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Investigating the footprint of post-domestication dispersal on the diversity of modern European, African and Asian goats.
Genetics, selection, evolution : GSE - 27 Jul 2024
Petretto Elena, Dettori Maria Luisa, Luigi-Sierra María Gracia, Noce Antonia, Pazzola Michele, Vacca Giuseppe Massimo, Molina Antonio, Martínez Amparo, Goyache Félix, Carolan Sean, Amills Marcel
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BACKGROUND: Goats were domesticated in the Fertile Crescent about 10,000 years before present (YBP) and subsequently spread across Eurasia and Africa. This dispersal is expected to generate a gradient of declining genetic diversity with increasing distance from the areas of early livestock management. Previous studies have reported the existence of such genetic cline in European goat populations, but they were...
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