Convergence candidate regions (CCR) for ovine dairy selection sweeps identified in this study.

The interval of each region (in bp) is based on the sheep genome reference sequence v2.0 (http://www.livestockgenomics.csiro.au/cgi-bin/gbrowse/oarv2.0/). The corresponding orthologous bovine genomic intervals are based on the bovine genome reference sequence UMD 3.1 (http://www.ensembl.org/Bos_taurus/Info/Index). The positional candidate genes that map within the bovine candidate range and that are included as candidate genes for milk production and mastitis traits in the database provided by Ogorevc et al. [22] are indicated as functional candidate genes. The affected trait and CattleQTLdb reference for previously reported cattle QTL that map within the bovine candidate genomic regions and that influence milk production traits or other functional traits related to dairy production are also indicated.
1Other candidate genes. This category includes two types of genes:
–Those that although are not included in the Ogorevc et al. [22] database may be considered as candidate genes in relation to milk production related traits based on other studies.
–Those that are likely to be related to non-dairy selection signatures such as morphological traits and coat colour features.
2CattleQTLdb identifier: Search reference number at http://www.animalgenome.org/cgi-bin/QTLdb/BT/search to find complete details about QTL reported in the orthologous region of the corresponding sheep CCR identified in this study.
3Number of positional candidate genes extracted from the orthologous bovine region using BioMart for each of the labeled CCRs (based on Table S3).