Capturing goats: documenting two hundred years of mitochondrial DNA diversity among goat populations from Britain and Ireland

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dc.contributor.authorCassidy, Lara M.
dc.contributor.authorTeasdale, Matthew D.
dc.contributor.authorCarolan, Sean
dc.contributor.authorEnright, Ruth
dc.contributor.authorWerner, Raymond
dc.contributor.authorBradley, Daniel G.
dc.contributor.authorFinlay, Emma K.
dc.contributor.authorMattiangeli, Valeria
dc.contributor.funderSeventh Framework Programme
dc.contributor.funderIrish Research Council
dc.contributor.funderEuropean Research Council
dc.date.accessioned2018-07-30T10:30:32Z
dc.date.available2018-07-30T10:30:32Z
dc.date.issued2017
dc.description.abstractThe domestic goat (Capra hircus) plays a key role in global agriculture, being especially prized in regions of marginal pasture. However, the advent of industrialized breeding has seen a dramatic reduction in genetic diversity within commercial populations, while high extinction rates among feral herds have further depleted the reservoir of genetic variation available. Here, we present the first survey of whole mitochondrial genomic variation among the modern and historical goat populations of Britain and Ireland using a combination of mtDNA enrichment and high throughput sequencing. Fifteen historical taxidermy samples, representing the indigenous 'Old Goat' populations of the islands, were sequenced alongside five modern Irish dairy goats and four feral samples from endangered populations in western Ireland. Phylogenetic and network analyses of European mitochondrial variation revealed distinct groupings dominated by historical British and Irish samples, which demonstrate a degree of maternal genetic structure between the goats of insular and continental Europe. Several Irish modern feral samples also fall within these clusters, suggesting continuity between these dwindling populations and the ancestral 'Old Goats' of Ireland and Britain.en
dc.description.sponsorshipIrish Research Council (GOIPG/2013/1219)en
dc.description.statusPeer revieweden
dc.description.versionAccepted Versionen
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dc.identifier.articleid20160876
dc.identifier.citationCassidy, L. M., Teasdale, M. D., Carolan, S., Enright, R., Werner, R., Bradley, D. G., Finlay, E. K. and Mattiangeli, V. (2017) 'Capturing goats: documenting two hundred years of mitochondrial DNA diversity among goat populations from Britain and Ireland', Biology Letters, 13(3), 20160876(6pp). doi: 10.1098/rsbl.2016.0876en
dc.identifier.doi10.1098/rsbl.2016.0876
dc.identifier.endpage6
dc.identifier.issn1744-9561
dc.identifier.issued3
dc.identifier.journaltitleBiology Lettersen
dc.identifier.startpage1
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10468/6523
dc.identifier.volume13
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherThe Royal Societyen
dc.relation.projectinfo:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EC/FP7::SP1::KBBE/244356/EU/Next generation methods to preserve farm animal biodiversity by optimizing present and future breeding options/NEXTGEN
dc.relation.projectinfo:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EC/FP7::SP2::ERC/295729/EU/Decoding Domesticate DNA in Archaeological Bone and Manuscripts/CODEX
dc.relation.urihttp://rsbl.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/13/3/20160876
dc.rights© 2017, the Authors. Published by the Royal Society. All rights reserved. This is a post-peer-review, pre-copyedit version of an article published in Biology Letters. The definitive publisher-authenticated version [Cassidy, L. M., Teasdale, M. D., Carolan, S., Enright, R., Werner, R., Bradley, D. G., Finlay, E. K. and Mattiangeli, V. (2017) 'Capturing goats: documenting two hundred years of mitochondrial DNA diversity among goat populations from Britain and Ireland', Biology Letters, 13(3), 20160876(6pp). doi: 10.1098/rsbl.2016.0876] is available online at: https://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2016.0876en
dc.rights.urihttp://royalsocietypublishing.org/licence
dc.subjectCapra hircusen
dc.subjectMtDNA captureen
dc.subjectNext generation sequencingen
dc.subjectTaxidermy samplesen
dc.subjectConservationen
dc.titleCapturing goats: documenting two hundred years of mitochondrial DNA diversity among goat populations from Britain and Irelanden
dc.typeArticle (peer-reviewed)en
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