A complete genome for a commercial duck

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Acknowledgements

This work was supported by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft in the framework of the Research Unit ImmunoChick (FOR5130) through the project KA 5564/1-1 awarded to JK.

Compliance with ethics guidelines

Jim Kaufman declare that there has no conflicts of interest or financial conflicts to disclose. This article does not contain any studies with human or animal subjects performed by the author.

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