Francois Besnier

TL;DR: The authors used massively parallel sequencing to identify selective sweeps of favorable alleles and candidate mutations that have had a prominent role in the domestication of domestic chickens and their subsequent specialization into broiler (meat-producing) and layer (egg-consuming) chickens.

TL;DR: An analysis of the sequence composition at recombination hot and cold spots revealed a strong positive correlation between GC-rich sequences and high recombination rates, suggesting a functional relationship between recombination frequency and cohesin binding.

TL;DR: Two significant quantitative trait loci (QTL) for tameness are identified that overlap with QTL for adrenal gland weight and for anxiety-related traits and are part of a five-locus epistatic network influencing tameness.

TL;DR: In this paper, an F2 intercross of two outbred lines of rats selected for tame and aggressive behavior toward humans for >64 generations was used to identify four times more loci influencing tameness and aggression than by an approach that assumes fixation of causative alleles.

TL;DR: This work has produced a nine-generation AIL pedigree from two outbred chicken lines divergently selected for body weight at eight weeks of age and developed a novel strategy to analyse the data that uses both genotype and pedigree information of all AIL individuals to replicate the detection of and fine-map QTL affecting juvenile body weight.