Genetic Variation of Goat Interferon Regulatory Factor 3 Gene and Its Implication in Goat Evolution

• Moses Okpeku ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Moses Okpeku, Ali Esmailizadeh, Adeniyi C. Adeola

  Affiliations State Key Laboratory of Genetic Resources and Evolution, Kunming Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Kunming, Yunnan 650223, China, Department of Animal Science, Niger Delta University, Wilberforce Island, Ammassoma, Bayelsa State, Nigeria

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• Ali Esmailizadeh ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Moses Okpeku, Ali Esmailizadeh, Adeniyi C. Adeola

  Affiliations State Key Laboratory of Genetic Resources and Evolution, Kunming Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Kunming, Yunnan 650223, China, Department of Animal Science, Shahid Bahonar University of Kerman, Kerman, PB 76169–133, Iran

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• Adeniyi C. Adeola ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Moses Okpeku, Ali Esmailizadeh, Adeniyi C. Adeola

  Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Genetic Resources and Evolution, Kunming Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Kunming, Yunnan 650223, China

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• Liping Shu ,

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Genetic Resources and Evolution, Kunming Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Kunming, Yunnan 650223, China

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• Yesheng Zhang ,

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Genetic Resources and Evolution, Kunming Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Kunming, Yunnan 650223, China

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• Yangzi Wang ,

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Genetic Resources and Evolution, Kunming Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Kunming, Yunnan 650223, China

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• Timothy M. Sanni ,

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Department of Animal Breeding and Genetics, Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta, Ogun State, Nigeria

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• Ikhide G. Imumorin ,

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Animal Genetics and Genomics Laboratory, Office of International Programs, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Cornell University, Ithaca, USA

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• Sunday O. Peters ,

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Department of Animal Science, Berry College, Mount Berry, USA

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• Jiajin Zhang ,

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation School of Science and Information Engineering, Yunnan Agricultural University, Kunming 650201, China

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• Yang Dong ,

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliations State Key Laboratory of Genetic Resources and Evolution, Kunming Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Kunming, Yunnan 650223, China, Laboratory of Applied Genomics and Synthetic Biology, College of Life Science, Kunming University of Science and Technology, Kunming 650500, China

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• Wen Wang

  * E-mail: wwang@mail.kiz.ac.cn

  Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Genetic Resources and Evolution, Kunming Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Kunming, Yunnan 650223, China

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