Ling-Zhi Fan

Genome-wide association study identifies candidate loci and a functional regulatory variant associated with egg-production traits in Wenchang chickens

Egg-production traits are economically important in the poultry industry but genetically complex, and their molecular basis in indigenous chicken breeds remains poorly characterized. The Wenchang chicken, an indigenous meat-type breed from Hainan, China, retains abundant genetic variation but has been less extensively...