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Marta Pereira Verdugo , Victoria E. Mullin , Amelie Scheu , Valeria Mattiangeli , Kevin G. Daly , Pierpaolo Maisano Delser , Andrew J. Hare , Joachim Bürger , Matthew J. Collins , Ron Kehati , Paula Hesse , Deirdre N. Fulton , Eberhard Sauer , Azadeh Fatemeh Mohaseb , Hossein Davoudi , Roya Khazaeli , Johanna Lhuillier , Claude Rapin , Saeed Ebrahimi , M. M. Khasanov , S. M. Farhad Vahidi , David E. MacHugh , O. Ertugrul , Chaido Koukouli-Chrysanthaki , Αδαμάντιος Σαμψών , G. Kazantzis , Ioannis Kontopoulos , Jelena Bulatović , Ivana Stojanović , Abdesalam Mikdad , Norbert Benecke , Jörg Linstädter , Mikhail Sablin , Robin Bendrey , Lionel Gourichon , Benjamin S. Arbuckle , Marjan Mashkour , David Orton , Liora Kolska Horwitz , Matthew D. Teasdale , Daniel G. Bradley ·

YOU? · · 2019 · Open Access · · DOI: https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aav1002 · OA: W2958153153

How cow genomes have moo-ved 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. These genetic lineages mixed ∼4000 years ago in a region around the Indus Valley. Interestingly, mitochondrial analysis indicated that genetic material likely derived from arid-adapted Bos indicus (zebu) bulls was introduced by introgression. Science , this issue p. 173