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Origin of mitochondrial DNA diversity of domestic yaks.
BMC evolutionary biology - 22 Sept 2006
Guo Songchang, Savolainen Peter, Su Jianping, Zhang Qian, Qi Delin, Zhou Jie, Zhong Yang, Zhao Xinquan, Liu Jianquan
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BACKGROUND: The domestication of plants and animals was extremely important anthropologically. Previous studies have revealed a general tendency for populations of livestock species to include deeply divergent maternal lineages, indicating that they were domesticated in multiple, independent events from genetically discrete wild populations. However, in water buffalo, there are suggestions that a similar deep...
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