The quest for genes involved in adaptation to climate change in ruminant livestock

MM Passamonti, E Somenzi, M Barbato, G Chillemi… - Animals, 2021 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary After domestication in specific regions, livestock followed human
migrations and colonized the whole world. During this population expansion, human and …

[HTML][HTML] Transgenerational transmission of environmental effects in livestock in the age of global warming

M Gershoni - Cell Stress and Chaperones, 2023 - Elsevier
Recent decades provide mounting evidence for the continual increase in global
temperatures, now termed “global warming,” to the point of drastic worldwide change in the …

Structural variation and introgression from wild populations in East Asian cattle genomes confer adaptation to local environment

X Xia, F Zhang, S Li, X Luo, L Peng, Z Dong, H Pausch… - Genome Biology, 2023 - Springer
Abstract Background Structural variations (SVs) in individual genomes are major
determinants of complex traits, including adaptability to environmental variables. The …

Global dispersal and adaptive evolution of domestic cattle: a genomic perspective

X Xia, K Qu, Y Wang, MHS Sinding, F Wang, Q Hanif… - Stress Biology, 2023 - Springer
Domestic cattle have spread across the globe and inhabit variable and unpredictable
environments. They have been exposed to a plethora of selective pressures and have …

Selective footprints and genes relevant to cold adaptation and other phenotypic traits are unscrambled in the genomes of divergently selected chicken breeds

MN Romanov, AS Abdelmanova, VI Fisinin… - Journal of Animal …, 2023 - Springer
Background The genomes of worldwide poultry breeds divergently selected for performance
and other phenotypic traits may also be affected by, and formed due to, past and current …

Beef cattle genome project: Advances in genome sequencing, assembly, and functional genes discovery

Z Gao, Y Lu, Y Chong, M Li, J Hong, J Wu… - International Journal of …, 2024 - mdpi.com
Beef is a major global source of protein, playing an essential role in the human diet. The
worldwide production and consumption of beef continue to rise, reflecting a significant trend …

Adipose gene expression profiles in Northern Finncattle, Mirandesa cattle, Yakutian cattle and commercial Holstein cattle

D Ruvinskiy, A Amaral, M Weldenegodguad… - Scientific Reports, 2024 - nature.com
The drastic change in global climate has led to in-depth studies of the geneticresources of
native cattle adapted to challenging environments. Native cattle breeds may harbor unique …

GADMA2: more efficient and flexible demographic inference from genetic data

E Noskova, N Abramov, S Iliutkin, A Sidorin… - …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Background Inference of complex demographic histories is a source of information about
events that happened in the past of studied populations. Existing methods for demographic …

Whole genome screening procures a holistic hold of the Russian chicken gene pool heritage and demographic history

MN Romanov, AS Abdelmanova, VI Fisinin, EA Gladyr… - Biology, 2023 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary A collection of native farm animal breeds can be considered as a gene
pool and a national heritage. Long-term artificial selection in domesticated animals has …

[HTML][HTML] Population genomics reveals that natural variation in PRDM16 contributes to cold tolerance in domestic cattle

CL Yan, J Lin, YY Huang, QS Gao, ZY Piao… - Zoological …, 2022 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Environmental temperature serves as a major driver of adaptive changes in wild organisms.
To discover the mechanisms underpinning cold tolerance in domestic animals, we …