Genotypes of predomestic horses match phenotypes painted in Paleolithic works of cave art

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 108, Issue 46, 2011, Pages 18626-18630

  Pruvost, Melanie ^a,b   Bellone, Rebecca ^c   Benecke, Norbert ^b   Sandoval Castellanos, Edson ^d   Cieslak, Michael ^a   Kuznetsova, Tatyana ^e   Morales Munĩz, Arturo ^f   O'Connor, Terry ^g   Reissmann, Monika ^h   Hofreiter, Michael ^g   Ludwig, Arne ^a  

^a LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR ZOO AND WILDLIFE RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b GERMAN ARCHAEOLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TAMPA   (United States)

^d INSTITUTO DE ECOLOGÍA   (Mexico)

^e MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^f UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE MADRID   (Spain)

^g UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

^h HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Ancient DNA; Franco Cantabrian region; Leopard complex spotting; Single nucleotide polymorphism; Transient receptor potential cation channel subfamily M1

Indexed keywords

ALLELE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CAVE ART; CHALCOLITHIC; COLOR; EASTERN EUROPE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENOTYPE; HORSE; NONHUMAN; PAINTING; PALEOLITHIC; PHENOTYPE; PHENOTYPIC VARIATION; PLEISTOCENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; WESTERN EUROPE; WILD TYPE;

ALLELES; ANIMALS; ARCHAEOLOGY; EUROPE; FRANCE; GENOTYPE; GEOGRAPHY; HETEROZYGOTE; HISTORY, ANCIENT; HORSES; MODELS, GENETIC; PHENOTYPE; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; SIBERIA; SPAIN;

ANIMALIA; EQUIDAE; PANTHERA PARDUS;

EID: 81755172922     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1108982108     Document Type: Article

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