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

JW Kijas, JA Lenstra, B Hayes, S Boitard… - PLoS …, 2012 - journals.plos.org
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 …

The origin of African sheep: archaeological and genetic perspectives

AWT Muigai, O Hanotte - African Archaeological Review, 2013 - Springer
Indigenous African sheep genetic resources have been classified into two main groups, fat-
tailed and thin-tailed sheep. The fat-tailed sheep are the most widely distributed, being …

Domestication genomics: evidence from animals

GD Wang, HB **e, MS Peng, D Irwin… - Annu. Rev. Anim …, 2014 - annualreviews.org
Animal domestication has far-reaching significance for human society. The sequenced
genomes of domesticated animals provide critical resources for understanding the genetic …

Evidence for early dispersal of domestic sheep into Central Asia

WTT Taylor, M Pruvost, C Posth, W Rendu… - Nature Human …, 2021 - nature.com
The development and dispersal of agropastoralism transformed the cultural and ecological
landscapes of the Old World, but little is known about when or how this process first …

Mitogenomic meta-analysis identifies two phases of migration in the history of eastern Eurasian sheep

FH Lv, WF Peng, J Yang, YX Zhao, WR Li… - Molecular biology …, 2015 - academic.oup.com
Despite much attention, history of sheep (Ovis aries) evolution, including its dating,
demographic trajectory and geographic spread, remains controversial. To address these …

Genomic signatures of adaptive introgression from European mouflon into domestic sheep

M Barbato, F Hailer, P Orozco-terWengel, J Kijas… - Scientific Reports, 2017 - nature.com
Mouflon (Ovis aries musimon) became extinct from mainland Europe after the Neolithic, but
remnant populations from the Mediterranean islands of Corsica and Sardinia have been …

Mitochondrial DNA Diversity of Modern, Ancient and Wild Sheep (Ovis gmelinii anatolica) from Turkey: New Insights on the Evolutionary History of Sheep

S Demirci, E Koban Baştanlar, ND Dağtaş, E Pişkin… - PloS one, 2013 - journals.plos.org
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 …

Mitochondrial DNA of domesticated sheep confirms pastoralist component of Afanasievo subsistence economy in the Altai Mountains (3300–2900 cal BC)

TR Hermes, AA Tishkin, PA Kosintsev… - … Research in Asia, 2020 - Elsevier
The initial spread of pastoralist subsistence to Inner Asia remains poorly defined due in part
to limited research on settlement sites dating to the Eneolithic period (ca. 3600–2900 cal …

Adaptive radiation of the flukes of the family Fasciolidae inferred from genome-wide comparisons of key species

YJ Choi, S Fontenla, PU Fischer, TH Le… - Molecular biology …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Liver and intestinal flukes of the family Fasciolidae cause zoonotic food–borne infections
that impact both agriculture and human health throughout the world. Their evolutionary …

Approaching sheep herds origins and the emergence of the wool economy in continental Europe during the Bronze Age

S Sabatini, S Bergerbrant, LØ Brandt… - Archaeological and …, 2019 - Springer
In recent years, extensive archaeological studies have provided us with new knowledge on
wool and woollen textile production in continental Europe during the Bronze Age …