Background Native cattle breeds are an important source of genetic variation because they
might carry alleles that enable them to adapt to local environment and tough feeding …

Genetic studies of livestock populations focus on questions of domestication, within‐and
among‐breed diversity, breed history and adaptive variation. In this review, we describe the …

Yak domestication represents an important episode in the early human occupation of the
high-altitude Qinghai-Tibet Plateau (QTP). The precise timing of domestication is debated …

Previous archeological and genetic research has shown that modern cattle breeds are
descended from multiple independent domestication events of the wild aurochs (Bos …

The yak is remarkable for its adaptation to high altitude and occupies a central place in the
economies of the mountainous regions of Asia. At lower elevations, it is common to hybridize …

Next-generation sequencing has yielded a vast amount of cattle genomic data for global
characterization of population genetic diversity and identification of genomic regions under …

Northern Fennoscandia and the Sakha Republic in the Russian Federation represent the
northernmost regions on Earth where cattle farming has been traditionally practiced. In this …

Background Integration of genomic variation with phenotypic information is an effective
approach for uncovering genotype-phenotype associations. This requires an accurate …

High-throughput sequencing technologies have offered in recent years new opportunities to
study genome variations. These studies have mostly focused on single nucleotide …

The primary goal of cattle genomics is the identification of genome-wide polymorphism
associated with economically important traits. The bovine genome sequencing project was …