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Assessing the Role of Ancestral Fragments and Selection Signatures by Whole-Genome Scanning in Dehong Humped Cattle at the China–Myanmar Border

Biology, 2022
Dehong humped cattle are precious livestock resources of Yunnan Province, China; they have typical zebu traits. Here, we investigated their genetic characteristics using whole-genome resequencing data of Dehong humped animals (n = 18). When comparing our
Xiaoyu Luo, Shuang Li, Yingran Liu, Zulfiqar Ahmed, Fuwen Wang, Jianyong Liu, Jicai Zhang, Ningbo Chen, Chuzhao Lei, Bizhi Huang   +9 more
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A Novel Insight into the Identification of Potential SNP Markers for the Genomic Characterization of Buffalo Breeds in Pakistan

Animals, 2023
Domestic buffaloes (Bubalus bubalis), known as water buffaloes, play a key role as versatile multipurpose agricultural animals in the Asiatic region. Pakistan, with the second-largest buffalo population in the world, holds a rich domestication history of
Muhammad Anas, Muhammad Farooq, Muhammad Asif, Waqas Rafique Ali, Shahid Mansoor   +4 more
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Invited review: Genomic selection for small ruminants in developed countries: how applicable for the rest of the world?

Animal, 2018
Improved management and use of estimated breeding values in breeding programmes, have resulted in rapid genetic progress for small ruminants (SR) in Europe and other developed countries.
R. Mrode, G.M. Tarekegn, J.M. Mwacharo, A. Djikeng   +3 more
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An insight into the runs of homozygosity distribution and breed differentiation in Mangalitsa pigs

Frontiers in Genetics, 2022
Mangalitsa pigs exhibit three distinct coat color patterns based on which they are described as Red, Blond, and Swallow-bellied. The current study investigated genome-wide diversity and selection signatures in the three breeds using fixation index, runs ...
Sowah Addo, Lisa Jung
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Bidirectional Selection for Body Weight on Standing Genetic Variation in a Chicken Model

G3: Genes, Genomes, Genetics, 2019
Experimental populations of model organisms provide valuable opportunities to unravel the genomic impact of selection in a controlled system. The Virginia body weight chicken lines represent a unique resource to investigate signatures of selection in a ...
Mette Lillie, Christa F. Honaker, Paul B. Siegel, Örjan Carlborg   +3 more
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The effect of divergent selection for intramuscular fat on the domestic rabbit genome

Animal, 2020
An experiment of divergent selection for intramuscular fat was carried out at Universitat Politècnica de València. The high response of selection in intramuscular fat content, after nine generations of selection, and a multidimensional scaling analysis ...
B.S. Sosa-Madrid, L. Varona, A. Blasco, P. Hernández, C. Casto-Rebollo, N. Ibáñez-Escriche   +5 more
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Whole‐genome SNP markers reveal conservation status, signatures of selection, and introgression in Chinese Laiwu pigs

Evolutionary Applications, 2021
Laiwu pigs are a Chinese indigenous breed that is renowned for its exceptionally high intramuscular fat content (average greater than 6%), providing an excellent genetic resource for the genetic improvement of meat quality of modern commercial pigs.
Xiaopeng Wang, Hui Zhang, Min Huang, Jianhong Tang, Lijuan Yang, Zhiqiang Yu, Desen Li, Guixin Li, Yongchuang Jiang, Yanxiao Sun, Shudong Wei, Pan Xu, Jun Ren   +12 more
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Purifying selection does not drive signatures of convergent local adaptation of lodgepole pine and interior spruce

BMC Evolutionary Biology, 2019
Background Lodgepole pine (Pinus contorta) and interior spruce (Picea glauca, Picea engelmannii, and their hybrids) are distantly related conifer species. Previous studies identified 47 genes containing variants associated with environmental variables in
Mengmeng Lu, Kathryn A. Hodgins, Jon C. Degner, Sam Yeaman   +3 more
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Genetic Diversity and Signatures of Selection in 15 Chinese Indigenous Dog Breeds Revealed by Genome-Wide SNPs

Frontiers in Genetics, 2019
There are dozens of recognized indigenous dog breeds in China. However, these breeds have not had extensive studies to describe their population structure, genomic linkage disequilibrium (LD) patterns, and selection signatures.
Qianyong Yang, Qianyong Yang, Hao Chen, Junhua Ye, Chenlong Liu, Rongxing Wei, Congying Chen, Lusheng Huang   +7 more
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Comparative population genomics analysis for chicken body sizes using genome-wide single nucleotide polymorphisms [PDF]

Animal Bioscience
Objective This study aims to investigate the selection history, genome regions, and candidate genes associated with different chicken body sizes, thereby providing insights into the genetic basis of complex economic traits such as chicken body size and ...
Sensen Yan, Chaoqun Gao, Kaiyuan Tian, Chengpeng Xiao, Junlai Shi, Xintao Jia, Kejun Wang, Guirong Sun, Donghua Li, Wenting Li, Xiangtao Kang   +10 more
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