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A '''dzo''' ({{langx|bo|མཛོ་|mdzo}}) is a [[Hybrid (biology)|hybrid]] between the [[yak]] and domestic [[cattle]]. The word ''dzo'' technically refers to a male hybrid, while a female is known as a {{transliteration|bo|dzomo}} or {{transliteration|bo|zhom}}. In [[Mongolian language|Mongolian]], it is called a '''{{transliteration|mn|khainag}}''' (хайнаг). There is also the [[English language|English]] [[wikt:Portmanteau word|portmanteau term]] of '''yattle'''—a combination of the words ''yak'' and ''cattle'',<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/08/10/AR2007081002119.html |title=Yattle What? |last=Mummolo |first=Jonathan |date=August 11, 2007 |newspaper=[[The Washington Post]] |access-date=January 3, 2017 |quote=Mentzer, who grew up farming in Loudoun County, and his partner, Jim Dumbrell, a retired British oil and gas pipeline consultant, are breeding yattle -- a cross between cows and yaks.}}</ref> as well as '''yakow'''<ref>{{cite book |author=National Research Council |author-link=National Research Council (United States) |date=1983 |title=Little-Known Asian Animals With a Promising Economic Future |url=https://www.nap.edu/catalog/19514/little-known-asian-animals-with-a-promising-economic-future |location=Washington, D.C. |publisher=The National Academies Press |page=34 |doi= 10.17226/19514 |isbn=978-0-309-32715-2 }}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last=Mason |first=Ian |editor-last=Porter |editor-first=Valerie |date=March 2002 |title=Mason's World Dictionary of Livestock Breeds, Types and Varieties |url=http://www.cabi.org/bookshop/book/9780851994307 |location=West Sussex |publisher=[[CABI (organisation)|CABI]] |page=122 |isbn=085199430X |access-date=2017-01-03 |archive-date=2017-12-23 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171223215801/https://www.cabi.org/bookshop/book/9780851994307 |url-status=dead }}</ref>—a combination of the words ''yak'' and ''cow''.
A '''dzo''' ({{langx|bo|མཛོ་|mdzo}}) is a [[Hybrid (biology)|hybrid]] between the [[yak]] and domestic [[cattle]]. The word ''dzo'' technically refers to a male hybrid, while a female is known as a {{transliteration|bo|dzomo}} or {{transliteration|bo|zhom}}. In [[Mongolian language|Mongolian]], it is called a '''{{transliteration|mn|khainag}}''' (хайнаг). There is also the [[English language|English]] [[wikt:Portmanteau word|portmanteau term]] of '''yattle'''—a combination of the words ''yak'' and ''cattle'',<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/08/10/AR2007081002119.html |title=Yattle What? |last=Mummolo |first=Jonathan |date=August 11, 2007 |newspaper=[[The Washington Post]] |access-date=January 3, 2017 |quote=Mentzer, who grew up farming in Loudoun County, and his partner, Jim Dumbrell, a retired British oil and gas pipeline consultant, are breeding yattle -- a cross between cows and yaks.}}</ref> as well as '''yakow'''<ref>{{cite book |author=National Research Council |author-link=National Research Council (United States) |date=1983 |title=Little-Known Asian Animals With a Promising Economic Future |url=https://www.nap.edu/catalog/19514/little-known-asian-animals-with-a-promising-economic-future |location=Washington, D.C. |publisher=The National Academies Press |page=34 |doi= 10.17226/19514 |isbn=978-0-309-32715-2 }}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last=Mason |first=Ian |editor-last=Porter |editor-first=Valerie |date=March 2002 |title=Mason's World Dictionary of Livestock Breeds, Types and Varieties |url=http://www.cabi.org/bookshop/book/9780851994307 |location=West Sussex |publisher=[[CABI (organisation)|CABI]] |page=122 |isbn=085199430X |access-date=2017-01-03 |archive-date=2017-12-23 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171223215801/https://www.cabi.org/bookshop/book/9780851994307 |url-status=dead }}</ref>—a combination of the words ''yak'' and ''cow''.

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Dzomo are fertile (or fecund), while dzo are sterile. As they are a product of the hybrid genetic phenomenon of heterosis (hybrid vigor), they are larger and stronger than yak or cattle from the region.[4] In Mongolia and Tibet, khainags are thought to be more productive than cattle or yaks in terms of both milk and meat production.[5][6]

Dzomo can be back crossed. As a result, many supposedly pure yak or pure cattle probably carry each other's genetic material. In Mongolia, the result of a Script error: No such module "lang". crossed with either a domestic bull or yak bull is called Script error: No such module "lang". (ортоом, three-quarter-bred) and an Script error: No such module "lang". crossed with a domestic bull or yak bull results in a Script error: No such module "lang". (усан гүзээ, one-eighth-bred).[6][7]

Dzos inherit two distinct protein types, one from each parent, leading to alterations in their mitochondrial structure and function.[8] Consequently, this adaptation significantly enhances the dzo's capacity to thrive at higher altitudes compared to either parent.

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References

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  7. ↑ Takase Hisabumi, Kh. Tumennasan et al., "Fertility Investigation in F1 Hybrid and Backcross Progeny of Cattle (Bos taurus) and Yak (Bos gruniens) in Mongolia: II. Little variation in gene products studied in male sterile and fertile animals", in: Niigata journal of health and welfare Vol. 2, No. 1, pp. 42–52.
  8. ↑ Long, L., Zhu, Y., Li, Z., Zhang, H., Liu, L., & Bai, J. (2020). Differential expression of skeletal muscle mitochondrial proteins in yak, dzo, and cattle: a proteomics-based study. The Journal of veterinary medical science, 82(8), 1178–1186. https://doi.org/10.1292/jvms.19-0218

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