Endogenous retrovirus EAV-HP linked to blue egg phenotype in Mapuche fowl

Wragg, David; Mwacharo, Joram M.; Alcalde, Jos� A.; Wang, Chen; Han, Jian Lin; Gongora, Jaime; Gourichon, David; Tixier-Boichard, Mich�le; Hanotte, Olivier

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0071393

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Genome-Wide Variation, Candidate Regions and Genes Associated With Fat Deposition and Tail Morphology in Ethiopian Indigenous Sheep (2019)
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Ahbara, A., Bahbahani, H., Almathen, F., Al Abri, M., Agoub, M. O., Abeba, A., …Mwacharo, J. M. (2019). Genome-Wide Variation, Candidate Regions and Genes Associated With Fat Deposition and Tail Morphology in Ethiopian Indigenous Sheep. Frontiers in Genetics, 9, Article 699. https://doi.org/10.3389/fgene.2018.00699

Variations in body weight and in the distribution of body fat are associated with feed availability, thermoregulation, and energy reserve. Ethiopia is characterized by distinct agro-ecological and human ethnic farmer diversity of ancient origin, whic... Read More about Genome-Wide Variation, Candidate Regions and Genes Associated With Fat Deposition and Tail Morphology in Ethiopian Indigenous Sheep.

The role of local adaptation in sustainable production of village chickens (2018)
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Bettridge, J. M., Psifidi, A., Terfa, Z. G., Desta, T. T., Lozano-Jaramillo, M., Dessie, T., …Christley, R. M. (2018). The role of local adaptation in sustainable production of village chickens. Nature Sustainability, 1(10), 574-582. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41893-018-0150-9

Village chickens are ubiquitous in smallholder farming systems, contributing to household, local and national economies under diverse environmental, economic and cultural settings. However, they are raised in challenging environments where productivi... Read More about The role of local adaptation in sustainable production of village chickens.

Whole-Genome Resequencing of Red Junglefowl and Indigenous Village Chicken Reveal New Insights on the Genome Dynamics of the Species (2018)
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Lawal, R. A., Al-Atiyat, R. M., Aljumaah, R. S., Silva, P., Mwacharo, J. M., & Hanotte, O. (2018). Whole-Genome Resequencing of Red Junglefowl and Indigenous Village Chicken Reveal New Insights on the Genome Dynamics of the Species. Frontiers in Genetics, 9, Article 264. https://doi.org/10.3389/fgene.2018.00264

© 2018 Lawal, Al-Atiyat, Aljumaah, Silva, Mwacharo and Hanotte. The red junglefowl Gallus gallus is the main progenitor of domestic chicken, the commonest livestock species, outnumbering humans by an approximate ratio of six to one. The genetic contr... Read More about Whole-Genome Resequencing of Red Junglefowl and Indigenous Village Chicken Reveal New Insights on the Genome Dynamics of the Species.

The genome landscape of indigenous African cattle (2017)
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Kim, J., Hanotte, O., Okeyo, A. M., Dessie, T., Bashir, S., Diallo, B., …Kim, H. (2017). The genome landscape of indigenous African cattle. Genome Biology, 18(1), Article 34. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13059-017-1153-y

© 2017 The Author(s). Background: The history of African indigenous cattle and their adaptation to environmental and human selection pressure is at the root of their remarkable diversity. Characterization of this diversity is an essential step toward... Read More about The genome landscape of indigenous African cattle.

Ancient and modern DNA reveal dynamics of domestication and cross-continental dispersal of the dromedary (2016)
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Almathen, F., Charruau, P., Mohandesan, E., Mwacharo, J. M., Orozco-terWengel, P., Pitt, D., …Burger, P. A. (2016). Ancient and modern DNA reveal dynamics of domestication and cross-continental dispersal of the dromedary. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 113(24), https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1519508113

Dromedaries have been fundamental to the development of human societies in arid landscapes and for long-distance trade across hostile hot terrains for 3,000 y. Today they continue to be an important livestock resource in marginal agro-ecological zone... Read More about Ancient and modern DNA reveal dynamics of domestication and cross-continental dispersal of the dromedary.

Genome-wide analysis reveals the extent of EAV-HP integration in domestic chicken (2015)
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Wragg, D., Mason, A. S., Yu, L., Kuo, R., Lawal, R. A., Desta, T. T., Mwacharo, J. M., Cho, C.-Y., Kemp, S., Burt, D. W., & Hanotte, O. (2015). Genome-wide analysis reveals the extent of EAV-HP integration in domestic chicken. BMC Genomics, 16, Article 784. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12864-015-1954-x

Background: EAV-HP is an ancient retrovirus pre-dating Gallus speciation, which continues to circulate in modern chicken populations, and led to the emergence of avian leukosis virus subgroup J causing significant economic losses to the poultry indus... Read More about Genome-wide analysis reveals the extent of EAV-HP integration in domestic chicken.

Signatures of positive selection in East African Shorthorn Zebu: A genome-wide single nucleotide polymorphism analysis (2015)
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Co-infections determine patterns of mortality in a population exposed to parasite infection (2015)
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Woolhouse, M. E., Thumbi, S. M., Jennings, A., Chase-Topping, M., Callaby, R., Kiara, H., …Toye, P. G. (2015). Co-infections determine patterns of mortality in a population exposed to parasite infection. Science Advances, 1(2), Article e1400026. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.1400026

© 2015 The Authors, some rights reserved. Many individual hosts are infected with multiple parasite species, and this may increase or decrease the pathogenicity of the infections. This phenomenon is termed heterologous reactivity and is potentially a... Read More about Co-infections determine patterns of mortality in a population exposed to parasite infection.

Endogenous retrovirus EAV-HP linked to blue egg phenotype in Mapuche fowl (2013)
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Wragg, D., Mwacharo, J. M., Alcalde, J. A., Wang, C., Han, J. L., Gongora, J., Gourichon, D., Tixier-Boichard, M., & Hanotte, O. (2013). Endogenous retrovirus EAV-HP linked to blue egg phenotype in Mapuche fowl. PLoS ONE, 8(8), e71393. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0071393

Oocyan or blue/green eggshell colour is an autosomal dominant trait found in native chickens (Mapuche fowl) of Chile and in some of their descendants in European and North American modern breeds. We report here the identification of an endogenous avi... Read More about Endogenous retrovirus EAV-HP linked to blue egg phenotype in Mapuche fowl.