Nature Communications (Jun 2018)
Whole-genome resequencing reveals world-wide ancestry and adaptive introgression events of domesticated cattle in East Asia
- Ningbo Chen,
- Yudong Cai,
- Qiuming Chen,
- Ran Li,
- Kun Wang,
- Yongzhen Huang,
- Songmei Hu,
- Shisheng Huang,
- Hucai Zhang,
- Zhuqing Zheng,
- Weining Song,
- Zhijie Ma,
- Yun Ma,
- Ruihua Dang,
- Zijing Zhang,
- Lei Xu,
- Yutang Jia,
- Shanzhai Liu,
- Xiangpeng Yue,
- Weidong Deng,
- Xiaoming Zhang,
- Zhouyong Sun,
- Xianyong Lan,
- Jianlin Han,
- Hong Chen,
- Daniel G Bradley,
- Yu Jiang,
- Chuzhao Lei
Affiliations
- Ningbo Chen
- Key Laboratory of Animal Genetics, Breeding and Reproduction of Shaanxi Province, College of Animal Science and Technology, Northwest A&F University
- Yudong Cai
- Key Laboratory of Animal Genetics, Breeding and Reproduction of Shaanxi Province, College of Animal Science and Technology, Northwest A&F University
- Qiuming Chen
- Key Laboratory of Animal Genetics, Breeding and Reproduction of Shaanxi Province, College of Animal Science and Technology, Northwest A&F University
- Ran Li
- Key Laboratory of Animal Genetics, Breeding and Reproduction of Shaanxi Province, College of Animal Science and Technology, Northwest A&F University
- Kun Wang
- Center for Ecological and Environmental Sciences, Northwestern Polytechnical University
- Yongzhen Huang
- Key Laboratory of Animal Genetics, Breeding and Reproduction of Shaanxi Province, College of Animal Science and Technology, Northwest A&F University
- Songmei Hu
- Shaanxi Provincial Institute of Archaeology
- Shisheng Huang
- Key Laboratory of Animal Genetics, Breeding and Reproduction of Shaanxi Province, College of Animal Science and Technology, Northwest A&F University
- Hucai Zhang
- Key Laboratory of Plateau Lake Ecology and Environment Change, Yunnan University
- Zhuqing Zheng
- Key Laboratory of Animal Genetics, Breeding and Reproduction of Shaanxi Province, College of Animal Science and Technology, Northwest A&F University
- Weining Song
- State Key Laboratory of Crop Stress Biology in Arid Areas, Yangling Branch of China Wheat Improvement Center, College of Agronomy, Northwest A&F University
- Zhijie Ma
- Key Laboratory of Animal Genetics, Breeding and Reproduction of Shaanxi Province, College of Animal Science and Technology, Northwest A&F University
- Yun Ma
- Agricultural College, Ningxia University
- Ruihua Dang
- Key Laboratory of Animal Genetics, Breeding and Reproduction of Shaanxi Province, College of Animal Science and Technology, Northwest A&F University
- Zijing Zhang
- Institute of Animal Science and Veterinary Medicine, Henan Academy of Agriculture Science
- Lei Xu
- Institute of Animal Science and Veterinary Medicine, Anhui Academy of Agriculture Science
- Yutang Jia
- Institute of Animal Science and Veterinary Medicine, Anhui Academy of Agriculture Science
- Shanzhai Liu
- Bozhou Comprehensive Experimental Station, National Beef Cattle and Yak Industrial Technology System
- Xiangpeng Yue
- State Key Laboratory of Grassland Agroecosystems, College of Pastoral Agriculture Science and Technology, Lanzhou University
- Weidong Deng
- Faculty of Animal Science and Technology, Yunnan Agricultural University
- Xiaoming Zhang
- State Key Laboratory of Genetic Resources and Evolution, Kunming Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Zhouyong Sun
- Shaanxi Provincial Institute of Archaeology
- Xianyong Lan
- Key Laboratory of Animal Genetics, Breeding and Reproduction of Shaanxi Province, College of Animal Science and Technology, Northwest A&F University
- Jianlin Han
- CAAS-ILRI Joint Laboratory on Livestock and Forage Genetic Resources, Institute of Animal Science, Chinese Academy of Agriculture Sciences (CAAS)
- Hong Chen
- Key Laboratory of Animal Genetics, Breeding and Reproduction of Shaanxi Province, College of Animal Science and Technology, Northwest A&F University
- Daniel G Bradley
- Smurfit Institute of Genetics, Trinity College Dublin
- Yu Jiang
- Key Laboratory of Animal Genetics, Breeding and Reproduction of Shaanxi Province, College of Animal Science and Technology, Northwest A&F University
- Chuzhao Lei
- Key Laboratory of Animal Genetics, Breeding and Reproduction of Shaanxi Province, College of Animal Science and Technology, Northwest A&F University
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-04737-0
- Journal volume & issue
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Vol. 9,
no. 1
pp. 1 – 13
Abstract
There are various indigenous cattle breeds in East Asia which have a complex history. Here, the authors analyse the genomes of 49 modern breeds and eight ancient samples and identify three distinct ancestries and multiple adaptive introgressions from other bovine species.
