REVISITING DEMOGRAPHIC PROCESSES IN CATTLE WITH GENOME-WIDE POPULATION GENETIC ANALYSIS

REVISITING DEMOGRAPHIC PROCESSES IN CATTLE WITH GENOME-WIDE POPULATION GENETIC ANALYSIS

The domestication of the aurochs took place approximately 10,000 years ago giving rise to the two main types of domestic cattle known today, taurine (Bos taurus) domesticated somewhere on or near the Fertile Crescent, and indicine (B. indicus) domesticated in the Indus Valley. However, although catt...

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Main Authors: Pablo eOrozco-terWengel, Mario eBarbato, Ezequiel Luis Nicolazzi, Filippo eBiscarini, Marco eMilanesi
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2015-06-01
Series:Frontiers in Genetics
Subjects:
Cattle
Phylogeography
adaptation
Bos indicus
SNP array
Bos taurus
Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fgene.2015.00191/full

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