Fig. 2: Selection for H/L causes genetic differentiation. | Communications Biology

Fig. 2: Selection for H/L causes genetic differentiation.

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Fig. 2

a Phenotype progress over the course of H/L breeding. b Summary of nucleotide diversity (Pi) and population divergence (Fst) across selected and non-selected groups. Values in each circle represent nucleotide diversity for the group, and values between pairs indicate population divergence (Fst). NS, non-selection line; G5, 5th generation; G9, 9th generation. c Decay of linkage disequilibrium (LD) in the three groups, measured by r2. d Pairwise fixation index (Fst) in 40-kb sliding windows across autosomes between G9 and NS. The dashed horizontal line indicates the Fst cutoff (top 1%). Genes located in divergence regions annotated by Ensembl BioMart are indicated by their gene names. e CDRs are enriched for sites on chromosome 9, the gene set for the FcR and ITIM pathways.

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