Phylogeography and domestication of Chinese swamp buffalo.

To further probe into whether swamp buffaloes were domesticated once or multiple times in China, this survey examined the mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) Control Region (D-loop) diversity of 471 individuals representing 22 populations of 455 Chinese swamp buffaloes and 16 river buffaloes. Phylogenetic ana...

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Main Authors: Xiang-Peng Yue, Ran Li, Wen-Mei Xie, Ping Xu, Ti-Cheng Chang, Li Liu, Feng Cheng, Run-Feng Zhang, Xian-Yong Lan, Hong Chen, Chu-Zhao Lei
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3577850?pdf=render