Genome-wide candidate regions for selective sweeps revealed through massive parallel sequencing of DNA across ten turkey populations.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The domestic turkey (Meleagris gallopavo) is an important agricultural species that is largely used as a meat-type bird. Characterizing genetic variation in populations of domesticated species and associating these variation patterns with the evolution, domestication, and selective breeding is critical for understanding the dynamics of genomic change in these species. Intense selective breeding and population bottlenecks are expected to leave signatures in the genome of domesticated species, such as unusually low nucleotide diversity or the presence of exceptionally extended haplotype homozygosity. These patterns of variation in selected populations are highly useful to not only understand the consequences of selective breeding and population dynamics, but also to provid

SUBMITTER: Aslam ML 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4253982 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature