Crop diversity underpins the productivity, resilience and adaptive capacity of agriculture.
Loss of this diversity, termed crop genetic erosion, is therefore concerning. While alarms …

Genetic erosion is a major threat to biodiversity because it can reduce fitness and ultimately
contribute to the extinction of populations. Here, we explore the use of quantitative metrics to …

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 …

Cattle imported from the Iberian Peninsula spread throughout America in the early years of
discovery and colonization to originate Creole breeds, which adapted to a wide diversity of …

Mouflon (Ovis aries musimon) became extinct from mainland Europe after the Neolithic, but
remnant populations from the Mediterranean islands of Corsica and Sardinia have been …

Background The management of farm animal genetic resources and the adaptation of
animals to climate change will probably have major effects on the long-term sustainability of …

Background The importance of local breeds as genetic reservoirs of valuable genetic
variation is well established. Pig breeding in Central and South-Eastern Europe has a long …

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 …

Domestic species such as cattle (Bos taurus taurus and B. t. indicus) represent attractive
biological models to characterize the genetic basis of short‐term evolutionary response to …

Why do infectious diseases erupt in some host populations and not others? This question
has spawned independent fields of research in evolution, ecology, public health, agriculture …