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Seed dispersal dynamics in northern Iran: a comparative analysis of native large mammals and domestic sheep [PDF]

BMC Ecology and Evolution
Background Seed dispersal through endozoochory plays a fundamental role in maintaining plant population dynamics, genetic connectivity, and habitat resilience, particularly in mountainous biodiversity hotspots.
Zahra Shakoori, Farid Salmanpour, Mehdi Kia, Faraham Ahmadzadeh   +3 more
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Genome-Wide SNP Analysis Reveals the Unique Genetic Diversity Represented by Fat-Tailed Coarse-Wooled Sheep Breeds of Kazakhstan [PDF]

Biology
Background: The fat-tailed coarse-wooled sheep breeds exhibit excellent reproductive performance, exceptional adaptability to pasture conditions, and high precocity, contributing to enhanced meat, fat, and wool productivity in sheep breeding. Despite the
Kairat Dossybayev, Makpal Amandykova, Daniya Ualiyeva, Tilek Kapassuly, Altynay Kozhakhmet, Elena Ciani, Bakytzhan Bekmanov, Rauan Amzeyev   +7 more
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Genomic analyses of Asiatic Mouflon in Iran provide insights into the domestication and evolution of sheep [PDF]

Genetics Selection Evolution
Background Asiatic mouflon (Ovis gmelini) consists of several subspecies mainly distributed in Armenia, southern Azerbaijan, Cyprus, northern, southern, and western regions of Iran, and eastern and central regions of Turkey nowadays.
Dong-Feng Wang, Pablo Orozco-terWengel, Hosein Salehian-Dehkordi, Ali Esmailizadeh, Feng-Hua Lv   +4 more
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Revised phylogeny of mouflon based on expanded sampling of mitogenomes. [PDF]

PLoS ONE
Mouflons are flagship species of the Mediterranean islands where they persist. Once thought to be the remnants of a European wild sheep population, archaeology suggests they were introduced by humans to the islands of Cyprus in the Early Neolithic (~10 ...
Paolo Mereu, Monica Pirastru, Pedro Morell Miranda, Gözde Atağ, Kıvılcım Başak Vural, Barbara Wilkens, André Elias Rodrigues Soares, Damla Kaptan, Marco Zedda, Nicolò Columbano, Mario Barbato, Salvatore Naitana, Eleftherios Hadjisterkotis, Mehmet Somel, Füsun Özer, Torsten Günther, Giovanni Giuseppe Leoni   +16 more
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Exposure of bighorn sheep to domestic goats colonized with Mycoplasma ovipneumoniae induces sub-lethal pneumonia. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2017
Bronchopneumonia is a population limiting disease of bighorn sheep (Ovis canadensis) that has been associated with contact with domestic Caprinae. The disease is polymicrobial but is initiated by Mycoplasma ovipneumoniae, which is commonly carried by ...
Thomas E Besser, E Frances Cassirer, Kathleen A Potter, William J Foreyt   +3 more
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Potential disease agents in domestic goats and relevance to bighorn sheep (Ovis canadensis) management. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2017
Domestic goats are raised for meat, milk and hair production, in herds for rangeland weed control, and as pack animals. Domestic sheep, goats and wild bighorn sheep are all susceptible to a multifactorial pneumonia.
Mark L Drew, Glen C Weiser
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Long divergent haplotypes introgressed from wild sheep are associated with distinct morphological and adaptive characteristics in domestic sheep

PLoS Genetics, 2023
The worldwide sheep population comprises more than 1000 breeds. Together, these exhibit a considerable morphological diversity, which has not been extensively investigated at the molecular level.
Hong Cheng, Zhuangbiao Zhang, Jiayue Wen, Johannes A. Lenstra, Rasmus Heller, Yudong Cai, Yingwei Guo, Ming Li, Ran Li, Wenrong Li, Sangang He, Jintao Wang, Junjie Shao, Yuxuan Song, Lei Zhang, Masum Billah, Xihong Wang, Mingjun Liu, Yu Jiang   +18 more
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Mitochondrial DNA diversity of modern, ancient and wild sheep(Ovis gmelinii anatolica) from Turkey: new insights on the evolutionary history of sheep. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2013
In the present study, to contribute to the understanding of the evolutionary history of sheep, the mitochondrial (mt) DNA polymorphisms occurring in modern Turkish native domestic (n = 628), modern wild (Ovis gmelinii anatolica) (n = 30) and ancient ...
Sevgin Demirci, Evren Koban Baştanlar, Nihan Dilşad Dağtaş, Evangelia Pişkin, Atilla Engin, Füsun Ozer, Eren Yüncü, Sükrü Anıl Doğan, Inci Togan   +8 more
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Evidence for independent domestication of sheep mtDNA lineage A in India and introduction of lineage B through Arabian sea route

Scientific Reports, 2021
India ranks the second in the world in terms of its sheep population with approximately 74.26 million represented by 44 well-described breeds in addition to several non-descript populations.
Ranganathan Kamalakkannan, Satish Kumar, Karippadakam Bhavana, Vandana R. Prabhu, Carolina Barros Machado, Hijam Surachandra Singha, Dhandapani Sureshgopi, Vincy Vijay, Muniyandi Nagarajan   +8 more
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Behavioural Indicators of Intra- and Inter-Specific Competition: Sheep Co-Grazing with Guanaco in the Patagonian Steppe

Animals, 2021
In extensive livestock production, high densities may inhibit regulation processes, maintaining high levels of intraspecific competition over time. During competition, individuals typically modify their behaviours, particularly feeding and bite rates ...
Tomás Fernández, Alex Lancaster, Claudio A. Moraga, Sergio Radic-Schilling, Achaz von Hardenberg, Paulo Corti   +5 more
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