Convergent genomic signatures of domestication in sheep and goats

Florian J. Alberto, Frédéric Boyer, Pablo Orozco-terWengel, Ian Streeter, Bertrand Servin, Pierre Villemereuil, Badr Benjelloun, Pablo Librado, Filippo Biscarini, Licia Colli, Mario Barbato, Wahid Zamani, Adriana Alberti, Stefan Engelen, Alessandra Stella, Stéphane Joost, Paolo Ajmone-Marsan, Riccardo Negrini, Ludovic Orlando, Hamid Reza Rezaei, Saeid Naderi, Laura Clarke, Paul Flicek, Patrick Wincker, Eric Coissac, James Kijas, Gwenola Tosser-Klopp, Abdelkader Chikhi, Michael W. Bruford, Pierre Taberlet and François Pompanon ()
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Florian J. Alberto: Univ. Grenoble Alpes, Univ. Savoie Mont Blanc, CNRS, LECA
Frédéric Boyer: Univ. Grenoble Alpes, Univ. Savoie Mont Blanc, CNRS, LECA
Pablo Orozco-terWengel: School of Biosciences, Cardiff University, Museum Avenue
Ian Streeter: Wellcome Genome Campus
Bertrand Servin: Université de Toulouse
Pierre Villemereuil: Univ. Grenoble Alpes, Univ. Savoie Mont Blanc, CNRS, LECA
Badr Benjelloun: Univ. Grenoble Alpes, Univ. Savoie Mont Blanc, CNRS, LECA
Pablo Librado: Centre for GeoGenetics, Natural History Museum of Denmark
Filippo Biscarini: PTP Science Park, Bioinformatics Unit, Via Einstein-Loc. Cascina Codazza
Licia Colli: Istituto di Zootecnica, Facoltà di Scienze Agrarie, Alimentari e Ambientali, Università Cattolica del S. Cuore
Mario Barbato: School of Biosciences, Cardiff University, Museum Avenue
Wahid Zamani: Univ. Grenoble Alpes, Univ. Savoie Mont Blanc, CNRS, LECA
Adriana Alberti: CEA - Institut de biologie François-Jacob, Genoscope
Stefan Engelen: CEA - Institut de biologie François-Jacob, Genoscope
Alessandra Stella: PTP Science Park, Bioinformatics Unit, Via Einstein-Loc. Cascina Codazza
Stéphane Joost: Laboratory of Geographic Information Systems (LASIG), School of Architecture, Civil and Environmental Engineering (ENAC), Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)
Paolo Ajmone-Marsan: Istituto di Zootecnica, Facoltà di Scienze Agrarie, Alimentari e Ambientali, Università Cattolica del S. Cuore
Riccardo Negrini: BioDNA - Centro di Ricerca sulla Biodiversità e DNA Antico, Facoltà di Scienze Agrarie, Alimentarie e Ambientali, Università Cattolica del S. Cuore
Ludovic Orlando: Centre for GeoGenetics, Natural History Museum of Denmark
Hamid Reza Rezaei: Gorgan University of Agricultural Sciences & Natural Resources
Saeid Naderi: University of Guilan
Laura Clarke: Wellcome Genome Campus
Paul Flicek: Wellcome Genome Campus
Patrick Wincker: CEA - Institut de biologie François-Jacob, Genoscope
Eric Coissac: Univ. Grenoble Alpes, Univ. Savoie Mont Blanc, CNRS, LECA
James Kijas: CSIRO Agriculture
Gwenola Tosser-Klopp: Université de Toulouse
Abdelkader Chikhi: Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique Maroc (INRA-Maroc), Centre Régional d’Errachidia
Michael W. Bruford: School of Biosciences, Cardiff University, Museum Avenue
Pierre Taberlet: Univ. Grenoble Alpes, Univ. Savoie Mont Blanc, CNRS, LECA
François Pompanon: Univ. Grenoble Alpes, Univ. Savoie Mont Blanc, CNRS, LECA

Nature Communications, 2018, vol. 9, issue 1, 1-9

Abstract: Abstract The evolutionary basis of domestication has been a longstanding question and its genetic architecture is becoming more tractable as more domestic species become genome-enabled. Before becoming established worldwide, sheep and goats were domesticated in the fertile crescent 10,500 years before present (YBP) where their wild relatives remain. Here we sequence the genomes of wild Asiatic mouflon and Bezoar ibex in the sheep and goat domestication center and compare their genomes with that of domestics from local, traditional, and improved breeds. Among the genomic regions carrying selective sweeps differentiating domestic breeds from wild populations, which are associated among others to genes involved in nervous system, immunity and productivity traits, 20 are common to Capra and Ovis. The patterns of selection vary between species, suggesting that while common targets of selection related to domestication and improvement exist, different solutions have arisen to achieve similar phenotypic end-points within these closely related livestock species.

Date: 2018
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