[HTML][HTML] African indigenous cattle: unique genetic resources in a rapidly changing world

O Mwai, O Hanotte, YJ Kwon, S Cho - Asian-Australasian journal of …, 2015 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
At least 150 indigenous African cattle breeds have been named, but the majority of African
cattle populations remain largely uncharacterized. As cattle breeds and populations in Africa …

An interpretive review of selective sweep studies in Bos taurus cattle populations: identification of unique and shared selection signals across breeds

B Gutiérrez-Gil, JJ Arranz, P Wiener - Frontiers in genetics, 2015 - frontiersin.org
This review compiles the results of 21 genomic studies of European Bos taurus breeds and
thus provides a general picture of the selection signatures in taurine cattle identified by …

Genetic diversity and signatures of selection in various goat breeds revealed by genome-wide SNP markers

LF Brito, JW Kijas, RV Ventura, M Sargolzaei… - BMC genomics, 2017 - Springer
Background The detection of signatures of selection has the potential to elucidate the
identities of genes and mutations associated with phenotypic traits important for livestock …

Detection of selection signatures in dairy and beef cattle using high-density genomic information

F Zhao, S McParland, F Kearney, L Du… - Genetics Selection …, 2015 - Springer
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 …

The mosaic genome of indigenous African cattle as a unique genetic resource for African pastoralism

K Kim, T Kwon, T Dessie, DA Yoo, OA Mwai, J Jang… - Nature Genetics, 2020 - nature.com
Cattle pastoralism plays a central role in human livelihood in Africa. However, the genetic
history of its success remains unknown. Here, through whole-genome sequence analysis of …

Genomic signatures reveal new evidences for selection of important traits in domestic cattle

L Xu, DM Bickhart, JB Cole… - Molecular biology …, 2015 - academic.oup.com
We investigated diverse genomic selections using high-density single nucleotide
polymorphism data of five distinct cattle breeds. Based on allele frequency differences, we …

The genetic architecture of climatic adaptation of tropical cattle

LR Porto-Neto, A Reverter, KC Prayaga, EKF Chan… - Plos one, 2014 - journals.plos.org
Adaptation of global food systems to climate change is essential to feed the world. Tropical
cattle production, a mainstay of profitability for farmers in the develo** world, is dominated …

The extent of linkage disequilibrium in beef cattle breeds using high-density SNP genotypes

LR Porto-Neto, JW Kijas, A Reverter - Genetics Selection Evolution, 2014 - Springer
Background The extent of linkage disequilibrium (LD) between molecular markers impacts
genome-wide association studies and implementation of genomic selection. The availability …

Genetic architecture and selection of Chinese cattle revealed by whole genome resequencing

C Mei, H Wang, Q Liao, L Wang… - Molecular biology …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
The bovine genetic resources in China are diverse, but their value and potential are yet to
be discovered. To determine the genetic diversity and population structure of Chinese cattle …

BGVD: an integrated database for bovine sequencing variations and selective signatures

N Chen, W Fu, J Zhao, J Shen, Q Chen… - Genomics …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Next-generation sequencing has yielded a vast amount of cattle genomic data for global
characterization of population genetic diversity and identification of genomic regions under …