Sheep are among the earliest domesticated livestock species, with a wide variety of breeds
present today. However, it remains unclear how far back this diversity goes, with formal …

The genetic structure and characteristics of Iranian native breeds are yet to be
comprehensibly investigated and studied. Therefore, we employed genomic information of …

Reproductive traits of sheep are under the control of both the environment and genetics.
Moreover, most of these traits have low heritability, are sex-limited, and expressed later in …

Abstract The Latvian Darkheaded is the only locally developed sheep breed. The breed was
formed at the beginning of the 20th century by crossing local coarse-wooled sheep with the …

The genetic diversity and genomic regions being under putative natural selection in Kurdish
horse population were studied. The samples from 72 horses were genotyped by using GGP …

In sheep, the woolly or hairy fleece type shows variation within and between breeds and
populations. Recently, the woolly allele was shown to result from the insertion of an antisens …

We investigated the prediction accuracy and bias of single-step genomic BLUP (ssGBLUP)
with or without weights for single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs). The SNP weights were …

Abstract The Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region is the region with the highest mutton
production in China, but researchers know very little about the genetic evolution of local …