Background Over several decades, a wide range of natural and artificial selection events in
response to subtropical environments, intensive pasture and intensive feedlot systems have …

Given the importance of linkage disequilibrium (LD) in gene map** and evolutionary
inferences, I characterize in this review the pattern of LD and discuss the influence of human …

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 are the major driving forces responsible for the determinative
genetic variability in livestock. These selection patterns create unique genetic signatures …

Background Identification of genomic regions that have been targets of selection for
phenotypic traits is one of the most important and challenging areas of research in animal …

Intense selective pressures applied over short evolutionary time have resulted in
homogeneity within, but substantial variation among, horse breeds. Utilizing this population …

Human driven selection during domestication and subsequent breed formation has likely left
detectable signatures within the genome of modern cattle. The elucidation of these …

Background Artificial selection for economically important traits in cattle is expected to have
left distinctive selection signatures on the genome. Access to high-density genotypes …

Human driven selection during domestication and subsequent breed formation and
breeding has left detectable signatures within the genome of livestock breeds. The …

Background Because very large numbers of single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) are
now available throughout the genome, they are particularly suitable for the detection of …