Table 1 Average coefficients of inbreeding, runs of homozygosity and genetic diversity in sheep and goats

From: Multiple genomic signatures of selection in goats and sheep indigenous to a hot arid environment

 

Goats

Sheep

 

Barki

Other exotics a

Boer

Barki

Romney

Texel

Corriedale

Sample sizes

68

59

34

59

50

26

25

F roh

0.02 (0.07)b

0.03 (0.06)

0.09 (0.03)

0.02 (0.03)

0.05 (0.01)

0.10 (0.02)

0.03 (0.03)

F geno

0.01 (0.05)

0.09 (0.07)

0.19 (0.05)

−0.00 (0.04)

0.08 (0.01)

0.25 (0.02)

−0.05 (0.03)

r c

0.80

0.85

0.84

0.76

0.77

0.65

0.83

Mean length of ROH (Mb)

1.48 (2.8)

4.19 (4.5)

10.61 (8.4)

4.40 (7.6)

12.49 (8.3)

16.48 (9.9)

14.25 (4.0)

Individuals lacking ROH

72%

6%

0%

58%

2%

0%

17%

Ho

0.40 (0.12)

0.42 (0.08)

0.35 (0.02)

0.37 (0.14)

0.33 (0.03)

0.22 (0.03)

0.32 (0.03)

He

0.40 (0.11)

0.44 (0.07)

0.43 (0.11)

0.37 (0.13)

0.33 (0.03)

0.31 (0.03)

0.30 (0.03)

Ne (5)d

127

87

66

130

45

21

30

Ne (70)d

1531

729

230

1331

374

161

244

Private allelic richness (pAr)

0.016

0.007

0.003

0.017

0.008

0.002

0.005

  1. Abbreviations: Ho, Observed homozygosity; He, Expected homozygosity; ROH, runs of homozygosity.
  2. aOther exotics=Myotonic, Spanish, Kiko, LaMancha.
  3. bNumbers in parenthesis represent standard deviations.
  4. cr=Correlation coefficient between ROH-based inbreeding coefficient (Froh) and genotype-based inbreeding coefficient (Fgeno).
  5. dNe=Effective population size (5 or 70 generations ago).
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