Zeitschriftenaufsatz | 2018

Ancient genomes revisit the ancestry of domestic and Przewalski's horses

Autor:in
Gaunitz, Charleen; Fages, Antoine; Hanghoj, Kristian Ebbesen; Albrechtsen, Anders; Khan, Naveed; Schubert, Mikkel; Seguin-Orlando, Andaine; Owens, Ivy J.; Felkel, S.; Bignon-Lau, Olivier; Damgaard, Peter de Barros; Mittnik, Alissa; Mohaseb, Azadeh F.; Davoudi, Hossein; Alquraishi, Saleh; Alfarhan, Ahmed; AL-Rasheid, Khaled; Crubézy, Eric; Benecke, Norbert; Olsen, Sandra L.; Brown, Dorcas R.; Anthony, David; Massy, Ken; Pitulko, Vladimir; Kasparov, A. K.; Brem, G.; Hofreiter, Michael; Mukhtarova, Gulmira; Baimukhanov, Nurbol; Lõugas, Lembi; Onar, Vedat; Stockhammer, Philipp W.; Krause, Johannes; Boldgiv, Bazartseren; Undrakhbold, Sainbileg; Erdenebaatar, Diimaajav; Lepetz, Sebastien; Mashkour, Marjan; Ludwig, Arne; Wallner, Barbara; Merts, Viktor; Merts, Ilja; Zaibert, Viktor Fedorovich; Willerslev, Eske; Librado, Pablo; Outram, Alan; ORLANDO, Ludovic
Publikationen als Autor:in / Herausgeber:in der Vetmeduni
Wallner, Barbara
Journal
Science
Schlagwörter
Animals; DNA, Ancient; Genome; Horsesanatomy & histologyclassificationgenetics; Phenotype; Phylogeny
Dokumenten­typ
Originalarbeit
ISSN/eISSN
0036-8075 - 1095-9203
DOI
Öffnen URL 10.1126/science.aao3297
WoS ID
Öffnen URL WOS:000429263100057
PubMed ID
Öffnen URL MEDLINE:29472442

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360
Startseite
111
Letzte Seite
114
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6384
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4
The Eneolithic Botai culture of the Central Asian steppes provides the earliest archaeological evidence for horse husbandry, similar to 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 similar to 4000 years ago to present only show similar to 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. 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.Copyright © 2018 The Authors, some rights reserved; exclusive licensee American Association for the Advancement of Science. No claim to original U.S. Government Works.


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