Genetic evidence for an East Asian origin of domestic dogs

Science

Volumn 298, Issue 5598, 2002, Pages 1610-1613

  Savolainen, Peter ^a   Zhang, Ya ping ^b   Luo, Jing ^b,d   Lundeberg, Joakim ^a   Leitner, Thomas ^c  

^a ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^b KUNMING INSTITUTE OF ZOOLOGY   (China)

^c SWEDISH INSTITUTE FOR INFECTIOUS DISEASE CONTROL   (Sweden)

^d UNIVERSITY OF KONSTANZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENE POOL;

DNA; GENES;

GENETIC ENGINEERING;

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

CANID; DOMESTIC SPECIES; EVOLUTION; GENE FLOW; GENETIC VARIATION; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ARTICLE; DOG; DOMESTIC ANIMAL; GENE POOL; GENETIC VARIABILITY; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WOLF;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, DOMESTIC; ARCHAEOLOGY; ASIA; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; DOGS; FEMALE; GENE POOL; GENES; HAPLOTYPES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; TIME; VARIATION (GENETICS); WOLVES;

ASIA;

ANIMALIA; CANIDAE; CANIS; CANIS FAMILIARIS; CANIS LUPUS; MAMMALIA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 2242463993     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1073906     Document Type: Article

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