Indigenous cattle of Sri Lanka: Genetic and phylogeographic relationship with Zebu of Indus Valley and South Indian origin

• Lokugalappatti L. G. S.,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Animal Production and Health Section, Joint FAO/IAEA Division of Nuclear Techniques in Food and Agriculture, International Atomic Energy Agency, Vienna, Austria, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine and Animal Science, University of Peradeniya, Peradeniya, Sri Lanka

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• Saumya Wickramasinghe,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation Faculty of Veterinary Medicine and Animal Science, University of Peradeniya, Peradeniya, Sri Lanka

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• Alexander P. A. B. D.,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Faculty of Veterinary Medicine and Animal Science, University of Peradeniya, Peradeniya, Sri Lanka

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• Kamran Abbas,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliations Animal Production and Health Section, Joint FAO/IAEA Division of Nuclear Techniques in Food and Agriculture, International Atomic Energy Agency, Vienna, Austria, Department of Molecular Biology, Virtual University of Pakistan, Lahore, Pakistan

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• Tanveer Hussain,

  Roles Investigation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Molecular Biology, Virtual University of Pakistan, Lahore, Pakistan

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• Saravanan Ramasamy,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Animal Genetics and Breeding, Veterinary College and Research Institute, Namakkal, Tamil Nadu Veterinary and Animal Sciences University, Chennai, India

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• Vandana Manomohan,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliations Animal Production and Health Section, Joint FAO/IAEA Division of Nuclear Techniques in Food and Agriculture, International Atomic Energy Agency, Vienna, Austria, Department of Animal Genetics and Breeding, Veterinary College and Research Institute, Namakkal, Tamil Nadu Veterinary and Animal Sciences University, Chennai, India

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• Arnaud Stephane R. Tapsoba,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis

  Affiliations Animal Production and Health Section, Joint FAO/IAEA Division of Nuclear Techniques in Food and Agriculture, International Atomic Energy Agency, Vienna, Austria, Laboratoire de Biologie et de Santé Animale (LaBioSA), Institut de l’Environnement et de Recherches Agricoles (INERA), Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso

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• Rudolf Pichler,

  Roles Methodology

  Affiliation Animal Production and Health Section, Joint FAO/IAEA Division of Nuclear Techniques in Food and Agriculture, International Atomic Energy Agency, Vienna, Austria

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• Masroor E. Babar,

  Roles Investigation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Animal Sciences, The University of Agriculture, Dera Ismail Khan, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan

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• Kathiravan Periasamy

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: kathirvet@yahoo.co.in, K.Periasamy@iaea.org

  Affiliation Animal Production and Health Section, Joint FAO/IAEA Division of Nuclear Techniques in Food and Agriculture, International Atomic Energy Agency, Vienna, Austria

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3518-5290

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