John C. McEwan

Research interests

Publications

• On the origin of European sheep as revealed by the diversity of the Balkan breeds and by optimizing population-genetic analysis tools

  Genetics Selection Evolution · 2020 · 10.1186/s12711-020-00545-7

• Animal board invited review: genetic possibilities to reduce enteric methane emissions from ruminants

  animal · 2015 · 10.1017/s1751731115000968

• Coordinated international action to accelerate genome-to-phenome with FAANG, the Functional Annotation of Animal Genomes project

  Genome biology · 2015 · 10.1186/s13059-015-0622-4

• Construction of relatedness matrices using genotyping-by-sequencing data

  BMC Genomics · 2015 · 10.1186/s12864-015-2252-3

• The sheep genome illuminates biology of the rumen and lipid metabolism

  Science · 2014 · 10.1126/science.1252806

• Methane yield phenotypes linked to differential gene expression in the sheep rumen microbiome

  Genome Research · 2014 · https://doi.org/10.1101/gr.168245.113

• Design and Characterization of a 52K SNP Chip for Goats

  PLoS ONE · 2014 · 10.1371/journal.pone.0086227

• Two Different Bacterial Community Types Are Linked with the Low-Methane Emission Trait in Sheep

  PLoS ONE · 2014 · 10.1371/journal.pone.0103171

• Genome-wide association study for birth weight in Nellore cattle points to previously described orthologous genes affecting human and bovine height

  BMC Genetics · 2013 · 10.1186/1471-2156-14-52

• Heritability estimates of methane emissions from sheep

  animal · 2013 · 10.1017/s1751731113000864

• Genomic scan of selective sweeps in thin and fat tail sheep breeds for identifying of candidate regions associated with fat deposition

  BMC Genetics · 2012 · 10.1186/1471-2156-13-10

• Genome-Wide Analysis of the World's Sheep Breeds Reveals High Levels of Historic Mixture and Strong Recent Selection

  PLoS Biology · 2012 · https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.1001258

• Genome‐wide association mapping identifies the genetic basis of discrete and quantitative variation in sexual weaponry in a wild sheep population

  Molecular Ecology · 2011 · 10.1111/j.1365-294x.2011.05076.x

• The sheep genome reference sequence: a work in progress

  Animal Genetics · 2010 · 10.1111/j.1365-2052.2010.02100.x

• The Genome Sequence of Taurine Cattle: A Window to Ruminant Biology and Evolution

  Science · 2009 · https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1169588

• Genome-Wide Survey of SNP Variation Uncovers the Genetic Structure of Cattle Breeds

  Science · 2009 · https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1167936

• Resolving the evolution of extant and extinct ruminants with high-throughput phylogenomics

  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2009 · 10.1073/pnas.0904691106

• A Genome Wide Survey of SNP Variation Reveals the Genetic Structure of Sheep Breeds

  PLoS ONE · 2009 · 10.1371/journal.pone.0004668

• Fatty acid synthase effects on bovine adipose fat and milk fat

  Mammalian Genome · 2007 · 10.1007/s00335-006-0102-y

• Understanding the relationship between the inbreeding coefficient and multilocus heterozygosity: theoretical expectations and empirical data

  Heredity · 2004 · https://doi.org/10.1038/sj.hdy.6800485

• Linkage Disequilibrium in Domestic Sheep

  Genetics · 2002 · 10.1093/genetics/160.3.1113

• Breeding sheep in New Zealand that are less reliant on anthelmintics to maintain health and productivity

  New Zealand Veterinary Journal · 2001 · 10.1080/00480169.2001.36238

• Highly Prolific Booroola Sheep Have a Mutation in the Intracellular Kinase Domain of Bone Morphogenetic Protein IB Receptor (ALK-6) That Is Expressed in Both Oocytes and Granulosa Cells1

  Biology of Reproduction · 2001 · https://doi.org/10.1095/biolreprod64.4.1225

• Evidence for the Presence of a Major Gene Influencing Ovulation Rate on the X Chromosome of Sheep

  Biology of Reproduction · 1991 · 10.1095/biolreprod44.4.620

• Neural control of the sequence of expression of myosin heavy chain isoforms in foetal mammalian muscles

  Development · 1989 · 10.1242/dev.107.4.751

Current projects

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