Donkey genomes provide new insights into domestication and selection for coat color

Donkey genomes provide new insights into domestication and selection for coat color

A new donkey reference genome and comparisons with wild asses yields insights into the evolutionary history of donkey domestication and identifies a genetic variant that results in the non-Dun coat colours of domestic donkeys.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Changfa Wang, Haijing Li, Yu Guo, Jinming Huang, Yan Sun, Jiumeng Min, Jinpeng Wang, Xiaodong Fang, Zicheng Zhao, Shuai Wang, Yanlin Zhang, Qingfeng Liu, Qiang Jiang, Xiuge Wang, Yijun Guo, Chunhong Yang, Yinchao Wang, Fang Tian, Guilong Zhuang, Yanna Fan, Qican Gao, Yuhua Li, Zhihua Ju, Jianbin Li, Rongling Li, Minghai Hou, Guiwen Yang, Guiqin Liu, Wenqiang Liu, Jiao Guo, Shanshan Pan, Guangyi Fan, Wei Zhang, Ruitao Zhang, Jie Yu, Xinhao Zhang, Qi Yin, Chuanliang Ji, Yuanchun Jin, Guidong Yue, Mei Liu, Jiake Xu, Shimin Liu, Jordi Jordana, Antonia Noce, Marcel Amills, Dong Dong Wu, Shuaicheng Li, Xiangshan Zhou, Jifeng Zhong
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2020-12-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-19813-7

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