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Donata Marletta
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Additional file 13: Figure S7. Genetic relationship defined with multidimensional scaling analysis between Italian and 62 European cattle breeds. The breeds were grouped according to their geographical origins and distributions. Northern_Europe (Belgian Blue, Dexter, Kerry, Lithuanian Light Grey, Lithuanian White Backed, Groningen Whitehead, Lakenvelder, Meuse-Rhine-Ijjsel, Norwegian Red, Finnish Ayrshire, Belted Galloway, Galloway, Angus, Scottish Highland, South Devon), England (Devon, Guernsey, Hereford, Longhorn, Lincoln Red, Milking Shorthorn, Red Poll, Beef Shorthorn, Sussex, Welsh Blach, White Park), Spain (Berrenda en Negro, Berrenda en Colorado, Cardena Andaluza, Menorquina, Pirena…
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Additional file 6: Figure S3. Distribution of all ROH within breeds according to their size (kb).
Runs of homozygosity in the Italian goat breeds: impact of management practices in low-input systems
Abstract Background Climate and farming systems, several of which are considered as low-input agricultural systems, vary between goat populations from Northern and Southern Italy and have led to different management practices. These processes have impacted genome shaping in terms of inbreeding and regions under selection and resulted in differences between the northern and southern populations. Both inbreeding and signatures of selection can be pinpointed by the analysis of runs of homozygosity (ROH), which provides useful information to assist the management of this species in different rural areas. Results We analyzed the ROH distribution and inbreeding (FROH) in 902 goats from the Italia…
How Geography and Climate Shaped the Genomic Diversity of Italian Local Cattle and Sheep Breeds
International audience; Understanding the relationships among geography, climate, and genetics is increasingly important for animal farming and breeding. In this study, we examine these inter-relationships in the context of local cattle and sheep breeds distributed along the Italian territory. To this aim, we used redundancy analysis on genomic data from previous projects combined with geographical coordinates and corresponding climatic data. The effect of geographic factors (latitude and longitude) was more important in sheep (26.4%) than that in cattle (13.8%). Once geography had been partialled out of analysis, 10.1% of cattle genomic diversity and 13.3% of that of sheep could be ascribe…
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Additional file 2: Table S1. Name of the breeds, geographic coordinates (longitude and latitude) of the center of origin, sample size before (n-PreQC) and after (n-PostQC) genotyping quality control, and origin of genotyping data.
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Additional file 3: Figure S1. Trends in historic effective population size (Ne) (from 13 to 98 generations).
Additional file 10 of On the origin and diversification of Podolian cattle breeds: testing scenarios of European colonization using genome-wide SNP data
Additional file 10: Figure S8. Projection on a single LDA axis in the model-grouping approach (a) and on the first two LDA axes in the six scenarios separately (b).
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Additional file 1. Description of each Italian local cattle breed involved in this study [68].
Additional file 2 of Runs of homozygosity in the Italian goat breeds: impact of management practices in low-input systems
Additional file 2: Figure S2. Manhattan plots representing the signals of signatures of selection in the two population groups (CSD and NRD), of the ��ROH, and averaged FST. CSD = Central-southern population group; NRD = Northern population group.
Genome-Wide Patterns of Homozygosity Reveal the Conservation Status in Five Italian Goat Populations.
The application of genomic technologies has facilitated the assessment of genomic inbreeding based on single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs). In this study, we computed several runs of homozygosity (ROH) parameters to investigate the patterns of homozygosity using Illumina Goat SNP50 in five Italian local populations: Argentata dell’Etna (N = 48), Derivata di Siria (N = 32), Girgentana (N = 59), Maltese (N = 16) and Messinese (N = 22). The ROH results showed well-defined differences among the populations. A total of 3687 ROH segments >
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Additional file 10: Figure S6. Scatter plot of correlations between genetic differentiation (FST) and geographical distances for all breeds.
On the origin and diversification of Podolian cattle breeds: testing scenarios of European colonization using genome-wide SNP data
AbstractBackgroundDuring the Neolithic expansion, cattle accompanied humans and spread from their domestication centres to colonize the ancient world. In addition, European cattle occasionally intermingled with both indicine cattle and local aurochs resulting in an exclusive pattern of genetic diversity. Among the most ancient European cattle are breeds that belong to the so-called Podolian trunk, the history of which is still not well established. Here, we used genome-wide single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) data on 806 individuals belonging to 36 breeds to reconstruct the origin and diversification of Podolian cattle and to provide a reliable scenario of the European colonization, throug…
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Additional file 3: Table S2. Set of priors used to model the scenarios in the ABC framework.
