From the Cover: The origin of European cattle: Evidence from modern and ancient DNA Export

@article{citeulike:672196, abstract = {Cattle domestication from wild aurochsen was among the most important innovations during the Neolithic agricultural revolution. The available genetic and archaeological evidence points to at least two major sites of domestication in India and in the Near East, where zebu and the taurine breeds would have emerged independently. Under this hypothesis, all present-day European breeds would be descended from cattle domesticated in the Near East and subsequently spread during the diffusion of herding and farming lifestyles. We present here previously undescribed genetic evidence in contrast with this view, based on mtDNA sequences from five Italian aurochsen dated between 7,000 and 17,000 years B.P. and >1,000 modern cattle from 51 breeds. Our data are compatible with local domestication events in Europe and support at least some levels of introgression from the aurochs in Italy. The distribution of genetic variation in modern cattle suggest also that different south European breeds were affected by introductions from northern Africa. If so, the European cattle may represent a more variable and valuable genetic resource than previously realized, and previous simple hypotheses regarding the domestication process and the diffusion of selected breeds should be revised. 10.1073/pnas.0509210103}, author = {Beja-Pereira, Albano and Caramelli, David and Lalueza-Fox, Carles and Vernesi, Cristiano and Ferrand, Nuno and Casoli, Antonella and Goyache, Felix and Royo, Luis J. and Conti, Serena and Lari, Martina and Martini, Andrea and Ouragh, Lahousine and Magid, Ayed and Atash, Abdulkarim and Zsolnai, Attila and Boscato, Paolo and Triantaphylidis, Costas and Ploumi, Konstantoula and Sineo, Luca and Mallegni, Francesco and Taberlet, Pierre and Erhardt, Georg and Sampietro, Lourdes and Bertranpetit, Jaume and Barbujani, Guido and Luikart, Gordon and Bertorelle, Giorgio}, citeulike-article-id = {672196}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://www.pnas.org/cgi/content/abstract/103/21/8113}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://view.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16690747}, citeulike-linkout-2 = {http://www.hubmed.org/display.cgi?uids=16690747}, day = {23}, journal = {PNAS}, keywords = {ancient-dna, domestication}, month = {May}, number = {21}, pages = {8113--8118}, posted-at = {2006-05-27 20:25:58}, priority = {1}, title = {From the Cover: The origin of European cattle: Evidence from modern and ancient DNA}, url = {http://www.pnas.org/cgi/content/abstract/103/21/8113}, volume = {103}, year = {2006} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:672196 L3 - citeulike-article-id:672196 N2 - Cattle domestication from wild aurochsen was among the most important innovations during the Neolithic agricultural revolution. The available genetic and archaeological evidence points to at least two major sites of domestication in India and in the Near East, where zebu and the taurine breeds would have emerged independently. Under this hypothesis, all present-day European breeds would be descended from cattle domesticated in the Near East and subsequently spread during the diffusion of herding and farming lifestyles. We present here previously undescribed genetic evidence in contrast with this view, based on mtDNA sequences from five Italian aurochsen dated between 7,000 and 17,000 years B.P. and >1,000 modern cattle from 51 breeds. Our data are compatible with local domestication events in Europe and support at least some levels of introgression from the aurochs in Italy. The distribution of genetic variation in modern cattle suggest also that different south European breeds were affected by introductions from northern Africa. If so, the European cattle may represent a more variable and valuable genetic resource than previously realized, and previous simple hypotheses regarding the domestication process and the diffusion of selected breeds should be revised. 10.1073/pnas.0509210103 IS - 21 JF - PNAS EP - 8118 TI - From the Cover: The origin of European cattle: Evidence from modern and ancient DNA VL - 103 SP - 8113 KW - ancient-dna KW - domestication AU - Beja-Pereira, Albano AU - Caramelli, David AU - Lalueza-Fox, Carles AU - Vernesi, Cristiano AU - Ferrand, Nuno AU - Casoli, Antonella AU - Goyache, Felix AU - Royo, Luis AU - Conti, Serena AU - Lari, Martina AU - Martini, Andrea AU - Ouragh, Lahousine AU - Magid, Ayed AU - Atash, Abdulkarim AU - Zsolnai, Attila AU - Boscato, Paolo AU - Triantaphylidis, Costas AU - Ploumi, Konstantoula AU - Sineo, Luca AU - Mallegni, Francesco AU - Taberlet, Pierre AU - Erhardt, Georg AU - Sampietro, Lourdes AU - Bertranpetit, Jaume AU - Barbujani, Guido AU - Luikart, Gordon AU - Bertorelle, Giorgio PY - 2006/05/23/ UR - http://www.pnas.org/cgi/content/abstract/103/21/8113 ER -