Denis M. Larkin

TL;DR: The assembly and analysis of the genome sequence of a female domestic Duroc pig and a comparison with the genomes of wild and domestic pigs from Europe and Asia reveal a deep phylogenetic split between European and Asian wild boars ∼1 million years ago.

TL;DR: To understand the biology and evolution of ruminants, the cattle genome was sequenced to about sevenfold coverage and provides a resource for understanding mammalian evolution and accelerating livestock genetic improvement for milk and meat production.

TL;DR: This work explored bird macroevolution using full genomes from 48 avian species representing all major extant clades to reveal that pan-avian genomic diversity covaries with adaptations to different lifestyles and convergent evolution of traits.

TL;DR: Positively selected and rapidly evolving genes in the yak lineage are found to be significantly enriched in functional categories and pathways related to hypoxia and nutrition metabolism, which may have important implications for understanding adaptation to high altitude in other animal species and for Hypoxia-related diseases in humans.

TL;DR: In this paper, a Genome-Wide Adaptive Complex to underground stresses in blind mole rats Spalax is described, where the adaptive complexes are based on adaptive complexes to underground stress.