Domestication promotes rapid phenotypic evolution through artificial selection. We investigated
the genetic history by which the wild grass teosinte (Zea mays ssp. parviglumis) was …

Background Major advances in selection progress for cattle have been made following the
introduction of genomic tools over the past 10–12 years. These tools depend upon the Bos …

The decrease in sequencing cost and increased sophistication of assembly algorithms for
short-read platforms has resulted in a sharp increase in the number of species with genome …

Plants produce compounds in roots that are transported to shoots via the xylem sap. Some
of these compounds are vital for signalling and adaptation to environmental stress such as …

Maize (Zea mays) is among the most important crop plants in the world. For any crop plant,
an integrated genetic and physical map serves as the foundation for numerous studies, …

Copy number variations (CNVs) affect a wide range of phenotypic traits; however, CNVs in
or near segmental duplication regions are often intractable. Using a read depth approach …

Maize (Zea mays subsp mays) was domesticated from teosinte (Z. mays subsp parviglumis)
through a single domestication event in southern Mexico between 6000 and 9000 years ago…

Background The domestic pig (Sus scrofa) is important both as a food source and as a
biomedical model given its similarity in size, anatomy, physiology, metabolism, pathology, and …

Background Milk exosomes are a rich source of microRNAs (miRNAs) that are protected from
degradation. Ingestion of milk and subsequent absorption of miRNAs into recipient cells by …

A total of 992,682 single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) was identified as ideal for
Illumina Infinium II BeadChip design after sequencing a diverse set of 17 common bean (…