All Outputs (6)

Whole-Genome Resequencing of Worldwide Wild and Domestic Sheep Elucidates Genetic Diversity, Introgression, and Agronomically Important Loci (2021)
Journal Article
Lv, F., Cao, Y., Liu, G., Luo, L., Lu, R., Liu, M., …Li, M. (2022). Whole-Genome Resequencing of Worldwide Wild and Domestic Sheep Elucidates Genetic Diversity, Introgression, and Agronomically Important Loci. Molecular Biology and Evolution, 39(2), Article msab353. https://doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msab353

Domestic sheep and their wild relatives harbor substantial genetic variants that can form the backbone of molecular breeding, but their genome landscapes remain understudied. Here, we present a comprehensive genome resource for wild ovine species, la... Read More about Whole-Genome Resequencing of Worldwide Wild and Domestic Sheep Elucidates Genetic Diversity, Introgression, and Agronomically Important Loci.

Species and Phenotypic Distribution Models Reveal Population Differentiation in Ethiopian Indigenous Chickens (2021)
Journal Article
Kebede, F. G., Komen, H., Dessie, T., Alemu, S. W., Hanotte, O., & Bastiaansen, J. W. (2021). Species and Phenotypic Distribution Models Reveal Population Differentiation in Ethiopian Indigenous Chickens. Frontiers in Genetics, 12, Article 723360. https://doi.org/10.3389/fgene.2021.723360

Smallholder poultry production dominated by indigenous chickens is an important source of livelihoods for most rural households in Ethiopia. The long history of domestication and the presence of diverse agroecologies in Ethiopia create unique opportu... Read More about Species and Phenotypic Distribution Models Reveal Population Differentiation in Ethiopian Indigenous Chickens.

Population differentiated copy number variation of Bos taurus, Bos indicus and their African hybrids (2021)
Journal Article
Jang, J., Terefe, E., Kim, K., Lee, Y. H., Belay, G., Tijjani, A., …Kim, H. (2021). Population differentiated copy number variation of Bos taurus, Bos indicus and their African hybrids. BMC Genomics, 22, Article 531. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12864-021-07808-7

Background: CNV comprises a large proportion in cattle genome and is associated with various traits. However, there were few population-scale comparison studies on cattle CNV. Results: Here, autosome-wide CNVs were called by read depth of NGS alignme... Read More about Population differentiated copy number variation of Bos taurus, Bos indicus and their African hybrids.

Large-scale genomic analysis reveals the genetic cost of chicken domestication (2021)
Journal Article
Wang, M. S., Zhang, J. J., Guo, X., Li, M., Meyer, R., Ashari, H., …Zhang, Y. P. (2021). Large-scale genomic analysis reveals the genetic cost of chicken domestication. BMC Biology, 19(1), Article 118. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12915-021-01052-x

Background: Species domestication is generally characterized by the exploitation of high-impact mutations through processes that involve complex shifting demographics of domesticated species. These include not only inbreeding and artificial selection... Read More about Large-scale genomic analysis reveals the genetic cost of chicken domestication.

Domestic chicken diversity: Origin, distribution, and adaptation (2021)
Journal Article
Lawal, R. A., & Hanotte, O. (2021). Domestic chicken diversity: Origin, distribution, and adaptation. Animal Genetics, 52(4), 385-394. https://doi.org/10.1111/age.13091

Chicken is the most numerous among the domesticated livestock species. Across cultures, religions, and societies, chicken is widely accepted with little or no taboo compared to other domestic animals. Its adaptability to diverse environmental conditi... Read More about Domestic chicken diversity: Origin, distribution, and adaptation.

Integrated Environmental and Genomic Analysis Reveals the Drivers of Local Adaptation in African Indigenous Chickens (2021)
Journal Article
Gheyas, A. A., Vallejo-Trujillo, A., Kebede, A., Lozano-Jaramillo, M., Dessie, T., Smith, J., & Hanotte, O. (2021). Integrated Environmental and Genomic Analysis Reveals the Drivers of Local Adaptation in African Indigenous Chickens. Molecular Biology and Evolution, 38(10), 4268-4285. https://doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msab156

Breeding for climate resilience is currently an important goal for sustainable livestock production. Local adaptations exhibited by indigenous livestock allow investigating the genetic control of this resilience. Ecological niche modeling (ENM) provi... Read More about Integrated Environmental and Genomic Analysis Reveals the Drivers of Local Adaptation in African Indigenous Chickens.