The origins of Chinese domestic cattle as revealed by ancient DNA analysis

Cai, Dawei; Sun, Yang; Tang, Zhuowei; Hu, Songmei; Li, Wenying; Zhao, Xingbo; Xiang, Hai; Zhou, Hui

doi:10.1016/j.jas.2013.09.003

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“…Migration from Central to East Asia led to the expansion of haplogroup T4. This is a subvariant of T3, which is not observed in the west, but has been found in East-Chinese ancient DNA dating to 4500 BP [30], in modern Korean beef cattle [10] and in more than half of the Japanese cattle [31]. It is also at a frequency of 21% in the North-Siberian Yakut [32], indicating a link between the Yakut and cattle from East-China.…”

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Meta-Analysis of Mitochondrial DNA Reveals Several Population Bottlenecks during Worldwide Migrations of Cattle

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Several studies have investigated the differentiation of mitochondrial DNA in Eurasian, African and American cattle as well as archaeological bovine material. A global survey of these studies shows that haplogroup distributions are more stable in time than in space. All major migrations of cattle have shifted the haplogroup distributions considerably with a reduction of the number of haplogroups and/or an expansion of haplotypes that are rare or absent in the ancestral populations. The most extreme case is the almost exclusive colonization of Africa by the T1 haplogroup, which is rare in Southwest Asian cattle. In contrast, ancient samples invariably show continuity with present-day cattle from the same location. These findings indicate strong maternal founder effects followed by limited maternal gene flow when new territories are colonized. However, effects of adaptation to new environments may also play a role.

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Meta-Analysis of Mitochondrial DNA Reveals Several Population Bottlenecks during Worldwide Migrations of Cattle

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“…Research on sheep and cattle domestication in China has focused on the geographic and genetic origins of these species (Cai et al & ; Flad et al ; Yuan ), but less is known about how these animals were first used (Lu ). We know that by the end of the third millennium BC, agro‐pastoralist economies were well established at many sites across northwest China, perhaps due to the shift toward colder and drier climate after the Holocene Climatic Optimum (An et al ).…”

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Sheep, Cattle, and Specialization: New Zooarchaeological Perspectives on the Taosi Longshan

Brunson

Dai

2015

Intl J of Osteoarchaeology

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In this paper, we present a zooarchaeological analysis of the Longshan period sites of Taosi and Zhoujiazhuang (ca. 2300–1900 cal. BC) in southern Shanxi Province, China. We compare the faunal record at both sites in terms of the proportions of wild and domestic taxa; the slaughter patterns for the main domesticates; the types of bones used to produce utilitarian and decorative bone artifacts; and the types of bones used for ritual oracle bone divination. Differences in the faunal records at Taosi and Zhoujiazhuang provide insights into the connections between specialization and early urbanism. Our research also provides clues about how sheep and cattle pastoralism was initially adopted in the Yellow River Valley during the late 3rd millennium BC. Copyright © 2015 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

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“…Mixing with the taurine cattle from the north generated a genetic North-South gradient of zebu-taurine mtDNA [71] and Y-chromosomal DNA [72]. In South China admixture of bibovine cattle (banteng, gaur or gayal) occurred, which may have been the dominant cattle species until 4500 BP [40,46].…”

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On the History of Cattle Genetic Resources

Felius¹,

Beerling²,

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Cattle are our most important livestock species because of their production and role in human culture. Many breeds that differ in appearance, performance and environmental adaptation are kept on all inhabited continents, but the historic origin of the diverse phenotypes is not always clear. We give an account of the history of cattle by integrating archaeological record and pictorial or written sources, scarce until 300 years ago, with the recent contributions of DNA analysis. We describe the domestication of their wild ancestor, migrations to eventually all inhabited continents, the developments during prehistory, the antiquity and the Middle Ages, the relatively recent breed formation, the industrial cattle husbandry in the Old and New World and the current efforts to preserve the cattle genetic resources. Surveying the available information, we propose three main and overlapping phases during the development of the present genetic diversity: (i) domestication and subsequent wild introgression; (ii) natural adaptation to a diverse agricultural habitat; and (iii) breed development.

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The origins of Chinese domestic cattle as revealed by ancient DNA analysis

Cited by 65 publications

References 40 publications

Meta-Analysis of Mitochondrial DNA Reveals Several Population Bottlenecks during Worldwide Migrations of Cattle

Meta-Analysis of Mitochondrial DNA Reveals Several Population Bottlenecks during Worldwide Migrations of Cattle

Sheep, Cattle, and Specialization: New Zooarchaeological Perspectives on the Taosi Longshan

On the History of Cattle Genetic Resources

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