The variability of goat microRNA genes is strongly shaped by functional constraints.
Marmol-Sanchez, E., Luigi-Sierra, M. G., Bardou, P., Charlier, C., Colli, L., Cardoso, T. F., Crepaldi, P., Bionda, A., Milanesi, M., Lazzari, B., Tosser-Klopp, G., & Amills, M. (2025).
bioRxiv. doi: 10.1101/2025.09.30.679575.

Old Goats: 3,000 years of genetic connectivity of the domestic goat in Ireland.
Findlater, J., Erven, J. A. M., Siekmann, A., Mattiangeli, V., Murphy, E., & Daly, K. G. (2025).
bioRxiv. doi: 10.1101/2025.09.26.678852.

Inferring domestic goat demographic history through ancient genome imputation.
Erven, J. A. M., Etourneau, A., Mashkour, M., Neupane, M., Bardou, P., Stella, A., Talenti, A., Masiga, C. W., Van Tassell, C., Clark, E., Pompanon, F., Colli, L., Amillis, M., Milanesi, M., Crepaldi, P., Servin, B., Rosen, B., Tosser-Klopp, G., & Daly, K. G. (2025).
bioRxiv. doi: 10.1101/2025.04.18.649576.

Geographical contrasts of Y‐chromosomal haplogroups from wild and domestic goats reveal ancient migrations and recent introgressions.
VarGoats Consortium, Nijman, I. J., Rosen, B. D., Bardou, P., Faraut, T., Cumer, T., Daly, K. G., Zheng, Z., Cai, Y., Asadollahpour, H., Kul, B. Ç., Zhang, W., E., G., Ayin, A., Baird, H., Bakhtin, M., Bâlteanu, V. A., Barfield, D., … Berger, B. (2022).
Molecular Ecology, 31(16). doi: 10.1111/mec.16579.

Runs of homozygosity in Swiss goats reveal genetic changes associated with domestication and modern selection.
Signer-Hasler, H., Henkel, J., Bangerter, E., Bulut, Z., Drögemüller, C., Leeb, T., & Flury, C. (2022).
Genetics Selection Evolution, 54(1). doi: 10.1186/s12711-022-00695-w.

VarGoats project: a dataset of 1159 whole-genome sequences to dissect Capra hircus global diversity.
Denoyelle, L., Talouarn, E., Bardou, P., Colli, L., Alberti, A., Danchin, C., del Corvo, M., Engelen, S., Orvain, C., Palhière, I., Rupp, R., Sarry, J., Salavati, M., Amills, M., Clark, E., Crepaldi, P., Faraut, T., Masiga, C. W., Pompanon, F., Rosen, B. D., Stella, A., van Tassell, C. P., Tosser-Klopp, G. & The VarGoats Consortium. (2021).
Genetics Selection Evolution, 53(1). doi: 10.1186/s12711-021-00659-6.

Detection of copy number variants in African goats using whole genome sequence data.
Nandolo, W., Mészáros, G., Wurzinger, M., Banda, L. J., Gondwe, T. N., Mulindwa, H. A., Nakimbugwe, H. N., Clark, E. L., Woodward-Greene, M. J., Liu, M., Liu, G. E., van Tassell, C. P., Rosen, B. D., & Sölkner, J. (2021).
BMC Genomics, 22(1). doi: 10.1186/s12864-021-07703-1.

Genome wide association analysis on semen volume and milk yield using different strategies of imputation to whole genome sequence in French dairy goats.
Talouarn, E., Bardou, P., Palhière, I., Oget, C., Clément, V., Tosser-Klopp, G., Rupp, R., & Robert-Granié, C. (2020).
BMC Genetics, 21(1). doi: 10.1186/s12863-020-0826-9.

The VarGoats 1000 genome project dataset: an alternative approach for WGS data filtering for large-scale analysis of livestock diversity.
Licia Colli, Barbara Lazzari, Yefang Li, Arianna Bionda, Marco Milanesi, Andrea Talenti, Alessandra Stella, Gwenola Tosser-Klopp, Paola Crepaldi, The VarGoats Consortium.
40th International Society for Animal Genetics Conference, July 20-25, 2025, Daejeon, Republic of Korea.

Worldwide analysis of microRNA polymorphism variability in domestic goats.
Emilio Mármol-Sánchez, María Gracia Luigi-Sierra, Philippe Bardou, Licia Colli, The VarGoats Consortium, Gwenola Tosser-Klopp, Marcel Amills.
40th International Society for Animal Genetics Conference, July 20-25, 2025, Daejeon, Republic of Korea.

VarGoats international initiative, a 1000 goat genomes project.
Licia Colli, Paola Crepaldi, Paolo Ajmone-Marsan, Alessandra Stella, Gwenola Tosser-Klopp, The VarGoats Consortium.
23th Congress of the Animal Science and Production Association ASPA, June, 13th 2019, Sorrento, Italy.

VarGoats: first results of an international 1000-genome project
Gwenola Tosser-Klopp, Philippe Bardou, Laure Denoyelle, Thomas Faraut, Francois Pompanon.
International Symposium on Environmental and Agronomical Genomics, Nov 2018, Paris, France.

Genome landscape and genetic architecture of recombination in domestic goats (Capra Hircus).
Etourneau, A., Rupp, R., & Servin, B. (2025).
bioRxiv. doi: 10.1101/2025.05.15.654186 .

Comparing goat recombination in different sexes and breeds.
Alice Etourneau, Rachel Rupp, Bertrand Servin.
Gordon Research Conference, Quantitative Genetics and Genomics, February 16 - 21 2025, Lucca, Italy.

A novel lineage of the Capra genus discovered in the Taurus Mountains of Turkey using ancient genomics.
Daly, K. G., Arbuckle, B. S., Rossi, C., Mattiangeli, V., Lawlor, P. A., Mashkour, M., Sauer, E., Lesur, J., Atici, L., Erek, C. M., & Bradley, D. G. (2022).
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. doi: 10.1101/2022.04.08.487619.

Analysis of Polycerate Mutants Reveals the Evolutionary Co-option of HOXD1 for Horn Patterning in Bovidae.
Allais-Bonnet, A., Hintermann, A., Deloche, M. C., Cornette, R., Bardou, P., Naval-Sanchez, M., Pinton, A., Haruda, A., Grohs, C., Zakany, J., Bigi, D., Medugorac, I., Putelat, O., Greyvenstein, O., Hadfield, T., Jemaa, S. B., Bunevski, G., Menzi, F., Hirter, N.,. . . Capitan, A. (2021).
Molecular Biology and Evolution, 38(6). doi: 10.1093/molbev/msab021.

Selection signatures in goats reveal copy number variants underlying breed-defining coat color phenotypes.
Henkel, J., Saif, R., Jagannathan, V., Schmocker, C., Zeindler, F., Bangerter, E., Herren, U., Posantzis, D., Bulut, Z., Ammann, P., Drögemüller, C., Flury, C., & Leeb, T. (2019).
PLOS Genetics, 15(12). doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1008536.

Hereditary xanthinuria in a goat.
Vail, K. J., Tate, N. M., Likavec, T., Minor, K. M., Gibbons, P. M., Rech, R. R., & Furrow, E. (2019).
Journal of Veterinary Internal Medicine, 33(2). doi: 10.1111/jvim.15431.