The genome landscape of Tibetan sheep reveals adaptive introgression from argali and the history of early human settlements on the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau

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Xiao-Ju Hu, Ji Yang, Xing-Long Xie, Feng-Hua Lv, Yin-Hong Cao, Wen-Rong Li, Ming-Jun Liu, Yu-Tao Wang, Jin-Quan Li, Yong-Gang Liu, Yan-Lin Ren, Zhi-Qiang Shen, Feng Wang, Eer Hehua, Han Jianlin and Meng-Hua Li. 2019. The genome landscape of Tibetan sheep reveals adaptive introgression from argali and the history of early human settlements on the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau. Molecular Biology and Evolution 36(2):283–303.

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