Zebu cattle are an exclusive legacy of the South Asia neolithic

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 1-6

  Chen, Shanyuan ^a   Lin, Bang Zhong ^b   Baig, Mumtaz ^c,d   Mitra, Bikash ^e,f   Lopes, Ricardo J ^a   Santos, António M ^a   Magee, David A ^g   Azevedo, Marisa ^a   Tarroso, Pedro ^a   Sasazaki, Shinji ^b   Ostrowski, Stephane ^h   Mahgoub, Osman ⁱ   Chaudhuri, Tapas K ^e   Zhang, Ya Ping ^f   Costa, Vânia ^a   Royo, Luis J ^j   Goyache, Félix ^j   Luikart, Gordon ^a   Boivin, Nicole ^k   Fuller, Dorian Q ^l   Mannen, Hideyuki ^b   Bradley, Daniel G ^m   Beja Pereira, Albano ^a   more..

^a UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

^b KOBE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c GOVERNMENT VIDARBHA INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND HUMANITIES   (India)

^d KUNMING INSTITUTE OF ZOOLOGY   (China)

^e UNIVERSITY OF NORTH BENGAL   (India)

^f YUNNAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^g UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^h WILDLIFE CONSERVATION SOCIETY   (United States)

ⁱ SULTAN QABOOS UNIVERSITY   (Oman)

^j Área de Cultivos Hortofrutícolas y Forestales   (Spain)

^k UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^l UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^m TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

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Author keywords

Anthropology; Archaeology; Bos indicus; Domestication; Evolution; Neolithic; Pastoralism

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ANTHROPOLOGY; ARTICLE; CATTLE; DNA EXTRACTION; DNA SEQUENCE; DOMESTICATION; GENBANK; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GEOGRAPHY; HAPLOTYPE; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NEOLITHIC; NONHUMAN; SOUTH ASIA;

ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ANIMALS; ARCHAEOLOGY; ASIA; CATTLE; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GEOGRAPHY; HAPLOTYPES; HISTORY, ANCIENT; INDIA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

ANIMALIA; BOS INDICUS;

EID: 72649095269     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: 15371719     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msp213     Document Type: Article

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