Novel and known signals of selection for fat deposition in domestic sheep breeds from Africa and Eurasia

• Salvatore Mastrangelo,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Dipartimento di Scienze Agrarie, Alimentari e Forestali, University of Palermo, Palermo, Italy

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6511-1981

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• Hussain Bahbahani ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Hussain Bahbahani, Bianca Moioli

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Science, Kuwait University, Safat, Kuwait

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• Bianca Moioli ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Hussain Bahbahani, Bianca Moioli

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Consiglio per la ricerca in agricoltura e l’analisi dell’economia agraria (CREA), Monterotondo, Italy

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• Abulgasim Ahbara,

  Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations School of Life Sciences, University of Nottingham, University Park, Nottingham, United Kingdom, Department of Zoology, Faculty of Sciences, Misurata University, Misurata, Libya

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• Mohammed Al Abri,

  Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Animal and Veterinary Sciences, Sultan Qaboos University, Oman

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1708-3845

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• Faisal Almathen,

  Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Public Health and Animal Welfare, College of Veterinary Medicine, King Faisal University, Alhufuf, Al-Ahsa, Saudi Arabia

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• Anne da Silva,

  Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Université de Limoges, INRA, PEREINE EA7500, USC1061 GAMAA, Limoges, France

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• Ibrahim Belabdi,

  Roles Resources

  Affiliations Science Veterinary Institute, University of Blida, Blida, Algeria, Laboratory of Biotechnology related to Animal Reproduction (LBRA), University of Blida, Blida, Algeria

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• Baldassare Portolano,

  Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Dipartimento di Scienze Agrarie, Alimentari e Forestali, University of Palermo, Palermo, Italy

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• Joram M. Mwacharo,

  Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Small Ruminant Genomics, International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA), Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

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• Olivier Hanotte,

  Roles Conceptualization, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation School of Life Sciences, University of Nottingham, University Park, Nottingham, United Kingdom

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• Fabio Pilla,

  Roles Conceptualization, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Dipartimento Agricoltura, Ambiente e Alimenti, Università degli Studi del Molise, Campobasso, Italy

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• Elena Ciani

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft

  * E-mail: elena.ciani@uniba.it

  Affiliation Dipartimento di Bioscienze, Biotecnologie e Biofarmaceutica, Università degli Studi di Bari Aldo Moro, Bari, Italy

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5673-0975

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