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Worldwide Patterns of Ancestry, Divergence, and Admixture in Domesticated Cattle

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  • Jared E Decker
  • Stephanie D McKay
  • Megan M Rolf
  • JaeWoo Kim
  • Antonio Molina Alcalá
  • Tad S Sonstegard
  • Olivier Hanotte
  • Anders Götherström
  • Christopher M Seabury
  • Lisa Praharani
  • Masroor Ellahi Babar
  • Luciana Correia de Almeida Regitano
  • Mehmet Ali Yildiz
  • Michael P Heaton
  • Wan-Sheng Liu
  • Chu-Zhao Lei
  • James M Reecy
  • Muhammad Saif-Ur-Rehman
  • Robert D Schnabel
  • Jeremy F Taylor

Abstract

The domestication and development of cattle has considerably impacted human societies, but the histories of cattle breeds and populations have been poorly understood especially for African, Asian, and American breeds. Using genotypes from 43,043 autosomal single nucleotide polymorphism markers scored in 1,543 animals, we evaluate the population structure of 134 domesticated bovid breeds. Regardless of the analytical method or sample subset, the three major groups of Asian indicine, Eurasian taurine, and African taurine were consistently observed. Patterns of geographic dispersal resulting from co-migration with humans and exportation are recognizable in phylogenetic networks. All analytical methods reveal patterns of hybridization which occurred after divergence. Using 19 breeds, we map the cline of indicine introgression into Africa. We infer that African taurine possess a large portion of wild African auroch ancestry, causing their divergence from Eurasian taurine. We detect exportation patterns in Asia and identify a cline of Eurasian taurine/indicine hybridization in Asia. We also identify the influence of species other than Bos taurus taurus and B. t. indicus in the formation of Asian breeds. We detect the pronounced influence of Shorthorn cattle in the formation of European breeds. Iberian and Italian cattle possess introgression from African taurine. American Criollo cattle originate from Iberia, and not directly from Africa with African ancestry inherited via Iberian ancestors. Indicine introgression into American cattle occurred in the Americas, and not Europe. We argue that cattle migration, movement and trading followed by admixture have been important forces in shaping modern bovine genomic variation.Author Summary: The DNA of domesticated plants and animals contains information about how species were domesticated, exported, and bred by early farmers. Modern breeds were developed by lengthy and complex processes; however, our use of 134 breeds and new analytical models enabled us to reveal some of the processes that created modern cattle diversity. In Asia, Africa, North and South America, humpless (Bos t. taurus or taurine) and humped (Bos t. indicus or indicine) cattle were crossbred to produce hybrids adapted to the environment and local production systems. The history of Asian cattle involves the domestication and admixture of several species whereas African taurines arose through the introduction of domesticated Fertile Crescent taurines and their hybridization with wild African aurochs. African taurine genetic background is commonly observed among European Mediterranean breeds. The absence of indicine introgression within most European taurine breeds, but presence within three Italian breeds is consistent with at least two separate migration waves of cattle to Europe, one from the Middle East which captured taurines in which indicine introgression had already occurred and the second from western Africa into Spain with no indicine introgression. This second group seems to have radiated from Spain into the Mediterranean resulting in a cline of African taurine introgression into European taurines.

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  • Jared E Decker & Stephanie D McKay & Megan M Rolf & JaeWoo Kim & Antonio Molina Alcalá & Tad S Sonstegard & Olivier Hanotte & Anders Götherström & Christopher M Seabury & Lisa Praharani & Masroor Ella, 2014. "Worldwide Patterns of Ancestry, Divergence, and Admixture in Domesticated Cattle," PLOS Genetics, Public Library of Science, vol. 10(3), pages 1-14, March.
  • Handle: RePEc:plo:pgen00:1004254
    DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1004254
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