Host-associated microbiomes play an increasingly appreciated role in animal metabolism,
immunity and health. The microbes in turn depend on their host for resources and can be …

Background After domestication, the evolution of phenotypically-varied sheep breeds has
generated rich biodiversity. This wide phenotypic variation arises as a result of hidden …

Abstract In European and many African, Middle Eastern and southern Asian populations,
lactase persistence (LP) is the most strongly selected monogenic trait to have evolved over …

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 …

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 …

Sheep and goats are two of the first animals that were domesticated by humans. The initial
reasons for raising these animals was meat, milk and dairy products, fleece and skin. Also …

The dog was the first domesticated animal but it remains uncertain when the domestication
process began and whether it occurred just once or multiple times across the Northern …

Domestication and the subsequent selection of animals for either economic or
morphological features can leave a variety of imprints on the genome of a population …

Domestication of livestock species and a long history of migrations, selection and adaptation
have created an enormous variety of breeds. Conservation of these genetic resources relies …

In this article I present a new archaeological synthesis concerning the earliest formation of
mobile pastoralist economies across central Eurasia. I argue that Eurasian steppe …