Mitochondrial DNA analysis of ancient sheep from Kazakhstan: evidence for early sheep introduction

Kazakhstan covers a vast territory, and it has always been a land of nomadic pastoralism, where domesticated horses and sheep were moved by nomadic people across the steppe. Previous reports suggest that sheep breeds from Kazakhstan have an intermediate genetic composition between Asian and European...

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Main Authors: Pavel Tarlykov, Sabina Atavliyeva, Dana Auganova, Ilyas Akhmetollayev, Tatyana Loshakova, Victor Varfolomeev, Yerlan Ramankulov
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2021-09-01
Series:Heliyon
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2405844021021149