Elena Ciani

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

James Kijas, Johannes A. Lenstra, Ben J. Hayes et al. · PLoS Biology · 2012 · 920 citations · Full text

Coat Pigmentation, Genetics, Genomic Selection +22

Whole-Genome Resequencing of Worldwide Wild and Domestic Sheep Elucidates Genetic Diversity, Introgression, and Agronomically Important Loci

Feng‐Hua Lv, Yin-Hong Cao, Guangjian Liu et al. · Molecular Biology and Evolution · 2021 · 196 citations · Full text

Genetics, Genomics, Landscape Genetics +23

Merino and Merino-derived sheep breeds: a genome-wide intercontinental study

Elena Ciani, Emiliano Lasagna, Mariasilvia D’Andrea et al. · Genetics Selection Evolution · 2015 · 147 citations · Full text

Runs of homozygosity reveal genome‐wide autozygosity in Italian sheep breeds

Salvatore Mastrangelo, Elena Ciani, Maria Teresa Sardina et al. · Animal Genetics · 2018 · 133 citations

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

Elena Ciani, Salvatore Mastrangelo, Anne Da Silva et al. · Genetics Selection Evolution · 2020 · 126 citations · Full text