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Salado I, Preick M, Lupiáñez-Corpas N, Fernández-Gil A, Vilà C, Hofreiter M, Leonard JA. Large variance in inbreeding within the Iberian wolf population. J Hered 2024; 115:349-359. [PMID: 37955431 PMCID: PMC11235127 DOI: 10.1093/jhered/esad071] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/12/2023] [Revised: 11/06/2023] [Accepted: 11/09/2023] [Indexed: 11/14/2023] Open
Abstract
The gray wolf (Canis lupus) population on the Iberian Peninsula was the largest in western and central Europe during most of the 20th century, with its size apparently never under a few hundred individuals. After partial legal protection in the 1970s in Spain, the northwest Iberian population increased to about 300 to 350 packs and then stabilized. In contrast to many current European wolf populations, which have been connected through gene flow, the Iberian wolf population has been isolated for decades. Here, we measured changes in genomic diversity and inbreeding through the last decades in a geographic context. We find that the level of genomic diversity in Iberian wolves is low compared with other Eurasian wolf populations. Despite population expansion in the last 50 years, some modern wolves had very high inbreeding, especially in the recently recolonized and historical edge areas. These individuals contrast with others with low inbreeding within the same population. The high variance in inbreeding despite population expansion seems associated with small-scale fragmentation of the range that is revealed by the genetic similarity between modern and historical samples from close localities despite being separated by decades, remaining differentiated from other individuals that are just over 100 km away, a small distance for a species with great dispersal capacity inhabiting a continuous range. This illustrates that, despite its demographically stable condition, the population would probably benefit from favoring connectivity within the population as well as genetic exchange with other European wolf populations to avoid excessive fragmentation and local inbreeding depression.
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- Isabel Salado
- Conservation and Evolutionary Genetics Group, Department of Ecology and Evolution, Estación Biológica de Doñana (EBD-CSIC), Seville, Spain
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- Evolutionary Adaptive Genomics Group, Faculty of Science, Institute for Biochemistry and Biology, University of Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany
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- Conservation and Evolutionary Genetics Group, Department of Ecology and Evolution, Estación Biológica de Doñana (EBD-CSIC), Seville, Spain
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- Department of Conservation Biology, Estación Biológica de Doñana (EBD-CSIC), Seville, Spain
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- Conservation and Evolutionary Genetics Group, Department of Ecology and Evolution, Estación Biológica de Doñana (EBD-CSIC), Seville, Spain
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- Evolutionary Adaptive Genomics Group, Faculty of Science, Institute for Biochemistry and Biology, University of Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany
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- Conservation and Evolutionary Genetics Group, Department of Ecology and Evolution, Estación Biológica de Doñana (EBD-CSIC), Seville, Spain
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Hennelly LM, Sarwar G, Fatima H, Werhahn G, Abbas FI, Khan AM, Mahmood T, Kachel S, Kubanychbekov Z, Waseem MT, Zahra Naqvi R, Hamid A, Abbas Y, Aisha H, Waseem M, Farooq M, Sacks BN. Genomic analysis of wolves from Pakistan clarifies boundaries among three divergent wolf lineages. J Hered 2024; 115:339-348. [PMID: 37897187 DOI: 10.1093/jhered/esad066] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/11/2023] [Revised: 09/26/2023] [Accepted: 10/25/2023] [Indexed: 10/29/2023] Open
Abstract
Among the three main divergent lineages of gray wolf (Canis lupus), the Holarctic lineage is the most widespread and best studied, particularly in North America and Europe. Less is known about Tibetan (also called Himalayan) and Indian wolf lineages in southern Asia, especially in areas surrounding Pakistan where all three lineages are thought to meet. Given the endangered status of the Indian wolf in neighboring India and unclear southwestern boundary of the Tibetan wolf range, we conducted mitochondrial and genome-wide sequencing of wolves from Pakistan and Kyrgyzstan. Sequences of the mitochondrial D-loop region of 81 wolves from Pakistan indicated contact zones between Holarctic and Indian lineages across the northern and western mountains of Pakistan. Reduced-representation genome sequencing of eight wolves indicated an east-to-west cline of Indian to Holarctic ancestry, consistent with a contact zone between these two lineages in Pakistan. The western boundary of the Tibetan lineage corresponded to the Ladakh region of India's Himalayas with a narrow zone of admixture spanning this boundary from the Karakoram Mountains of northern Pakistan into Ladakh, India. Our results highlight the conservation significance of Pakistan's wolf populations, especially the remaining populations in Sindh and Southern Punjab that represent the highly endangered Indian lineage.
