After obtaining the 658-bp and 475-bp conserved fragments of the ovine MYL3 and MYL4 genes, 341-bp and 319-bp 3′ RACE products of these respective genes were cloned. Using 5′ RACE, we obtained 281- bp and 371-bp 5′ PCR products of the MYL3 and MYL4 cDNAs. These products were then cloned into the pMD18-T vector and were se- quenced. Therefore, 925-bp and 869-bp full-length cDNAs were obtain- ed (Fig. 1). The complete cDNA sequences were deposited into the GenBank database and were assigned accession numbers KJ710703 (MYL3) and KJ768855 (MYL4).