Fibroblast growth factor 5 (FGF5) has been recognized as an inhibitor to cease animal hair growth, while in contrary, FGF5 short alternative transcript (FGF5s) can induce hair growth by antagonizing FGF5 function. To investigate the role of FGF5s in wool growth in Chinese Merino sheep, we generated transgenic sheep of ectopic expression of FGF5s by injection of recombinant lentivirus into zygote. Totally 20 transgenic sheep were obtained and 12 were alive after birth. Characterization of the transgene revealed that the transgenic sheep showed variety of integrant, ranged from 2 to 11 copies of transgene. The ectopic expression of FGF5s was observed in all transgenic sheep. Further study on the effect of ectopic expression of FGF5s revealed that the wool length of transgenic sheep were significantly longer than that of non-transgenic control, with 9.17cm of transgenic lambs versus 7.58cm of control animals. Notably, besides the increase of wool length, the yearling greasy fleece weight was also concordantly greater than that of wild-type (p<0.01), with 3.22kg of transgenic sheep versus 2.17kg of control lambs (p<0.01) in average. Our results suggested that overexpression of FGF5s could stimulate wool growth and resulted in increase of wool length and greasy wool weight.
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