The ancestral origin of the critically endangered Quadricorna sheep as revealed by genome-wide analysis

• Gabriele Senczuk ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  * E-mail: g.senczuk@unimol.it

  Affiliation Department of Agriculture Environment and Food Science, University of Molise, Campobasso, Italy

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8889-2290

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• Marika Di Civita,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology

  Affiliation Department of Agriculture Environment and Food Science, University of Molise, Campobasso, Italy

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• Luigina Rillo,

  Roles Data curation, Project administration, Resources

  Affiliation Consortium for Experimentation, Dissemination and Application of Innovative Biotechniques, (ConSDABI), Benevento, Italy

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• Alessandra Macciocchi,

  Roles Data curation

  Affiliation Agenzia Regionale per lo Sviluppo e l’Innovazione dell’Agricoltura del Lazio (ARSIAL), Roma, Italy

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• Mariaconsiglia Occidente,

  Roles Data curation, Project administration

  Affiliation Consortium for Experimentation, Dissemination and Application of Innovative Biotechniques, (ConSDABI), Benevento, Italy

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• Giorgio Saralli,

  Roles Data curation

  Affiliation Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale del Lazio e della Toscana M. Aleandri (IZSLT), Roma, Italy

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• Valentina D’Onofrio,

  Roles Data curation

  Affiliation Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale del Lazio e della Toscana M. Aleandri (IZSLT), Roma, Italy

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• Tiziana Galli,

  Roles Data curation

  Affiliation Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale del Lazio e della Toscana M. Aleandri (IZSLT), Roma, Italy

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• Christian Persichilli,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis

  Affiliation Department of Agriculture Environment and Food Science, University of Molise, Campobasso, Italy

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2664-136X

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• Claudio Di Giovannantonio,

  Roles Data curation, Project administration

  Affiliation Agenzia Regionale per lo Sviluppo e l’Innovazione dell’Agricoltura del Lazio (ARSIAL), Roma, Italy

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• Fabio Pilla,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration

  Affiliation Department of Agriculture Environment and Food Science, University of Molise, Campobasso, Italy

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• Donato Matassino

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration

  Affiliation Consortium for Experimentation, Dissemination and Application of Innovative Biotechniques, (ConSDABI), Benevento, Italy

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