title: The phylogeographic system survey of native sheep breeds in the eastern and southern Central Asia.
abstract: The genetic diversity and phylogenetic survey of native sheep breeds in the eastern and southern Central Asia were assessed in the present study. The clustering, principal components, structure and F statistics all demonstrate that the native sheep breeds in these regions be classified into two genetic groups: Mongolia-Tibetan sheep group and South-Southeast Asia sheep group. The Mongolia sheep group and the Tibetan sheep group had a certain degree of gene communication from the ancient times. In the present study we demonstrated that the Chinese native sheep populations belonged to Mongolia-Tibetan sheep group. However, the relationships among the sheep populations in Mongolia sheep group in China were not closely related to the geographical distance among sheep populations.
authors.affiliation: Institute of Animal Science, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, China.
authors.forename: W
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Sun
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Chang
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Tsunoda
authors.forename: H H
authors.initials: HH
authors.lastname: Musa
authors.forename: Z P
authors.initials: ZP
authors.lastname: Yang
authors.forename: Y H
authors.initials: YH
authors.lastname: Ma
authors.forename: W J
authors.initials: WJ
authors.lastname: Guan
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001208:Asia; D044822:Biodiversity; D003247:Conservation of Natural Resources; D003625:Data Collection; D005787:Gene Frequency; D056426:Genetic Loci; D014644:Genetic Variation; D010802:Phylogeny; D058974:Phylogeography; D025341:Principal Component Analysis; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D012756:Sheep / Q000145:classification* / Q000235:genetics*