Ning, Tiao http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7628-4992
Ling, Yinghui
Hu, Shaoji
Ardalan, Arman
Li, Jing
Mitra, Bikash
Chaudhuri, Tapas Kumar
Guan, Weijun
Zhao, Qianjun
Ma, Yuehui
Savolainen, Peter
Zhang, Yaping
Funding for this research was provided by:
the National Basic Research Program of China (2007CB815700, 2007CB411600)
the National Natural Science Foundation of China (30760038, 31301014)
the Eleventh Five-year Plan of Country Technology Pedestal (2006BAD13B08)
the Technology Resources Platform of the Ministry of Science and Technology (2005DKA21101)
Article History
Received: 26 July 2018
Accepted: 18 October 2019
First Online: 27 November 2019
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: Horses were sampled for this study. A total of 28 Przewalski’s wild horses from Xinjiang Province of China, and 1554 modern domestic horses from Europe, Iran, India, and China were collected (please see the detail in Additional file InternalRef removed: Table S1 and Additional file InternalRef removed: Table S2). Our research was approved by the Yunnan University Research Ethics Committee; the ethics number is No. [2010] Note (7). The Przewalski’s horse samples were obtained as part of standard care in Xinjiang Przewalski Horse Breeding and Studying Center. They donated these samples to the Institute of Animal Science, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences for scientific research. The legality of Mongolian horse sample collection and use guaranteed by Institute of Animal Science, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences. The legality of Indian horse sample collection and use guaranteed by the Cellular Immunology Laboratory, Department of Zoology, University of North Bengal, India. The new samples of this paper have been separated from Additional file InternalRef removed and added the following information: 1) purpose of sampling, 2) samples collection and preservation institutions and the relationship with this paper, 3) relevant laws or regulations. Please see the additional file ‘new sample information’ for details.
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: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.