Legacies of domestication, Neolithic diffusion and trade between Indian subcontinent and Island Southeast Asia shape maternal genetic diversity of Andaman cattle

• Arun Kumar De ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Software, Validation, Writing – original draft

  * E-mail: biotech.cari@gmail.com

  Affiliation Animal Science Division, ICAR-Central Island Agricultural Research Institute, Port Blair, Andaman and Nicobar Islands, India

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0083-9300

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• Sneha Sawhney,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation Animal Science Division, ICAR-Central Island Agricultural Research Institute, Port Blair, Andaman and Nicobar Islands, India

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• Ramachandran Muthiyan,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation

  Affiliation Animal Science Division, ICAR-Central Island Agricultural Research Institute, Port Blair, Andaman and Nicobar Islands, India

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• Debasis Bhattacharya,

  Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Animal Science Division, ICAR-Central Island Agricultural Research Institute, Port Blair, Andaman and Nicobar Islands, India

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• Perumal Ponraj,

  Roles Methodology

  Affiliation Animal Science Division, ICAR-Central Island Agricultural Research Institute, Port Blair, Andaman and Nicobar Islands, India

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• Dhruba Malakar,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Animal Biotechnology Centre, National Dairy Research Institute, Karnal, Haryana, India

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• Jai Sunder,

  Roles Methodology

  Affiliation Animal Science Division, ICAR-Central Island Agricultural Research Institute, Port Blair, Andaman and Nicobar Islands, India

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• T. Sujatha,

  Roles Methodology

  Affiliation Animal Science Division, ICAR-Central Island Agricultural Research Institute, Port Blair, Andaman and Nicobar Islands, India

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• Ashish Kumar,

  Roles Methodology

  Affiliation CTARA, IIT Bombay, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

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• Samiran Mondal,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Department of Veterinary Pathology, West Bengal University of Animal and Fishery Sciences, Kolkata, West Bengal, India

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• Asit Kumar Bera,

  Roles Formal analysis

  Affiliation Reservoir and Wetland Fisheries Division, ICAR-Central Inland Fishery Research Institute, Barrackpore, Kolkata, West Bengal, India

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• P. A. Bala,

  Roles Methodology

  Affiliation Animal Science Division, ICAR-Central Island Agricultural Research Institute, Port Blair, Andaman and Nicobar Islands, India

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• Eaknath B. Chakurkar

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Animal Science Division, ICAR-Central Island Agricultural Research Institute, Port Blair, Andaman and Nicobar Islands, India

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