[HTML][HTML] African indigenous cattle: unique genetic resources in a rapidly changing world

O Mwai, O Hanotte, YJ Kwon, S Cho - Asian-Australasian journal of …, 2015 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
At least 150 indigenous African cattle breeds have been named, but the majority of African
cattle populations remain largely uncharacterized. As cattle breeds and populations in Africa …

Retrospective and prospective perspectives on zoonotic brucellosis

E Moreno - Frontiers in microbiology, 2014 - frontiersin.org
Members of the genus Brucella are pathogenic bacteria exceedingly well adapted to their
hosts. The bacterium is transmitted by direct contact within the same host species or …

Worldwide patterns of ancestry, divergence, and admixture in domesticated cattle

JE Decker, SD McKay, MM Rolf, JW Kim… - PLoS …, 2014 - journals.plos.org
The domestication and development of cattle has considerably impacted human societies,
but the histories of cattle breeds and populations have been poorly understood especially …

Ancient cattle genomics, origins, and rapid turnover in the Fertile Crescent

MP Verdugo, VE Mullin, A Scheu, V Mattiangeli… - Science, 2019 - science.org
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 …

The genome landscape of indigenous African cattle

J Kim, O Hanotte, OA Mwai, T Dessie, S Bashir… - Genome biology, 2017 - Springer
Abstract Background The history of African indigenous cattle and their adaptation to
environmental and human selection pressure is at the root of their remarkable diversity …

Domestication of cattle: Two or three events?

D Pitt, N Sevane, EL Nicolazzi… - Evolutionary …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Cattle have been invaluable for the transition of human society from nomadic hunter‐
gatherers to sedentary farming communities throughout much of Europe, Asia and Africa …

Genome sequencing of the extinct Eurasian wild aurochs, Bos primigenius, illuminates the phylogeography and evolution of cattle

SDE Park, DA Magee, PA McGettigan, MD Teasdale… - Genome biology, 2015 - Springer
Background Domestication of the now-extinct wild aurochs, Bos primigenius, gave rise to the
two major domestic extant cattle taxa, B. taurus and B. indicus. While previous genetic …

On the history of cattle genetic resources

M Felius, ML Beerling, DS Buchanan, B Theunissen… - Diversity, 2014 - mdpi.com
Cattle are our most important livestock species because of their production and role in
human culture. Many breeds that differ in appearance, performance and environmental …

The mosaic genome of indigenous African cattle as a unique genetic resource for African pastoralism

K Kim, T Kwon, T Dessie, DA Yoo, OA Mwai, J Jang… - Nature Genetics, 2020 - nature.com
Cattle pastoralism plays a central role in human livelihood in Africa. However, the genetic
history of its success remains unknown. Here, through whole-genome sequence analysis of …

Ancient DNA confirms diverse origins of early post-Columbian cattle in the Americas

N Delsol, BJ Stucky, JA Oswald, CR Cobb, KF Emery… - Scientific reports, 2023 - nature.com
Before the arrival of Europeans, domestic cattle (Bos taurus) did not exist in the Americas,
and most of our knowledge about how domestic bovines first arrived in the Western …