Identification of single nucleotide polymorphisms in sheep Mx genes: A premature stop codon abolishes Mx2 protein expression but did not affect fertility and early animal development

• Cindy Eunhee Lee ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Cindy Eunhee Lee, Nahideh Moradi

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

  Affiliations Faculty of Science and Technology, University of Canberra, Bruce, Australian Capital Territory, Australia, CSIRO Health and Biosecurity, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6675-0187

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• Nahideh Moradi ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Cindy Eunhee Lee, Nahideh Moradi

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

  Affiliations CSIRO Agriculture and Food, F.D. McMaster Laboratory, Armidale, New South Wales, Australia, School of Science and Technology, University of New England, Armidale, New South Wales, Australia

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• Brad Hine,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation CSIRO Agriculture and Food, F.D. McMaster Laboratory, Armidale, New South Wales, Australia

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• Nicholas M. Andronicos,

  Roles Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations CSIRO Agriculture and Food, F.D. McMaster Laboratory, Armidale, New South Wales, Australia, School of Science and Technology, University of New England, Armidale, New South Wales, Australia

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• Jody McNally,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation CSIRO Environment, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3860-3731

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• Jian-Wei Liu,

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

  Affiliation CSIRO Environment, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia

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• Tanja Strive,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation CSIRO Health and Biosecurity, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia

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• Ina Smith,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation CSIRO Health and Biosecurity, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia

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• Peter W. Hunt ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: peter.hunt@csiro.au (PWH); michael.frese@csiro.au (MF)

  Affiliations CSIRO Agriculture and Food, F.D. McMaster Laboratory, Armidale, New South Wales, Australia, School of Science and Technology, University of New England, Armidale, New South Wales, Australia

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• Michael Frese

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: peter.hunt@csiro.au (PWH); michael.frese@csiro.au (MF)

  Affiliations Faculty of Science and Technology, University of Canberra, Bruce, Australian Capital Territory, Australia, CSIRO Health and Biosecurity, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1059-2375

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