Y-SNPs do not indicate hybridisation between European Aurochs and domestic cattle

PLoS ONE

Volumn 3, Issue 10, 2008, Pages

  Bollongino, Ruth ^a,b   Elsner, Julia ^a   Vigne, Jean Denis ^b   Burger, Joachim ^a  

^a JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b MUSÉUM NATIONAL D'HISTOIRE NATURELLE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CATTLE; CROSS BREEDING; DNA DETERMINATION; DOMESTIC ANIMAL; EUROPE; HAPLOTYPE; HYBRIDIZATION; MALE; NEOLITHIC; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; SKELETON; Y CHROMOSOME; ANIMAL; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETICS; HISTORY; PHYLOGENY; POPULATION GENETICS;

BOS; BOS PRIMIGENIUS; BOS TAURUS;

ANIMALS; CATTLE; EUROPE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETICS, POPULATION; HAPLOTYPES; HISTORY, ANCIENT; HYBRIDIZATION, GENETIC; MALE; PHYLOGENY; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; Y CHROMOSOME;

EID: 54449091271     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0003418     Document Type: Article

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