Admixture and Local Breed Marginalization Threaten Algerian Sheep Diversity

• Samir Bachir Souheil Gaouar ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Samir Bachir Souheil Gaouar, Anne Da Silva

  Affiliations Department of Biology, Aboubakr Belkaid Tlemcen University, Tlemcen, Algeria, Molecular and Cellular Laboratory (USTOM), University of Sciences and Technology, Mohamed Boudiaf, Oran, Algeria

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• Anne Da Silva ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Samir Bachir Souheil Gaouar, Anne Da Silva

  * E-mail: anne.blondeau@unilim.fr

  Affiliations INRA, UMR1061 Génétique Moléculaire Animale, Limoges, France, Université de Limoges, UMR1061 Génétique Moléculaire Animale, Limoges, France

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• Elena Ciani,

  Affiliation Department of Biosciences, Biotechnologies and Biopharmaceutics, University of Bari, Bari, Italy

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• Samia Kdidi,

  Affiliations Livestock and Wildlife Laboratory, Arid Lands Institute Medenine, Medenine, Tunisia, Laboratory of Genetics, Immunology and Human Pathology, Faculty of Sciences, Tunis-El Manar University, Tunis, Tunisia

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• Miloud Aouissat,

  Affiliation Technical Institute of Breeding (ITElv) of Aïn El-Hadjar, Saïda, Algeria

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• Laziz Dhimi,

  Affiliation Technical Institute of Breeding (ITElv) of Aïn M’lila, Constantine, Algeria

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• Mohamed Lafri,

  Affiliation Laboratoire des Biotechnologies liées à la Reproduction Animale (LBRA) Université de Blida, Blida, Algérie

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• Abderrahman Maftah,

  Affiliations INRA, UMR1061 Génétique Moléculaire Animale, Limoges, France, Université de Limoges, UMR1061 Génétique Moléculaire Animale, Limoges, France

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• Nadhira Mehtar

  Affiliation Department of Biology, Aboubakr Belkaid Tlemcen University, Tlemcen, Algeria

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