The fastest way to significantly change the composition of a population is through admixture,
an evolutionary mechanism. In animal breeding history, genetic admixture has provided …

Mitochondria are vital organelles for life in eukaryotes, taking centre stage in the process of
cellular respiration. This process is regulated via a series of finely coordinated obligate …

The diversity in genome resources is fundamental to designing genomic strategies for local
breed improvement and utilisation. These resources also support gene discovery and …

The Maghreb is a key region for understanding the dynamics of cattle dispersal and
admixture with local aurochs following their earliest domestication in the Fertile Crescent …

Maternal diversity based on a sub-region of mitochondrial genome or variants were
commonly used to understand past demographic events in livestock. Additionally, there is …

Cytonuclear interaction refers to the complex and ongoing process of coevolution between
nuclear and organelle genomes, which are responsible for cellular respiration …

Environmental adaptation traits of indigenous African cattle are increasingly being
investigated to respond to the need for sustainable livestock production in the context of …

Bos taurus (taurine) and Bos indicus (indicine) cattle diverged at least 150,000 years ago
and, since that time, substantial genomic differences have evolved between the two …

Criollo cattle, the descendants of animals brought by Iberian colonists to the Americas, have
been the subject of natural and human-mediated selection in novel tropical agroecological …

Significant advances in livestock traits have been achieved primarily through selection
strategies targeting variation in the nuclear genome, with little attention given to mitogenome …