Myostatin (GDF8) gene and its intriguing role in regulating growth in poultry

Myostatin, also called as growth differentiating factor 8 (GDF8), a negative regulator of growth in chicken has been characterized at nucleotide and protein level. The total length of the coding frame is 1128 bp encoding 375 amino acids pro-myostatin consisting of first 23 amino acids forming the s...

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Main Authors: T K BHATTACHARYA, B RAJITH REDDY, R N CHATTERJEE, R ASHWINI
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Indian Council of Agricultural Research 2022-10-01
Series:Indian Journal of Animal Sciences
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Online Access:https://epubs.icar.org.in/index.php/IJAnS/article/view/124368