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| Date: | 1999 |
| Title: | Early medieval cattle remains from a Scandinavian settlement in Dublin: genetic analysis and comparison with extant breeds. |
| Author: | MacHugh, D E Bradley, D G Eythórsdóttir, E Olsaker, I McCormick, F Troy, C S |
| Description: | A panel of cattle bones excavated from the 1000-year-old Viking Fishamble Street site in Dublin was assessed for the presence of surviving mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA). Eleven of these bones gave amplifiable mtDNA and a portion of the hypervariable control region was determined for each specimen. A comparative analysis was performed with control region sequences from five extant Nordic and Irish cattle breeds. The medieval population displayed similar levels of mtDNA diversity to modern European breeds. However, a number of novel mtDNA haplotypes were also detected in these bone samples. In addition, the presence of a putative ancestral sequence at high frequency in the medieval population supports an early post-domestication expansion of cattle in Europe. |
| URI: | https://www.amad.org/jspui/handle/123456789/64903 |
| Other Identifier: | http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1692458 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10091250 |
| AMAD ID: | 573796 |
| Appears in Collections: | BASE (Bielefeld Academic Search Engine) General history of Europe |
