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New World cattle show ancestry from multiple independent domestication events.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 9 Apr 2013
McTavish Emily Jane, Decker Jared E, Schnabel Robert D, Taylor Jeremy F, Hillis David M
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Previous archeological and genetic research has shown that modern cattle breeds are descended from multiple independent domestication events of the wild aurochs (Bos primigenius) ∼10,000 y ago. Two primary areas of domestication in the Middle East/Europe and the Indian subcontinent resulted in taurine and indicine lines of cattle, respectively. American descendants of cattle brought by European explorers to the...
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