How Geography and Climate Shaped the Genomic Diversity of Italian Local Cattle and Sheep Breeds
Understanding the relationships among geography, climate, and genetics is increasingly important for animal farming and breeding. In this study, we examine these inter-relationships in the context of local cattle and sheep breeds distributed along the Italian territory. To this aim, we used redundan...
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| author | Gabriele Senczuk Andrea Criscione Salvatore Mastrangelo Filippo Biscarini Donata Marletta Fabio Pilla Denis Laloë Roberta Ciampolini |
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| description | Understanding the relationships among geography, climate, and genetics is increasingly important for animal farming and breeding. In this study, we examine these inter-relationships in the context of local cattle and sheep breeds distributed along the Italian territory. To this aim, we used redundancy analysis on genomic data from previous projects combined with geographical coordinates and corresponding climatic data. The effect of geographic factors (latitude and longitude) was more important in sheep (26.4%) than that in cattle (13.8%). Once geography had been partialled out of analysis, 10.1% of cattle genomic diversity and 13.3% of that of sheep could be ascribed to climatic effects. Stronger geographic effects in sheep can be related to a combination of higher pre-domestication genetic variability together with biological and productive specificities. Climate alone seems to have had less impact on current genetic diversity in both species, even if climate and geography are greatly confounded. Results confirm that both species are the result of complex evolutionary histories triggered by interactions between human needs and environmental conditions. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-3a743fb922d249768761e1241eac3e542023-11-23T12:36:53ZengMDPI AGAnimals2076-26152022-08-011217219810.3390/ani12172198How Geography and Climate Shaped the Genomic Diversity of Italian Local Cattle and Sheep BreedsGabriele Senczuk0Andrea Criscione1Salvatore Mastrangelo2Filippo Biscarini3Donata Marletta4Fabio Pilla5Denis Laloë6Roberta Ciampolini7Dipartimento di Agricoltura, Ambiente e Alimenti, Università del Molise, 86100 Campobasso, ItalyDipartimento Agricoltura, Alimentazione e Ambiente, University of Catania, 95131 Catania, ItalyDipartimento Scienze Agrarie, Alimentari e Forestali, University of Palermo, 90128 Palermo, ItalyCNR (Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche), Istituto di Biologia e Biotecnologia Agraria, 20133 Milan, ItalyDipartimento Agricoltura, Alimentazione e Ambiente, University of Catania, 95131 Catania, ItalyDipartimento di Agricoltura, Ambiente e Alimenti, Università del Molise, 86100 Campobasso, ItalyGABI, AgroParisTech, INRAE, Université Paris-Saclay, 78350 Jouy-en-Josas, FranceDipartimento di Scienze Veterinarie, Università di Pisa, 56124 Pisa, ItalyUnderstanding the relationships among geography, climate, and genetics is increasingly important for animal farming and breeding. In this study, we examine these inter-relationships in the context of local cattle and sheep breeds distributed along the Italian territory. To this aim, we used redundancy analysis on genomic data from previous projects combined with geographical coordinates and corresponding climatic data. The effect of geographic factors (latitude and longitude) was more important in sheep (26.4%) than that in cattle (13.8%). Once geography had been partialled out of analysis, 10.1% of cattle genomic diversity and 13.3% of that of sheep could be ascribed to climatic effects. Stronger geographic effects in sheep can be related to a combination of higher pre-domestication genetic variability together with biological and productive specificities. Climate alone seems to have had less impact on current genetic diversity in both species, even if climate and geography are greatly confounded. Results confirm that both species are the result of complex evolutionary histories triggered by interactions between human needs and environmental conditions.https://www.mdpi.com/2076-2615/12/17/2198cattlesheepgenomecilmategeographyredundancy analysis |
| spellingShingle | Gabriele Senczuk Andrea Criscione Salvatore Mastrangelo Filippo Biscarini Donata Marletta Fabio Pilla Denis Laloë Roberta Ciampolini How Geography and Climate Shaped the Genomic Diversity of Italian Local Cattle and Sheep Breeds Animals cattle sheep genome cilmate geography redundancy analysis |
| title | How Geography and Climate Shaped the Genomic Diversity of Italian Local Cattle and Sheep Breeds |
| title_full | How Geography and Climate Shaped the Genomic Diversity of Italian Local Cattle and Sheep Breeds |
| title_fullStr | How Geography and Climate Shaped the Genomic Diversity of Italian Local Cattle and Sheep Breeds |
| title_full_unstemmed | How Geography and Climate Shaped the Genomic Diversity of Italian Local Cattle and Sheep Breeds |
| title_short | How Geography and Climate Shaped the Genomic Diversity of Italian Local Cattle and Sheep Breeds |
| title_sort | how geography and climate shaped the genomic diversity of italian local cattle and sheep breeds |
| topic | cattle sheep genome cilmate geography redundancy analysis |
| url | https://www.mdpi.com/2076-2615/12/17/2198 |
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