The steppe bison ( " B . priscus " ) diverged from the lineage that led to cattle ( " Bos taurus " ) about 2 to 5 million years ago.
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However, despite the threat posed by the cattle to the island s environment, they formed one of the very few herds of feral " Bos taurus " anywhere in the world.
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Eurasian aurochs were also domesticated into cattle breeds of European form ( Bos taurus, also known as Bos primigenius taurus ) commencing about 8, 000 years ago in a region known as the Fertile Crescent in the Near East.
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Another team of Italian researchers showed that the mtDNA of cattle ( " Bos taurus " ) in modern Tuscany is different from that of cattle normally found elsewhere in Italy, and even in Europe as a whole.
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In 2005, using funding from a three-year grant from the Vernal W . and Florence H . Bates Foundation, a group of students identified genes implicated in osteoporosis and sequenced the calcitonin and collagen 1 alpha1 receptor genes in Bos taurus.
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Brucellosis was originally imported to North America with non-native domestic cattle ( " Bos taurus " ), which transmitted the disease to wild bison ( " Bison bison " ) and elk ( " Cervus canadensis " ).
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In another study, intended to note genetic differences between " Oryx " species, karyotypes of " Oryx " species and subspecies namely " O . leucoryx " were compared with the standard karyotype of " Bos taurus ".
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It is not known whether this naturally occurring rabbit disease is linked to BLV infection . " Although several species can be infected by inoculation of the virus, natural infection occurs only in cattle ( " Bos taurus " and " Bos indicus " ), water buffaloes, and capybaras.
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"' Amsterdam Island cattle "'was a rare feral breed of wild cattle ( " Bos taurus " ) that existed in isolation on French territory in the southern Indian Ocean, from 1871 to 2010, when the population was eradicated in the course of an environmental restoration program.
