Half a century ago, a seminal article on the hitchhiking effect by Smith and Haigh
inaugurated the concept of the selection signature. Selective sweeps are characterised by …

Livestock populations have been consistently improving in terms of performance and
productivity by selective breeding over the centuries. These selection strategies are …

Selection for new favorable variants can lead to selective sweeps. However, such sweeps
might be rare in the evolution of different species for which polygenic adaptation or selection …

Selective sweeps can increase genetic differentiation among populations and cause allele
frequency spectra to depart from the expectation under neutrality. We present a likelihood …

The controversy on the relative importance of background selection (BGS; against
deleterious mutations) and genetic hitchhiking (associated with positive directional …

Human driven selection during domestication and subsequent breed formation and
breeding has left detectable signatures within the genome of livestock breeds. The …

Identifying genomic regions targeted by positive selection has been a long‐standing interest
of evolutionary biologists. This objective was difficult to achieve until the recent emergence …

Antagonistically selected alleles-–those with opposing fitness effects between sexes,
environments, or fitness components-–represent an important component of additive genetic …

Since domestication, significant genetic improvement has been achieved for many traits of
commercial importance in cattle, including adaptation, appearance and production. In …

Loci with higher levels of population differentiation than the neutral expectation are
traditionally interpreted as evidence of ongoing selection that varies in space. This article …