Animal domestication in the era of ancient genomics

LAF Frantz, DG Bradley, G Larson… - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2020 - nature.com
The domestication of animals led to a major shift in human subsistence patterns, from a
hunter–gatherer to a sedentary agricultural lifestyle, which ultimately resulted in the …

Molecular genetic variation of animals and plants under domestication

L Andersson, M Purugganan - Proceedings of the National …, 2022 - National Acad Sciences
Domesticated plants and animals played crucial roles as models for evolutionary change by
means of natural selection and for establishing the rules of inheritance, originally proposed …

[HTML][HTML] Grey wolf genomic history reveals a dual ancestry of dogs

A Bergström, DWG Stanton, UH Taron, L Frantz… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
The grey wolf (Canis lupus) was the first species to give rise to a domestic population, and
they remained widespread throughout the last Ice Age when many other large mammal …

Origins and genetic legacy of prehistoric dogs

A Bergström, L Frantz, R Schmidt, E Ersmark… - Science, 2020 - science.org
Dogs were the first domestic animal, but little is known about their population history and to
what extent it was linked to humans. We sequenced 27 ancient dog genomes and found that …

Dog domestication and the dual dispersal of people and dogs into the Americas

AR Perri, TR Feuerborn, LAF Frantz… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - National Acad Sciences
Advances in the isolation and sequencing of ancient DNA have begun to reveal the
population histories of both people and dogs. Over the last 10,000 y, the genetic signatures …

[HTML][HTML] Genome sequencing of 2000 canids by the Dog10K consortium advances the understanding of demography, genome function and architecture

JRS Meadows, JM Kidd, GD Wang, HG Parker… - Genome biology, 2023 - Springer
Abstract Background The international Dog10K project aims to sequence and analyze
several thousand canine genomes. Incorporating 20× data from 1987 individuals, including …

Ancient cattle genomics, origins, and rapid turnover in the Fertile Crescent

MP Verdugo, VE Mullin, A Scheu, V Mattiangeli… - Science, 2019 - science.org
Genome-wide analysis of 67 ancient Near Eastern cattle, Bos taurus, remains reveals
regional variation that has since been obscured by admixture in modern populations …

[HTML][HTML] Understanding 6th-century barbarian social organization and migration through paleogenomics

CEG Amorim, S Vai, C Posth, A Modi, I Koncz… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Despite centuries of research, much about the barbarian migrations that took place between
the fourth and sixth centuries in Europe remains hotly debated. To better understand this key …

Harnessing ancient genomes to study the history of human adaptation

S Marciniak, GH Perry - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2017 - nature.com
The past several years have witnessed an explosion of successful ancient human genome-
sequencing projects, with genomic-scale ancient DNA data sets now available for more than …

[HTML][HTML] Comparison of village dog and wolf genomes highlights the role of the neural crest in dog domestication

AL Pendleton, F Shen, AM Taravella, S Emery… - BMC biology, 2018 - Springer
Background Domesticated from gray wolves between 10 and 40 kya in Eurasia, dogs
display a vast array of phenotypes that differ from their ancestors, yet mirror other …