Fig. 1

Geographic distribution of Chinese short fat-tailed sheep. MG, DL, LB, BY, JZ, TA, YX, ST, LT, WD, SD, SS and HU are abbreviations for Mongolian sheep, Duolang sheep, Luobu sheep, Buyinbuluk sheep, Jinzhong sheep, Tan sheep, Yuxi fat-tailed sheep, Small-tailed Han sheep, Large-tailed Han sheep, Wadi sheep, Luzhong Shandi sheep, Sishui Fur sheep and Hu sheep, respectively. The 3 breeds used for whole-genome resequencing are labeled in red, and the additional 5 breeds used for genotyping are labeled in blue. This figure has been modified from China 100.78713E 35.63718 N.jpg (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:China_100.78713E_35.63718N.jpg). This image is in the public domain because it is a screenshot from NASA’s globe software World Wind using a public domain layer, such as Blue Marble, MODIS, Landsat, SRTM, USGS or GLOBE