The identification of regions that have undergone selection is one of the principal goals of
theoretical and applied evolutionary genetics. Such studies can also provide information …

The purpose of this paper is to summarize the available important information on local pig
breeds maintained in Europe. Genetic erosion has prompted national and international …

Background Natural and artificial directional selection in cosmopolitan and autochthonous
pig breeds and wild boars have shaped their genomes and resulted in a reservoir of animal …

The identification of candidate genes related to pigmentation and under selective sweep
provides insights into the genetic basis of pigmentation and the evolutionary forces that have …

In goats, classical genetic studies reported a large number of alleles at the Agouti locus with
effects on coat color and pattern distribution. From these early studies, the dominant A Wt …

The aim of this work was to analyse the distribution of causal and candidate mutations
associated to relevant productive traits in twenty local European pig breeds. Also, the …

Abstract Background The goat (Capra hircus) represents one of the most important farm
animal species. It is reared in all continents with an estimated world population of about 800 …

Understanding the genomic features of livestock is essential for successful breeding
programs and conservation. This information is scarce for local goat breeds in Egypt. In the …

Silphium perfoliatum L.(cup plant, silphie) and S. integrifolium Michx.(rosinweed, silflower)
are in the same subfamily and tribe as sunflower (Helianthus annuus L.). Silphium …

We carried out a cross species cattle–sheep array comparative genome hybridization
experiment to identify copy number variations (CNVs) in the sheep genome analysing ewes …