Ancient and modern DNA reveal dynamics of domestication and cross-continental dispersal of the dromedary

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

Volumn 113, Issue 24, 2016, Pages 6707-6712

  Almathen, Faisal ^a,b   Charruau, Pauline ^c,d,e   Mohandesan, Elmira ^c,d   Mwacharo, Joram M ^b   Orozco TerWengel, Pablo ^f   Pitt, Daniel ^f   Abdussamad, Abdussamad M ^g   Uerpmann, Margarethe ^h   Uerpmann, Hans Peter ^h   De Cupere, Bea ⁱ   Magee, Peter ^j   Alnaqeeb, Majed A ^k   Salim, Bashir ^l   Raziq, Abdul ^m   Dessie, Tadelle ⁿ   Abdelhadi, Omer M ^o   Banabazi, Mohammad H ^p   Al Eknah, Marzook ^a   Walzer, Chris ^d   Faye, Bernard ^q   Hofreiter, Michael ^r   Peters, Joris ^s,t   Hanotte, Olivier ^b   Burger, Pamela A ^c   more..

^a KING FAISAL UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^c Research Institute of Wildlife Ecology   (Austria)

^d Vetmeduni Vienna   (Austria)

^e UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

^f CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^g BAYERO UNIVERSITY   (Nigeria)

^h UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

ⁱ ROYAL BELGIAN INSTITUTE OF NATURAL SCIENCES   (Belgium)

^j BRYN MAWR COLLEGE   (United States)

^k KUWAIT UNIVERSITY   (Kuwait)

^l UNIVERSITY OF KHARTOUM   (Sudan)

^m LASBELA UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE   (Pakistan)

ⁿ INTERNATIONAL LIVESTOCK RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Ethiopia)

^o State Key Laboratory of Alternate Electrical Power System with Renewable Energy Sources   (Sudan)

^p ANIMAL SCIENCE RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Iran)

^q CIRAD   (France)

^r UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

^s UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^t BAVARIAN NATURAL HISTORY COLLECTIONS   (Germany)

more..

Author keywords

Anthropogenic admixture; Camelus dromedarius; Demographic history; Paleogenetics; Wild dromedary

Indexed keywords

CYTOCHROME B; DNA; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

AFRICA; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; DNA SEQUENCE; DOMESTICATION; DROMEDARY; GENE POOL; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; HAPLOTYPE; INTROGRESSION; LIVESTOCK; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ANIMAL; BAYES THEOREM; CAMEL; DOMESTIC ANIMAL; GENETIC VARIATION; GENETICS; HUMAN;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, DOMESTIC; BAYES THEOREM; CAMELUS; DNA; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; DOMESTICATION; GENETIC VARIATION; HUMANS;

EID: 84974782833     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1519508113     Document Type: Article

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