RAISING HU SHEEP: IS IT POSSIBLE IN ROMANIA?
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Originated from Mongolian sheep after a long process of acclimatisation and artificial selection, the Chinese Hu sheep is valued for its features: adaptability to hot and humid climate, all-year-round cycling, a-seasonal breeding, early sex maturity, fast growing, prolificacy, wavy lambskins (still retained after processing), and white coarse wool (with heterotypical fibbers). They are raised indoors all year round. Scientists have focused on Hu sheep derma papilla cells, differentially abundant proteins, genetic diversity, genome resequencing, genome-wide association, growth traits, homozygosity, ovarian DNA, phenotype traits, pleomorphic adenoma gene 1, selection signature, and skeletal muscle development. The authors of this paper investigate these research topics aiming at identifying ways of acclimatizing this sheep breed in Romania.
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