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- Lauren M Hennelly
- Mammalian Ecology and Conservation Unit, Veterinary Genetics Laboratory, University of California, Davis, Davis, CA, United States
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- Institute of Zoology, University of the Punjab, Lahore, Pakistan
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- Department of Zoology, University of Education, Lahore, Pakistan
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- IUCN SCC Canid Specialist Group, Oxford, United Kingdom
- Wildlife Conservation Research Unit, Zoology, University of Oxford, Tubney, United Kingdom
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- Institute of Zoology, University of the Punjab, Lahore, Pakistan
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- Department of Zoology, Wildlife and Fisheries, PMAS Arid Agriculture University, Rawalpindi, Pakistan
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- Zoological Science Division, Pakistan Museum of Natural History, Islamabad, Pakistan
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- Agricultural Biotechnology Division, National Institute for Biotechnology and Genetic Engineering, Faisalabad, Pakistan
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- Department of Zoology, Wildlife and Fisheries, PMAS Arid Agriculture University, Rawalpindi, Pakistan
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- Central Karakoram National Park, Skardu, Pakistan
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- World Wildlife Fund, Pakistan, Islamabad, Pakistan
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- Department of Zoology, Wildlife and Fisheries, PMAS Arid Agriculture University, Rawalpindi, Pakistan
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- Mammalian Ecology and Conservation Unit, Veterinary Genetics Laboratory, University of California, Davis, Davis, CA, United States
- Department of Population Health and Reproduction, School of Veterinary Medicine, University of California, Davis, Davis, CA, United States
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Zhang M, Song Y, Wang C, Sun G, Zhuang L, Guo M, Ren L, Wangdue S, Dong G, Dai Q, Cao P, Yang R, Liu F, Feng X, Bennett EA, Zhang X, Chen X, Wang F, Luan F, Dong W, Lu G, Hao D, Hou H, Wang H, Qiao H, Wang Z, Hu X, He W, Xi L, Wang W, Shao J, Sun Z, Yue L, Ding Y, Tashi N, Tsho Y, Tong Y, Yang Y, Zhu S, Miao B, Wang W, Zhang L, Hu S, Ni X, Fu Q. Ancient Mitogenomes Reveal the Maternal Genetic History of East Asian Dogs. Mol Biol Evol 2024; 41:msae062. [PMID: 38507661 PMCID: PMC11003542 DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msae062] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/22/2023] [Revised: 02/27/2024] [Accepted: 03/11/2024] [Indexed: 03/22/2024] Open
Abstract
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 12.9 to 1 ka BP (1,000 years before present). The majority (112/119, 94.12%) belonged to haplogroup A, and half of these (55/112, 49.11%) belonged to sub-haplogroup A1b. Most existing mitochondrial haplogroups were present in ancient East Asian dogs. However, mitochondrial lineages in ancient northern dogs (northeastern Eurasia and northern East Asia) were deeper and older than those in southern East Asian dogs. Results suggests that East Asian dogs originated from northeastern Eurasian populations after the LGM, dispersing in two possible directions after domestication. Western Eurasian (Europe and the Middle East) dog maternal ancestries genetically influenced East Asian dogs from approximately 4 ka BP, dramatically increasing after 3 ka BP, and afterwards largely replaced most primary maternal lineages in northern East Asia. Additionally, at least three major mitogenome sub-haplogroups of haplogroup A (A1a, A1b, and A3) reveal at least two major dispersal waves onto the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau in ancient times, indicating eastern (A1b and A3) and western (A1a) Eurasian origins.
