Article
Population history and genomic signatures for high-altitude adaptation in Tibetan pigs.
BMC genomics - 1 Oct 2014
Ai Huashui, Yang Bin, Li Jing, Xie Xianhua, Chen Hao, Ren Jun
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: The Tibetan pig is one of domestic animals indigenous to the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau. Several geographically isolated pig populations are distributed throughout the Plateau. It remained an open question if these populations have experienced different demographic histories and have evolved independent adaptive loci for the harsh environment of the Plateau. To address these questions, we herein...
Topics
- Adaptation, Biological
- Altitude
- Aminopeptidases
- Animals
- Basic Helix-Loop-Helix Transcription Factors
- Biological Evolution
- Genetic Loci
- Genetics, Population
- Genome
- Genotype
- Hypoxia-Inducible Factor-Proline Dioxygenases