Genomic analysis of the domestication and post-Spanish conquest evolution of the llama and alpaca

Abstract Background Despite their regional economic importance and being increasingly reared globally, the origins and evolution of the llama and alpaca remain poorly understood. Here we report reference genomes for the llama, and for the guanaco and vicuña (their putative wild progenitors), compare...

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Published in:	Genome Biology
Main Authors:	Ruiwen Fan, Zhongru Gu, Xuanmin Guang, Juan Carlos Marín, Valeria Varas, Benito A. González, Jane C. Wheeler, Yafei Hu, Erli Li, Xiaohui Sun, Xukui Yang, Chi Zhang, Wenjun Gao, Junping He, Kasper Munch, Russel Corbett-Detig, Mario Barbato, Shengkai Pan, Xiangjiang Zhan, Michael W. Bruford, Changsheng Dong
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	BMC 2020-07-01
Subjects:	Introgression Domestication Llama Alpaca Spanish conquest
Online Access:	http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s13059-020-02080-6