About the Authors
- James W. Kijas
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* E-mail: James.Kijas@csiro.au
Affiliation Livestock Industries, CSIRO, Brisbane, Australia
- Johannes A. Lenstra
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Affiliation Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Utrecht University, Utrecht, the Netherlands
- Ben Hayes
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Affiliation Bioscience Research Division, Department of Primary Industries Victoria, Melbourne, Australia
- Simon Boitard
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Affiliation Laboratoire de Genetique Cellulaire, INRA, Toulouse, France
- Laercio R. Porto Neto
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Affiliation Livestock Industries, CSIRO, Brisbane, Australia
- Magali San Cristobal
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Affiliation Laboratoire de Genetique Cellulaire, INRA, Toulouse, France
- Bertrand Servin
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Affiliation Laboratoire de Genetique Cellulaire, INRA, Toulouse, France
- Russell McCulloch
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Affiliation Livestock Industries, CSIRO, Brisbane, Australia
- Vicki Whan
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Affiliation Livestock Industries, CSIRO, Brisbane, Australia
- Kimberly Gietzen
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Affiliation Illumina Inc., San Diego, California, United States of America
- Samuel Paiva
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Affiliation Genetic Resources and Biotechnology, Embrapa, Brasília, Brazil
- William Barendse
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Affiliation Livestock Industries, CSIRO, Brisbane, Australia
- Elena Ciani
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Affiliation Department of General and Environmental Physiology, University of Bari, Bari, Italy
- Herman Raadsma
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Affiliation Faculty of Veterinary Science, University of Sydney, Camden, Australia
- John McEwan
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Affiliation AgResearch, Invermay Agricultural Center, Mosgiel, New Zealand
- Brian Dalrymple
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Affiliation Livestock Industries, CSIRO, Brisbane, Australia
- other members of the International Sheep Genomics Consortium
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¶Membership of the International Sheep Genomics Consortium is provided in the Acknowledgments.
Affiliation www.sheephapmap.org
Competing Interests
The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
Author Contributions
The author(s) have made the following declarations about their contributions: Conceived and designed the experiments: JWK HR JMcE BD. Performed the experiments: JWK RMcC VW KG. Analyzed the data: JWK JAL BH SB LPN MSC BS VW KG SP WB EC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: International Sheep Genomics Consortium. Wrote the paper: JWK JAL BH.