Mitochondrial genomes from modern horses reveal the major haplogroups that underwent domestication

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

Volumn 109, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 2449-2454

  Achilli, Alessandro ^a   Olivieri, Anna ^b   Soares, Pedro ^c   Lancioni, Hovirag ^a   Kashani, Baharak Hooshiar ^b   Perego, Ugo A ^b,d   Nergadze, Solomon G ^b   Carossa, Valeria ^b   Santagostino, Marco ^b   Capomaccio, Stefano ^a   Felicetti, Michela ^a   Al Achkar, Walid ^e   Penedo, M Cecilia T ^f   Verini Supplizi, Andrea ^a   Houshmand, Massoud ^g   Woodward, Scott R ^d   Semino, Ornella ^b   Silvestrelli, Maurizio ^a   Giulotto, Elena ^b   Pereira, Luiśa ^c,h   Bandelt, Hans Jur̈gen ⁱ   Torroni, Antonio ^b   more..

^a UNIVERSITY OF PERUGIA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

^d Sorenson Molecular Genealogy Foundation   (United States)

^e DEPARTMENT OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND BIOTECHNOLOGY   (Syrian Arab Republic)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^g NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF GENETIC ENGINEERING AND BIOTECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

^h University of Porto   (Portugal)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Animal domestication; Horse mitochondrial genome; mtDNA haplogroups; Origin of Equus caballus; Przewalski's horse

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; DOMESTICATION; EQUUS FERUS; FEMALE; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HAPLOTYPE; HORSE; MALE; MITOCHONDRIAL GENE; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALIA; EQUIDAE; EQUUS CABALLUS; EQUUS FERUS; EQUUS PRZEWALSKII;

EID: 84857124895     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1111637109     Document Type: Article

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