Assessing the Role of Ancestral Fragments and Selection Signatures by Whole-Genome Scanning in Dehong Humped Cattle at the China-Myanmar Border.

ABSTRACT: Dehong humped cattle are precious livestock resources of Yunnan Province, China; they have typical zebu traits. Here, we investigated their genetic characteristics using whole-genome resequencing data of Dehong humped animals (n = 18). When comparing our data with the publicly-available data, we found that Dehong humped cattle have high nucleotide diversity. Based on clustering models in a population structure analysis, Dehong humped cattle had a mutual genome ancestor with Chinese and Indian indicine cattle. While using the RFMix method, it is speculated that the body sizes of Dehong humped cattle were influenced by the Chinese indicine segments and that the immune systems of Dehong humped cattle were affected by additional ancestral segments (Indian indicine). Furthermore, we explored th

SUBMITTER: Luo X 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9495559 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature