ReviewFrontiers in genetics2015
Recent advances in understanding the genetic resources of sheep breeds locally-adapted to the UK uplands: opportunities they offer for sustainable productivity.
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- Recent advances in the genomic resources for sheep.Mammalian genome : official journal of the International Mammalian Genome Society · 2023Review
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- Genetic Diversity of Montenegrin Local Sheep Breeds Based on Microsatellite Markers.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2022Article
- Efficiency Analysis as a Tool for Revealing Best Practices and Innovations: The Case of the Sheep Meat Sector in Europe.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2021Article
- British Sheep Breeds as a Part of World Sheep Gene Pool Landscape: Looking into Genomic Applications.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2021Review
- Power of phenotypes in discriminating Awassi sheep to pure strains and from other breeds.Tropical animal health and production · 2021Article
- Genotyping and Whole-Genome Resequencing of Welsh Sheep Breeds Reveal Candidate Genes and Variants for Adaptation to Local Environment and Socioeconomic Traits.Frontiers in genetics · 2021Article
- Retroviral analysis reveals the ancient origin of Kihnu native sheep in Estonia: implications for breed conservation.Scientific reports · 2020Article
- A Population Genomics Analysis of the Native Irish Galway Sheep Breed.Frontiers in genetics · 2019Article
- Editorial: Advances in Farm Animal Genomic Resources.Frontiers in genetics · 2015Article
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Abstract
Locally adapted breeds of livestock are of considerable interest since they represent potential reservoirs of adaptive fitness traits that may contribute to the future of sustainable productivity in a changing climate. Recent research, involving three hill sheep breeds geographically concentrated in the northern uplands of the UK has revealed the extent of their genetic diversity from one another and from other breeds. Results from the use of SNPs, microsatellites, and retrovirus insertions are reviewed in the context of related studies on sheep breeds world-wide to highlight opportunities offered by the genetic resources of locally adapted hill breeds. One opportunity concerns reduced susceptibility to Maedi Visna, a lentivirus with massive impacts on sheep health and productivity globally. In contrast to many mainstream breeds used in farming, each of the hill breeds analyzed are likely to be far less susceptible to the disease threat. A different opportunity, relating specifically to the Herdwick breed, is the extent to which the genome of the breed has retained primitive features, no longer present in other mainland breeds of sheep in the UK and offering a new route for discovering unique genetic traits of use to agriculture.
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