Silvia Bonfiglio, Alessandro Achilli, Anna Olivieri, Riccardo Negrini, Licia Colli, Luigi Liotta, Paolo Ajmone-Marsan, Antonio Torroni and Luca Ferretti The Enigmatic Origin of Bovine mtDNA Haplogroup R: Sporadic Interbreeding or an Independent Event of Bos primigenius Domestication in Italy? PLoS ONE 2010, 28;5(12):e15760.
Denis Laloë, Katayoun Moazami-Goudarzi, Johannes A. Lenstra, Paolo Ajmone Marsan, Pedro Azor, Roswitha Baumung, Daniel G. Bradley, Michael W. Bruford, Javier Cañón, Gaudenz Dolf, Susana Dunner, Georg Erhardt, Godfrey Hewitt, Juha Kantanen, Gabriela Obexer-Ruff, Ingrid Olsaker, Clemen Rodellar, Alessio Valentini, Pam Wiener, European Cattle Genetic Diversity Consortium and Econogene Consortium. Spatial Trends of Genetic Variation of Domestic Ruminants in Europe. Diversity 2010, 2, 1-x manuscripts; doi:10.3390/d20x000x.
Stella A., Ajmone Marsan P. and Boettcher P. Identification of Selection Signatures in Cattle Breeds Selected for Dairy Production, Genetics 2010,185:1451-61.
Ajmone Marsan P, Garcia JF, Lenstra JA. On the Origin of Cattle: how Aurochs became Cattle and Colonized the World. Evolutionary Anthropology 2010, 19:148–15
Boettcher PJ, M. Tixier-Boichard, M. Toro, H. Simianer, H. Eding, G. Gandini, S. Joost, D. Garcia, L. Colli P. Ajmone-Marsan and the GLOBALDIV Consortium. Objectives, criteria and methods for using molecular genetic data in priority setting for conservation of animal genetic resources. Anim Genet 2010, 41 (Suppl. 1), 64-77.
Joost S, P.V. Baret, J.F. Garcia, P.J. Boettcher, M. Tixier-Boichard, P. Ajmone-Marsan and the GLOBALDIV Consortium. Integrating geo-referenced multiscale and multidisciplinary data for the management of biodiversity in livestock genetic resources. Anim Genet. 2010, 41 (Suppl. 1), 47-63.
Ajmone Marsan P. A global view of livestock biodiversity and conservation – GLOBALDIV. Anim Genet. 2010, 41 (Suppl.1), 1-5.
Mazza R, Strozzi F, Caprera A, Ajmone-Marsan P and Williams JL. The other side of comparative genomics: genes with no orthologs between the cow and other mammalian species. BMC Genomics 2009, accepted in the press.
Kijas, J.W., Townley, D., Dalrymple, B.P., Heaton, M.P., Maddox, J.F., McGrath, A., Wilson, P., Ingersoll, R.G.e, McCulloch, R., McWilliam, S., Tang, D., McEwan, J., Cockett, N., Oddy, V.H., Nicholas, F.W., Raadsma, H., Barris, W., Bishop, S.S., Coltman, D., Crawford, A., Eggen, A., Erhardt, G., Forage, R., Hanotte, O., Hunt, P., Jianlin, H., Li, K., Marsan, P.A., Miller, J.E., Pemberton, J., Schibler, L. A genome wide survey of SNP variation reveals the genetic structure of sheep breeds. PLoS ONE 2009 4 (3), art. no. e4668
Pariset L, Cuteri A, Ligda C, Ajmone-Marsan P, Valentini A, Consortium E. Geographical patterning of sixteen goat breeds from Italy, Albania and Greece assessed by Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms. BMC Ecol. 2009, issue 9, art. no. 20.
Pariset L, Joost S, Ajmone Marsan P, Valentini A and Econogene Consortium. Landscape genomics and biased FST approaches reveal single nucleotide polymorphisms under selection in goat breeds of North-East Mediterranean. BMC Genetics 2009, issue 10, art. N. 7. doi:10.1186/1471-2156-10-7.
