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A partial african ancestry for the creole cattle populations of the Caribbean.
The Journal of heredity - 1 Jan 2000
Magee D A, Meghen C, Harrison S, Troy C S, Cymbron T, Gaillard C, Morrow A, Maillard J C, Bradley D G
Abstract excerpt
Seventy-eight cattle samples from three Creole Caribbean islands and one Brazilian breed were analyzed for sequence variation in the hypervariable segment of the mitochondrial DNA control region. Seventy-three samples displayed Bos taurus haplotypes, and five samples exhibited haplotypes that were of Bos indicus ancestry. Phylogenetic analysis revealed that all sampled B. taurus sequences fell into two distinct...
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