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High-density genotyping reveals signatures of selection related to acclimation and economically important traits in 15 local sheep breeds from Russia.
BMC genomics - 8 May 2019
Yurchenko Andrey A, Deniskova Tatiana E, Yudin Nikolay S, Dotsev Arsen V, Khamiruev Timur N, Selionova Marina I, Egorov Sergey V, Reyer Henry, Wimmers Klaus, Brem Gottfried, Zinovieva Natalia A, Larkin Denis M
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Domestication and centuries of selective breeding have changed genomes of sheep breeds to respond to environmental challenges and human needs. The genomes of local breeds, therefore, are valuable sources of genomic variants to be used to understand mechanisms of response to adaptation and artificial selection. As a step toward this we performed a high-density genotyping and comprehensive scans for...
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