Origins and genetic legacy of prehistoric dogs
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2020
Authors
Bergstrom, Anders
Frantz, Laurent

Schmidt, Ryan
Ersmark, Erik

Lebrasseur, Ophelie
Girdland-Flink, Linus
Lin, Audrey T.

Stora, Jan
Sjogren, Karl-Goran

Anthony, David
Antipina, Ekaterina
Amiri, Sarieh
Bar-Oz, Guy

Bazaliiskii, Vladimir I.
Bulatović, Jelena

Brown, Dorcas
Carmagnini, Alberto
Davy, Tom
Fedorov, Sergey
Fiore, Ivana
Fulton, Deirdre
Germonpre, Mietje

Haile, James
Irving-Pease, Evan K.

Jamieson, Alexandra
Janssens, Luc
Kirillova, Irina
Horwitz, Liora Kolska
Kuzmanović-Cvetković, Julka
Kuzmin, Yaroslav
Losey, Robert J.
Loznjak-Dizdar, Daria
Mashkour, Marjan

Novak, Mario
Onar, Vedat

Orton, David
Pasaric, Maja
Radivojević, Miljana

Rajković, Dragana
Roberts, Benjamin
Ryan, Hannah
Sablin, Mikhail
Shidlovskiy, Fedor
Dimitrijević, Ivana

Tagliacozzo, Antonio
Trantalidou, Katerina
Ullen, Inga
Villaluenga, Aritza

Wapnish, Paula
Dobney, Keith
Gotherstrom, Anders
Linderholm, Anna
Dalen, Love

Pinhasi, Ron

Larson, Greger
Skoglund, Pontus
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Dogs were the first domestic animal, but little is known about their population history and to what extent it was linked to humans. We sequenced 27 ancient dog genomes and found that all dogs share a common ancestry distinct from present-day wolves, with limited gene flow from wolves since domestication but substantial dog-to-wolf gene flow. By 11,000 years ago, at least five major ancestry lineages had diversified, demonstrating a deep genetic history of dogs during the Paleolithic. Coanalysis with human genomes reveals aspects of dog population history that mirror humans, including Levant-related ancestry in Africa and early agricultural Europe. Other aspects differ, including the impacts of steppe pastoralist expansions in West and East Eurasia and a near-complete turnover of Neolithic European dog ancestry.
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prehistoric dogsSource:
Science, 2020, 370, 6516, 557-563Publisher:
- Amer Assoc Advancement Science, Washington
Funding / projects:
- SciLifeLab National Projects
- Erik Philip Sorensen Foundation
- Francis Crick Institute from Cancer Research UK [FC001595]
- UK Medical Research CouncilUK Research & Innovation (UKRI)Medical Research Council UK (MRC)
- Wellcome TrustWellcome TrustEuropean Commission [210119/Z/18/Z]
- European Research CouncilEuropean Research Council (ERC)European Commission [852558]
- Wellcome Trust Investigator awardWellcome Trust [217223/Z/19/Z]
- Vallee Foundation
- Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of CanadaSocial Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) [SSHRC IG 435-2014-0075]
- State Assignment of the Sobolev Institute of Geology and Mineralogy
- ZIN RAS [AAA-A19119032590102-7]
- Smithsonian's Peter Buck Postdoctoral Fellowship
- AHRCUK Research & Innovation (UKRI)Arts & Humanities Research Council (AHRC) [AH/J001406/1]
- SNIC-UPPMAX [b2016004]
- UOXF ARC facilityAustralian Research Council
- Wolfson College (University of Oxford)
- ERCEuropean Research Council (ERC)European Commission [ERC-2013-StG-337574-UNDEAD]
- Natural Environmental Research CouncilUK Research & Innovation (UKRI)Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) [NE/K005243/1, NE/K003259/1]
- NERC Radiocarbon FacilityUK Research & Innovation (UKRI)Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) [NF/2016/2/4]
- ESRCUK Research & Innovation (UKRI)Economic & Social Research Council (ESRC) [ES/P010849/1] Funding Source: UKRI
- NERCUK Research & Innovation (UKRI)Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) [NE/K003259/2, NE/K005243/2, NE/K005243/1] Funding Source: UKRI
DOI: 10.1126/science.aba9572
ISSN: 0036-8075
PubMed: 33122379