The Origins of Cattle

Bovine Genomics

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 1-10

  Teasdale, Matthew D ^a   Bradley, Daniel G ^a  

^a TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Animal remains, in identifying domestication; Autosomal sequence variation, and cattle demographic history; B. indicus mtDNA, restricting wild genetic, via domestication; Bovine mtDNA variation, whole chromosome sequences; Cattle origins, genetic variation by Bovine HapMap Consortium; Domestic cattle genomes, Bos indicus and Bos taurus; Genomic data and domestication, repetitive in nature; MtDNA phylogeography, unitary domestication in South Asia; Phylogeography of B. Taurus, T, T1 and T2

Indexed keywords

EID: 84860770124     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781118301739.ch1     Document Type: Chapter

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