On the origin of cattle: How aurochs became cattle and colonized the world

By P. Ajmone-Marsan, José Fernando Garcia, J. Lenstra. 2010

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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].”
On the history of cattle genetic resources (2014, background): “DNA studies suggest that zebus were first introduced into East Africa about 4000 years ago [40,77].”