The genome of the naturally evolved obesity-prone Ossabaw miniature pig

Summary: The feral pigs of Ossabaw Island (USA) have an outstanding propensity to obesity and develop complete metabolic syndrome (MetS) upon prolonged high energy dieting. We now report the first high quality genome of the Ossabaw pig with Contig N50 of ∼6.03 Mb, significantly higher than most othe...

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Main Authors: Yaolei Zhang, Guangyi Fan, Xin Liu, Kerstin Skovgaard, Michael Sturek, Peter M.H. Heegaard
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2021-09-01
Series:iScience
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S258900422101049X