The challenges and importance of structural variation detection in livestock

DM Bickhart, GE Liu - Frontiers in genetics, 2014 - frontiersin.org
Recent studies in humans and other model organisms have demonstrated that structural
variants (SVs) comprise a substantial proportion of variation among individuals of each …

Copy number variation in the genomes of domestic animals

A Clop, O Vidal, M Amills - Animal genetics, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Copy number variation (CNV) might be one of the main contributors to phenotypic diversity
and evolutionary adaptation in animals and plants, employing a wide variety of mechanisms …

Assembly of a pangenome for global cattle reveals missing sequences and novel structural variations, providing new insights into their diversity and evolutionary …

Y Zhou, L Yang, X Han, J Han, Y Hu, F Li, H **
LR Porto-Neto, TS Sonstegard, GE Liu, DM Bickhart… - BMC genomics, 2013 - Springer
Background Natural selection has molded evolution across all taxa. At an arguable date of
around 330,000 years ago there were already at least two different types of cattle that …