To assess the distribution of ROHs length, ROH were further classified into short (0.5–2 Mbp), inter- mediate (2–8 Mbp) and long (48 Mbp) (Figure 5). We also note that north-western as well as central European breeds compared with the southern European breeds display more instances ...
As farmers settled in the regions that harboured native European aurochs, sporadic interbreeding might have taken place between domestic cattle and native European aurochs, which persisted in some regions until the Middle Ages. Many previous studies have used mtDNA and Y-chromosome markers to address...
13c). The sediments deposited in the basin were mostly fine-grained pelitic shales interbedded by mafic detritus. Mafic samples showed geochemical characteristics of material derived from mafic volcanic sources. The mafic material most likely originates from the erosion of basement units. This ...
The domestication of taurine cattle initiated ~10 000 years ago in the Near East from a wild aurochs (Bos primigenius) population followed by their dispersal through migration of agriculturalists to Europe. Although gene flow from wild aurochs still present at the time of this early dispersion ...
The populations of domestic yak from Mongolia have a component of Turano-Mongolian cattle breeds while components of European cattle breeds found in the Aikol yak from Kyrgyzstan (Figure 4). By using diagnostic markers, Qi et al. revealed introgression of the cattle genome in 22 of 29 yak pop...