funded by the German Research Council(DFG grant MA6473/2-1,awarded to AM);The Mason lab is partially funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft(DFG,German Research Foundation)under Germany’s Excellence Strategy-EXC 2070-390732324.
Rapeseed(Brassica napus,AACC)was formed by hybridization between progenitor species Brassica rapa(AA)and Brassica oleracea(CC).As a result of a limited number of hybridization events between specific progenitor genoty...
supported by the Jiangsu Agricultural Science and Technology Innovation Found,China(SCX(20)3290);the Open Foundation of Key Laboratory of Urban Agriculture,Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs of China(201906);the Joint Research Project on Pig Breeding in Anhui Province,China(340000211260001000431)。
Erhualian(E),Meishan(MS)and Mi(MI)pigs are excellent indigenous pig breeds in Chinese Taihu Basin,which have made great contributions to the genetic improvement of commercial pigs.Investigation of the genetic structur...
funded by the European Regional Development Fund(FEDER)/Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación-Agencia Estatal de Investigación/Project Reference grant:PID2019-105805RB-I00;by the CERCA Programme/Generalitat de Catalunya;the support of the Spanish Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación for the Center of Excellence Severo Ochoa 2020–2023(CEX2019–000902-S)grant awarded to the Centre for Research in Agricultural Genomics(CRAG,Bellaterra,Spain);the support of the CERCA programme of the Generalitat de Catalunya;funded by a PhD fellowship from the China Scholarship Council(CSC);funded with a PhD fellowship Formación de Personal Investigador(BES-C-2017-079709)awarded by the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitivity。
Background:Inbreeding depression can adversely affect traits related to fitness,reproduction and productive performance.Although current research suggests that inbreeding levels are generally low in most goat breeds,t...
funded by the Natural Science Foundations of China(No.31572357)to FPZ;Agricultural Science and Technology Innovation Program(ASTIP-IAS02)to LXW.
Background:A run of homozygosity(ROH)is a consecutive tract of homozygous genotypes in an individual that indicates it has inherited the same ancestral haplotype from both parents.Genomic inbreeding can be quantified ...
supported by the Charles Wolfson Charitable Trust and the Medical Research Council.
Background:Family studies support a genetic predisposition to inflammatory bowel diseases(IBD),but known genetic variants only partially explain the disease heritability.Families withmultiple affected individuals pote...
supported by National Key Science and Technology Special Project(2016ZX08003-004);Sichuan Science and Technology Program(2018JY0470)。
Improved chilling tolerance is important for maize production. Previous efforts in transgenics and marker-assisted breeding have not achieved practical results. In this study, the antifreeze protein(AnAFP) from the su...
Almond[Prunus dulcis Miller(D.A.Webb)]is the main tree nut species worldwide.Here,genotyping-by-sequencing(GBS)was applied to 149 almond cultivars from the ex situ collections of the Italian Council for Agricultural R...
supported by the Natural Science Foundation of China (No.31572357) to FPZ;the National Swine Industry Technology System(CARS-35) to LXW。
Background: Runs of homozygosity(ROHs) are homozygous segments of the genome where the two haplotypes inherited from the parents are identical. The current availability of genotypes for a very large number of single n...
supported by the Key Technology R&D Program of China(2016C02054-2);the National Natural Science Foundation of China(31872976)。
The aim of this study was to detect evidence for signatures of recent selection in the Jinhua pig genome.These results can be useful to better understand the regions under selection in Jinhua pigs and might shed some ...