The Swamp Buffalo: Domestication, Dispersal, and Genetic Differentiation

Title
The Swamp Buffalo: Domestication, Dispersal, and Genetic Differentiation
Publication Date
2013
Author(s)
Zhang, Yi
Barker, J Stuart F
( author )
OrcID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5232-458X
Email: sbarker@une.edu.au
UNE Id une-id:sbarker
Vankan, Dianne
Zhang, Yuandan
( author )
OrcID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1998-3313
Email: yzhang4@une.edu.au
UNE Id une-id:yzhang4
Editor
Editor(s): Wisitiporn Suksombat, Rangsun Parnpai, Mariena Ketudat-Cairns, Kanokwan Srirattana, Kanchana Punyawai, Arthip Limcharoen
Type of document
Conference Publication
Language
en
Entity Type
Publication
Publisher
International Buffalo Information Centre
Place of publication
Phuket, Thailand
Series
Buffalo Bulletin
UNE publication id
une:20317
Abstract
Water buffalo is an important livestock species in Asia as well as in the world. The swamp type buffalo, found throughout southeast Asia, from Assam and Nepal in the west to the Yangtse valley of China, is traditionally reared to produce draft power and meat. In this study, microsatellite markers were analyzed to determine genetic origin and population relationships of swamp buffalo in China and south-east Asia. Results showed that populations in south-east Asia and southwest of China had highest level of genetic variability. Differentiation among the Chinese swamp populations was much less than among the southeast Asian. Relationships among the swamp populations (DA genetic distances and STRUCTURE analyses) show the southeast Asian populations separated into two groups by the Chinese populations. Given these relationships and the patterns of genetic variability, we postulate that the swamp buffalo was domesticated in the region of the far south of China, northern Thailand and Indochina. Following domestication, it spread south through peninsular Malaysia to Sumatra, Java and Sulawesi, and north through China, and then to Taiwan, the Philippines and Borneo.
Link
Citation
Proceedings of The 10th World Buffalo Congress and The 7th Asian Buffalo Congress, p. 671-674
Start page
671
End page
674

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