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Revision as of 18:07, 27 October 2021 editSerols (talk | contribs)Extended confirmed users, Pending changes reviewers477,416 editsm Reverted edits by 164.92.50.24 (talk) (HG) (3.4.10)Tag: Rollback← Previous edit Revision as of 00:35, 20 February 2022 edit undoHemiauchenia (talk | contribs)Autopatrolled, Extended confirmed users60,028 edits The "cattle" article is entirely about taurine cattle rather than Zebu, which are discussed in another article. this is therefore a duplicate of cattle with an identical scopeTags: New redirect RevertedNext edit →
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{{subspeciesbox
| name = Taurine cattle
| image = 20100516 Vacas Vilarromarís, Oroso-8-1.jpg
| image_caption = A ] in Spain
| status = DOM
| genus = Bos
| species = taurus
| species_link = Cattle
| subspecies = taurus
| authority = ], ]
| synonyms = *''Bos taurus''
*''Bos primigenius taurus''
}}

'''Taurine cattle''' (''Bos taurus taurus''), also called '''European cattle''', are a subspecies of domesticated ] originating in the ]. Both taurine cattle and indicine cattle (]) are descended from the ]. Taurine cattle were originally considered a distinct species, but are now typically grouped with zebus and aurochs into one species, ''Bos taurus''.<ref name=MSW3>{{MSW3|id=14200687|heading=''Bos taurus''}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|title=Managing Global Genetic Resources: Livestock|date=1993|publisher=National Academy Press|isbn=978-0-309-10378-7|page=143|quote=They were originally named as separate species, ''Bos taurus'' and ''Bos indicus'', but they are interfertile and now generally regarded as a single species.}}</ref><ref name=iczn>{{cite web|url=http://iczn.org/content/biodiversity-studies |title=ICZN, Biodiversity Studies BZN Volume 63, Part 3, General Articles & Nomenclatural Notes |date=30 September 2006 |url-status=live}}</ref> Most modern ] are taurine cattle.

Genetic research suggests the entire modern stock of taurine cattle may have arisen from as few as 80 aurochs ('']'') tamed in the upper reaches of ] about 10,500 years ago near the villages of ] in southeastern Turkey and ] in northern ].<ref name="HowNowCow">Bollongino, Ruth, at al. '']''. "". 7 March 2012. Accessed 8 May 2015.</ref>

The ] of the ] of taurine cattle was published by the Bovine Genome Sequencing and Analysis Consortium in 2009.<ref name="BGSAC">
{{cite journal
| author = Elsik, C. G. ''et al'', (Bovine Genome Sequencing and Analysis Consortium)
| title = The genome sequence of taurine cattle: a window to ruminant biology and evolution
| journal = Science
| volume = 324 | issue = 5926 | pages = 522–528
| year = 2009
| doi = 10.1126/science.1169588
| pmc = 2943200
| pmid = 19390049
| bibcode = 2009Sci...324..522A
}}</ref>

==See also==
* ]

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
* {{ITIS|ID=898717|taxon=''Bos taurus taurus''}}

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