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88
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World Ranking
1171
National Ranking
563

Overview

Tad S. Sonstegard is affiliated with Recombinetics in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, and Agricultural and Biological Sciences. Within these areas, Sonstegard's work focuses on several subfields including Genetics, Molecular Biology, Animal Science and Zoology, Agronomy and Crop Science, and Cancer Research.

Their publications frequently address topics related to genetic and phenotypic traits in livestock, cancer-related molecular mechanisms research, genetic mapping and diversity in plants and animals, CRISPR and genetic engineering, animal genetics and reproduction, effects of environmental stressors on livestock, and animal disease management and epidemiology.

Sonstegard has contributed to numerous scientific papers, with recent notable works including:

  • "Comprehensive analyses of 723 transcriptomes enhance genetic and biological interpretations for complex traits in cattle," 2020, published in Genome Research
  • "The origin of domestication genes in goats," 2020, published in Science Advances
  • "Adaptive introgression from indicine cattle into white cattle breeds from Central Italy," 2020, published in Scientific Reports
  • "BGVD: An Integrated Database for Bovine Sequencing Variations and Selective Signatures," 2020, published in Genomics Proteomics & Bioinformatics
  • "Variants at the ASIP locus contribute to coat color darkening in Nellore cattle," 2021, published in Genetics Selection Evolution

Frequent collaborators with Sonstegard include Julio M. Flórez, Kyra Martins, Daniel F. Carlson, José Fernando Garcia, and Jonathan R. Bostrom.

Their research has appeared repeatedly in the following journals and publication venues:

  • Animal Genetics
  • Frontiers in Genetics
  • Journal of Animal Science
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • BMC Genomics

Best Publications

  • Invited review: reliability of genomic predictions for North American Holstein bulls.

    P.M. VanRaden;C.P. Van Tassell;G.R. Wiggans;T.S. Sonstegard

  • The Genome Sequence of Taurine Cattle: A Window to Ruminant Biology and Evolution

    Christine G. Elsik;Christine G. Elsik;Christine G. Elsik;Ross L. Tellam;Kim C. Worley;Kim C. Worley;Richard A. Gibbs

  • A whole-genome assembly of the domestic cow, Bos taurus

    Aleksey V Zimin;Arthur L Delcher;Liliana Florea;David R Kelley

  • Development and Characterization of a High Density SNP Genotyping Assay for Cattle

    Lakshmi K. Matukumalli;Lakshmi K. Matukumalli;Cynthia T. Lawley;Robert D. Schnabel;Jeremy F. Taylor

  • Genome-Wide Survey of SNP Variation Uncovers the Genetic Structure of Cattle Breeds

    Richard A. Gibbs;Jeremy F. Taylor;Curtis P. Van Tassell

  • A second-generation linkage map of the bovine genome.

    Steven M. Kappes;John W. Keele;Roger T. Stone;Royal A. McGraw

  • SNP discovery and allele frequency estimation by deep sequencing of reduced representation libraries

    Curtis P Van Tassell;Timothy P L Smith;Lakshmi K Matukumalli;Lakshmi K Matukumalli;Jeremy F Taylor

  • Single-molecule sequencing and chromatin conformation capture enable de novo reference assembly of the domestic goat genome

    Derek M Bickhart;Benjamin D Rosen;Sergey Koren;Brian L Sayre

  • Genome-wide association analysis of thirty one production, health, reproduction and body conformation traits in contemporary U.S. Holstein cows

    John B Cole;George R Wiggans;Li Ma;Tad S Sonstegard

  • Worldwide Patterns of Ancestry, Divergence, and Admixture in Domesticated Cattle

    Jared E. Decker;Stephanie D. McKay;Megan M. Rolf;Jae Woo Kim

  • Multi-Platform Next-Generation Sequencing of the Domestic Turkey (Meleagris gallopavo): Genome Assembly and Analysis

    Rami A. Dalloul;Julie A Long;Aleksey V. Zimin;Luqman Aslam

  • Detection of quantitative trait loci affecting milk production, health, and reproductive traits in Holstein cattle.

    M.S. Ashwell;D.W. Heyen;T.S. Sonstegard;C.P. Van Tassell

  • Genomic Selection in Dairy Cattle: The USDA Experience.

    George R Wiggans;John B Cole;Suzanne M Hubbard;Tad S Sonstegard

  • Production of hornless dairy cattle from genome-edited cell lines.

    Daniel F. Carlson;Cheryl A. Lancto;Bin Zang;Eui Soo Kim

  • Analysis of copy number variations among diverse cattle breeds

    George E. Liu;Yali Hou;Yali Hou;Bin Zhu;Maria Francesca Cardone

  • Copy number variation of individual cattle genomes using next-generation sequencing

    Derek M. Bickhart;Yali Hou;Steven G. Schroeder;Can Alkan

  • Distribution and location of genetic effects for dairy traits

    J.B. Cole;P.M. VanRaden;J.R. O’Connell;C.P. Van Tassell

  • The channel catfish genome sequence provides insights into the evolution of scale formation in teleosts.

    Zhanjiang Liu;Shikai Liu;Jun Yao;Lisui Bao

  • Resolving the evolution of extant and extinct ruminants with high-throughput phylogenomics

    Jared E. Decker;J. Chris Pires;Gavin C. Conant;Stephanie D. McKay

  • A deletion mutation in bovine SLC4A2 is associated with osteopetrosis in Red Angus cattle

    Stacey N Meyers;Tara G McDaneld;Shannon L Swist;Brandy M Marron

Frequent Co-Authors

Curtis P. Van Tassell
Curtis P. Van Tassell Agricultural Research Service
Derek M. Bickhart
Derek M. Bickhart Agricultural Research Service
Timothy P. L. Smith
Timothy P. L. Smith Agricultural Research Service
John B. Cole
John B. Cole United States Department of Agriculture
Robert D. Schnabel
Robert D. Schnabel University of Missouri
George E. Liu
George E. Liu Agricultural Research Service
Luiz Lehmann Coutinho
Luiz Lehmann Coutinho Universidade de São Paulo
Olivier Hanotte
Olivier Hanotte University of Nottingham
Jeremy F. Taylor
Jeremy F. Taylor University of Missouri
Marcos Vinícius Gualberto Barbosa da Silva
Marcos Vinícius Gualberto Barbosa da Silva Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation

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