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Additional file 4: Table S2. Pearson correlation coefficients between genetic diversity indices. Observed (Ho) and expected (He) heterozygosity, average minor allele frequency (MAF), inbreeding coefficient (FHOM), contemporary effective population size (cNe), mean ROH-based inbreeding coefficient (FROH>4Mb) and recent and historical Ne estimated 13 (Ne13), 20 (Ne_20 and 80 (Ne_80) generations ago. (* p- valueâ
Fifteen Shades of Grey: Combined Analysis of Genome-Wide SNP Data in Steppe and Mediterranean Grey Cattle Sheds New Light on the Molecular Basis of Coat Color
Coat color is among the most distinctive phenotypes in cattle. Worldwide, several breeds share peculiar coat color features such as the presence of a fawn pigmentation of the calf at birth, turning over time to grey, and sexual dichromatism. The aim of this study was to search for polymorphisms under differential selection by contrasting grey cattle breeds displaying the above phenotype with non-grey cattle breeds, and to identify the underlying genes. Using medium-density SNP array genotype data, a multi-cohort FST-outlier approach was adopted for a total of 60 pair-wise comparisons of the 15 grey with 4 non-grey cattle breeds (Angus, Limousin, Charolais, and Holstein), with the latter sel…
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Additional file 7: Figure S4. Model-based clustering of the estimated membership fractions of individuals from the 32 breeds analyzed in each of the K inferred clusters revealed by the ADMIXTURE software (Kâ =â 12, 16, 20, 28, 32). For a full definition of breeds see Table S1 (see Additional file 2: Table S1).
Additional file 1 of On the origin and diversification of Podolian cattle breeds: testing scenarios of European colonization using genome-wide SNP data
Additional file 1: Table S1. Name of the breeds, breed codes, sample size (N), sub-species, continent and geographic origin, and source of genotyping data.
Conservation status and historical relatedness of Italian cattle breeds
Background In the last 50 years, the diversity of cattle breeds has experienced a severe contraction. However, in spite of the growing diffusion of cosmopolite specialized breeds, several local cattle breeds are still farmed in Italy. Genetic characterization of breeds represents an essential step to guide decisions in the management of farm animal genetic resources. The aim of this work was to provide a high-resolution representation of the genome-wide diversity and population structure of Italian local cattle breeds using a medium-density single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) array. Results After quality control filtering, the dataset included 31,013 SNPs for 800 samples from 32 breeds. Ou…
The climatic and genetic heritage of Italian goat breeds with genomic SNP data
Local adaptation of animals to the environment can abruptly become a burden when faced with rapid climatic changes such as those foreseen for the Italian peninsula over the next 70 years. Our study investigates the genetic structure of the Italian goat populations and links it with the environment and how genetics might evolve over the next 50 years. We used one of the largest national datasets including > 1000 goats from 33 populations across the Italian peninsula collected by the Italian Goat Consortium and genotyped with over 50 k markers. Our results showed that Italian goats can be discriminated in three groups reflective of the Italian geography and its geo-political situation prec…
Genome-wide analysis of Italian sheep diversity reveals a strong geographic pattern and cryptic relationships between breeds
Summary Italy counts several sheep breeds, arisen over centuries as a consequence of ancient and recent genetic and demographic events. To finely reconstruct genetic structure and relationships between Italian sheep, 496 subjects from 19 breeds were typed at 50K single nucleotide polymorphism loci. A subset of foreign breeds from the Sheep HapMap dataset was also included in the analyses. Genetic distances (as visualized either in a network or in a multidimensional scaling analysis of identical by state distances) closely reflected geographic proximity between breeds, with a clear north–south gradient, likely because of high levels of past gene flow and admixture all along the peninsula. Sa…
Genome-wide analysis identifies potentially causative genes explaining the phenotypic variability in Pinzirita sheep
Genome-wide analysis identifies potentially causative genes explaining the phenotypic variability in Pinzirita sheep
Additional file 1 of Runs of homozygosity in the Italian goat breeds: impact of management practices in low-input systems
Additional file 1: Figure S1. Geographic distribution (a), phylogeny tree (b), and multidimensional scaling analysis (c) of all the Italian goat breeds included in the study.
