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Marta Pereira Verdugo1, Victoria E Mullin1,2, Amelie Scheu1,3, Valeria Mattiangeli1, Kevin G Daly1, Pierpaolo Maisano Delser1,4, Andrew J Hare1, Joachim Burger3, Matthew J Collins5,6, Ron Kehati7, Paula Hesse8, Deirdre Fulton9, Eberhard W Sauer10, Fatemeh A Mohaseb11,12, Hossein Davoudi12,13,14, Roya Khazaeli12, Johanna Lhuillier15, Claude Rapin16, Saeed Ebrahimi17, Mutalib Khasanov18, S M Farhad Vahidi19, David E MacHugh20,21, Okan Ertuğrul22, Chaido Koukouli-Chrysanthaki23, Adamantios Sampson24, George Kazantzis25, Ioannis Kontopoulos5, Jelena Bulatovic26, Ivana Stojanović27, Abdesalam Mikdad28, Norbert Benecke29, Jörg Linstädter30, Mikhail Sablin31, Robin Bendrey10,32, Lionel Gourichon33, Benjamin S Arbuckle34, Marjan Mashkour11,12,13, David Orton5, Liora Kolska Horwitz35, Matthew D Teasdale1,5, Daniel G Bradley36.
Abstract
Genome-wide analysis of 67 ancient Near Eastern cattle, Bos taurus, remains reveals regional variation that has since been obscured by admixture in modern populations. Comparisons of genomes of early domestic cattle to their aurochs progenitors identify diverse origins with separate introgressions of wild stock. A later region-wide Bronze Age shift indicates rapid and widespread introgression of zebu, Bos indicus, from the Indus Valley. This process was likely stimulated at the onset of the current geological age, ~4.2 thousand years ago, by a widespread multicentury drought. In contrast to genome-wide admixture, mitochondrial DNA stasis supports that this introgression was male-driven, suggesting that selection of arid-adapted zebu bulls enhanced herd survival. This human-mediated migration of zebu-derived genetics has continued through millennia, altering tropical herding on each continent.Entities:
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Year: 2019 PMID： 31296769 DOI： 10.1126/science.aav1002
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Science ISSN： 0036-8075 Impact factor: 47.728