Domestication is an ongoing co-evolutionary process rather than an event or invention.
Recent zooarchaeological and animal genetics research has prompted a thorough revision …

Both natural and artificial selection are among the main driving forces shaping genetic
variation across the genome of livestock species. Selection typically leaves signatures in the …

Goats migrated to southern Africa approximately 500–600 years ago, and have since
fulfilled a crucial role in both ceremonial and food security aspects of African cultures. The …

Domestic goats are distributed worldwide, with approximately 35% of the one billion world
goat population occurring in Africa. Ethiopia has 52.5 million goats,~ 99.9% of which are …

The investigation of genetic diversity at molecular level has been proposed as a valuable
complement and sometimes proxy to phenotypic diversity of local breeds and is presently …

Global livestock genetic diversity includes all of the species, breeds and strains of domestic
animals, and their variations. Although a recent census indicated that there were 40 species …

Uganda has a large population of goats, predominantly from indigenous breeds reared in
diverse production systems, whose existence is threatened by crossbreeding with exotic …

Ethiopia lies within the earliest geographic center for the dispersal of livestock into the
African continent. It therefore comprises a unique repository of livestock genetic diversity in …

Artificial and natural selection in livestock is expected to leave unique footprints on their
genomes. Goat breeds in Kenya have evolved for survival, breeding, and production in …

This paper is a reaction to a long and at times stagnated debate about how non-indigenous
sheep, cattle and goats spread amongst southern Africa's Later Stone Age communities …