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Adaptive introgression from indicine cattle into white cattle breeds from Central Italy.
Scientific reports - 28 Jan 2020
Barbato Mario, Hailer Frank, Upadhyay Maulik, Del Corvo Marcello, Colli Licia, Negrini Riccardo, Kim Eui-Soo, Crooijmans Richard P M A, Sonstegard Tad, Ajmone-Marsan Paolo
Abstract excerpt
Cattle domestication occurred at least twice independently and gave rise to the modern taurine and indicine cattle breeds. European cattle diversity is generally dominated by taurine cattle, although elevated levels of indicine ancestry have been recorded in several breeds from southern Europe. Here we use genome-wide high-density SNP genotyping data to investigate the taurine and indicine ancestry in southern...
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