Wool follicle initiation, identification of the founder cell population

Summary

​The wool Subprogram brought together a group of internationally-recognised wool and skin biologists from The University of Adelaide, AgResearch New Zealand, University of Western Sydney, CSIRO Livestock Industries, and the South Australia Research and Development Institute.  The Subprogram focussed on 5 major activities:
gene expression during critical periods of development of the primary, secondary original and secondary derived follicles population in the skin during fetal lifegene expression at critical periods of change in follicle activity throughout the hair growth cycletherapeutic manipulation of targeted pathways during critical periods of fetal skin developmentidentification of gene markers for difficult-to-measure and novel wool traitsidentification and sequencing of genes involved in resistance to fleece rot, and production of black wool associated with the agouti locus