Stature is affected by many polymorphisms of small effect in humans 1 . In contrast, variation
in dogs, even within breeds, has been suggested to be largely due to variants in a small …

Through their domestication and subsequent selection, sheep have been adapted to thrive
in a diverse range of environments. To characterise the genetic consequence of both …

Detecting the molecular basis of adaptation is one of the major questions in population genetics.
With the advance in sequencing technologies, nearly complete interrogation of genome-…

Inferring the ancestral dynamics of effective population size is a long-standing question in
population genetics, which can now be tackled much more accurately thanks to the massive …

Background Variable selection on high throughput biological data, such as gene expression
or single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs), becomes inevitable to select relevant …

The detection of molecular signatures of selection is one of the major concerns of modern
population genetics. A widely used strategy in this context is to compare samples from several …

Most species are structured and influenced by processes that either increased or reduced
gene flow between populations. However, most population genetic inference methods …

Detecting genetic signatures of selection is of great interest for many research issues. Common
approaches to separate selective from neutral processes focus on the variance of F ST …

The diversity of populations in domestic species offers great opportunities to study genome
response to selection. The recently published Sheep HapMap dataset is a great example of …

Background The interaction of organisms with their surrounding microbial communities
influences many biological processes, a notable example of which is the shaping of the immune …