Genetic evidence for Near-Eastern origins of European cattle

By C. S. Troy, D. MacHugh, J. F. Bailey, D. A. Magee, R. Loftus, P. Cunningham, A. Chamberlain, B. Sykes, D. Bradley. Nature, 2001

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The Origins of Agriculture in the Near East (2011, background): “Near Eastern matrilines of domestic pigs are replaced by domestic swine with maternal origins from European wild boar by about 6000 cal BP.”
Genetics and animal domestication: new windows on an elusive process (2006, background): “…of domestication outlined by Zeuner (1963) conclude with the ‘persecution/extermination of wild ancestors’ and, unfortunately, this fate has befallen the wild ancestors of the modern-day horse (Jansen et al., 2002), cow (Troy et al., 2001) and dromedary camel (Stanley, Kadwell & Wheeler, 1994).”
Genetic analyses from ancient DNA. (2004, background): “The analysis indicates that the European aurochs has not contributed mtDNA to contemporary cows.”
Genetic diversity in farm animals--a review. (2010, background): “Joint analyses showed that, in contrast to the double broomstick topology of mtDNA networks of the principal livestock species (Troy et al. 2001; Bruford et al. 2003), the equine mtDNA network shows a typical star-like branching structure (Jansen et al.”
Animal Domestication and Behavior (2003, background): “With the exception of the pig (Sus scrofa) and llama families, ungulate domestication (e.g. cattle, sheep and goats) largely began in the Near East (Troy et al., 2001), especially in the eastern Fertile Crescent, a broad arc of land stretching from present-day Turkey to Iran.”
Crop Domestication as a Long‐Term Selection Experiment (2010, background): “…and western halves of the Eurasian land mass. Examples of this pattern are cattle with domestications in the Near East and India (Loftus et al. 1994; Mannen et al. 1998; Troy et al. 2001), sheep (Wood and Phua 1996; Hiendleder et al. 1998), and pig (Watanobe et al. 1999; Giuffra et al. 2000).”
Ancient DNA analysis of 101 cattle remains: limits and prospects (2004, background): “Ancient and extant mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) diversity in cattle shows geographical structure that can be related to the process of domestication [47].”
The evolution of lactase persistence in Europe. A synthesis of archaeological and genetic evidence (2012, background): “However, genetic studies of both wild and domestic cattle indicate that the domestic form was also imported from the Near East, and that in central Europe little or no interbreeding occurred (Bollongino, Edwards, Alt, Burger, Bradley, 2006; Bollongino, Elsner, Vigne, & Burger, 2008; Edwards et al., ”
On the Breeds of Cattle—Historic and Current Classifications (2011, background): “A most important finding was the separate domestication of taurine and zebu cattle in Southwest Asia and the Indus Valley, respectively [1,12,91,92].”
The Origins of Lactase Persistence in Europe (2009, background): “For example, including the movement of domestic cattle could be used to generate expectations on patterns of ancient and modern cattle genetic diversity, for which considerable data is available [69–73].”