ADAPTmap: A First Insight into Goat Adaptation

ADAPTmap is an International effort for coordination among projects for genotyping and re-sequencing of goat breeds developed in collaboration with the International Goat Genome Consortium (www.goatgenome.org). The aim is to explore diversity of breeds and populations around the world by using traditional and novel approaches.

Since July 2014, the centralized collection of genomic and phenotypic data from 15 projects on a total of 33 countries has started. Multiple actions have been undertaken to standardize genotypic and phenotypic data from different sources. In addition, more than 10 working groups coordinated by leading scientists have been identified and have started operating. These groups cover all aspects of the goat genome: i) the improvement of genome assembly; ii) genome annotation; iii) the study of the possibility to improve the current SNP panel; iv) the identification of parentage identification SNP panel; v) comparative genomics (with other ruminants); vi) integration and standardization of phenotypic data; vii) population genetics analyses and population history (domestication reconstruction); viii) Landscape genomics; and, ix) Breeding and genetic improvement. The progress and first results of these working groups will be presented.