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Draft genome of the Marco Polo Sheep (Ovis ammon polii)

Author(s) -

Yongzhi Yang,

Yutao Wang,

Yue Zhao,

Xiuying Zhang,

Ran Li,

Lei Chen,

Guojie Zhang,

Yu Jiang,

Qiang Qiu,

Wen Wang,

Hong-Jiang Wei,

Kun Wang

Publication year - 2017

Publication title -

gigascience

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 2.947

H-Index - 54

ISSN - 2047-217X

DOI - 10.1093/gigascience/gix106

Subject(s) - biology , genome , ovis , sequence assembly , evolutionary biology , genetics , gene , ecology , gene expression , transcriptome

The Marco Polo Sheep (Ovis ammon polii), a subspecies of argali (Ovis ammon) that is distributed mainly in the Pamir Mountains, provides a mammalian model to study high altitude adaptation mechanisms. Due to over-hunting and subsistence poaching, as well as competition with livestock and habitat loss, O. ammon has been categorized as an endangered species on several lists. It can have fertile offspring with sheep. Hence, a high-quality reference genome of the Marco Polo Sheep will be very helpful in conservation genetics and even in exploiting useful genes in sheep breeding.

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