Genome-wide analysis of the world's sheep breeds reveals high levels of historic mixture and strong recent selection.

Through their domestication and subsequent selection, sheep have been adapted to thrive in a diverse range of environments. To characterise the genetic consequence of both domestication and selection, we genotyped 49,034 SNP in 2,819 animals from a diverse collection of 74 sheep breeds. We find the...

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Autores principales: James W Kijas, Johannes A Lenstra, Ben Hayes, Simon Boitard, Laercio R Porto Neto, Magali San Cristobal, Bertrand Servin, Russell McCulloch, Vicki Whan, Kimberly Gietzen, Samuel Paiva, William Barendse, Elena Ciani, Herman Raadsma, John McEwan, Brian Dalrymple, International Sheep Genomics Consortium Members
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Publicado: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2012
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Acceso en línea:https://doaj.org/article/c069bde3562049dfa7508dc125c604c7
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