The role of natural hybridization in the evolutionary history of numerous species is well
recognized. The impact of introgressive hybridization and hybrid speciation has been …

The place and date of the domestication of the horse has long been a matter for debate
among archaeologists. To determine whether horses were domesticated from one or several …

To date, a large amount of equine genetic data has been obtained regarding (i) extant
domestic horses of various breeds from all over the world,(ii) ancient domestic horses,(iii) …

The domestic goat (Capra hircus) often is dismissed as the ''poor man's cow''for its ability to
thrive on meager fodder and cope with harsh environments. However, this belies the …

Phylogenetic relationships among Asian and European pig breeds were assessed using
1036 bp of mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) D‐loop sequences. An unweighted pair‐group …

Background DNA target enrichment by micro-array capture combined with high throughput
sequencing technologies provides the possibility to obtain large amounts of sequence data …

To investigate genetic mechanisms of high altitude adaptations of animals living in the
Tibetan Plateau, three mitochondrial genomes (mt-genome) of Tibetan horses living in Naqu …

Equus hydruntinus inhabited Europe and the Middle East for more than 300 000 years. For a
long time, palaeontological data failed to place E. hydruntinus into the equid phylogenetic …

Fossil records, archaeological proofs, and historical documents report that horses persisted
continuously in the Iberian Peninsula since the Pleistocene and were taken to the American …

Despite a number of recent studies that have focused on the origin of domestic horses,
genetic relationships between major geographical clusters still remain poorly understood. In …