Achilli A, Bonfiglio S, Olivieri A, Malusà A, Pala M, Kashani BH, Perego UA, Ajmone-Marsan P, Liotta L, Semino O, Bandelt HJ, Ferretti L, Torroni A. The multifaceted origin of taurine cattle reflected by the mitochondrial genome. PLoS ONE. 2009; 4 (6), art. no. e5753
Chessa B., F. Pereira, F. Arnaud, A. Amorim, F. Goyache, I. Mainland, R.R. Kao, J. M. Pemberton, D. Beraldi, M. Stear, A. Alberti, M. Pittau, M.H. Banabazi, R. Kazwala, Y.-P. Zhang, J.J. Arranz, B.A. Ali, Z. Wang, M. Uzun, M. Dione, I. Olsaker, L.-E. Holm, U. Saarma, S. Ahmad, N. Marzanov, E. Eythorsdottir, M.J. Holland, P. Ajmone-Marsan, M.W. Bruford, J. Kantanen, T.E. Spencer and M. Palmarini. Revealing the history of sheep domestication using retrovirus integration. Science, 2009: 324:532-536.
Bovine HapMap Consortium, Gibbs RA, Taylor JF, Van Tassell CP, Barendse W, Eversole KA, Gill CA, Green RD, Hamernik DL, Kappes SM, Lien S, Matukumalli LK, McEwan JC, Nazareth LV, Schnabel RD, Weinstock GM, Wheeler DA, Ajmone-Marsan P, Boettcher PJ, Caetano AR, Garcia JF, Hanotte O, Mariani P, Skow LC, Sonstegard TS, Williams JL, Diallo B, Hailemariam L, Martinez ML, Morris CA, Silva LO, Spelman RJ, Mulatu W, Zhao K, Abbey CA, Agaba M, Araujo FR, Bunch RJ, Burton J, Gorni C, Olivier H, Harrison BE, Luff B, Machado MA, Mwakaya J, Plastow G, Sim W, Smith T, Thomas MB, Valentini A, Williams P, Womack J, Woolliams JA, Liu Y, Qin X, Worley KC, Gao C, Jiang H, Moore SS, Ren Y, Song XZ, Bustamante CD, Hernandez RD, Muzny DM, Patil S, San Lucas A, Fu Q, Kent MP, Vega R, Matukumalli A, McWilliam S, Sclep G, Bryc K, Choi J, Gao H, Grefenstette JJ, Murdoch B, Stella A, Villa-Angulo R, Wright M, Aerts J, Jann O, Negrini R, Goddard ME, Hayes BJ, Bradley DG, Barbosa da Silva M, Lau LP, Liu GE, Lynn DJ, Panzitta F, Dodds KG. Genome-wide survey of SNP variation uncovers the genetic structure of cattle breeds. Science 2009, 324:528-532.
Lorraine Pariset, Stephane Joost, Paolo Ajmone Marsan, Alessio Valentini and Econogene Consortium. Landscape genomics and biased FST approaches reveal Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms under selection in goat breeds of North-East Mediterranean. BMC Genetics 2009, issue 10, art. no. 7.
Negrini R., Nicoloso L., Crepaldi P., Milanesi E., Colli L., Chegdani F., Pariset L., Dunner S., Leveziel H., Williams J.L, Ajmone Marsan P. Assessing SNP markers for assigning individuals to cattle population. Animal Genetics 2009, 40: 18-26.
Saeid Naderi, Hamid-Reza Rezaei, Francois Pompanon, Michael G. B. Blum, Riccardo Negrini, Hamid-Reza Naghash, O¼ zge Balk)z, Marjan Mashkour, Oscar E. Gaggiotti, Paolo Ajmone-Marsan, Aykut Kence, Jean-Denis Vigne, and Pierre Taberlet. The goat domestication process inferred from large-scale mitochondrial DNA analysis of wild and domestic individuale. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA. 2008, 105: 17659-17664.
Fortes G.G., Nonnis Marzano F.N., Bouza C., Martinez P., Ajmone-Marsan P., Gandolfi G. Application of Amplified Fragment Length Polymorphism markers to assess molecular polymorphisms in gynogenetic haploid embryos of turbot (Scophthalmus maximus). Aquaculture Research, 2008, 3941-3949.
Achilli A., A. Olivieri, M. Pellecchia, C. Uboldi, L. Colli, N. Al-Zahery, M. Accetturo, M. Pala, B.H. Kashani, U.A. Perego, V. Battaglia, S. Fornarino, J. Kalamati, M. Houshmand, R. Negrini, O. Semino, M. Richards, V. Macaulay, L. Ferretti, H.J. Bandelt, P. Ajmone-Marsan, A. Torroni. Mitochondrial Genomes of Extinct Aurochs Survive in Domestic Cattle. Current Biology, 2008 18(4): 157-158.
Taberlet P., A. Valentini, H.R. Rezaei, S. Naderi, F. Pompanon, R. Negrini, P. Ajmone-Marsan. Are cattle, sheep and goats endangered species? Molecular Ecology 2008, 17:275-284.
