Effective population size (N e) is a key parameter in population genetics. It has important
applications in evolutionary biology, conservation genetics and plant and animal breeding …

Genome-wide panels of SNPs have recently been used in domestic animal species to map
and identify genes for many traits and to select genetically desirable livestock. This has led …

Low‐coverage whole genome sequencing (lcWGS) has emerged as a powerful and cost‐
effective approach for population genomic studies in both model and nonmodel species …

Inferring changes in effective population size (N e) in the recent past is of special interest for
conservation of endangered species and for human history research. Current methods for …

Effective population size (Ne) is a key population genetic parameter that describes the
amount of genetic drift in a population. Estimating Ne has been subject to much research …

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 …

Background Runs of homozygosity (ROH) are contiguous lengths of homozygous genotypes
that are present in an individual due to parents transmitting identical haplotypes to their …

Relatedness is a fundamental concept in genetics but is surprisingly hard to define in a
rigorous yet useful way. Traditional relatedness coefficients specify expected genome …

Dense marker genotypes allow the construction of the realized relationship matrix between
individuals, with elements the realized proportion of the genome that is identical by descent …

Dogs were the first domesticated species, originating at least 15,000 y ago from Eurasian
gray wolves. Dogs today consist primarily of two specialized groups—a diverse set of nearly …