Ancient cattle genomics, origins, and rapid turnover in the Fertile Crescent

Pereira Verdugo, Marta; E. Mullin, Victoria; Scheu, Amelie; Mattiangeli, Valeria; G. Daly, Kevin; Maisano Delser, Pierpaolo; J. Hare, Andrew; Burger, Joachim; J. Collins, Matthew; Kehati, Ron; Hesse, Paula; Fulton, Deirdre; W. Sauer, Eberhard; A. Mohaseb, Fatemeh; Davoudi, Hossein; Khazaeli, Roya; Lhuillier, Johanna; Rapin, Claude; Ebrahimi, Saeed; Khasanov, Mutalib; M. Farhad Vahidi, S.; E. MacHugh, David; Ertuğrul, Okan; Koukouli-Chrysanthaki, Chaido; Sampson, Adamantios; Kazantzis, George; Kontopoulos, Ioannis; Bulatovic, Jelena; Stojanović, Ivana; Mikdad, Abdesalam; Benecke, Norbert; Linstädter, Jörg; Sablin, Mikhail; Bendrey, Robin; Gourichon, Lionel; S. Arbuckle, Benjamin; Mashkour, Marjan; Orton, David; Kolska Horwitz, Liora; D. Teasdale, Matthew; G. Bradley, Daniel

doi:10.1126/science.aav1002

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Ancient cattle genomics, origins, and rapid turnover in the Fertile Crescent

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Authors:

Marta Pereira Verdugo

Victoria E. Mullin

Amelie Scheu

Abstract

How cow genomes have moo-ved Cattle were domesticated ∼10,000 years ago, but analysis of modern breeds has not elucidated their origins. Verdugo et al. performed genome-wide analysis of 67 ancient Near Eastern Bos taurus DNA samples. Several populations of ancient aurochs were progenitors of domesti...

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