Génétique Physiologie et Systèmes d'Elevage

Vocal encoding of heritable sociability prevails over emotions in sheep bleats

Vocalizations of animals are good indicators of their emotions. Temperament is known to influence the regulation and expression of emotions. However, how animal temperament affects their vocalizations and particularly their vocal expressions of emotions remains largely unexplored...

Deciphering the genomic signatures of climate vulnerability across 77 sheep breeds

Abstract Among domesticated species, sheep ( Ovis aries ) have achieved a wide geographic distribution due to their mobility, rusticity and ability to adapt to diverse environments and climatic conditions. Here, we characterise the genome-wide diversity of >1,000 sheep representi...

Leveraging human-trained neural networks for cross-species chromatin regulation annotations

Abstract Analogous to the Encyclopedia of DNA Elements (ENCODE) project, the Functional Annotation of ANimal Genomes (FAANG) consortium has produced chromatin annotations for domesticated animals, albeit in smaller amounts. Although acquiring experimental data is more accessible...

Evaluating Selection Strategies Based on Inbreeding Load via Simulation

Inbreeding load is the fraction of the mutation load that is due to recessive action of mutations. This load is only expressed in individual's inbred offspring. As such, inbreeding load contributes to genetic heterogeneity among individuals and can thus be used as a criterion of...