About the Authors

Saeid Naderi

Affiliations Laboratoire d'Ecologie Alpine, CNRS-UMR 5553, Université Joseph Fourier, Grenoble, France, Natural Resources Faculty, University of Guilan, Guilan, Iran

Hamid-Reza Rezaei

Affiliations Laboratoire d'Ecologie Alpine, CNRS-UMR 5553, Université Joseph Fourier, Grenoble, France, Environmental Sciences Department, Gorgan University of Agriculture and Natural Resources, Gorgan, Iran

Pierre Taberlet

Affiliation Laboratoire d'Ecologie Alpine, CNRS-UMR 5553, Université Joseph Fourier, Grenoble, France

Stéphanie Zundel

Affiliation Laboratoire d'Ecologie Alpine, CNRS-UMR 5553, Université Joseph Fourier, Grenoble, France

Seyed-Abbas Rafat

Affiliation Animal Science Department, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Tabriz, Tabriz, Iran

Hamid-Reza Naghash

Affiliation Laboratoire d'Ecologie Alpine, CNRS-UMR 5553, Université Joseph Fourier, Grenoble, France

Mohamed A. A. El-Barody

Affiliation Animal Production Department, Faculty of Agriculture, Minia University, Minia, Egypt

Okan Ertugrul

Affiliation Department of Genetics, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Ankara University, Ankara, Turkey

François Pompanon

To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: francois.pompanon@ujf-grenoble.fr

Affiliation Laboratoire d'Ecologie Alpine, CNRS-UMR 5553, Université Joseph Fourier, Grenoble, France

for the Econogene Consortium

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: PT FP SN HR SR. Performed the experiments: SN HR SZ. Analyzed the data: FP SN HR. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SN HR SZ SR HN ME OE. Wrote the paper: PT FP SN HR.