Background Understanding how evolutionary forces relating to climate have shaped the
patterns of genetic variation within and between species is a fundamental pursuit in biology …

Chinese ponies are endemic to the mountainous areas of southwestern China and were first
reported in the archaeological record at the Royal Tomb of Zhongshan King, Mancheng …

Carcass merits are widely considered as economically important traits affecting beef
production in the beef cattle industry. However, the genetic basis of carcass traits remains to …

Chicken plumage color is an inheritable phenotype that was naturally and artificially
selected for during domestication. The Baicheng You chicken is an indigenous Chinese …

Copy number variations (CNVs) are crucial structural genomic variants affecting complex
traits in humans and livestock animals. The current study was designed to conduct a …

Background Understanding the evolutionary forces related to climate changes that have
been shaped genetic variation within species has long been a fundamental pursuit in …

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

Understanding the genetic variations of the horse (Equus caballus) genome will improve
breeding conservation and welfare. However, genetic variations in long segments, such as …

Body weight of chicken is a typical quantitative trait, which shows phenotypic variations due
to selective breeding. Despite some QTL loci have been obtained, the body weight of native …

Background Sheep and goats have undergone domestication and improvement to produce
similar phenotypes, which have been greatly impacted by structural variants (SVs). Here, we …