Table 1 A summary of genomic studies that highlighted the HOXB13 gene associated with the tail phenotype in the ovine genome.
Reference | Breed(s) and tail phenotype(s)* | Origin | Genotyping approach | Ovine reference genome |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Ahbara et al. 2019 (ref.19) | Fat-rumped (Kefis, Adane, and Arabo). Short fat-tailed (Molale-Menz). Long fat-tailed (Bonga, Gesses, Kido, Doyogena, Shubi-Gemo, and Loya) | Ethiopia | Ovine 50 K SNP BeadChip (Illumina) | Oar_v3.1 |
Long thin-tailed (Hammari and Kabashi) | Sudan | |||
Manzari et al. 2019 (ref.20) | Fat-tailed (Baluchi and Lori-Bakhtiari). Thin-tailed (Zel) | Iran | Ovine 50 K SNP BeadChip (Illumina) | Oar_v3.1 |
Li et al. 2022 (ref.21) | Long thin-tailed (Suffolk, Dorset, Texel, Charollais, Merino, and Romney). Rat-tailed (East Friesian) | Europe | Long-read PacBio HiFi sequencing | ARS-UI_Ramb_v2.0 |
Long thin-tailed (White Dorper) | Africa | |||
Fat-tailed (Kermani) | Middle east (Iran) | |||
Short fat-tailed (Ujumqin). Fat-rumped (Kazakh) | East Asia (Northern China) | |||
Short thin-tailed (Tibetan) | East Asia (Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau) | |||
Short thin-tailed (Yunnan) | East Asia (Yunnan-Kweichow Plateau) | |||
Ahbara et al. 2022 (ref.22) | Fat-rumped (Kefis, Segentu, Adane, and Arabo). Short fat-tailed (Gafera-Washera and Molale-Menz). Long fat-tailed (Bonga, Gesses, Kido, Doyogena, Shubi-Gemo, and Loya) | Ethiopia | Paired-end sequencing (Illumina) | Oar_v3.1 |
Long thin-tailed (Hammari and Kabashi) | Sudan | |||
Long fat-tailed (shorter caudal vertebrae length; Barberine) | Libya | |||
Lagler et al. 2022 (ref.23) | Long thin-tailed (Merinolandschaf) | German | Ovine 50 K SNP BeadChip (Illumina) | Oar_v4.0 |
