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Genome-Wide Analysis of the World's Sheep Breeds Reveals High Levels of Historic Mixture and Strong Recent Selection

Through their domestication and subsequent selection, sheep have been adapted to thrive in a diverse range of environments. To characterise the genetic consequence of both domestication and selection, we genotyped 49,034 SNP in 2,819 animals from a diverse collection of 74 sheep breeds. We find the...

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Autores principales: Kijas, James W., Lenstra, Johannes A., Hayes, Ben, Boitard, Simon, Porto Neto, Laercio R., San Cristobal, Magali, Servin, Bertrand, McCulloch, Russell, Whan, Vicki, Gietzen, Kimberly, Paiva, Samuel, Barendse, William, Ciani, Elena, Raadsma, Herman, McEwan, John, Dalrymple, Brian
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2012
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3274507/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22346734
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.1001258