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Tracking footprints of artificial and natural selection signatures in breeding and non-breeding cats.
Scientific reports - 27 Oct 2022
Zhang Xuying, Jamwal Kokila, Distl Ottmar
Abstract excerpt
Stray non-breeding cats (stray) represent the largest heterogeneous cat population subject to natural selection, while populations of the Siamese (SIAM) and Oriental Shorthair (OSH) breeds developed through intensive artificial selection for aesthetic traits. Runs of homozygosity (ROH) and demographic measures are useful tools to discover chromosomal regions of recent selection and to characterize genetic...
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