Identification of selection signatures in livestock species

The identification of regions that have undergone selection is one of the principal goals of theoretical and applied evolutionary genetics. Such studies can also provide information about the evolutionary processes involved in shaping genomes, as well as physical and functional information about gen...

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Main Authors: João José de Simoni Gouveia, Marcos Vinicius Gualberto Barbosa da Silva, Samuel Rezende Paiva, Sônia Maria Pinheiro de Oliveira
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Sociedade Brasileira de Genética 2014-06-01
Series:Genetics and Molecular Biology
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1415-47572014000300004&lng=en&tlng=en