Yin-Hong Cao, Song-Song Xu, Min Shen, Ze-Hui Chen, Lei Gao, Feng-Hua Lv, Xing-Long Xie, Xin-Hua Wang, Hua Yang, Chang-Bin Liu, Ping Zhou, Peng-Cheng Wan, Yun-Sheng Zhang, Jing-Quan Yang, Wen-Hui Pi, Hehua EEr, Donagh P Berry, Mario Barbato, Ali Esmailizadeh, Maryam Nosrati, Hosein Salehian-Dehkordi, Mostafa Dehghani-Qanatqestani, Arsen V Dotsev, Tatiana E Deniskova, Natalia A Zinovieva, Gottfried Brem, Ondřej Štěpánek, Elena Ciani, Christina Weimann, Georg Erhardt, Joram M Mwacharo, Abulgasim Ahbara, Jian-Lin Han, Olivier Hanotte, Joshua M Miller, Zijian Sim, David Coltman, Juha Kantanen, Michael W Bruford, Johannes A Lenstra, James Kijas, Meng-Hua Li
How animals, particularly livestock, adapt to various climates and environments over short evolutionary time is of fundamental biological interest. Further, understanding the genetic mechanisms of adaptation in indigenous livestock populations is important for designing appropriate breeding programs to cope with the impacts of changing climate. Here we conducted a comprehensive genomic analysis of diversity, interspecies introgression and climate-mediated selective signatures in a global sample of sheep and their wild relatives...
September 17, 2020: Molecular Biology and Evolution