User profiles for Sigbjørn Lien

Sigbjørn Lien

Norwegian University of Life Sciences
Verified email at nmbu.no
Cited by 20373

[HTML][HTML] The Atlantic salmon genome provides insights into rediploidization

S Lien, BF Koop, SR Sandve, JR Miller, MP Kent… - Nature, 2016 - nature.com
The whole-genome duplication 80 million years ago of the common ancestor of salmonids (salmonid-specific
fourth vertebrate whole-genome duplication, Ss4R) provides unique …

A non-epistatic interaction of agouti and extension in the fox, Vulpes vulpes

DI Våge, D Lu, H Klungland, S Lien, S Adalsteinsson… - Nature …, 1997 - nature.com
Agouti and extension are two genes that control the production of yellow-red (phaeomelanin)
and brown-black (eumelanin) pigments in the mammalian coat1. Extension encodes the …

[HTML][HTML] From FAANG to fork: application of highly annotated genomes to improve farmed animal production

…, PW Harrison, RD Houston, C Kühn, S Lien… - Genome Biology, 2020 - Springer
The Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations (FAO) reports that by the year
2050 the global human population is likely to reach 9.7 billion, rising to 11.2 billion by 2100 (…

A chromosome-based draft sequence of the hexaploid bread wheat (Triticum aestivum) genome

…, D Edwards, J Batley, OA Olsen, SR Sandve, S Lien… - Science, 2014 - science.org
An ordered draft sequence of the 17-gigabase hexaploid bread wheat (Triticum aestivum)
genome has been produced by sequencing isolated chromosome arms. We have annotated …

Genome-wide survey of SNP variation uncovers the genetic structure of cattle breeds

…, CA Gill, RD Green, DL Hamernik, SM Kappes, S Lien… - Science, 2009 - science.org
The imprints of domestication and breed development on the genomes of livestock likely differ
from those of companion animals. A deep draft sequence assembly of shotgun reads from …

[HTML][HTML] The genome sequence of Atlantic cod reveals a unique immune system

…, R Reinhardt, L Du, SD Johansen, S Searle, S Lien… - Nature, 2011 - nature.com
Atlantic cod (Gadus morhua) is a large, cold-adapted teleost that sustains long-standing
commercial fisheries and incipient aquaculture 1 , 2 . Here we present the genome sequence of …

Ancient hybridizations among the ancestral genomes of bread wheat

…, A Sharpe, D Klassen, D Edwards, J Batley, S Lien… - science, 2014 - science.org
The allohexaploid bread wheat genome consists of three closely related subgenomes (A, B,
and D), but a clear understanding of their phylogenetic history has been lacking. We used …

Sex-dependent dominance at a single locus maintains variation in age at maturity in salmon

…, H Saegrov, K Urdal, J Erkinaro, S Lien… - Nature, 2015 - nature.com
Males and females share many traits that have a common genetic basis; however, selection
on these traits often differs between the sexes, leading to sexual conflict 1 , 2 . Under such …

The accuracy of genomic selection in Norwegian red cattle assessed by cross-validation

T Luan, JA Woolliams, S Lien, M Kent, M Svendsen… - Genetics, 2009 - academic.oup.com
Genomic Selection (GS) is a newly developed tool for the estimation of breeding values for
quantitative traits through the use of dense markers covering the whole genome. For a …

SNP‐array reveals genome‐wide patterns of geographical and potential adaptive divergence across the natural range of Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar)

…, E Verspoor, L Bernatchez, S Lien - Molecular …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
… and Sigbjørn Lien equally share senior co-authorship. Louis Bernatchez and Sigbjørn
Lien … Finally, outliers were positioned using the genetic map information from Lien et al. (2011). …