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Zebu cattle are an exclusive legacy of the South Asia Neolithic
Shanyuan Chen*1, Bang-Zhong Lin ,1, Mumtaz Baig , , Bikash Mitra||,¶, Ricardo J. Lopes*,
António M. Santos*,#, David A. Magee**, Marisa Azevedo*, Pedro Tarroso*, Shinji Sasazaki ,
Stephane Ostrowski , Osman Mahgoub
, Tapas K. Chaudhuri||, Ya-ping Zhang ,¶, Vânia
Costa*, Luis J. Royo , Félix Goyache , Gordon Luikart*, Nicole Boivin||||, Dorian Q.
Fuller¶¶, Hideyuki Mannen , Daniel G. Bradley##, Albano Beja-Pereira*
*CIBIO, Centro de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Recursos Genéticos, Universidade do Porto,
Campus Agrário de Vairão, 4485-661 Vairão, Portugal; Laboratory of Animal Breeding and
Genetics, Graduate School of Agricultural Science, Kobe University, Kobe 657-8501, Japan;
Department of Zoology, Govt. Vidarbha Institute of Science & Humanities, Amravati-444604-
India; State Key Laboratory of Genetic Resources and Evolution, Kunming Institute of Zoology,
Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming 650223, China; ||Cellular Immunology Laboratory, Dept. of
Zoology, University of North Bengal, Siliguri-734013.West Bengal. India; ¶Laboratory for
Conservation and Utilization of Bio-resource, Yunnan University, 2 North Cuihu Road, Kunming
650091, China; #Departamento de Zoologia e Antropologia, Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade
do Porto, 4169-007 Porto, Portugal; **Animal Genomics Laboratory, UCD School of Agriculture,
Food Science and Veterinary Medicine, UCD College of Life Sciences, University College Dublin,
Belfield, Dublin 4, Ireland; Wildlife Conservation Society, 2300 Southern Boulevard, Bronx,
10460 New York, USA;
Department of Animal and Veterinary Sciences, College of Agricultural
and Marine Science, Sultan Qaboos University, Al-Khod 123, Muscat Oman; Area de Genética y
Reproducción Animal- SERID