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Animal Science and Veterinary

D-Index
40
Citations
5379
World Ranking
1205
National Ranking
58

Best Publications

  • Convergent genomic signatures of domestication in sheep and goats.

    Florian J. Alberto;Frédéric Boyer;Pablo Orozco-terWengel;Ian Streeter

  • Mitochondrial genomes of extinct aurochs survive in domestic cattle

    Alessandro Achilli;Anna Olivieri;Marco Pellecchia;Cristina Uboldi

  • Adaptations to Climate-Mediated Selective Pressures in Sheep

    Feng-Hua Lv;Saif Agha;Juha Kantanen;Licia Colli

  • Genetic diversity in widespread species is not congruent with species richness in alpine plant communities.

    Pierre Taberlet;Niklaus E. Zimmermann;Thorsten Englisch;Andreas Tribsch

  • Domestication of cattle: Two or three events?

    Daniel Pitt;Natalia Sevane;Ezequiel L. Nicolazzi;David E. MacHugh

  • BITE: an R package for biodiversity analyses

    Milanesi M;Capomaccio S;Vajana E;Bomba L

  • Signatures of selection and environmental adaptation across the goat genome post-domestication

    Francesca Bertolini;Francesca Bertolini;Bertrand Servin;Andrea Talenti;Estelle Rochat

  • Objectives, criteria and methods for using molecular genetic data in priority setting for conservation of animal genetic resources

    P.J. Boettcher;Michèle Tixier-Boichard;M.A. Toro;H. Simianer

  • The origin of domestication genes in goats

    Zhuqing Zheng;Xihong Wang;Ming Li;Yunjia Li

  • Genome-wide SNP profiling of worldwide goat populations reveals strong partitioning of diversity and highlights post-domestication migration routes

    Licia Colli;Marco Milanesi;Marco Milanesi;Andrea Talenti;Francesca Bertolini;Francesca Bertolini

  • The mystery of Etruscan origins: novel clues from Bos taurus mitochondrial DNA.

    Marco Pellecchia;Riccardo Negrini;Licia Colli;Massimiliano Patrini

  • High performance computation of landscape genomic models including local indicators of spatial association

    Sylvie Stucki;Pablo Orozco-terWengel;Brenna R Forester;Solange Duruz

  • Asian water buffalo: domestication, history and genetics

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  • On the origin of European sheep as revealed by the diversity of the Balkan breeds and by optimizing population-genetic analysis tools

    Elena Ciani;Salvatore Mastrangelo;Anne Da Silva;Fabio Marroni

  • Origin and Spread of Bos taurus: New Clues from Mitochondrial Genomes Belonging to Haplogroup T1

    Silvia Bonfiglio;Catarina Ginja;Anna De Gaetano;Alessandro Achilli

  • The enigmatic origin of bovine mtDNA haplogroup R: sporadic interbreeding or an independent event of Bos primigenius domestication in Italy?

    Silvia Bonfiglio;Alessandro Achilli;Alessandro Achilli;Anna Olivieri;Riccardo Negrini

  • Genetic diversity of Italian goat breeds assessed with a medium-density SNP chip

    Letizia Nicoloso;Lorenzo Bomba;Licia Colli;Riccardo Negrini

  • Break zones in the distributions of alleles and species in alpine plants

    C Thiel-Egenter;N Alvarez;N Alvarez;R Holderegger;A Tribsch;A Tribsch

  • Whole mitochondrial genomes unveil the impact of domestication on goat matrilineal variability

    Licia Colli;Hovirag Lancioni;Irene Cardinali;Anna Olivieri

  • Prospects and challenges for the conservation of farm animal genomic resources, 2015-2025

    Michael W. Bruford;Catarina Ginja;Catarina Ginja;Irene Hoffmann;Stéphane Joost

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