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 …

Domestication of the Bovini species (taurine cattle, zebu, yak, river buffalo and swamp
buffalo) since the early Holocene (ca. 10 000 BCE) has contributed significantly to the …

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 …

Inferring the ancestral dynamics of effective population size is a long-standing question in
population genetics, which can now be tackled much more accurately thanks to the massive …

The Illumina BovineLD BeadChip was designed to support imputation to higher density
genotypes in dairy and beef breeds by including single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) …

The domestication of taurine cattle initiated~ 10 000 years ago in the Near East from a wild
aurochs (Bos primigenius) population followed by their dispersal through migration of …

Cattle imported from the Iberian Peninsula spread throughout America in the early years of
discovery and colonization to originate Creole breeds, which adapted to a wide diversity of …

Genetic studies of livestock populations focus on questions of domestication, within‐and
among‐breed diversity, breed history and adaptive variation. In this review, we describe the …

One of the most economically important areas within the Russian agricultural sector is dairy
and beef cattle farming contributing about $11 billion to the Russian economy annually …

Indigenous Chinese cattle combine taurine and indicine origins and occupy a broad range
of different environments. By 50 K SNP genoty** we found a discontinuous distribution of …