Simeng Yu, Zihua Liu, Ming Li, Dongke Zhou, Ping Hua, Hong Cheng, Wenlei Fan, Yaxi Xu, Dapeng Liu, Suyun Liang, Yunsheng Zhang, Ming Xie, Jing Tang, Yu Jiang, Shuisheng Hou, Zhengkui Zhou
BACKGROUND: Short-term, intense artificial selection drives fast phenotypic changes in domestic animals and leaves imprints on their genomes. However, the genetic basis of this selection response is poorly understood. To better address this, we employed the Pekin duck Z2 pure line, in which the breast muscle weight was increased nearly 3-fold after 10 generations of breeding. We denovo assembled a high-quality reference genome of a female Pekin duck of this line (GCA_003850225.1) and identified 8...
March 20, 2023: GigaScience