History and genetic diversity of African sheep: Contrasting phenotypic and genomic diversity
Anne Da Silva,
Abulgasim Ahbara,
Imen Baazaoui
et al.
Abstract:Domesticated sheep have adapted to contrasting and extreme environments and continue to play important roles in local community‐based economies throughout Africa. Here we review the Neolithic migrations of thin‐tailed sheep and the later introductions of fat‐tailed sheep into eastern Africa. According to contemporary pictorial evidence, the latter occurred in Egypt not before the Ptolemaic period (305–25 BCE). We further describe the more recent history of sheep in Egypt, the Maghreb, west and central Africa, … Show more
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