Epigenetic marks: regulators of livestock phenotypes and conceivable sources of missing variation in livestock improvement programs
Improvement in animal productivity has been achieved over the years through careful breeding and selection programs. Today, variations in the genome are gaining increasing importance in livestock improvement strategies. Genomic information alone however explains only a part of the phenotypic varianc...
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Language: | English |
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Frontiers Media S.A.
2015-09-01
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Series: | Frontiers in Genetics |
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Online Access: | http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fgene.2015.00302/full |