Structural variation and eQTL analysis in two experimental populations of chickens divergently selected for feather-pecking behavior.

"the raw rna sequencing data have been deposited at the ncbi sequence read archive (bioproject id prjna656654) and the raw whole genome sequencing data as well (bioproject id prjna664592). data availability all methods applied here have been outlined in previous studies [ 1 2 8 ]. the raw rna sequencing data have been deposited at the ncbi sequence read archive (bioproject id prjna656654"

"Declarations Ethics approvalThe research protocol was approved by the German Ethical Commission of Animal Welfare of the Provincial Government of Baden-Wuerttemberg, Germany (code: HOH 35/15 PG, date of approval: April 25, 2017). Consent to participateNot applicable. Consent for publicationNot applicable. Competing interestsThe authors declare no competing interests. Competing interests The authors declare no competing interests."

"Funding Open Access funding enabled and organized by Projekt DEAL. The study was funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG) under file numbers TE622/4–2 and BE3703/8–2. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, and interpretation of data and in writing the manuscript. The publication fee was covered by the Open Access Publication Funds of Göttingen University."