FIVE SNPS WITHIN THE FGF5 GENE SIGNIFICANTLY AFFECT BOTH WOOL TRAITS AND GROWTH PERFORMANCE IN FINE-WOOL SHEEP (OVIS ARIES)

Five SNPs Within the FGF5 Gene Significantly Affect Both Wool Traits and Growth Performance in Fine-Wool Sheep (Ovis aries)

Fibroblast growth factor 5 (FGF5) gene, a member of fibroblast growth factor superfamily, plays significant roles in the regulation of the hair growth cycle during the development of mammalian hair follicles as well as the skeletal muscle development.In this study, DNA sequencing was used to scan the putative SNPs within the full-length of FGF5 gen

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Experimental Investigation on Cracking Characteristics of Dry and Saturated Shales in Nitrogen Fracturing after Liquid Nitrogen (LN2) Injection

Cryogenic LN2 fracturing is one of the environmentally friendly waterless fracturing technologies that promote the fracture complexity of shale gas reservoir.The water-ice phase transition under freezing condition causes frost heave in saturated shale.The effect of moisture in shale should be taken into account during cryogenic damage process.There

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Hairs of discrete symmetries and gravity

Gauge symmetries are known to be respected Jeans by gravity because gauge charges carry flux lines, but global charges do not carry flux lines and are not conserved by gravitational interaction.For discrete symmetries, they are spontaneously broken in the Universe, forming domain walls.Since the realization of discrete symmetries in the Universe mu

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