Identification of Selection Signals on the X-Chromosome in East Adriatic Sheep: A New Complementary Approach.

ABSTRACT: Sheep are one of the most important livestock species in Croatia, found mainly in the Mediterranean coastal and mountainous regions along the East Adriatic coast, well adapted to the environment and mostly kept extensively. Our main objective was therefore to map the positive selection of the X-chromosome (18,983 SNPs that passed quality control), since nothing is known about the adaptation genes on this chromosome for any of the breeds from the Balkan cluster. Analyses were performed on a sample of eight native Croatian breeds (101 females and 100 males) representing the East Adriatic metapopulation and on 10 mouflons (five females and males), all sampled in Croatia. Three classical within-population approaches (extreme Runs of Homozygosity islands, integrated Haplotype Score, and number

SUBMITTER: Shihabi M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9126029 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature