Merino sheep selected for divergent fleece weight do not differ in the proportion of sulphur-containing keratin wool proteins

Merino sheep selected for divergent fleece weight do not differ in the proportion of sulphur-containing keratin wool proteins

Bray, M; Revell, DK; Bawden, CS; Hynd, PI

Citation: Proc. Aust. Soc. Anim. Prod. (2002) 24: 276

URI: http://livestocklibrary.com.au/handle/1234/9078

Full Text: http://www.asap.asn.au/livestocklibrary/2002/bray1C.pdf

Date: 2002

Abstract:

Minus fleece weight (-FW) selected Merino sheep produce less wool of a higher sulphur (S) concentration than plus fleece weight (+FW) selected sheep (Piper and Dolling, 1966). An experiment was conducted to test the hypotheses that these differences in fibre growth and composition result from differential expression of high-S (HS), ultra high-S (UHS) and low-S (LS) wool keratin genes.

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