Evidence for early domestic yak, taurine cattle, and their hybrids on the Tibetan Plateau-Reference-Cited by-同舟云学术

Evidence for early domestic yak, taurine cattle, and their hybrids on the Tibetan Plateau

Published:2023-12-15 Issue:50 Volume:9 Page:
ISSN:2375-2548
Container-title:Science Advances
language:en
Short-container-title:Sci. Adv.

Author:

Chen Ningbo¹^ORCID,Zhang Zhengwei²^ORCID,Hou Jiawen¹^ORCID,Chen Jialei¹^ORCID,Gao Xuan²,Tang Li³⁴^ORCID,Wangdue Shargan⁵^ORCID,Zhang Xiaoming⁶^ORCID,Sinding Mikkel-Holger S.⁷^ORCID,Liu Xuexue⁸⁹^ORCID,Han Jianlin¹⁰¹¹^ORCID,Lü Hongliang²^ORCID,Lei Chuzhao¹^ORCID,Marshall Fiona¹²^ORCID,Liu Xinyi¹²^ORCID

Affiliation:

1. Key Laboratory of Animal Genetics Breeding and Reproduction of Shaanxi Province, College of Animal Science and Technology, Northwest A&F University, Yangling 712100, P. R. China.

2. Center for Archaeological Science, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610065, P. R. China.

3. Department of Archaeology, Max Planck Institute of Geoanthropology, Jena 07745, Germany.

4. Domestication and Anthropogenic Evolution Research Group, Max Planck Institute of Geoanthropology, Jena 07745, Germany.

5. Institute for Conservation and Research of Cultural Relics of Tibet Autonomous Region, Lhasa 850000, China.

6. State Key Laboratory of Genetic Resources and Evolution, Kunming Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Kunming 650201, P. R. China.

7. Section for Computational and RNA Biology, Department of Biology, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen DK-1350, Denmark.

8. National Germplasm Centre of Domestic Animal Resources, Institute of Animal Science, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences (CAAS), Beijing 100193, P. R. China.

9. Centre for Anthropobiology and Genomics of Toulouse, CNRS UMR 5288, Université de Toulouse, Université Paul Sabatier, Toulouse 31000, France.

10. Yazhouwan National Laboratory, Sanya 572024, P. R. China.

11. CAAS-ILRI Joint Laboratory on Livestock and Forage Genetic Resources, Institute of Animal Science, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences (CAAS), Beijing 100193, P. R. China.

12. Department of Anthropology, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO 63130, USA.

Abstract

Domestic yak, cattle, and their hybrids are fundamental to herder survival at high altitudes on the Tibetan Plateau. However, little is known about their history. Bos remains are uncommon in this region, and ancient domestic yak have not been securely identified. To identify Bos taxa and investigate their initial management, we conducted zooarchaeological analyses of 193 Bos specimens and sequenced five nuclear genomes from recently excavated assemblages at Bangga. Morphological data indicated that more cattle than yak were present. Ancient mitochondrial DNA and nuclear genome sequences identified taurine cattle and provided evidence for domestic yak and yak-cattle hybridization ~2500 years ago. Reliance on diverse Bos species and their hybrid has increased cattle adaptation and herder resilience to plateau conditions. Ancient cattle and yak at Bangga were closely related to contemporary livestock, indicating early herder legacies and the continuity of cattle and yak husbandry on the Tibetan Plateau.

Publisher

American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Subject

Multidisciplinary

Link

https://www.science.org/doi/pdf/10.1126/sciadv.adi6857

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