Ancient genomes revisit the ancestry of domestic and Przewalski’s horses.
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| Title: | Ancient genomes revisit the ancestry of domestic and Przewalski’s horses. (cover story) |
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| Authors: | Gaunitz, Charleen (AUTHOR), Fages, Antoine (AUTHOR), Hanghøj, Kristian (AUTHOR), Albrechtsen, Anders (AUTHOR), Khan, Naveed (AUTHOR), Schubert, Mikkel (AUTHOR), Seguin-Orlando, Andaine (AUTHOR), Owens, Ivy J. (AUTHOR), Felkel, Sabine (AUTHOR), Bignon-Lau, Olivier (AUTHOR), de Barros Damgaard, Peter (AUTHOR), Mittnik, Alissa (AUTHOR), Mohaseb, Azadeh F. (AUTHOR), Davoudi, Hossein (AUTHOR), Alquraishi, Saleh (AUTHOR), Alfarhan, Ahmed H. (AUTHOR), Al-Rasheid, Khaled A. S. (AUTHOR), Crubézy, Eric (AUTHOR), Benecke, Norbert (AUTHOR), Olsen, Sandra (AUTHOR) |
| Source: | Science (pre-March 2025). 4/6/2018, Vol. 360 Issue 6384, p111-114. 4p. 3 Diagrams, 1 Map. |
| Subjects: | Horses, Genomes, Przewalski's horse, Domestication of horses, Steppes, Nucleotide sequencing |
| Abstract: | The Eneolithic Botai culture of the Central Asian steppes provides the earliest archaeological evidence for horse husbandry, ~5500 years ago, but the exact nature of early horse domestication remains controversial. We generated 42 ancient-horse genomes, including 20 from Botai. Compared to 46 published ancient- and modern-horse genomes, our data indicate that Przewalski’s horses are the feral descendants of horses herded at Botai and not truly wild horses. All domestic horses dated from ~4000 years ago to present only show ~2.7%of Botai-related ancestry. This indicates that a massive genomic turnover underpins the expansion of the horse stock that gave rise to modern domesticates,which coincides with large-scale human population expansions during the Early Bronze Age. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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| Database: | Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection |
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