Fig 1.
Geographical distributions of the eight Iranian sheep breeds studied.
Table 1.
Summary of phenotypic characteristics and environmental variables of the studied Iranian sheep.
Table 2.
Description of the quality control steps.
Fig 2.
PCA plot for cold and hot climates sheep breeds.
Animals from cold and hot regions are shown in blue and red, respectively.
Fig 3.
Distribution of windowed theta values for cold and hot climates sheep breeds by chromosome: SNP positions on the genome are shown on the X-axis for different chromosomes, and windowed FST (Theta) are plotted on the Y-axis.
Table 3.
Genes and QTLs identified in the regions that have been under selection in cold and hot climates sheep breeds.
Table 4.
Analysis of gene ontology and enriched pathway terms in regions under positive selection.
Fig 4.
Distribution of windowed hapFLK values for cold and hot climates sheep breeds by chromosome: SNP positions in the genome (bp) are shown on the X-axis for different chromosomes, and windowed hapFLK are plotted on the Y-axis.
Table 5.
The identified genes and QTLs published under selection in cold and hot climates sheep breeds.
Table 6.
Analysis of gene ontology and enriched pathway terms in regions under positive selection.