Selection signatures in goats reveal copy number variants underlying breed-defining coat color phenotypes

• Jan Henkel,

  Roles Investigation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Institute of Genetics, Vetsuisse Faculty, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland, DermFocus, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3798-5977

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• Rashid Saif,

  Roles Investigation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Institute of Genetics, Vetsuisse Faculty, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland, Institute of Biotechnology, Gulab Devi Educational Complex, Lahore, Pakistan

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• Vidhya Jagannathan,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Institute of Genetics, Vetsuisse Faculty, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland, DermFocus, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland

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• Corinne Schmocker,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Institute of Genetics, Vetsuisse Faculty, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland

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• Flurina Zeindler,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation School of Agricultural, Forest and Food Sciences, Bern University of Applied Sciences, Zollikofen, Switzerland

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• Erika Bangerter,

  Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Swiss Goat Breeding Association, Zollikofen, Switzerland

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• Ursula Herren,

  Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Swiss Goat Breeding Association, Zollikofen, Switzerland

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• Dimitris Posantzis,

  Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Attica Zoological Park, Spata, Greece

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• Zafer Bulut,

  Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Selcuk University, Konya, Turkey

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1794-1651

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• Philippe Ammann,

  Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation ProSpecieRara, Basel, Switzerland

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• Cord Drögemüller,

  Roles Investigation, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Institute of Genetics, Vetsuisse Faculty, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland, DermFocus, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9773-522X

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• Christine Flury,

  Roles Investigation, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation School of Agricultural, Forest and Food Sciences, Bern University of Applied Sciences, Zollikofen, Switzerland

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• Tosso Leeb

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: Tosso.Leeb@vetsuisse.unibe.ch

  Affiliations Institute of Genetics, Vetsuisse Faculty, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland, DermFocus, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0553-4880

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