Sheep (Ovis aries) are a major source of meat, milk, and fiber in the form of wool and represent
a distinct class of animals that have a specialized digestive organ, the rumen, that carries …

We describe the organization of a nascent international effort, the Functional Annotation of
Animal Genomes (FAANG) project, whose aim is to produce comprehensive maps of …

The Pecorans (higher ruminants) are believed to have rapidly speciated in the Mid-Eocene,
resulting in five distinct extant families: Antilocapridae, Giraffidae, Moschidae, Cervidae, and …

Background Genotyping-by-sequencing (GBS) is becoming an attractive alternative to array-based
methods for genotyping individuals for a large number of single nucleotide …

The extent of linkage disequilibrium ( LD ) between genetic loci has implications for both
association studies and the accuracy of genomic prediction. To characterise the persistence of …

The neurodegenerative disorder Huntington’s disease (HD) is typically characterized by
extensive loss of striatal neurons and the midlife onset of debilitating and progressive chorea, …

Domestication fundamentally reshaped animal morphology, physiology and behaviour, offering
the opportunity to investigate the molecular processes driving evolutionary change. Here …

Background In recent years, the use of genomic information in livestock species for genetic
improvement, association studies and many other fields has become routine. In order to …

Background Cattle are important agriculturally and relevant as a model organism. Previously
described genetic and radiation hybrid (RH) maps of the bovine genome have been used …

The ability to DNA fingerprint Mycobacterium bovis isolates helped to define the role of
wildlife in the persistence of bovine tuberculosis in New Zealand. DNA fingerprinting results …