A chromosome-level genome of Chenghua pig provides new insights into the domestication and local adaptation of pigs

As a country with abundant genetic resources of pigs, the domestication history of pigs in China and the adaptive evolution of Chinese pig breeds at different latitudes have rarely been elucidated at the genome-wide level. To fill this gap, we first assembled a high-quality chromosome-level genome o...

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Published in:International journal of biological macromolecules 2024-06, Vol.270, p.131796-131796, Article 131796
Main Authors: Wang, Yifei, Gou, Yuwei, Yuan, Rong, Zou, Qin, Zhang, Xukun, Zheng, Ting, Fei, Kaixin, Shi, Rui, Zhang, Mei, Li, Yujing, Gong, Zhengyin, Luo, Chenggang, Xiong, Ying, Shan, Dai, Wei, Chenyang, Shen, Linyuan, Tang, Guoqing, Li, Mingzhou, Zhu, Li, Li, Xuewei, Jiang, Yanzhi
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adaptive evolution
Chenghua pig
Chromosome-level genome assembly
Domestication
Genetic diversity
Suidae
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Summary:As a country with abundant genetic resources of pigs, the domestication history of pigs in China and the adaptive evolution of Chinese pig breeds at different latitudes have rarely been elucidated at the genome-wide level. To fill this gap, we first assembled a high-quality chromosome-level genome of the Chenghua pig and used it as a benchmark to analyse the genomes of 272 samples from three genera of three continents. The divergence of the three species belonging to three genera, Phacochoerus africanus, Potamochoerus porcus, and Sus scrofa, was assessed. The introgression of pig breeds redefined that the migration routes were basically from southern China to central and southwestern China, then spread to eastern China, arrived in northern China, and finally reached Europe. The domestication of pigs in China occurred ∼12,000 years ago, earlier than the available Chinese archaeological domestication evidence. In addition, FBN1 and NR6A1 were identified in our study as candidate genes related to extreme skin thickness differences in Eurasian pig breeds and adaptive evolution at different latitudes in Chinese pig breeds, respectively. Our study provides a new resource for the pig genomic pool and refines our understanding of pig genetic diversity, domestication, migration, and adaptive evolution at different latitudes.
ISSN:0141-8130
1879-0003
DOI:10.1016/j.ijbiomac.2024.131796