James A Ward, Said I Ng'ang'a, Imtiaz A S Randhawa, Gillian P McHugo, John F O'Grady, Julio M Flórez, John A Browne, Ana M Pérez O'Brien, Antonio J Landaeta-Hernández, Jóse F Garcia, Tad S Sonstegard, Laurent A F Frantz, Michael Salter-Townshend, David E MacHugh
Criollo cattle, the descendants of animals brought by Iberian colonists to the Americas, have been the subject of natural and human-mediated selection in novel tropical agroecological zones for centuries. Consequently, these breeds have evolved distinct characteristics such as resistance to diseases and exceptional heat tolerance. In addition to European taurine ( Bos taurus ) ancestry, it has been proposed that gene flow from African taurine and Asian indicine ( Bos indicus ) cattle has shaped the ancestry of Criollo cattle...
March 2024: Royal Society Open Science