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  • noun Plural form of aurochs.

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Examples

  • The forests and the plains gave plentifully of fruits and wild birds, antelope, aurochsen, and elk.

    Pellucidar Edgar Rice Burroughs 1912

  • The most unique item of this “Game Book,” with the exception, naturally, of the two aurochsen, are assuredly the three whales which the emperor shot with a harpoon gun, on the occasion of his yachting trip to the furthermost portion of Norway a few summers ago.

    The Secret Memoirs of the Courts of Europe Fontenoy, Mme La Marquise De 1900

  • Thus there are a couple of “aurochsen,” which is a species of bison-like wild cattle, still to be found strictly preserved in the private domains of the Emperor of Russia.

    The Secret Memoirs of the Courts of Europe Fontenoy, Mme La Marquise De 1900

  • And they found bisons, aurochsen, in the mountains, Paul says, and is not surprised thereat, because there are plenty of them in Hungary near by.

    Roman and the Teuton Charles Kingsley 1847

  • Bos taurus, with some lines of evidence suggesting possible, albeit rare, genetic contributions from locally domesticated wild aurochsen across Eurasia.

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Ceiridwen J. Edwards et al. 2010

  • Sequence analysis reveals evidence of heteroplasmy in this sample and places this mitochondrial genome sequence securely within a previously identified aurochsen haplogroup (haplogroup P), thus providing novel insights into pre-domestic patterns of variation.

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Ceiridwen J. Edwards et al. 2010

  • In contrast to mtDNA studies, analyses of paternally-inherited Y-chromosome haplotypes are equivocal on whether male aurochsen contributed to European The recent advent of high-throughput DNA sequencing technologies, also referred to as

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Ceiridwen J. Edwards et al. 2010

  • A contrasting picture is seen in Italy, where all ancient aurochsen mtDNA control region sequences to date have been assigned to macro-haplogroup T

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Ceiridwen J. Edwards et al. 2010

  • Inferences from these investigations have been based largely on the analysis of partial mitochondrial DNA sequences generated from modern animals, with limited sequence data from ancient aurochsen samples.

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Ceiridwen J. Edwards et al. 2010

  • Bos taurus, with some lines of evidence suggesting possible, albeit rare, genetic contributions from locally domesticated wild aurochsen across Eurasia.

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Ceiridwen J. Edwards et al. 2010

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