Genomic footprints of dryland stress adaptation in Egyptian fat-tail sheep and their divergence from East African and western Asia cohorts

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Mwacharo, J.M., Kim, E., Elbeltagy, A.R., Aboul-Naga, A.M., Rischkowsky, B.A. and Rothschild, M.F. 2017. Genomic footprints of dryland stress adaptation in Egyptian fat-tail sheep and their divergence from East African and western Asia cohorts. Scientific Reports 7:17647.

Authors

  • Mwacharo, Joram M.
  • Eui-Soo Kim
  • Elbeltagy, Ahmed R.A.E.
  • Aboul-Naga, A.M.
  • Rischkowsky, Barbara A.
  • Rothschild, Max F.

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