Sus scrofa breed:Guangdong Small-ear Spotted Raw sequence reads. Sus scrofa breed:Guangdong Small-ear Spotted

Pig is one of the most significant sources of livestock supplying meat, and has been classified into lean, fat and miniature categories on the basis of muscle and fat proportion differences. However, the mechanisms underlying meat production variation among different pig breeds have remained only partially understood. Myogenic Differentiation 1 (MyoD) is a crucial master switch in regulating muscle-specific gene transcription. Forced expression of this muscle-specific gene is equipped to induce several cell lineages into myoblast, which then differentiate and fuse into myotube. However, it remains to be investigated whether the difference in meat production is caused by the single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in MyoD gene.