Table 1.
The number of animals per breed, the breed codes and coding schemes
| Type | Breed type | Breed | N | Breed code1 | data code no2 | FST group code3 | Comment |
| beef | British taurine purebred | Angus | 41 | ANG | 0 | 0 | |
| beef | British taurine purebred | Hereford | 28 | HFD | 1 | 1 | |
| beef | British taurine composite | Murray Grey | 20 | MGY | 2 | 2 | |
| beef | British taurine purebred | Shorthorn | 27 | SHN | 3 | 3 | |
| beef | sanga-taurine composite | Belmont Red | 24 | BEL | 4 | 4 | |
| beef | zebu composite | Brahman | 21 | BRM | 5 | 5 | |
| beef | zebu-taurine composite | Santa Gertrudis | 28 | SGT | 6 | 6 | |
| dairy | European taurine purebred | Brown Swiss | 4 | BSW | 7 | 7 | |
| dairy | European taurine purebred | Holstein | 52 | HOL | 8 | 8 | |
| dairy | European taurine crossbred | Brown Swiss Holstein | 26 | BHX | 9 | 7 | |
| dairy | Channel Isle purebred | Guernsey | 4 | GNS | 10 | 9 | |
| dairy | Channel Isle purebred | Jersey | 10 | JER | 11 | 9 | |
| dairy | Channel Isle European crossbred | Guernsey Holstein | 2 | GHX | 12 | 9 | |
| dairy | Channel Isle European crossbred | Holstein Jersey | 9 | HJX | 13 | 9 | |
| dairy | British taurine purebred | Illawarra Shorthorn | 8 | IWS | 14 | 10 | |
| dairy | British European Scandinavian crossbred | Australian Red | 54 | AUR | 15 | 10 | 3breed |
| dairy | European crossbred | Brown Swiss cross | 5 | BSWX | 16 | 7 | 3breed |
| dairy | European crossbred | Holstein cross | 3 | HOLX | 17 | 8 | 3breed |
| dairy | Channel Isle crossbred | Jersey cross | 4 | JERX | 18 | 9 | 3breed |
| dairy | zebu-taurine composite | Australian Friesian Sahiwal | 5 | AFS | 19 | 999 | excluded from FST |
| extra | many breeds | repeats and unknown crossbred | 10 | NA | 999 | 999 |
1Breed Code is the 3-letter code for each breed, 2data code no is the numerical code for each breed in the analysis, and 3FST group code is the grouping used for the analysis of positive selection. Code values of 999 mean coded as missing data.