Genetic studies of livestock populations focus on questions of domestication, within‐and
among‐breed diversity, breed history and adaptive variation. In this review, we describe the …

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 (CNV) might be one of the main contributors to phenotypic diversity
and evolutionary adaptation in animals and plants, employing a wide variety of mechanisms …

Next‐generation sequencing (NGS) technologies offer the opportunity for population
genomic study of non‐model organisms sampled in the wild. The transcriptome is a …

Abstract Background The goat (Capra hircus) represents one of the most important farm
animal species. It is reared in all continents with an estimated world population of about 800 …

Abstract Background Copy number variations (CNVs) are a major type of structural genomic
variants that underlie genetic architecture and phenotypic variation of complex traits, not …

The conserved and multifaceted functions of prolactin (PRL) are coordinated through varied
distribution and expression of its cell‐surface receptor (PRLR) across a range of tissues and …

We carried out a cross species cattle–sheep array comparative genome hybridization
experiment to identify copy number variations (CNVs) in the sheep genome analysing ewes …

Following on from the First Report on Chicken Genes and Chromosomes [Schmid et al.,
2000] and the Second Report in 2005 [Schmid et al., 2005], we are pleased to publish this …

Background In recent years, genome-wide association studies have successfully uncovered
single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) associated with complex traits such as diseases …