TY - JOUR
T1 - Spatial trends of genetic variation of domestic ruminants in Europe
AU - Laloë, Denis
AU - Moazami-Goudarzi, Katayoun
AU - Lenstra, Johannes A.
AU - Ajmone Marsan, Paolo
AU - Azor, Pedro
AU - Baumung, Roswitha
AU - Bradley, Daniel G.
AU - Bruford, Michael W.
AU - Cañón, Javier
AU - Dolf, Gaudenz
AU - Dunner, Susana
AU - Erhardt, Georg
AU - Hewitt, Godfrey
AU - Kantanen, Juha
AU - Obexer-Ruff, Gabriela
AU - Olsaker, Ingrid
AU - Rodellar, Clemen
AU - Valentini, Alessio
AU - Wiener, Pamela
PY - 2010/6/1
Y1 - 2010/6/1
N2 - The introduction of livestock species in Europe has been followed by various genetic events, which created a complex spatial pattern of genetic differentiation. Spatial principal component (sPCA) analysis and spatial metric multidimensional scaling (sMDS) incorporate geography in multivariate analysis. This method was applied to three microsatellite data sets for 45 goat breeds, 46 sheep breeds, and 101 cattle breeds from Europe, Southwest Asia, and India. The first two sPCA coordinates for goat and cattle, and the first sPCA coordinate of sheep, correspond to the coordinates of ordinary PCA analysis. However, higher sPCA coordinates suggest, for all three species, additional spatial structuring. The goat is the most geographically structured species, followed by cattle. For all three species, the main genetic cline is from southeast to northwest, but other geographic patterns depend on the species. We propose sPCA and sMDS to be useful tools for describing the correlation of genetic variation with geography. © 2010 by the authors; licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland.
AB - The introduction of livestock species in Europe has been followed by various genetic events, which created a complex spatial pattern of genetic differentiation. Spatial principal component (sPCA) analysis and spatial metric multidimensional scaling (sMDS) incorporate geography in multivariate analysis. This method was applied to three microsatellite data sets for 45 goat breeds, 46 sheep breeds, and 101 cattle breeds from Europe, Southwest Asia, and India. The first two sPCA coordinates for goat and cattle, and the first sPCA coordinate of sheep, correspond to the coordinates of ordinary PCA analysis. However, higher sPCA coordinates suggest, for all three species, additional spatial structuring. The goat is the most geographically structured species, followed by cattle. For all three species, the main genetic cline is from southeast to northwest, but other geographic patterns depend on the species. We propose sPCA and sMDS to be useful tools for describing the correlation of genetic variation with geography. © 2010 by the authors; licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland.
KW - Cattle
KW - Diversity
KW - Goat
KW - Moran's I
KW - Multidimensional Scaling
KW - PCA
KW - Sheep
KW - Spatial structure
KW - sPCA
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=77958529371&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.3390/d2060932
DO - 10.3390/d2060932
M3 - Article
SN - 1424-2818
VL - 2
SP - 932
EP - 945
JO - Diversity
JF - Diversity
IS - 6
ER -