As the expectation of the influence of climate change scenarios increases, the effect of heat
stress on small ruminants is significant due to their importance for smallholders in stressful …

Background Since goat was domesticated 10,000 years ago, many factors have contributed
to the differentiation of goat breeds and these are classified mainly into two types:(i) …

Background Goat populations that are characterized within the AdaptMap project cover a
large part of the worldwide distribution of this species and provide the opportunity to assess …

Local adaptation of animals to the environment can abruptly become a burden when faced
with rapid climatic changes such as those foreseen for the Italian peninsula over the next 70 …

Background Patterns of homozygosity can be influenced by several factors, such as
demography, recombination, and selection. Using the goat SNP50 BeadChip, we genotyped …

Heterozygosity-rich regions (HRR) are genomic regions of high heterozygosity, which may
harbor loci related to key functional traits such as immune response, survival rate, fertility …

Domestication and human selection have formed diverse goat breeds with characteristic
phenotypes. This process correlated with the fixation of causative genetic variants …

In the last decade, several studies aimed at dissecting the genetic architecture of local small
ruminant breeds to discover which variations are involved in the process of adaptation to …

During the last few decades, hundreds of candidate genes have been detected and
identified in goat breeds. In addition, comprehensive studies have been performed on the …

Background Goat, one of the first domesticated livestock, is a worldwide important species
both culturally and economically. The current goat reference genome, known as ARS1, is …