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ArticleFrontiers in genetics2018

Combining Landscape Genomics and Ecological Modelling to Investigate Local Adaptation of Indigenous Ugandan Cattle to East Coast Fever.

Elia Vajana, Mario Barbato, Licia Colli, Marco Milanesi, Estelle Rochat, Enrico Fabrizi, Christopher Mukasa, Marcello Del Corvo, Charles Masembe, Vincent B Muwanika and 7 more

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Article in Frontiers in genetics, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 20 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

20 citing papers in PubMed, 38 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

17 authors at 7 institutions in 5 countries.

Elia VajanaDepartment of Animal Science, Food and Nutrition (DIANA), Biodiversity and Ancient DNA Research Centre (BioDNA), and Proteomics and Nutrigenomics Research Centre (PRONUTRIGEN), Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Piacenza, Italy.
Mario BarbatoDepartment of Animal Science, Food and Nutrition (DIANA), Biodiversity and Ancient DNA Research Centre (BioDNA), and Proteomics and Nutrigenomics Research Centre (PRONUTRIGEN), Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Piacenza, Italy.
Licia ColliDepartment of Animal Science, Food and Nutrition (DIANA), Biodiversity and Ancient DNA Research Centre (BioDNA), and Proteomics and Nutrigenomics Research Centre (PRONUTRIGEN), Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Piacenza, Italy.
Marco MilanesiDepartment of Animal Science, Food and Nutrition (DIANA), Biodiversity and Ancient DNA Research Centre (BioDNA), and Proteomics and Nutrigenomics Research Centre (PRONUTRIGEN), Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Piacenza, Italy.
Estelle RochatLaboratory of Geographic Information Systems (LASIG), School of Architecture, Civil and Environmental Engineering (ENAC), École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland.
Enrico FabriziDepartment of Economics and Social Sciences, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Piacenza, Italy.
Christopher MukasaNational Animal Genetic Resource Centre and Data Bank, Entebbe, Uganda.
Marcello Del CorvoDepartment of Animal Science, Food and Nutrition (DIANA), Biodiversity and Ancient DNA Research Centre (BioDNA), and Proteomics and Nutrigenomics Research Centre (PRONUTRIGEN), Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Piacenza, Italy.
Charles MasembeDepartment of Zoology, Entomology and Fisheries, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda.
Vincent B MuwanikaDepartment of Environmental Management, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda.
Fredrick KabiNational Livestock Resources Research Institute (NaLIRRI), National Agricultural Research Organisation, Tororo, Uganda.
Tad Stewart SonstegardRecombinetics, Inc., St. Paul, MN, United States.
Heather Jay HusonDepartment of Animal Science, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, United States.
Riccardo NegriniDepartment of Animal Science, Food and Nutrition (DIANA), Biodiversity and Ancient DNA Research Centre (BioDNA), and Proteomics and Nutrigenomics Research Centre (PRONUTRIGEN), Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Piacenza, Italy.
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Stéphane JoostLaboratory of Geographic Information Systems (LASIG), School of Architecture, Civil and Environmental Engineering (ENAC), École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland.
Paolo Ajmone-MarsanDepartment of Animal Science, Food and Nutrition (DIANA), Biodiversity and Ancient DNA Research Centre (BioDNA), and Proteomics and Nutrigenomics Research Centre (PRONUTRIGEN), Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Piacenza, Italy.
Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore · ITÉcole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne · CHMakerere University · UGAssociazione Italiana Arbitri · ITCornell University · USNational Agricultural Research Organisation · UGRecombinetics (United States) · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

East Coast fever (ECF) is a fatal sickness affecting cattle populations of eastern, central, and southern Africa. The disease is transmitted by the tick

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East Coast feverindigenous cattlelandscape genomicslocal adaptationspecies distribution modelling

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PMID30333851
PMCPMC6177531
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