“…A total of 125, 70 and 3 sequences belonging to cosmopolitan taurine (Aberdeen Angus, Brown Swiss, Hereford, Holstein Friesian, Jersey and Simmental), indicine (Bachaur, Gangatiri, Kenkatha, Kherigarh, Purnea, Shahabadi, Bhutanese, Myanmar, Iranian, Iraqi and Nellore) and outgroup species (bison, goat and sheep) were retrieved from GenBank database (Hiendleder, 1998;Steinborn et al, 2002;Hansen et al, 2003;Pietro et al, 2003;Slate and Phua, 2003;Lin et al, 2007;Achilli et al, 2008;Hiendleder et al, 2008;Ginja et al, 2010;Seroussi and Yakobson, 2010;Sharma et al, 2015;Lwin et al, 2018) and summarised in File S2. The geographic origins of taurine samples were Argentina (ANG and HER), Israel (ANG, HER, HF, SIM), Canada (BS, HF and JER), New Zealand (HF and JER) and USA (JER).…”