This review presents a broader approach to the implementation and study of runs of
homozygosity (ROH) in animal populations, focusing on identifying and characterizing ROH …

Key message Maximizing crop yield while at the same time minimizing crop failure for
sustainable agriculture requires a better understanding of the impacts of plant breeding on …

Quantifying human, plant and livestock inbreeding has been an important goal of
evolutionary biologists and agricultural scientists for nearly a century, and methods to do so …

Domestication and the subsequent selection of animals for either economic or
morphological features can leave a variety of imprints on the genome of a population …

Background While autozygosity as a consequence of selection is well understood, there is
limited information on the ability of different methods to measure true inbreeding. In the …

Traditionally, pedigree-based relationship coefficients have been used to manage the
inbreeding and degree of inbreeding depression that exists within a population. The …

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

Background The detection of signatures of selection has the potential to elucidate the
identities of genes and mutations associated with phenotypic traits important for livestock …

Background Recent developments in sequencing technology have facilitated widespread
investigations of genomic variants, including continuous stretches of homozygous genomic …

In the local breeds with small population size, one of the most important problems is the
increase of inbreeding coefficient (F). High levels of inbreeding lead to reduced genetic …