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Genomic divergence of zebu and taurine cattle identified through high-density SNP genotyping.
BMC genomics - 13 Dec 2013
Porto-Neto Laercio R, Sonstegard Tad S, Liu George E, Bickhart Derek M, Da Silva Marcos V B, Machado Marco A, Utsunomiya Yuri T, Garcia Jose F, Gondro Cedric, Van Tassell Curtis P
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Natural selection has molded evolution across all taxa. At an arguable date of around 330,000 years ago there were already at least two different types of cattle that became ancestors of nearly all modern cattle, the Bos taurus taurus more adapted to temperate climates and the tropically adapted Bos taurus indicus. After domestication, human selection exponentially intensified these differences. To...
Topics
- Animals
- Breeding
- Cattle
- Evolution, Molecular
- Genetics, Population
- Genomics
- Genotype
- Genotyping Techniques
- Linkage Disequilibrium
- Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide