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ABSTRACT:
SUBMITTER: Zheng Z
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7314551 | biostudies-literature | 2020 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Science advances 20200520 21
Goat domestication was critical for agriculture and civilization, but its underlying genetic changes and selection regimes remain unclear. Here, we analyze the genomes of worldwide domestic goats, wild caprid species, and historical remains, providing evidence of an ancient introgression event from a West Caucasian tur-like species to the ancestor of domestic goats. One introgressed locus with a strong signature of selection harbors the <i>MUC6</i> gene, which encodes a gastrointestinally secret ...[more]