A quasi-exclusive European ancestry in the Senepol tropical cattle breed highlights the importance of the slick locus in tropical adaptation

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 5, 2012, Pages

  Flori, Laurence ^a,b   Gonzatti, Mary Isabel ^c   Thevenon, Sophie ^b   Chantal, Isabelle ^b   Pinto, Joar ^c   Berthier, David ^b   Aso, Pedro M ^c   Gautier, Mathieu ^d  

^a UMR1313 GÉNÉTIQUE ANIMALE ET BIOLOGIE INTÉGRATIVE   (France)

^b Institut de recherche pour le développement   (France)

^c UNIVERSIDAD SIMÓN BOLÍVAR   (Venezuela)

^d CENTRE DE BIOLOGIE ET DE GESTION DES POPULATIONS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CATTLE FARMING; CHROMOSOME; CONTROLLED STUDY; ETHNIC GROUP; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; GENE; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC SELECTION; GENOTYPE; GRIK GENE; HAPLOTYPE; HEAT TOLERANCE; HOMOZYGOSITY; NONHUMAN; POPULATION STRUCTURE; RAI14 GENE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; TIAM1 GENE; VENEZUELA; ACCLIMATIZATION; ANIMAL; BREEDING; CATTLE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; GENETICS; GENOME; TROPIC CLIMATE;

ANIMALIA; BOS; BOS INDICUS; DAMA;

ACCLIMATIZATION; ANIMALS; BREEDING; CATTLE; CHROMOSOMES, MAMMALIAN; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; GENETIC LOCI; GENOME; GENOTYPE; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; SELECTION, GENETIC; TROPICAL CLIMATE;

EID: 84860723018     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0036133     Document Type: Article

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