Genetic diversity in farm animals–a review

LF Groeneveld, JA Lenstra, H Eding, MA Toro… - Animal …, 2010‏ - Wiley Online Library
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 …

Genetic costs of domestication and improvement

BT Moyers, PL Morrell, JK McKay - Journal of Heredity, 2018‏ - academic.oup.com
The “cost of domestication” hypothesis posits that the process of domesticating wild species
can result in an increase in the number, frequency, and/or proportion of deleterious genetic …

Design of a high density SNP genoty** assay in the pig using SNPs identified and characterized by next generation sequencing technology

AM Ramos, RPMA Crooijmans, NA Affara, AJ Amaral… - PloS one, 2009‏ - journals.plos.org
Background The dissection of complex traits of economic importance to the pig industry
requires the availability of a significant number of genetic markers, such as single nucleotide …

Genomic selection in forest tree breeding

D Grattapaglia, MDV Resende - Tree Genetics & Genomes, 2011‏ - Springer
Genomic selection (GS) involves selection decisions based on genomic breeding values
estimated as the sum of the effects of genome-wide markers capturing most quantitative trait …

Comparison of village dog and wolf genomes highlights the role of the neural crest in dog domestication

AL Pendleton, F Shen, AM Taravella, S Emery… - BMC biology, 2018‏ - Springer
Background Domesticated from gray wolves between 10 and 40 kya in Eurasia, dogs
display a vast array of phenotypes that differ from their ancestors, yet mirror other …

Genomic diversity, linkage disequilibrium and selection signatures in European local pig breeds assessed with a high density SNP chip

M Munoz, R Bozzi, J Garcia-Casco, Y Núñez… - Scientific reports, 2019‏ - nature.com
Genetic characterization of local breeds is essential to preserve their genomic variability, to
advance conservation policies and to contribute to their promotion and sustainability …

Genetic diversity, linkage disequilibrium and selection signatures in Chinese and Western pigs revealed by genome-wide SNP markers

H Ai, L Huang, J Ren - PloS one, 2013‏ - journals.plos.org
To investigate population structure, linkage disequilibrium (LD) pattern and selection
signature at the genome level in Chinese and Western pigs, we genotyped 304 unrelated …

The recombination landscape of the zebra finch Taeniopygia guttata genome

N Backström, W Forstmeier, H Schielzeth… - Genome …, 2010‏ - genome.cshlp.org
Understanding the causes and consequences of variation in the rate of recombination is
essential since this parameter is considered to affect levels of genetic variability, the efficacy …

RADseq provides unprecedented insights into molecular ecology and evolutionary genetics: comment on Breaking RAD by Lowry et al. (2016)

GJ McKinney, WA Larson, LW Seeb… - Molecular ecology …, 2017‏ - Wiley Online Library
In their recently corrected manuscript,“Breaking RAD: An evaluation of the utility of restriction
site associated DNA sequencing for genome scans of adaptation”, Lowry et al. argue that …

Review on the development of genoty** methods for assessing farm animal diversity

W Yang, X Kang, Q Yang, Y Lin, M Fang - Journal of animal science and …, 2013‏ - Springer
Advances in molecular biotechnology have introduced new generations of molecular
markers for use in the genetic improvement of farm animals. Consequently, more accurate …