The genetic prehistory of domesticated cattle from their origin to the spread across Europe

BMC Genetics

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Scheu, Amelie ^a   Powell, Adam ^a   Bollongino, Ruth ^a,c   Vigne, Jean Denis ^c   Tresset, Anne ^c   Çakirlar, Canan ^d   Benecke, Norbert ^b   Burger, Joachim ^a  

^a JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b GERMAN ARCHAEOLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Germany)

^c MUSÉUM NATIONAL D'HISTOIRE NATURELLE   (France)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ASIA; BONE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATIONAL STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; DOMESTICATION; EUROPE; GENE FLOW; GENETIC DISTANCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; IRAN; NEOLITHIC; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POPULATION MIGRATION; SIMULATION; TAURINE CATTLE; TOOTH; WESTERN ANATOLIA; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BOVINE; DOMESTIC ANIMAL; GENETIC VARIATION; GENETICS; HAPLOTYPE; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; POPULATION GENETICS;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, DOMESTIC; CATTLE; EUROPE; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENETIC VARIATION; GENETICS, POPULATION; HAPLOTYPES; MODELS, GENETIC;

EID: 84929924076     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712156     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12863-015-0203-2     Document Type: Article

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