Dairy cows mobilise body tissues to support milk production and, because glucose supplies
are limited, lipids are used preferentially for energy production. Lipogenic activity is switched …

The identification of regions that have undergone selection is one of the principal goals of
theoretical and applied evolutionary genetics. Such studies can also provide information …

Through their domestication and subsequent selection, sheep have been adapted to thrive
in a diverse range of environments. To characterise the genetic consequence of both …

Background Inbreeding reduces the fitness of individuals by increasing the frequency of
homozygous deleterious recessive alleles. Some insight into the genetic architecture of …

Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) based on high throughput SNP genotyping
technologies open a broad avenue for exploring genes associated with milk production traits …

Background Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) are a powerful tool for detecting
genomic regions explaining variation in phenotype. The objectives of the present study were …

More people globally depend on the water buffalo than any other domesticated species, and
as the most closely related domesticated species to cattle they can provide important …

Dairy cattle breeds have been subjected over the last fifty years to intense artificial selection
towards improvement of milk production traits. In this study, we performed a whole genome …

We investigated diverse genomic selections using high-density single nucleotide
polymorphism data of five distinct cattle breeds. Based on allele frequency differences, we …

Lactation, hair development and homeothermy are characteristic evolutionary features that
define mammals from other vertebrate species. Here we describe the discovery of two …