Special Issue "Advances in Genetic Mechanism of Artificial Domestication of Wild Animals"

Dear Colleagues, 

The process of wild animal domestication started as many as 12000 years ago. Artificial directional selection promoted the emergence of abundant phenotypic changes in domesticated animals. Compared with their wild ancestors, the domesticated animals presented alterations in body size, physiological development and behavior. A better understanding of the genomic or genetic changes in the process of animal domestication and artificial selection has been a critical topic in recent decades.

In this new Special Issue, we invite studies focusing on the genetic mechanisms of the artificial domestication of wild animals, including genome selection, molecular regulation, new breed formation and the genetic mechanism corresponding to phenotypic diversity.

Potential themes include, but are not limited to:

(1) Illustrating the biological functions and molecular regulatory pathway of key genes that are responsible for the important traits of domesticated animals, on molecular, cellular, individual and population levels;

(2) Comparison of genetic differences among different breeds;

(3) Identification of the critical mutations or QTLs linked to specific phenotypic traits;

(4) Genome scanning of the signatures of artificial selection.

Prof. Dr. Gang Li
Dr. Wu Xiaoyun
Guest Editors

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• animal domestication

• artificial selection
• complex trait
• genetic diversity
• genetic mechanism