Table 1.
Breeds, number of animals (N), tail type, country and origin of genotyping data of the breeds used in the contrasting groups (fat- vs. thin-tail).
Fig 1.
Genetic relationships among the 23 sheep breeds defined through multidimensional scaling analysis.
The first two components, C1 and C2, accounted for 14.03% and 3.66%, respectively of the total variation.
Table 2.
Number of significant single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) obtained with the two selection signature approaches in the six pair-wise comparisons.
Table 3.
Candidate regions and genes identified in two or more pair-wise comparisons (see material and methods).
Start/end positions are based on the ovine genome sequence assembly Oar_v4.0. Genes found in the literature to be associated with fat deposition or related phenotypes are shown in bold.
Table 4.
Run of homozygosity (ROH) islands identified within each breed/group.
The chromosome (OAR), the number of single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) within each ROH island and the positions of the genomic regions (in base pairs, bp) are reported.