Table 1.
General characteristics of the three breeds studied (http://www.brg.prd.fr).
Figure 1.
The triangle plot represents the estimated membership of each 2803 bulls in each of the 3 assumed clusters. Each bull is represented by a point colored according to its breed of origin.
Figure 2.
Observed and simulated distribution of SNP FST across (A) and within each of the three breeds (B, C, D).
Figure 3.
Genome map of differentiated loci.
For each SNP the across breed FST quantile estimated on the empirical distribution (Figure 2A) is reported according to its chromosomal position.
Table 2.
Description of the regions under selection based on smoothed FST across breeds.
Figure 4.
Whole genome map of regions under selection based on the FST across populations.
For each of the 29 bovine autosomes, the smoothed FST is plotted against the chromosomal position (green line). For significant positions (q-value<0.05), non smoothed SNP FST are indicated by a red star.
Table 3.
Genes underlying RefSeq found under positive or balancing selection (corrected p-values<0.2) across breeds (indicated by *) or within HOL, MON or NOR (indicated by the corresponding breed name).
Figure 5.
Representation of the gene networks N_MON (A), N_NOR (B) and N_HOL (C).
Symbols corresponding to candidate genes are colored in red. Genes colored in grey were represented in our study but did not display any evidence of selection.
Figure 6.
Representation of the gene network GN.
Symbols corresponding to genes under selection are colored in red. Genes colored in grey were represented in our study but did not display any evidence of selection. Links between GH1, GHR and β-estradiol and other GN molecules are colored in light blue, blue and green respectively.