Population structure and domestication history of the Javan banteng.

ABSTRACT: The domestication of the banteng in Southeast Asia is one of the world's least known livestock domestications yet a vital component of the agricultural system in Indonesia and surrounding countries. Here, we generated the first reference genome of the banteng and used it to analyze a set of 78 resequenced wild and domesticated bantengs, including 19 newly generated whole-genome-sequenced samples, of which three are historical samples. We found low heterozygosity and significant differentiation, the latter primarily driven by recent genetic drift and inbreeding in two populations and clearly attributable to anthropogenically driven founder events or ex situ breeding. Population structure, when excluding these two populations, was limited, and we found that the evolutionary divergence betwee

SUBMITTER: Wang X 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12829435 | biostudies-literature | 2026 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature