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Population Genomic History of the Endangered Anatolian and Cyprian Mouflons in Relation to Worldwide Wild, Feral, and Domestic Sheep Lineages
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2024-05-01
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Atag, Gözde
Kaptan, Damla
Yüncü, Eren
VURAL, KIVILCIM BAŞAK
Mereu, Paolo
Pirastru, Monica
Barbato, Mario
Leoni, Giovanni Giuseppe
Güler, Merve Nur
Er, Tugce
Eker, Elifnaz
Yazıcı, Tunca Deniz
Kılıç, Muhammed Sıddık
Altınışık, Nefize Ezgi
Çelik, Ecem Ayşe
Miranda, Pedro Morell
Dehasque, Marianne
Floridia, Viviana
Götherström, Anders
Bilgin, Cemal Can
Togan, Inci
Günther, Torsten
Özer, Füsun
Hadjisterkotis, Eleftherios
Somel, Mehmet
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Once widespread in their homelands, the Anatolian mouflon (Ovis gmelini anatolica) and the Cyprian mouflon (Ovis gmelini ophion) were driven to near extinction during the 20th century and are currently listed as endangered populations by the International Union for Conservation of Nature. While the exact origins of these lineages remain unclear, they have been suggested to be close relatives of domestic sheep or remnants of proto-domestic sheep. Here, we study whole genome sequences of n = 5 Anatolian mouflons and n = 10 Cyprian mouflons in terms of population history and diversity, comparing them with eight other extant sheep lineages. We find reciprocal genetic affinity between Anatolian and Cyprian mouflons and domestic sheep, higher than all other studied wild sheep genomes, including the Iranian mouflon (O. gmelini). Studying diversity indices, we detect a considerable load of short runs of homozygosity blocks (<2 Mb) in both Anatolian and Cyprian mouflons, reflecting small effective population size (Ne). Meanwhile, Ne and mutation load estimates are lower in Cyprian compared with Anatolian mouflons, suggesting the purging of recessive deleterious variants in Cyprian sheep under a small long-term Ne, possibly attributable to founder effects, island isolation, introgression from domestic lineages, or differences in their bottleneck dynamics. Expanding our analyses to worldwide wild and feral Ovis genomes, we observe varying viability metrics among different lineages and a limited consistency between viability metrics and International Union for Conservation of Nature conservation status. Factors such as recent inbreeding, introgression, and unique population dynamics may have contributed to the observed disparities.
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conservation
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domestication
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genomics
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sheep
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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/109953
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Genome Biology and Evolution
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https://doi.org/10.1093/gbe/evae090
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G. Atag et al., “Population Genomic History of the Endangered Anatolian and Cyprian Mouflons in Relation to Worldwide Wild, Feral, and Domestic Sheep Lineages,”
Genome Biology and Evolution
, vol. 16, no. 5, pp. 0–0, 2024, Accessed: 00, 2024. [Online]. Available: https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?partnerID=HzOxMe3b&scp=85193919257&origin=inward.