[HTML][HTML] How genomics can help biodiversity conservation

K Theissinger, C Fernandes, G Formenti, I Bista… - Trends in Genetics, 2023 - cell.com
The availability of public genomic resources can greatly assist biodiversity assessment,
conservation, and restoration efforts by providing evidence for scientifically informed …

Unlocking the origins and biology of domestic animals using ancient DNA and paleogenomics

GP McHugo, MJ Dover, DE MacHugh - BMC biology, 2019 - Springer
Animal domestication has fascinated biologists since Charles Darwin first drew the parallel
between evolution via natural selection and human-mediated breeding of livestock and …

Whole-genome resequencing of wild and domestic sheep identifies genes associated with morphological and agronomic traits

X Li, JI Yang, M Shen, XL Xie, GJ Liu, YX Xu… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Understanding the genetic changes underlying phenotypic variation in sheep (Ovis aries)
may facilitate our efforts towards further improvement. Here, we report the deep …

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 …

[PDF][PDF] Whole-genome resequencing of worldwide wild and domestic sheep elucidates genetic diversity, introgression, and agronomically important loci

FH Lv, YH Cao, GJ Liu, LY Luo, R Lu… - Molecular biology …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Domestic sheep and their wild relatives harbor substantial genetic variants that can form the
backbone of molecular breeding, but their genome landscapes remain understudied. Here …

Global genetic diversity, introgression, and evolutionary adaptation of indicine cattle revealed by whole genome sequencing

N Chen, X Xia, Q Hanif, F Zhang, R Dang… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Indicine cattle, also referred to as zebu (Bos taurus indicus), play a central role in pastoral
communities across a wide range of agro-ecosystems, from extremely hot semiarid regions …

Pervasive introgression facilitated domestication and adaptation in the Bos species complex

DD Wu, XD Ding, S Wang, JM Wójcik… - Nature ecology & …, 2018 - nature.com
Species of the Bos genus, including taurine cattle, zebu, gayal, gaur, banteng, yak, wisent
and bison, have been domesticated at least four times and have been an important source …

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 …

Long read genome assemblies complemented by single cell RNA-sequencing reveal genetic and cellular mechanisms underlying the adaptive evolution of yak

X Gao, S Wang, YF Wang, S Li, SX Wu, RG Yan… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Wild yak (Bos mutus) and domestic yak (Bos grunniens) are adapted to high altitude
environment and have ecological, economic, and cultural significances on the Qinghai …

The mosaic genome of indigenous African cattle as a unique genetic resource for African pastoralism

K Kim, T Kwon, T Dessie, DA Yoo, OA Mwai, J Jang… - Nature Genetics, 2020 - nature.com
Cattle pastoralism plays a central role in human livelihood in Africa. However, the genetic
history of its success remains unknown. Here, through whole-genome sequence analysis of …