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Table 3 Runs of homozygosity (ROH) islands identified in the genomes of the studied chicken breeds1

From: Selective footprints and genes relevant to cold adaptation and other phenotypic traits are unscrambled in the genomes of divergently selected chicken breeds

GGA

No. of ROH islands

Coverage by ROH islands, Mb

OMF

RUW

USH

WCR

OMF

RUW

USH

WCR

1

12

5

33

4

11.927

5.594

67.422

6.584

2

9

2

22

7

9.986

2.415

50.988

8.074

3

8

4

16

1

6.731

3.222

17.116

0.463

4

4

3

20

2

2.491

3.739

34.117

1.513

5

3

1

12

2.334

0.903

17.723

3.240

6

2

3.931

7

6

11

1

5.201

19.405

0.571

8

1

6

1

0.883

7.851

0.586

9

1

1

3

0.530

0.525

4.776

10

2

3

0.952

7.785

11

2

7

1.242

9.060

12

5

1

5

3.192

0.640

8.495

13

3

2.618

14

1

3

0.700

4.070

15

2

2.406

18

1

1

1.506

0.789

19

3

2.623

20

3

2.223

21

1

0.769

26

1

2

0.828

0.919

27

1

1.978

28

4

1

3.338

0.679

Total

55

17

165

19

46.998

17.038

272.987

22.500

Mean length (M ± SE)

1.821 ± 0.064ab

1.891 ± 0.143ac

2.638 ± 0.132

2.075 ± 0.183bc

  1. 1 Breeds: OMF Orloff Mille Fleur, RUW Russian White, USH Ushanka, WCR White Cornish. M Mean value, SE Standard error. Mean values with the same superscript have no significant difference