Animal domestication has fascinated biologists since Charles Darwin first drew the parallel between evolution via natural selection and human-mediated breeding of livestock and …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …