Ming Zhang, Yanbo Song, Caihui Wang, Guoping Sun, Lina Zhuang, Mingjian Guo, Lele Ren, Shargan Wangdue, Guanghui Dong, Qingyan Dai, Peng Cao, Ruowei Yang, Feng Liu, Xiaotian Feng, E Andrew Bennett, Xiaoling Zhang, Xi Chen, Fen Wang, Fengshi Luan, Wenbin Dong, Guoquan Lu, Daohua Hao, Hongwei Hou, Hui Wang, Hong Qiao, Zhongxin Wang, Xiaojun Hu, Wei He, Lin Xi, Weilin Wang, Jing Shao, Zhouyong Sun, Lianjian Yue, Yan Ding, Norbu Tashi, Tsho Yang, Yan Tong, Yangheshan Yang, Shilun Zhu, Bo Miao, Wenjun Wang, Lizhao Zhang, Songmei Hu, Xijun Ni, Qiaomei Fu
Recent studies have suggested that dogs were domesticated during the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM) in Siberia, which contrasts with previous proposed domestication centers (e.g., Europe, the Middle East, and East Asia). Ancient DNA provides a powerful resource for the study of mammalian evolution and has been widely used to understand the genetic history of domestic animals. To understand the maternal genetic history of East Asian dogs, we have made a complete mitogenome dataset of 120 East Asian canids from 38 archaeological sites, including 102 newly sequenced from 12...
March 20, 2024: Molecular Biology and Evolution