“…The development of this assay was facilitated by the cross-species application of the domestic sheep genome ( Bunch et al, 2006 ) to Rocky Mountain bighorn sheep, further exemplifying the utility of genomic resources for studies of closely related wild species ( Li et al, 2019 ; Santos et al, 2021 ; Sim & Coltman, 2019 ). Additionally, our study contributes to the growing number of successful applications of ATG and SPET in non-human mammals ( Andrews et al, 2021 ; Gavriliuc et al, 2022 ) and other species ( Saber et al, 2017 ; Scaglione et al, 2019 ; Vu et al, 2023 ), proving to be a viable option for low-cost, high-throughput, high-density SNP genotyping. Furthermore, targeted-GBS technology ( Kozarewa et al, 2015 ; Meek & Larson, 2019 ; Scaglione et al, 2019 ) allows researchers to target specific loci throughout a genome enabling researchers to obtain relatively evenly distributed genome wide SNP markers required for quantitative genetic and genomic studies.…”