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Species composition and environmental adaptation of indigenous Chinese cattle.
Scientific reports - 23 Nov 2017
Gao Yahui, Gautier Mathieu, Ding Xiangdong, Zhang Hao, Wang Yachun, Wang Xi, Faruque Md Omar, Li Junya, Ye Shaohui, Gou Xiao, Han Jianlin, Lenstra Johannes A, Zhang Yi
Abstract excerpt
Indigenous Chinese cattle combine taurine and indicine origins and occupy a broad range of different environments. By 50 K SNP genotyping we found a discontinuous distribution of taurine and indicine cattle ancestries with extremes of less than 10% indicine cattle in the north and more than 90% in the far south and southwest China. Model-based clustering and f4-statistics indicate introgression of both banteng...
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