The genetics of phenotypic plasticity in livestock in the era of climate change: a review
Climate change has the potential to adversely affect the health of livestock, with consequences to animal welfare, greenhouse gas emissions, productivity, human health and livelihoods. Phenotypic plasticity is the ability of a genotype to produce different phenotypes, depending on environmental, biotic or abiotic conditions; it is a factor influencing and modifying the genes of animal and plant organisms, to adaptation to climate change. Among the various climate variables, heat stress has been reported to be the most detrimental factor to the economy of the livestock industry. There are a number of candidate genes that are associated with adaptation of ruminants, monogastric and poultry to…
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Additional file 8: Figure S5. Cross-validation errors of admixture analysis at different K values.
Genome‐wide survey on three local horse populations with a focus on runs of homozygosity pattern
Purosangue Orientale Siciliano, Sanfratellano and Siciliano represent the Sicilian equine genetic resource. This study aimed to investigate the genetic diversity, population structure and the pattern of autozygosity of Sicilian horse populations using genome-wide single-nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) data generated with the Illumina Equine SNP70 array. The genotyping data of 17 European and Middle East populations were also included in the study. The patterns of genetic differentiation, model-based clustering and Neighbour-Net showed the expected positioning of Sicilian populations within the wide analysed framework and the close connections between the Purosangue Orientale Siciliano and the…
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Additional file 12: Table S5. Results of the f4 test.
Additional file 8 of On the origin and diversification of Podolian cattle breeds: testing scenarios of European colonization using genome-wide SNP data
Additional file 8: Figure S6. Increment in the log likelihood for the reduced (European taurine and the Guelmoise) dataset for all tested migration events, calculated by using the optM function in the R package OptM.
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Additional file 5: Figure S3. Cross-validation plot of the admixture analysis for all values of K (number of clusters) ranging from 2 to 23.
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Additional file 11: Table S4. Results of the f3 test.
Additional file 2 of On the origin and diversification of Podolian cattle breeds: testing scenarios of European colonization using genome-wide SNP data
Additional file 2: Figure S1. All modelled scenarios for colonization tested in the ABC framework. Description: In all the tested scenarios, we assumed that taurine and indicine cattle separated first. Subsequent reduction in effective population size was modelled to take the two independent domestication events that occurred in the Fertile Crescent and the Indus Valley into account. From these known evolutionary events, two sets of scenarios were built. The first three scenarios mirror to two different waves of migration, an early Neolithic migration involving non-Podolian taurine cattle and a secondary migration involving Podolian cattle after their genetic admixture with indicine cattle …
Additional file 9 of On the origin and diversification of Podolian cattle breeds: testing scenarios of European colonization using genome-wide SNP data
Additional file 9: Figure S7. Principal component analysis (PCA) for the two datasets used (17 K and 8 K).
Additional file 3 of Runs of homozygosity in the Italian goat breeds: impact of management practices in low-input systems
Additional file 3: Table S1. List of the genes identified by the analyses of the signatures of selection: top 1% homozygosity score in CSD and NRD groups, ��ROH, and averaged FST. CSD = Central-southern population group; NRD = Northern population group.
Additional file 7 of On the origin and diversification of Podolian cattle breeds: testing scenarios of European colonization using genome-wide SNP data
Additional file 7: Figure S5. Increment in the log likelihood for the complete dataset for all tested migration events, calculated by using the optM function in the R package OptM.
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Additional file 5: Figure S2. Relationship between the number of ROH and the length of the genome (Mb) covered by ROH per individual.
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Additional file 9: Table S3. Pairwise FST values between cattle populations.
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Additional file 6: Figure S4. Admixture analysis plot in a circular fashion with all values of K (number of clusters) ranging from 2 to 23.
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Additional file 4: Figure S2. Genetic diversity indices: observed and expected heterozygosity (Ho and He), effective population size (Ne) and minor allele frequencies (MAF) calculated for each breed. Asian indicine (blue), African taurine (yellow), European Podolian (orange), European non-Podolian (red).