However, to support an argument for their potential evolutionary contributions to cattle domestication, breed formation and adaptation, the genomic variations reported here need to be queried in a larger sample size and with breeds other than Holstein.
To highlight potential evolutionary contributions of CNVs to Chinese major cattle breeds' formation and adaptation, we identified 130 CNVRs which are abundant statistically in three groups (Additional file 1: Table S3) by using indicator species analysis (ISA) [ 48].
To shed light on the potential evolutionary contributions of CNVs to the formation of major cattle breeds in China, we conducted Bayesian phylogenetic analysis of the different breeds based on CNVR information.
Since Mrs. Kennedy outranked her husband on that evolutionary scale, her contribution to the Democratic victory should not be minimized.
The majority ranked developing medicines and curing diseases as the most important contributions of science to society, and they found promoting understanding of evolutionary science's contribution to medicine to be a convincing reason to teach evolution.
However, the evolutionary contribution has never been directly measured, making it difficult for one to conclude about its importance.
To highlight the potential evolutionary contributions of these CNVs to cattle breed formation and adaptation, we queried 91 CNVRs that have breed-specific CNV frequency differences (Additional file 1: Table S12).
The evolutionary contribution of rare Symbiodinium types may be more important still, if recombinants create a 'bridge' for the migration of genetic material to the dominant lineage (i.e. introgression; see Figure 1b).
The evolutionary consequences of WGDs and their potential contribution to the evolutionary success of anciently polyploid (paleopolyploid) species in the long term are not well understood (Otto 2007).
