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Early medieval cattle remains from a Scandinavian settlement in Dublin: genetic analysis and comparison with extant breeds.
Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences - 29 Jan 1999
MacHugh D E, Troy C S, McCormick F, Olsaker I, Eythórsdóttir E, Bradley D G
Abstract excerpt
A panel of cattle bones excavated from the 1000-year-old Viking Fishamble Street site in Dublin was assessed for the presence of surviving mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA). Eleven of these bones gave amplifiable mtDNA and a portion of the hypervariable control region was determined for each specimen. A comparative analysis was performed with control region sequences from five extant Nordic and Irish cattle breeds. The...
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