The multifaceted origin of taurine cattle reflected by the mitochondrial genome

PLoS ONE

Volumn 4, Issue 6, 2009, Pages

  Achilli, Alessandro ^a,b   Bonfiglio, Silvia ^a   Olivieri, Anna ^a   Malusà, Arianna ^a   Pala, Maria ^a   Kashani, Baharak Hooshair ^a   Perego, Ugo A ^a,c   Ajmone Marsan, Paolo ^d   Liotta, Luigi ^e   Semino, Ornella ^a   Bandelt, Hans Jürgen ^f   Ferretti, Luca ^a   Torroni, Antonio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PERUGIA   (Italy)

^c Sorenson Molecular Genealogy Foundation   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITÀ CATTOLICA DEL SACRO CUORE   (Italy)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MESSINA   (Italy)

^f UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BREEDING; CATTLE; CELL LINEAGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA DETERMINATION; DOMESTICATION; GENE CLUSTER; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HAPLOTYPE; HETEROPLASMY; MITOCHONDRIAL GENOME; NEOLITHIC; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; PROTEIN MOTIF; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; DNA SEQUENCE; FEMALE; METABOLISM; MITOCHONDRION; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; STATISTICAL MODEL;

BOS; BOS PRIMIGENIUS;

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ANIMALS; CATTLE; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FEMALE; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOME, MITOCHONDRIAL; HAPLOTYPES; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MITOCHONDRIA; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 66849121980     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0005753     Document Type: Article

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