How selective sweeps in domestic animals provide new insight into biological mechanisms

The Genetic Structure of Domestic Rabbits

(2011) M. Carneiro et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Startle disease in Irish wolfhounds associated with a microdeletion in the glycine transporter GlyT2 gene

(2011) Jennifer L. Gill et al.   NEUROBIOLOGY OF DISEASE

Identification of a melanocyte-specific, microphthalmia-associated transcription factor-dependent regulatory element in the intronic duplication causing hair greying and melanoma in horses

(2011) Elisabeth Sundström et al.   Pigment Cell & Melanoma Research

The Dark brown plumage color in chickens is caused by an 8.3-kb deletion upstream of SOX10

(2011) Ulrika Gunnarsson et al.   Pigment Cell & Melanoma Research

LUPA: A European initiative taking advantage of the canine genome architecture for unravelling complex disorders in both human and dogs

(2011) Anne-Sophie Lequarré et al.   VETERINARY JOURNAL

A Novel Unstable Duplication Upstream of HAS2 Predisposes to a Breed-Defining Skin Phenotype and a Periodic Fever Syndrome in Chinese Shar-Pei Dogs

(2011) Mia Olsson et al.   PLoS Genetics

Man's Best Friend Becomes Biology's Best in Show: Genome Analyses in the Domestic Dog

(2010) Heidi G. Parker et al.   Annual Review of Genetics

Whole-genome resequencing reveals loci under selection during chicken domestication

(2010) Carl-Johan Rubin et al.   NATURE

A Novel Mutation in the Maternally Imprinted PEG3 Domain Results in a Loss of MIMT1 Expression and Causes Abortions and Stillbirths in Cattle (Bos taurus)

(2010) Krzysztof Flisikowski et al.   PLoS One

An Expressed Fgf4 Retrogene Is Associated with Breed-Defining Chondrodysplasia in Domestic Dogs

(2009) H. G. Parker et al.   SCIENCE

ZBED6, a Novel Transcription Factor Derived from a Domesticated DNA Transposon Regulates IGF2 Expression and Muscle Growth

(2009) Ellen Markljung et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY

Copy Number Variation in Intron 1 of SOX5 Causes the Pea-comb Phenotype in Chickens

(2009) Dominic Wright et al.   PLoS Genetics

A gene duplication affecting expression of the ovine ASIP gene is responsible for white and black sheep

(2008) B. J. Norris et al.   GENOME RESEARCH

Thyrotrophin in the pars tuberalis triggers photoperiodic response

(2008) Nobuhiro Nakao et al.   NATURE

A cis-acting regulatory mutation causes premature hair graying and susceptibility to melanoma in the horse

(2008) Gerli Rosengren Pielberg et al.   NATURE GENETICS

Leader of the pack: gene mapping in dogs and other model organisms

(2008) Elinor K. Karlsson et al.   NATURE REVIEWS GENETICS

Identification of the Yellow Skin Gene Reveals a Hybrid Origin of the Domestic Chicken

(2008) Jonas Eriksson et al.   PLoS Genetics