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Historical demographic profiles and genetic variation of the East African Butana and Kenana indigenous dairy zebu cattle.
Animal genetics - 1 Dec 2014
Salim Bashir, Taha Khalid M, Hanotte Olivier, Mwacharo Joram M
Abstract excerpt
Butana and Kenana breeds from Sudan are part of the East African zebu Bos indicus type of cattle. Unlike other indigenous zebu cattle in Africa, they are unique due to their reputation for high milk production and are regarded as dairy cattle, the only ones of their kind on the African continent. In this study, we sequenced the complete mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) D-loop of 70 animals to understand the maternal...
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