TY  - JOUR
A1  - Zhang, Hucai
A1  - Paijmans, Johanna L. A.
A1  - Chang, Fengqin
A1  - Wu, Xiaohong
A1  - Chen, Guangjie
A1  - Lei, Chuzhao
A1  - Yang, Xiujuan
A1  - Wei, Zhenyi
A1  - Bradley, Daniel G.
A1  - Orlando, Ludovic
A1  - O'Connor, Terry
A1  - Hofreiter, Michael
T1  - Morphological and genetic evidence for early Holocene cattle management in northeastern China
JF  - Nature Communications
N2  - The domestication of cattle is generally accepted to have taken place in two independent centres: around 10,500 years ago in the Near East, giving rise to modern taurine cattle, and two millennia later in southern Asia, giving rise to zebu cattle. Here we provide firmly dated morphological and genetic evidence for early Holocene management of taurine cattle in northeastern China. We describe conjoining mandibles from this region that show evidence of oral stereotypy, dated to the early Holocene by two independent C-14 dates. Using Illumina high-throughput sequencing coupled with DNA hybridization capture, we characterize 15,406 bp of the mitogenome with on average 16.7-fold coverage. Phylogenetic analyses reveal a hitherto unknown mitochondrial haplogroup that falls outside the known taurine diversity. Our data suggest that the first attempts to manage cattle in northern China predate the introduction of domestic cattle that gave rise to the current stock by several thousand years.
Y1  - 2013
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms3755
SN  - 2041-1723
VL  - 4
IS  - 6
PB  - Nature Publ. Group
CY  - London
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Jeltsch, Florian
A1  - Weber, Gisela
A1  - Dean, W. R. J.
A1  - Milton, Sue J.
A1  - VanRooyen, N.
A1  - O'Connor, Terry
A1  - Moloney, Kirk A.
T1  - Entstehung und Bedeutung räumlicher Vegetationsstrukturen in Trockensavannen : Baum-Graskoexistenz und Artenvielfalt
Y1  - 2000
ER  -