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

Together with their sister subspecies Bos taurus, zebu cattle (Bos indicus) have contributed
to important socioeconomic changes that have shaped modern civilizations. Zebu cattle …

Cattle have been invaluable for the transition of human society from nomadic hunter‐
gatherers to sedentary farming communities throughout much of Europe, Asia and Africa …

Single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs), genotyped with arrays, have become a widely
used marker type in population genetic analyses over the last 10 years. However, compared …

Abstract Background In the Neolithic, domestic sheep migrated into Europe and
subsequently spread in westerly and northwesterly directions. Reconstruction of these …

Background Since domestication, chickens did not only disperse into the different parts of
the world but they have also undergone significant genomic changes in this process. Many …

f-statistics have emerged as a first line of analysis for making inferences about demographic
history from genome-wide data. Not only are they guaranteed to allow robust tests of the fits …

The genomic era has led to an unprecedented increase in the availability of genome‐wide
data for a broad range of taxa. Wildlife management strives to make use of these vast …

Conservation genetic analyses of many endangered species have been based on
genotyping of microsatellite loci and sequencing of short fragments of mtDNA. The increase …

Understanding the biological mechanisms of climatic adaptation is of paramount importance
for the optimization of breeding programs and conservation of genetic resources. The aim of …