Artificial selection has been demonstrated to have a rapid and significant effect on the phenotype and genome of an organism. However, most previous studies on artificial selection have focused solely on genomic sequences modified by artificial selection or genomic sequences associated with a specific trait. In this study, we generated whole genome sequencing data of 126 cattle under artificial...

Artificial selection has been practiced for centuries to shape the properties of individual organisms, providing Darwin with a powerful argument for his theory of natural selection. We show that the properties of whole ecosystems can also be shaped by artificial selection procedures. Ecosystems initiated in the laboratory vary phenotypically and a proportion of the variation is heritable, despi...

selective signatures in whole genome can help us to understand the mechanisms of selection and to identify the genomic regions that have been under natural or artificial selection during long years. the objective of this study was to identify the genomic regions that have been under artificial and natural selection in baluchi and zel sheep breeds. 143 sheep from baluchi (n=96) and zel breeds (n...

Genetic Algorithms (GAs) are a stochastic searching and optimizing method inspired by the biological mechanism of natural selection and evolution. To improve the searching power of GAs for complicated problems, many deterministic measures, particularly, experience and/or expert knowledge-based heuristic rules, have been studied in the existing literature. This paper proposes a potentially more ...

The water crisis is harmful effects on human life. Also one of the most problems in the human society is water resources management. In this study, site selection of most suitable areas for artificial recharge using Boolean model. Criteria used to select the most suitable area for artificial recharge included: infiltration, slope, aquifer thickness, aquifer quality.  The layers were produced an...