title: [Progress on the sheep genome project].
abstract: During the last few years,advances in livestock genome projects have been remarkable. Species-specific genetic maps exist for pig, chicken, cattle, sheep, horse,and deer with marker intervals of 5 to 20 cM. These maps have been essential for the identification of genes and genetic markers associated with importantly economic traits in livestock. In this paper, advances of gene map, comparative map, the genes for importantly economic traits and quantitative trait loci (QTL) mapping were briefly introduced in sheep.
authors.affiliation: College of Animal Science and Technology, Shanxi Agricultural University, Taigu 030801, China. guoxiaohong313@163.com
authors.forename: Xiao-Hong
authors.initials: XH
authors.lastname: Guo
authors.forename: Ming-Xing
authors.initials: MX
authors.lastname: Chu
authors.forename: Zhong-Xiao
authors.initials: ZX
authors.lastname: Zhou
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001823:Body Composition / Q000235:genetics; D002874:Chromosome Mapping / Q000379:methods* / Q000639:trends; D033481:Chromosomes, Mammalian / Q000235:genetics*; D005819:Genetic Markers; D040641:Quantitative Trait Loci; D012756:Sheep / Q000235:genetics* / Q000254:growth & development
chemical_list: D005819:Genetic Markers