Article
Mitochondrial diversity and the origins of African and European cattle.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 14 May 1996
Bradley D G, MacHugh D E, Cunningham P, Loftus R T
Abstract excerpt
The nature of domestic cattle origins in Africa are unclear as archaeological data are relatively sparse. The earliest domesticates were humpless, or Bos taurus, in morphology and may have shared a common origin with the ancestors of European cattle in the Near East. Alternatively, local strains...
Topics
- Africa
- Animals
- Animals, Domestic
- Base Sequence
- Cattle
- DNA Primers
- DNA, Mitochondrial
- Europe
- Evolution, Molecular
- Genetic Variation
- Haplotypes
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Phylogeny
- RNA, Ribosomal
- RNA, Transfer, Pro
- Sequence Homology, Nucleic Acid
- Time Factors