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Original Articles

Genetic characterization of a small closed island population of Norwegian coastal goat

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Pages 47-52 | Received 08 Aug 2019, Accepted 11 Feb 2020, Published online: 24 Feb 2020

Figures & data

Figure 1. Inbreeding per chromosome estimated from the proportion of the chromosome covered by ROH for the 29 autosomes in the three populations (from detectRUNS (Biscarini et al. Citation2018)). MG, Norwegian Milk goat AI rams; Se, Norwegian coastal goat Selje; Sk, Norwegian coastal goat Skorpa.

Figure 1. Inbreeding per chromosome estimated from the proportion of the chromosome covered by ROH for the 29 autosomes in the three populations (from detectRUNS (Biscarini et al. Citation2018)). MG, Norwegian Milk goat AI rams; Se, Norwegian coastal goat Selje; Sk, Norwegian coastal goat Skorpa.

Table 1. Observed (Heto) heterozygosity, average genetic distance within population (D), inbreeding based on excess of homozygotes (FHOM) and inbreeding based on the proportion of the genome covered by runs of homozygosity (FROH). MG, Norwegian Milk goat AI rams; Se, Norwegian coastal goat Selje; Sk, Norwegian coastal goat Skorpa. Mean ± std.

Table 2. Contributions from K postulated ancestral populations, using a likelihood-based model as implemented in Admixture (Alexander et al. Citation2009). Mean (+ SD) contributions from K ancestral populations assuming values of K ranging from 2 to 5 (cv.error = cross-validation error).

Figure 2. Clustering based on genetic distance between the 96 individuals from the three populations. MG, Norwegian Milk goat AI rams; Se, Norwegian coastal goat Selje; Sk, Norwegian coastal goat Skorpa.

Figure 2. Clustering based on genetic distance between the 96 individuals from the three populations. MG, Norwegian Milk goat AI rams; Se, Norwegian coastal goat Selje; Sk, Norwegian coastal goat Skorpa.

Figure 3. Historical effective population sizes in the island and mainland population of coastal goat estimated from linkage disequilibrium. MG, Norwegian Milk goat AI rams; Se, Norwegian coastal goat Selje; Sk, Norwegian coastal goat Skorpa.

Figure 3. Historical effective population sizes in the island and mainland population of coastal goat estimated from linkage disequilibrium. MG, Norwegian Milk goat AI rams; Se, Norwegian coastal goat Selje; Sk, Norwegian coastal goat Skorpa.

Table 3. Pairwise FST values (below diagonal) and average pairwise genetic distances (above diagonal) between the three populations. Average genetic distances within populations are in . MG, Norwegian Milk goat AI rams; Se, Norwegian coastal goat Selje; Sk, Norwegian coastal goat Skorpa.