Duality in Bos indicus mtDNA diversity: Support for geographical complexity in zebu domestication

  • David A. Magee
  • Hideyuki Mannen
  • Daniel G. Bradley
Chapter
Part of the Vertebrate Paleobiology and Paleoanthropology Series book series (VERT)

Keywords

Zebu Cattle African Cattle European Cattle Creole Cattle Humped Cattle 
These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.
This is a preview of subscription content, log in to check access.

Preview

Unable to display preview. Download preview PDF.

Unable to display preview. Download preview PDF.

References

  1. Allchin, B., Allchin, R.A., 1968. The Birth of Indian Civilization: India and Pakistan Before 500 B.C. Penguin, London.Google Scholar
  2. Allchin, B., Allchin, R.A., 1982. The Rise of Civilization in India and Pakistan. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.Google Scholar
  3. Baig, M., Beja-Pereira, A., Mohammad, R., Kulkarni, K., Farah, S., Luikart, G., 2005. Phylogeography and origin of Indian domestic cattle. Current Science 89, 38–40.Google Scholar
  4. Bokonyi, S., 1997. Zebus and Indian wild cattle. Anthropozoologica 25–26, 647–654.Google Scholar
  5. Bradley, D.G., MacHugh, D.E., Cunningham, P., Loftus, R.T., 1996. Mitochondrial diversity and the origins of African and European cattle. Proceedings of the National Academy Science of the United States of America 93, 5131–5135.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
  6. Bruford, M.W., Bradley, D.G., Luikart, G., 2003. DNA markers reveal the complexity of livestock domestication. Nature Reviews Genetics 4, 900–910.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
  7. Cymbron, T., Loftus, R.T., Malheiro, M.I., Bradley, D.G., 1999. Mitochondrial sequence variation suggests an African influence in Portuguese cattle. Proceedings of the Royal Society London Series B-Biological Science 266, 597–603.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
  8. Grigson, C., 1985. Bos indicus and Bos namadicus and the problem of autochthonous domestication in India. In: Misra, V.N., Bellwood, P. (Eds.), Recent Advances in Indo-Pacific Prehistory. Oxford and IBH, New Delhi, pp. 425–428.Google Scholar
  9. Jarrige, J.-F., Meadow, R. H., 1980. The Antecedents of Civilization in the Indus Valley. Scientific American 243, 122–133.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
  10. Joglekar, P.P., Thomas, P.K., 1992. Ancestry of Bos species: myth and reality IV: the origins of humped cattle. Man and Environment 17, 51–54.Google Scholar
  11. Jorde, L.B., Bamshad, M., Rogers, A.R., 1998. Using mitochondrial and nuclear DNA markers to reconstruct human evolution. Bioessays 20, 126–136.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
  12. Kumar, K., Freeman, A.R., Loftus, R.T., Gaillard, C., Fuller, D.Q., Bradley, D.G., 2003. Admixture analysis of South Asian cattle. Heredity 91, 43–50.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
  13. Loftus, R.T., MacHugh, D.E., Bradley, D.G., Sharp, P.M., Cunningham, P., 1994. Evidence for two independent domestications of cattle. Proceedings of the National Academy Science 91, 2757–2761.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
  14. Loftus, R.T., Ertugrul, O., Harba, A.H., El-Barody, M.A., MacHugh, D.E., Park, S.D., Bradley, D.G., 1999. A microsatellite survey of cattle from a centre of origin: the Near East. Molecular Ecology 8, 2015–2022.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
  15. Macaulay, V.A., Richards, M.B., Forster, P., Bendall, K.E., Watson, E., Sykes, B., Bandelt, H.J., 1997. MtDNA mutation rates–no need to panic. American Journal of Human Genetics 61, 983–990.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
  16. MacHugh D.E., Bradley D.G., 2001. Livestock genetic origins: goats buck the trend. Proceedings of the National Academy Science 98, 5382–5384.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
  17. Magee, D.A, Meghen, C., Harrison, S., Troy, C.S., Cymbron, T., Gaillard, C., Morrow, A., Maillard, J.C. Bradley, D.G., 2002. A partial African ancestry for the Creole cattle populations of the Caribbean. Journal of Heredity 93, 429–432CrossRefGoogle Scholar
  18. Magee, D.A., 2002. Molecular genetic investigation of the diversity and origins of Old and New world cattle populations. Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Dublin.Google Scholar
  19. Misra, V.N., 2001. Prehistoric human colonization of India. Journal of Biosciences 26 (Supplemental), 491–531.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
  20. Meadow, R.H., 1991. Faunal remains and urbanism at Harappa. In: Meadow, R.H. (Ed.), Harappa Excavations 1986–1990: A Multidisciplinary Approach to Third Millennium Urbanism. Prehistory Press, Madison, pp. 89–106.Google Scholar
  21. Meadow, R.H., 1996. The origins and spread of pastoralism in northwestern South Asia. In: Harris, D.R. (Ed.), The Origins and Spread of Agriculture and Pastoralism in Eurasia. University College London Press, London, pp. 25–50.Google Scholar
  22. Ritz, L.R., Glowatzki-Mullis, M.L., MacHugh, D.E., Gaillard, C., 2000. Phylogenetic analysis of the tribe Bovini using microsatellites. Animal Genetics 31, 178–185.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
  23. Troy, C.S., MacHugh, D.E., Bailey, J.F., Magee, D.A., Loftus, R.T., Cunningham, P., Chamberlain, A.T., Sykes, B.C., Bradley, D.G., 2001 Genetic evidence for Near-Eastern origins of European cattle. Nature 410, 1088–1091.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
  24. Zeuner, F.E., 1963. The history of domestication in cattle. In: Mourant, A.E., Zeuner, F.E. (Eds.), Man and Cattle: Proceedings of a Symposium on Domestication. Royal Anthropological Society of Great Britain and Ireland, Occasional Paper 18, pp. 9–15.Google Scholar
  25. Wendorf, F., Schild, R., 1994. Are the early Holocene cattle in the Eastern Saharan domestic or wild? Evolutionary Anthropology 3, 118–128.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

Copyright information

© Springer 2007

Authors and Affiliations

  • David A. Magee
    • 1
  • Hideyuki Mannen
    • 2
  • Daniel G. Bradley
    • 3
  1. 1.Smurfit Institute of Genetics, Department of GeneticsTrinity CollegeDublin 2Ireland
  2. 2.Laboratory of Animal Breeding and Genetics, Faculty of AgricultureKobe University1-1 RokkoudaiJapan
  3. 3.Smurfit Institute of Genetics, Department of GeneticsTrinity CollegeDublin 2Ireland

Personalised recommendations