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Whole Genome Scan and Selection Signatures for Climate Adaption in Yanbian Cattle

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Shen, Jiafei, Hanif, Quratulain, Cao, Yang, Yu, Yongsheng, Lei, Chuzhao, Zhang, Guoliang, Zhao, Yumin·2020·Frontiers in Genetics

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Yanbian cattle is inhabitant of North of China, exhibiting many phenotypic features, such as long, dense body hair and abundant intramuscular fat, designed to combat the extreme cold climate adaption. In the current study, we studied the cold tolerance of nine Yanbian cattle by whole genome resequencing and compared with African tropical cattle, N’Dama, as a control group. Yanbian cattle was aligned to the Bos taurus reference genome (ARS-UCD1.2) yielding an average of 10.8 fold coverage. The positive selective sweep analysis for the cold adaption in Yanbian cattle were analyzed using Composite Likelihood Ratio (CLR) and nucleotide diversity (θπ), resulting in 292 overlapped genes. . The strongest selective signal was found on chromosome 16 with potential mutation in CORT gene, a regulatory gene of primary hormone in the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis, is reported to be associated with the cold stress, represented 4 missense mutations (c.269C>T, p.Lys90Ile; c.251A>G, p.Glu84Gly; c.112C>T, p.Pro38Ser; c.86G>A, p.Pro29His). Meanwhile another gene on chromosome 6, showed significantly higher selective sweep signals for a cold adapted trait for hair follicle and length development, FGF5 (fibroblast growth factor 5) with a missense mutation (c.191C>T, p.Ser64Phe). Moreover, cold adapted Yanbian cattle was statistically compared with the hot adapted N’Dama cattle, using XP-CLR, Fst and θπ ratio, yielding 487, 924 and 346 genes respectively. Amongst the 12 overlapped genes, (CD36) (c.638A>G, p.Lys 213Arg) involved in fat digestion and absorption plays an important role in membrane transport of long-chain fatty acid and its expression could increase in cold exposure. Henceforth, Our study provides a novel genetic insights into the cold climate adaptation of Yanbian cattle and identified three candidate genes (CORT, and FGF5 and CD36), which can add to an understanding of the cold climate adaptation of Yanbian cattle.

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  • In Yanbian cattle of northeastern China, genes related to cold stress (CORT), hair follicle and hair growth (FGF5), and lipid metabolism (CD36) were selected.

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Authors
Shen, J., Hanif, Q., Cao, Y., Yu, Y., Lei, C., Zhang, G., & Zhao, Y.
Affiliations
  • Jilin Academy of Agricultural Sciences (CN)
  • National Institute for Biotechnology and Genetic Engineering (PK)
  • Northwest A&F University (CN)
Corresponding author
Zhao, Yumin
Venue
Frontiers in Genetics
Published
2020-02-25
Volume
11
Pages
94-94
ISSN
1664-8021 (ISSN-L)
OpenAlex
W3008541876
Cited by
53
References
38
Citations by year
2026: 6 · 2025: 14 · 2024: 7 · 2023: 5 · 2022: 12 · 2021: 4 · 2020: 4 · 2019: 1
FWCI
3.81
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journal article
Language
en
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  • Frontiers in Genetics (publishedVersion, cc-by)
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  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals) (submittedVersion, cc-by-sa)
Funders
National Natural Science Foundation of China (CARS-37, 31872317)
Topics
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Genetics › Genetic and phenotypic traits in livestock
  • Life Sciences › Agricultural and Biological Sciences › Animal Science and Zoology › Effects of Environmental Stressors on Livestock
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Genetics › Genetic Mapping and Diversity in Plants and Animals
Keywords
Yanbian cattle, cold climate adaptation, positive selection signatures, whole-genome resequencing, N'Dama cattle, FGF5, CD36, hair follicle development, intramuscular fat, cold tolerance, candidate genes

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