2019年7月12日 · 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.

The emerging picture of plant and animal domestication and agricultural origins in the Near East is dramatically different from that drawn 16 years ago in a landmark article by Bar-Yosef and Meadow.

The outlines of cattle (Bos taurus) domestication in the Near East are still sketchy. Although cattle remains from Early and Middle PPNB (11,000–10,000 cal BP) sites in the upper and Middle Euphrates valley fall within the size range of wild aurochs (Bos primigenius), Helmer finds evidence for a reduction in the degree of sexual dimorphism at ...

Cattle were domesticated ∼10,000 years ago, but analysis of modern breeds has not elucidated their origins. Verdugo et al. performed genome-wide analysis of 67 ancient Near Eastern Bos taurus DNA samples. Several populations of ancient aurochs were progenitors of domestic cows.

2001年7月1日 · Troy et al. 1 have studied mtDNA diversity in modern cattle from Europe, the Near-East and Africa, as well as extinct aurochs, to ask where and when European domestication took place.

2001年4月26日 · Here we examine mitochondrial DNA control-region sequence variation from 392 extant animals sampled from Europe, Africa and the Near East, and compare this with data from four extinct British...

The GMC, Georgian (Megrelian) goat, Georgian (Imeretian and Tushetian) sheep mitogenomes are grouped phylogenetically in the haplogroups indicating the closeness to the Near Eastern animals (Figure 1(a–c)).

2001年4月26日 · These data provide strong support for a derived Near-Eastern origin for European cattle. The limited ranges of the wild progenitors of many of the primary European domestic species point to their origins further east in Anatolia or the fertile crescent.

2019年7月12日 · 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

Ancient DNA has revealed how the prehistory of the Near East's largest domestic animal, the cow, chimes with the emergence of the first complex economies, cities and the rise and fall of the...