Unraveling the molecular landscape of breast muscle development in domestic Yuzhong pigeons and European meat pigeon: Insights from Iso-seq and RNA-seq analysis

• Pengkun Yang,

  Roles Data curation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation College of Animal Science and Technology, Henan University of Animal Husbandry and Economy, Zhengzhou, China

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• Xinghui Song,

  Roles Methodology, Software

  Affiliation College of Animal Science and Technology, Henan University of Animal Husbandry and Economy, Zhengzhou, China

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• Liheng Zhang,

  Roles Methodology, Software

  Affiliation College of Animal Science and Technology, Henan University of Animal Husbandry and Economy, Zhengzhou, China

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• Xinlei Wang,

  Roles Methodology, Validation

  Affiliation College of Animal Science and Technology, Henan University of Animal Husbandry and Economy, Zhengzhou, China

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• Zhanbing Han,

  Roles Methodology, Validation

  Affiliation College of Animal Science and Technology, Henan University of Animal Husbandry and Economy, Zhengzhou, China

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• Runzhi Wang,

  Roles Methodology, Resources

  Affiliation Nanjing Institute of Animal Husbandry and Poultry Science, Nanjing, China

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• Mingjun Yang,

  Roles Methodology, Resources

  Affiliation Henan Tiancheng Pigeon Industry Co., Ltd, Pingdingshan, China

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• Peiyao Liu,

  Roles Methodology

  Affiliation Henan Tiancheng Pigeon Industry Co., Ltd, Pingdingshan, China

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• Zhen Zhang

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: zhangzhen@hnuahe.edu.cn

  Affiliation College of Animal Science and Technology, Henan University of Animal Husbandry and Economy, Zhengzhou, China

  https://orcid.org/0009-0008-6794-7764

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