Host-associated microbiomes play an increasingly appreciated role in animal metabolism, immunity and health. The microbes in turn depend on their host for resources and can be …
N Chen, Y Cai, Q Chen, R Li, K Wang, Y Huang… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Cattle domestication and the complex histories of East Asian cattle breeds warrant further investigation. Through analysing the genomes of 49 modern breeds and eight East Asian …
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 …
The domestication and development of cattle has considerably impacted human societies, but the histories of cattle breeds and populations have been poorly understood especially …
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 …
Y Zhou, L Yang, X Han, J Han, Y Hu, F Li… - Genome …, 2022 - genome.cshlp.org
A cattle pangenome representation was created based on the genome sequences of 898 cattle representing 57 breeds. The pangenome identified 83 Mb of sequence not found in …
Genome-wide analysis of 67 ancient Near Eastern cattle, Bos taurus, remains reveals regional variation that has since been obscured by admixture in modern populations …
Domestication interests us as the most momentous change in Holocene human history. Why did it operate on so few wild species, in so few geographic areas? Why did people adopt it at …
Asian rice, Oryza sativa, is one of world's oldest and most important crop species. Rice is believed to have been domesticated∼ 9,000 y ago, although debate on its origin remains …