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 …

Livestock on the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau is of great importance for the livelihood of the local
inhabitants and the ecosystem of the plateau. The natural, harsh environment has shaped …

Understanding the factors that affect water quality and the ecological services provided by
freshwater ecosystems is an urgent global environmental issue. Predicting how water quality …

Structural variants (SVs) represent an important genetic resource for both natural and
artificial selection. Here we present a chromosome-scale reference genome for domestic …

青藏高原环境主要体现为低氧低压, 寒冷干燥, 紫外线强, 食物匮乏等, 而高原家养动物经历了
长期的选择和培育后能够生活在此环境下, 其机体已经形成了独特的高原适应性特征 …

Background The increasing amount of sequencing data available for a wide variety of
species can be theoretically used for detecting copy number variations (CNVs) at the …

Background and aim Mitochondrial genome has aseries of characteristics such as simple
structure, no recombination, maternalinheritance, stable structure, fast evolution rate, and …

Gene flow is predicted to impede parallel adaptation via de novo mutation, because it can
introduce pre-existing adaptive alleles from population to population. We test this using …

Abstract Background Yellow-feathered chickens (YFCs) have a long history in China. They
are well-known for the nutritional and commercial importance attributable to their yellow …

Abstract Background Copy number variations (CNVs) represent a major source of genetic
diversity and contribute to the phenotypic variation of economically important traits in …