Songmei Hu from Shaanxi Provincial Institute of Archaeology and obtained a batch of ancient cattle samples. I heard the news that lots of domesticated animals, such as cattle, sheep and goats, were discovered, radiocarbon-dated to between 4,300 and 3,800 BP. Fortunately, I participated in the “International conference on the Shimao site: the first Neolithic urban center on China's north Loess Plateau”, held at Shenmu in August 2016.
The separated Tibetan cattle and Northeast Asian cattle together constitute the East Asian taurine.
East Asian cattle mainly composed three of them, including one specific taurine (named as East Asian taurine) and one specific indicine (named as Chinese indicine). Based on our genome-wide analysis for 49 diverse modern breeds across the world, the cattle breeds composed five distinct ancestries as removing the hybrid populations. So at the beginning, the goal of our project design was simply to figure out the pedigree share of taurine cattle and indicine cattle for all kinds of Chinese local breeds. There was a stereotyped hypothesis that Chinese cattle was simply from the hybridization of Eurasian taurine and Indian indicine. One day, we discussed together whether we could clarify the source of Chinese cattle. Chuzhao Lei, collected representative local cattle breeds from all over China. In addition to these fertile hybrids, there are sterile hybrids such as the male Dzo of Nepal, a cattle-yak hybrid which is bred for agricultural work - like the mule and the hinny, they have to be continually bred from both of the parent species.Our original paper published in Nature Communications can be found here. The Madura breed of Indonesia may have banteng in its parentage. Examples include the Dwarf Lulu cattle of the mountains of Nepal with yak blood, the Beefalo of North America with bison genes, the Selembu breed of India and Bhutan with gayal genes. In some parts of the world further species of cattle are found (both as wild and domesticated animals), and some of these are related so closely to taurine and indicus cattle that interspecies hybrids have been bred. Bos taurus (or Bos taurus taurus), typically referred to as "taurine" cattle, are generally adapted to cooler climates and include almost all cattle breeds originating from Europe and northern Asia. Bos indicus (or Bos taurus indicus) cattle, commonly called zebu, are adapted to hot climates and originated in the tropical parts of the world such as India, Sub-saharan Africa, China, and Southeast Asia. Ĭattle breeds fall into two main types, which are regarded as either two closely related species, or two subspecies of one species. List of cattle breeds - Over 1000 breeds of cattle are recognized worldwide, some of which adapted to the local climate, others which were bred by humans for specialized uses. JSTOR ( March 2019) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message).Unsourced material may be challenged and removed.įind sources: "List of cattle breeds" – news Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. This article needs additional citations for verification.