Getting Under its Wool and Into its Genes: The Sheep Genome (3 of 3) (IMAGE)

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Getting Under its Wool and Into its Genes: The Sheep Genome (3 of 3)

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The Texel ram that was used in creating a bacterial artificial chromosome library and the genome sequencing efforts is shown. This image relates to a paper that appeared in the 6 June, 2014, issue of Science, published by AAAS. The paper, by Yu Jiang at Chinese Academy of Sciences in Kunming, China, and colleagues was titled, "The sheep genome illuminates biology of the rumen and lipid metabolism."

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[Image courtesy of Brad A. Freking]

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