• Genomic analysis of the domestication and post-Spanish conquest evolution of the llama and alpaca 

      Fan, Ruiwen; Gu, Zhongru; Guang, Xuanmin; Marín, Juan Carlos; Varas, Valeria; González Pérez, Benito; Wheeler, Jane C.; Hu, Yafei; Li, Elri; Sun, Xiaohui; Yang, Xukui; Zhang, Chi; Gao, Wenjun; He, Junping; Munch, Kasper; Corbett-Detig, Russel; Barbato, Mario; Pan, Shengkai; Zhan, Xiangjiang; Bruford, Michael W.; Dong, Changsheng (BMC, 2020)
      Background Despite their regional economic importance and being increasingly reared globally, the origins and evolution of the llama and alpaca remain poorly understood. Here we report reference ...
    • Utility of genetic variation in coat color genes to distinguish wild, domestic and hybrid South American ... 

      González Pérez, Benito; Agapito, Ana; Novoa Muñoz, Francisco; Vianna, Juliana; Johnson, Warren; Marín, Juan Carlos (Elsevier, 2020)
      A molecular genetic protocol for distinguishing pure and hybrid South American camelids was developed to provide strong, quantifiable, and unbiased species identification. We detail the ...