Ancient DNA reveals traces of Iberian Neolithic and Bronze Age lineages in modern Iberian horses

Molecular Ecology

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 64-78

  Lira, Jaime ^a,b   Linderholm, Anna ^c   Olaria, Carmen ^d   BrandstrÖm Durling, Mikael ^e   Gilbert, M Thomas P ^f   Ellegren, Hans ^g   Willerslev, Eske ^f   Lidén, Kerstin ^c   Arsuaga, Juan Luis ^a,b   GötherstrÖm, Anders ^a,g  

^a INSTITUTO DE SALUD CARLOS III   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

^c STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^d UNIVERSITAT JAUME I   (Spain)

^e SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

^f UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^g UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Bronze Age; Domestication; Equus caballus; Iberian Peninsula; Middle Ages; Mitochondrial DNA; Neolithic; Restocking

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; GEOGRAPHY; HAPLOTYPE; HORSE; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PHYLOGENY; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION GENETICS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SPAIN;

ANIMALS; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENETIC VARIATION; GENETICS, POPULATION; GEOGRAPHY; HAPLOTYPES; HORSES; PHYLOGENY; POPULATION DENSITY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SPAIN;

EQUIDAE; EQUUS CABALLUS;

EID: 72849139828     PISSN: 09621083     EISSN: 1365294X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-294X.2009.04430.x     Document Type: Article

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