RT Journal Article SR Electronic T1 Phylophenomic and Phylogenomic analysis for Ovis aries reveals distinct identity of newly reported breed JF bioRxiv FD Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory SP 2022.07.31.502249 DO 10.1101/2022.07.31.502249 A1 Aruna Pal A1 Samiddha Banerjee A1 Prabir karmakar YR 2022 UL http://biorxiv.org/content/early/2022/08/02/2022.07.31.502249.abstract AB Domestication and phylogenetics for Ovis aries is an important species to study, since there exists enormous biodiversity in terms of habitat and utility of sheep. The present study aimed at identification of the biodiversity existing within sheep breeds reared in different agroclimatic zones of the state West Bengal (Garole, Birbhum, Bonpala and Chotanagpuri) through phylogenetic analysis of phenotypic traits as growth and biomorphometric traits through principal component analysis, factor analysis, genetic correlation, multivariate cluster analysis through Hierarchial classification and k-means cluster analysis. Confirmation of the phylophenomic studies were later on carried out with phylogenomic analysis with microsatellite markers for sheep. Birbhum sheep from dry arid region of West Bengal is reported as the newly reported breed of sheep with distinct genetic identity.Competing Interest StatementThe authors have declared no competing interest.