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Goat ADAPTmap Project

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The ADAPT project aims to coordinate genomic research on the rich diversity of goat breeds across the globe. This collection is a selection of studies working on this project. 


  1. Goats were domesticated in the Fertile Crescent about 10,000 years before present (YBP) and subsequently spread across Eurasia and Africa. This dispersal is expected to generate a gradient of declining genetic...

    Authors: Elena Petretto, Maria Luisa Dettori, María Gracia Luigi-Sierra, Antonia Noce, Michele Pazzola, Giuseppe Massimo Vacca, Antonio Molina, Amparo Martínez, Félix Goyache, Sean Carolan and Marcel Amills
    Citation: Genetics Selection Evolution 2024 56:55
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  2. Since their domestication 10,500 years ago, goat populations with distinctive genetic backgrounds have adapted to a broad variety of environments and breeding conditions. The VarGoats project is an internation...

    Authors: Laure Denoyelle, Estelle Talouarn, Philippe Bardou, Licia Colli, Adriana Alberti, Coralie Danchin, Marcello Del Corvo, Stéfan Engelen, Céline Orvain, Isabelle Palhière, Rachel Rupp, Julien Sarry, Mazdak Salavati, Marcel Amills, Emily Clark, Paola Crepaldi…
    Citation: Genetics Selection Evolution 2021 53:86
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  3. Authors: Alessandra Stella, Ezequiel Luis Nicolazzi, Curtis P. Van Tassell, Max F. Rothschild, Licia Colli, Benjamin D. Rosen, Tad S. Sonstegard, Paola Crepaldi, Gwenola Tosser-Klopp and Stephane Joost
    Citation: Genetics Selection Evolution 2018 50:61
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  4. Patterns of homozygosity can be influenced by several factors, such as demography, recombination, and selection. Using the goat SNP50 BeadChip, we genotyped 3171 goats belonging to 117 populations with a world...

    Authors: Francesca Bertolini, Tainã Figueiredo Cardoso, Gabriele Marras, Ezequiel L. Nicolazzi, Max F. Rothschild and Marcel Amills
    Citation: Genetics Selection Evolution 2018 50:59
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  5. Goat populations that are characterized within the AdaptMap project cover a large part of the worldwide distribution of this species and provide the opportunity to assess their diversity at a global scale. We ...

    Authors: Licia Colli, Marco Milanesi, Andrea Talenti, Francesca Bertolini, Minhui Chen, Alessandra Crisà, Kevin Gerard Daly, Marcello Del Corvo, Bernt Guldbrandtsen, Johannes A. Lenstra, Benjamin D. Rosen, Elia Vajana, Gennaro Catillo, Stéphane Joost, Ezequiel Luis Nicolazzi, Estelle Rochat…
    Citation: Genetics Selection Evolution 2018 50:58
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  6. Since goat was domesticated 10,000 years ago, many factors have contributed to the differentiation of goat breeds and these are classified mainly into two types: (i) adaptation to different breeding systems an...

    Authors: Francesca Bertolini, Bertrand Servin, Andrea Talenti, Estelle Rochat, Eui Soo Kim, Claire Oget, Isabelle Palhière, Alessandra Crisà, Gennaro Catillo, Roberto Steri, Marcel Amills, Licia Colli, Gabriele Marras, Marco Milanesi, Ezequiel Nicolazzi, Benjamin D. Rosen…
    Citation: Genetics Selection Evolution 2018 50:57
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  7. Genetic isolation of breeds may result in a significant loss of diversity and have consequences on health and performance. In this study, we examined the effect of geographic isolation on caprine genetic diver...

    Authors: Taina F. Cardoso, Marcel Amills, Francesca Bertolini, Max Rothschild, Gabriele Marras, Geert Boink, Jordi Jordana, Juan Capote, Sean Carolan, Jón H. Hallsson, Juha Kantanen, Agueda Pons and Johannes A. Lenstra
    Citation: Genetics Selection Evolution 2018 50:56
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  8. International standard panels of single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) have replaced microsatellites in several species for parentage assessment and assignment (PA) purposes. However, such a resource is still...

    Authors: Andrea Talenti, Isabelle Palhière, Flavie Tortereau, Giulio Pagnacco, Alessandra Stella, Ezequiel L. Nicolazzi, Paola Crepaldi and Gwenola Tosser-Klopp
    Citation: Genetics Selection Evolution 2018 50:55
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