Background Globally, tick-borne disease is a pervasive and worsening problem that impacts
human and domestic animal health, livelihoods, and numerous economies. Species …

Terrestrial mammals shape their ecosystems, and mammalian community assemblages can
be important indicators of ecosystem functioning and ecosystem changes over time …

Breeding for climate resilience is currently an important goal for sustainable livestock
production. Local adaptations exhibited by indigenous livestock allow investigating the …

Local adaptation of animals to the environment can abruptly become a burden when faced
with rapid climatic changes such as those foreseen for the Italian peninsula over the next 70 …

Host–parasite coevolution can maintain high levels of genetic diversity in traits involved in
species interactions. In many systems, host traits exploited by parasites are constrained by …

Cattle domestication occurred at least twice independently and gave rise to the modern
taurine and indicine cattle breeds. European cattle diversity is generally dominated by …

Heat stress caused by climatic changes is one of the most significant stresses on livestock in
hot and dry areas. It has particularly adverse effects on the ability of the breed to maintain …

The Near East cattle are adapted to different agro-ecological zones including desert areas,
mountains habitats, and humid regions along the Tigris and Euphrates rivers system. The …

An increasing number of studies are using landscape genomics to investigate local
adaptation in wild and domestic populations. Implementation of this approach requires the …

In evolutionary ecology, an “ecotype” is a population that is genetically adapted to specific
environmental conditions. Environmental and genetic characterisation of livestock ecotypes …