning Normal University, Dalian, 116029, People’s Republic of China

    MEI JIN

  4. College of Animal Science and Technology, Agricultural University of Hebei, Baoding, 071000, People’s Republic of China

    YINGJIE ZHANG

  5. State Key Laboratory of Agricultural Biotechnology (China Agricultural University), Beijing, 100193, People’s Republic of China

    NING LI

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[Liu Q., Geng C., Chu M., Chen H., Jin M., Zhang Y., Di R., Feng T. and Li N. 2015 Polymorphism of Prophet of Pit-1 gene and its relationship with litter size of Small Tail Han sheep. J. Genet. 94, e27–e30. Online only: http://www.ias.ac.in/jgenet/OnlineResources/94/e27.pdf]

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LIU, Q., GENG, C., CHU, M. et al. Polymorphism of Prophet of Pit-1 gene and its relationship with litter size of Small Tail Han sheep. J Genet 94 (Suppl 2), 27–30 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12041-015-0517-x

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