Ancient genomes revisit the ancestry of domestic and Przewalski's horses

Science

Volumn 360, Issue 6384, 2018, Pages 111-114

  Gaunitz, Charleen ^a   Fages, Antoine ^a,b   Hanghøj, Kristian ^a,b   Albrechtsen, Anders ^c   Khan, Naveed ^a,d   Schubert, Mikkel ^a   Seguin Orlando, Andaine ^a,b,e   Owens, Ivy J ^f,g   Felkel, Sabine ^h   Bignon Lau, Olivier ⁱ   Damgaard, Peter de Barros ^a   Mittnik, Alissa ^j   Mohaseb, Azadeh F ^k,l   Davoudi, Hossein ^l,m,n   Alquraishi, Saleh ^o   Alfarhan, Ahmed H ^o   Al Rasheid, Khaled A S ^o   Crubézy, Eric ^b   Benecke, Norbert ^p   Olsen, Sandra ^q   Brown, Dorcas ^r   Anthony, David ^r   Massy, Ken ^s   Pitulko, Vladimir ^t   Kasparov, Aleksei ^t   Brem, Gottfried ^h   Hofreiter, Michael ^u   Mukhtarova, Gulmira ^v   Baimukhanov, Nurbol ^w   Lõugas, Lembi ^x   Onar, Vedat ^y   Stockhammer, Philipp W ^j,s   Krause, Johannes ^j   Boldgiv, Bazartseren ^z   Undrakhbold, Sainbileg ^z   Erdenebaatar, Diimaajav ^z   Lepetz, Sébastien ^k   Mashkour, Marjan ^k,l,m   Ludwig, Arne ^aa   Wallner, Barbara ^h   Merz, Victor ^ab   Merz, Ilja ^ab   Zaibert, Viktor ^ac   Willerslev, Eske ^a,g,ad   Librado, Pablo ^a   Outram, Alan K ^f   Orlando, Ludovic ^a,b   more..

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PAUL SABATIER   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^d ABDUL WALI KHAN UNIVERSITY   (Pakistan)

^e National High Throughput DNA Sequencing Center   (Denmark)

^f UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

^g UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^h UNIVERSITY OF VETERINARY MEDICINE   (Austria)

ⁱ Inrap)   (France)

^j Max Planck Institute for Geoanthropology   (Germany)

^k MUSÉUM NATIONAL D'HISTOIRE NATURELLE   (France)

^l UNIVERSITY OF TEHRAN   (Iran)

^m National Museum of Iran   (Iran)

ⁿ TARBIAT MODARES UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

^o KING SAUD UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

^p GERMAN ARCHAEOLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Germany)

^q UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

^r HARTWICK COLLEGE   (United States)

^s UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^t INSTITUTE FOR THE HISTORY OF MATERIAL CULTURE   (Russian Federation)

^u UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

^v State Historical and Cultural Reserve Museum (ISSYK)   (Kazakhstan)

^w Shejire DNA Project   (Kazakhstan)

^x TALLINN UNIVERSITY   (Estonia)

^y ISTANBUL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^z NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF MONGOLIA   (Mongolia)

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

^ab S TORAIGHYROV PAVLODAR STATE UNIVERSITY   (Kazakhstan)

^ac AL FARABI KAZAKH NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Kazakhstan)

^ad WELLCOME TRUST SANGER INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TRANSIENT RECEPTOR POTENTIAL CHANNEL M1; ANCIENT DNA;

ANCESTRY; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ARCHAEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE; BRONZE AGE; DOMESTIC SPECIES; DOMESTICATION; FOSSIL RECORD; GENOME; GENOMICS; HORSE; WILD POPULATION;

ANCESTRY GROUP; ARTICLE; DOMESTIC HORSE; DOMESTICATION; GENE LOCUS; GENE MUTATION; GENOMICS; HAPLOTYPE; HOMOZYGOSITY; INTROGRESSION; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRZEWALSKI'S HORSE; TRPM1 GENE; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; ANIMAL; CLASSIFICATION; GENETICS; GENOME; HORSE; PHENOTYPE;

EQUIDAE; EQUUS CABALLUS; EQUUS PRZEWALSKII;

ANIMALS; DNA, ANCIENT; GENOME; HORSES; PHENOTYPE; PHYLOGENY;

EID: 85042424894     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.aao3297     Document Type: Article

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