[HTML][HTML] Acyl-CoA: diacylglycerol acyltransferase: Properties, physiological roles, metabolic engineering and intentional control

G Chen, JL Harwood, MJ Lemieux, SJ Stone… - Progress in Lipid …, 2022 - Elsevier
Acyl-CoA: diacylglycerol acyltransferase (DGAT, EC 2.3. 1.20) catalyzes the last reaction in
the acyl-CoA-dependent biosynthesis of triacylglycerol (TAG). DGAT activity resides mainly …

Microbial transmission in animal social networks and the social microbiome

A Sarkar, S Harty, KVA Johnson, AH Moeller… - Nature ecology & …, 2020 - nature.com
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 …

Whole-genome resequencing reveals world-wide ancestry and adaptive introgression events of domesticated cattle in East Asia

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 …

Runs of homozygosity and population history in cattle

DC Purfield, DP Berry, S McParland, DG Bradley - BMC genetics, 2012 - Springer
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 …

Worldwide patterns of ancestry, divergence, and admixture in domesticated cattle

JE Decker, SD McKay, MM Rolf, JW Kim… - PLoS …, 2014 - journals.plos.org
The domestication and development of cattle has considerably impacted human societies,
but the histories of cattle breeds and populations have been poorly understood especially …

[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 …

Assembly of a pangenome for global cattle reveals missing sequences and novel structural variations, providing new insights into their diversity and evolutionary …

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 …

Ancient cattle genomics, origins, and rapid turnover in the Fertile Crescent

MP Verdugo, VE Mullin, A Scheu, V Mattiangeli… - Science, 2019 - science.org
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 …

Evolution, consequences and future of plant and animal domestication

J Diamond - Nature, 2002 - nature.com
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 …

Molecular evidence for a single evolutionary origin of domesticated rice

J Molina, M Sikora, N Garud… - Proceedings of the …, 2011 - National Acad Sciences
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 …