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The origin of Chinese domestic horses revealed with novel mtDNA variants.
Animal science journal = Nihon chikusan Gakkaiho - 1 Jan 2017
Yang Yunzhou, Zhu Qiyun, Liu Shuqin, Zhao Chunjiang, Wu Changxin
Abstract excerpt
The origin of domestic horses in China was a controversial issue and several hypotheses including autochthonous domestication, introduction from other areas, and multiple-origins from both introduction and local wild horse introgression have been proposed, but none of them have been fully supported by DNA data. In the present study, mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) sequences of 714 Chinese indigenous horses were...
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