Ivica Međugorac

Back to the horns: a reconstruction of the ancestral horn state through distinct types of recombination events.

This study identifies de-novo generation of ancestral horned variants in cattle through distinct recombination events at the POLLED locus, highlighting genetic complexity in polledness.

Combined Linkage Disequilibrium and Linkage Analysis (cLDLA): implementation of a powerful approach to identify the genetic basis of complex traits in a bioinformatics workflow.

The paper introduces cldla, a bioinformatics workflow for performing combined linkage disequilibrium and linkage analysis (cLDLA) to identify genetic basis of complex traits, with features for heritability estimation and visualization.

Fine-mapping and identification of candidate causal genes for tail length in the Merinolandschaf breed

The paper identifies HOXB13 as a candidate gene for tail length variation in Merinolandschaf sheep through haplotype mapping and candidate variant analysis.

Analysis Of Polycerate Mutants Reveals The Evolutionary Co-Option Of HOXD1 To Determine The Number And Topology Of Horns In Bovidae

The paper identifies POLYCERATE alleles in sheep and goats linked to defective HOXD1 function, showing haploinsufficiency causes horn bud splitting and highlights HOXD1's role in headgear patterning in Bovidae.