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British Sheep Breeds as a Part of World Sheep Gene Pool Landscape: Looking into Genomic Applications

SIMPLE SUMMARY: The UK can be proud of the fact that numerous native breeds of sheep have been developed here that possess unique phenotypic features and excellent productivity and are utilized throughout the world. Their remarkable popularity and further sustainable breeding on grass pastures of Br...

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Autores principales: Romanov, Michael N., Zinovieva, Natalia A., Griffin, Darren K.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: MDPI 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8103502/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33916207
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ani11040994
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description SIMPLE SUMMARY: The UK can be proud of the fact that numerous native breeds of sheep have been developed here that possess unique phenotypic features and excellent productivity and are utilized throughout the world. Their remarkable popularity and further sustainable breeding on grass pastures of British Isles and elsewhere can benefit from genomic applications. ABSTRACT: Sheep farming has been an important sector of the UK’s economy and rural life for many centuries. It is the favored source of wool, meat and milk products. In the era of exponential progress in genomic technologies, we can now address the questions of what is special about UK sheep breed genotypes and how they differ genetically form one another and from other countries. We can reflect how their natural history has been determined at the level of their genetic code and what traces have been left in their genomes because of selection for phenotypic traits. These include adaptability to certain environmental conditions and management, as well as resistance to disease. Application of these advancements in genetics and genomics to study sheep breeds of British domestic selection has begun and will continue in order to facilitate conservation solutions and production improvement.
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spelling pubmed-81035022021-05-08 British Sheep Breeds as a Part of World Sheep Gene Pool Landscape: Looking into Genomic Applications Romanov, Michael N. Zinovieva, Natalia A. Griffin, Darren K. Animals (Basel) Review SIMPLE SUMMARY: The UK can be proud of the fact that numerous native breeds of sheep have been developed here that possess unique phenotypic features and excellent productivity and are utilized throughout the world. Their remarkable popularity and further sustainable breeding on grass pastures of British Isles and elsewhere can benefit from genomic applications. ABSTRACT: Sheep farming has been an important sector of the UK’s economy and rural life for many centuries. It is the favored source of wool, meat and milk products. In the era of exponential progress in genomic technologies, we can now address the questions of what is special about UK sheep breed genotypes and how they differ genetically form one another and from other countries. We can reflect how their natural history has been determined at the level of their genetic code and what traces have been left in their genomes because of selection for phenotypic traits. These include adaptability to certain environmental conditions and management, as well as resistance to disease. Application of these advancements in genetics and genomics to study sheep breeds of British domestic selection has begun and will continue in order to facilitate conservation solutions and production improvement. MDPI 2021-04-01 /pmc/articles/PMC8103502/ /pubmed/33916207 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ani11040994 Text en © 2021 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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title_full British Sheep Breeds as a Part of World Sheep Gene Pool Landscape: Looking into Genomic Applications
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title_short British Sheep Breeds as a Part of World Sheep Gene Pool Landscape: Looking into Genomic Applications
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8103502/
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http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ani11040994
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