Whole-genome resequencing reveals world-wide ancestry and adaptive introgression events of domesticated cattle in East Asia

Chen, Ningbo; Cai, Yudong; Chen, Qiuming; Li, Ran; Wang, Kun; Huang, Yongzhen; Hu, Songmei; Huang, Shisheng; Zhang, Hucai; Zheng, Zhuqing; Song, Weining; Ma, Zhijie; Ma, Yun; Dang, Ruihua; Zhang, Zijing; Xu, Lei; Jia, Yutang; Liu, Shanzhai; Yue, Xiangpeng; Deng, Weidong; Zhang, Xiaoming; Sun, Zhouyong; Lan, Xianyong; Han, Jianlin; Chen, Hong; G. Bradley, Daniel; Jiang, Yu; Lei, Chuzhao

doi:10.1038/s41467-018-04737-0

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Whole-genome resequencing reveals world-wide ancestry and adaptive introgression events of domesticated cattle in East Asia

Published in Nature Communications • Jun 8, 2018

Authors:

Ningbo Chen

Yudong Cai

Qiuming Chen

Abstract

Cattle domestication and the complex histories of East Asian cattle breeds warrant further investigation. Through analysing the genomes of 49 modern breeds and eight East Asian ancient samples, worldwide cattle are consistently classified into five continental groups based on Y-chromosome haplotypes...

Subject

Introgression

Domestication

East Asia

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