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Candidate signatures of positive selection for environmental adaptation in indigenous African cattle: A review.
Animal genetics - 1 Dec 2023
Kambal Sumaya, Tijjani Abdulfatai, Ibrahim Sabah A E, Ahmed Mohamed-Khair A, Mwacharo Joram M, Hanotte Olivier
Abstract excerpt
Environmental adaptation traits of indigenous African cattle are increasingly being investigated to respond to the need for sustainable livestock production in the context of unpredictable climatic changes. Several studies have highlighted genomic regions under positive selection probably associated with adaptation to environmental challenges (e.g. heat stress, trypanosomiasis, tick and tick-borne diseases)....
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