Development and validation of a simple, cost-effective competitive allele-specific PCR assay for largescale screening and detection of Fec^B mutation in sheep

• Kathiravan Periasamy ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft

  * E-mail: kathirvet@yahoo.co.in (KP); Rudolf.Pichler@iaea.org (RP)

  Affiliations Animal Production and Health Laboratory, Joint FAO/IAEA Centre of Nuclear Techniques in Food and Agriculture, Department of Nuclear Sciences and Applications, International Atomic Energy Agency, Vienna, Austria, Indian Council of Agricultural Research-National Research Centre on Mithun, Medziphema, Nagaland, India,

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3518-5290

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• Rudolf Pichler ,

  Roles Methodology

  * E-mail: kathirvet@yahoo.co.in (KP); Rudolf.Pichler@iaea.org (RP)

  Affiliation Animal Production and Health Laboratory, Joint FAO/IAEA Centre of Nuclear Techniques in Food and Agriculture, Department of Nuclear Sciences and Applications, International Atomic Energy Agency, Vienna, Austria

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• Saravanan Ramasamy,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Tamil Nadu Veterinary and Animal Sciences University, Chennai, India

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• Rajesh Kumar Somasundaram,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Tamil Nadu Veterinary and Animal Sciences University, Chennai, India

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• Muladno Basar,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Animal Sciences, Bogor Agricultural University, Bogor, Indonesia

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• Atanaska Teneva,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation University of Forestry, Sofia, Bulgaria

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• Amadou Traore,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Laboratoire de Biologie et Santé animales (LaBioSA), Institut de l’Environnement et de Recherches Agricoles (INERA), Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso

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• Arnaud S. R. Tapsoba,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Laboratoire de Biologie et Santé animales (LaBioSA), Institut de l’Environnement et de Recherches Agricoles (INERA), Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso

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• Mohammed O. Faruque,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Animal Breeding and Genetics, Bangladesh Agricultural University, Mymensingh, Bangladesh

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• Seyed Abbas Rafat,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Animal Science, Faculty of Agricultural Sciences, University of Tabriz, Tabriz, Iran

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• Tanveer Hussain

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Animal Genomics & Biodiversity Group, Department of Biological Sciences, Virtual University of Pakistan, Islamabad, Pakistan

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