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Musk secretion in muskrats (Ondatra zibethicus L.): association with lipid and cholesterol metabolism-related pathways

TIANXIANG ZHANG^1,#, MEISHAN ZHANG^1,#, MINGHUI SHI^1,#, WEIJIANG JIN^1,#, SHUMIAO ZHANG^2,#, MENGYUAN FAN³, YIMENG LI¹, YUPING MENG², XUELIN TIAN⁴, SHUQIANG LIU^1,*, DEFU HU^1,*

1 School of Ecology and Nature Conservation, Beijing Forestry University, Beijing, 100083, China
2 Beijing Milu Ecological Research Center, Beijing, 100083, China
3 China Wildlife Conservation Association, Beijing, 100083, China
4 Jining Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Jining, 272000, China

* Address correspondence to: Shuqiang Liu, ; Defu Hu,
# These authors contributed equally to this work