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Maternal and paternal genealogy of Eurasian taurine cattle (Bos taurus).
Heredity - 1 Nov 2009
Kantanen J, Edwards C J, Bradley D G, Viinalass H, Thessler S, Ivanova Z, Kiselyova T, Cinkulov M, Popov R, Stojanović S, Ammosov I, Vilkki J
Abstract excerpt
Maternally inherited mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) has been used extensively to determine origin and diversity of taurine cattle (Bos taurus) but global surveys of paternally inherited Y-chromosome diversity are lacking. Here, we provide mtDNA information on previously uncharacterised Eurasian breeds and present the most comprehensive Y-chromosomal microsatellite data on domestic cattle to date. The mitochondrial...
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