Comparative genome-wide methylation analysis of longissimus dorsi muscles between Japanese black (Wagyu) and Chinese Red Steppes cattle

• Xibi Fang ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Xibi Fang, Zhihui Zhao

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation College of Animal Science, Jilin University, Changchun, People’s Republic of China

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• Zhihui Zhao ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Xibi Fang, Zhihui Zhao

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Supervision

  Affiliation College of Animal Science, Jilin University, Changchun, People’s Republic of China

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• Haibin Yu,

  Roles Data curation

  Affiliation College of Animal Science, Jilin University, Changchun, People’s Republic of China

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• Guangpeng Li,

  Roles Data curation, Resources

  Affiliation The Key Laboratory of National Education Ministry for Mammalian Reproductive Biology and Biotechnology, Inner Mongolia University, Hohhot, People’s Republic of China

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• Ping Jiang,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation College of Animal Science, Jilin University, Changchun, People’s Republic of China

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• Yuwei Yang,

  Roles Validation

  Affiliation College of Animal Science, Jilin University, Changchun, People’s Republic of China

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• Runjun Yang ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Project administration, Supervision

  * E-mail: yrj@jlu.edu.cn (YR); xzster@gmail.com (XY)

  Affiliation College of Animal Science, Jilin University, Changchun, People’s Republic of China

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• Xianzhong Yu

  Roles Conceptualization, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: yrj@jlu.edu.cn (YR); xzster@gmail.com (XY)

  Affiliations College of Animal Science, Jilin University, Changchun, People’s Republic of China, Department of Biological Sciences, Clemson University, Clemson, SC, United States of America

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