A review of the pangenome: how it affects our understanding of genomic variation, selection and breeding in domestic animals?

Y Gong, Y Li, X Liu, Y Ma, L Jiang - Journal of Animal Science and …, 2023‏ - Springer
As large-scale genomic studies have progressed, it has been revealed that a single
reference genome pattern cannot represent genetic diversity at the species level. While …

Technological development and advances for constructing and analyzing plant pangenomes

H Hu, R Li, J Zhao, J Batley… - Genome biology and …, 2024‏ - academic.oup.com
A pangenome captures the genomic diversity for a species, derived from a collection of
genetic sequences of diverse populations. Advances in sequencing technologies have …

Evolutionary origin of genomic structural variations in domestic yaks

X Liu, W Liu, JA Lenstra, Z Zheng, X Wu, J Yang… - Nature …, 2023‏ - nature.com
Yak has been subject to natural selection, human domestication and interspecific
introgression during its evolution. However, genetic variants favored by each of these …

[HTML][HTML] Large-scale genomic and transcriptomic analyses elucidate the genetic basis of high meat yield in chickens

X Tan, R Liu, D Zhao, Z He, W Li, M Zheng, Q Li… - Journal of advanced …, 2024‏ - Elsevier
Introduction Investigating the genetic markers and genomic signatures related to chicken
meat production by combing multi-omics methods could provide new insights into modern …

[PDF][PDF] De novo assembly of 20 chicken genomes reveals the undetectable phenomenon for thousands of core genes on microchromosomes and subtelomeric regions

M Li, C Sun, N Xu, P Bian, X Tian… - Molecular Biology …, 2022‏ - academic.oup.com
The gene numbers and evolutionary rates of birds were assumed to be much lower than
those of mammals, which is in sharp contrast to the huge species number and …

A nuclear genome assembly of an extinct flightless bird, the little bush moa

SV Edwards, A Cloutier, G Cockburn, R Driver… - Science …, 2024‏ - science.org
We present a draft genome of the little bush moa (Anomalopteryx didiformis)—one of
approximately nine species of extinct flightless birds from Aotearoa, New Zealand—using …

The pig pangenome provides insights into the roles of coding structural variations in genetic diversity and adaptation

Z Li, X Liu, C Wang, Z Li, B Jiang, R Zhang… - Genome …, 2023‏ - genome.cshlp.org
Structural variations have emerged as an important driving force for genome evolution and
phenotypic variation in various organisms, yet their contributions to genetic diversity and …

Duck pan‐genome reveals two transposon insertions caused bodyweight enlarging and white plumage phenotype formation during evolution

K Wang, G Hua, J Li, Y Yang, C Zhang, L Yang, X Hu… - Imeta, 2024‏ - Wiley Online Library
Structural variations (SVs) are a major source of domestication and improvement traits. We
present the first duck pan‐genome constructed using five genome assemblies capturing∼ …

Fourth report on chicken genes and chromosomes 2022

J Smith, JM Alfieri, N Anthony, P Arensburger… - … and genome research, 2023‏ - karger.com
The chicken continues to hold its position as a leading model organism within many areas of
research, as well as being a major source of protein for human consumption. The First …

Elucidation of the genetic determination of body weight and size in Chinese local chicken breeds by large-scale genomic analyses

J Wang, J Liu, Q Lei, Z Liu, H Han, S Zhang, C Qi… - BMC genomics, 2024‏ - Springer
Background Body weight and size are important economic traits in chickens. While many
growth-related quantitative trait loci (QTLs) and candidate genes have been identified …