Article
The genetic diversity of the Nguni breed of African Cattle (Bos spp.): complete mitochondrial genomes of haplogroup T1.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2013
Horsburgh K Ann, Prost Stefan, Gosling Anna, Stanton Jo-Ann, Rand Christy, Matisoo-Smith Elizabeth A
Abstract excerpt
Domesticated cattle were commonplace in northern Africa by about 7,000 years ago. Archaeological evidence, however, suggests they were not established in southern Africa until much later, no earlier than 2,000 years ago. Genetic reconstructions have started to shed light on the movement of African cattle, but efforts have been frustrated by a lack of data south of Ethiopia and the nature of the mitochondrial...
Topics
- Animals
- Base Sequence
- Bayes Theorem
- Cattle
- DNA, Mitochondrial
- Female
- Gene Frequency
- Genome, Mitochondrial
- Haplotypes
- High-Throughput Nucleotide Sequencing
- Models, Genetic