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- Ming Zhang
- China-Central Asia “the Belt and Road” Joint Laboratory on Human and Environment Research, Key Laboratory of Cultural Heritage Research and Conservation, School of Culture Heritage, Northwest University, Xi’an, China
- Key Laboratory of Vertebrate Evolution and Human Origins, Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Center for Excellence in Life and Paleoenvironment, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
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- School of Archaeology, Shandong University, Jinan, China
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- China-Central Asia “the Belt and Road” Joint Laboratory on Human and Environment Research, Key Laboratory of Cultural Heritage Research and Conservation, School of Culture Heritage, Northwest University, Xi’an, China
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- Zhejiang Provincial Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology, Hangzhou, China
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- School of History and Culture, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, China
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- Tibet Institute for Conservation and Research of Cultural Relics, Lhasa, China
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- Key Laboratory of Western China's Environmental Systems (Ministry of Education), College of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, China
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- Key Laboratory of Vertebrate Evolution and Human Origins, Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Center for Excellence in Life and Paleoenvironment, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
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- Key Laboratory of Vertebrate Evolution and Human Origins, Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Center for Excellence in Life and Paleoenvironment, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
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- Key Laboratory of Vertebrate Evolution and Human Origins, Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Center for Excellence in Life and Paleoenvironment, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
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- Key Laboratory of Vertebrate Evolution and Human Origins, Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Center for Excellence in Life and Paleoenvironment, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
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- Key Laboratory of Vertebrate Evolution and Human Origins, Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Center for Excellence in Life and Paleoenvironment, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
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- Key Laboratory of Vertebrate Evolution and Human Origins, Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Center for Excellence in Life and Paleoenvironment, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
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- Key Laboratory of Vertebrate Evolution and Human Origins, Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Center for Excellence in Life and Paleoenvironment, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
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- Department of Cultural Heritage and Museology, Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing, China
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- School of Archaeology, Shandong University, Jinan, China
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- School of Archaeology, Shandong University, Jinan, China
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- Shandong Provincial Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology, Jinan, China
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- School of Archaeology, Shandong University, Jinan, China
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- Shandong Provincial Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology, Jinan, China
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- Gansu Provincial Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology, Lanzhou, China
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- Gansu Provincial Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology, Lanzhou, China
- Fudan Archaeological Science Institute, Fudan University, Shanghai, China
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- Qinghai Provincial Cultural Relics and Archaeology Institute, Xining, China
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- Qinghai Provincial Cultural Relics and Archaeology Institute, Xining, China
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- Qinghai Provincial Cultural Relics and Archaeology Institute, Xining, China
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- Tibet Institute for Conservation and Research of Cultural Relics, Lhasa, China
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- Shaanxi Academy of Archaeology, Xi’an, China
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- School of Archaeology and Museology, Shanxi University, Taiyuan, China
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- Shaanxi Academy of Archaeology, Xi’an, China
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- Shaanxi Academy of Archaeology, Xi’an, China
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- Tibet Institute for Conservation and Research of Cultural Relics, Lhasa, China
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- Tibet Institute for Conservation and Research of Cultural Relics, Lhasa, China
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- Tibet Institute for Conservation and Research of Cultural Relics, Lhasa, China
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- School of Ecological and Environmental Sciences, East China Normal University, Shanghai, China
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- Key Laboratory of Vertebrate Evolution and Human Origins, Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Center for Excellence in Life and Paleoenvironment, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
- University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
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- Key Laboratory of Vertebrate Evolution and Human Origins, Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Center for Excellence in Life and Paleoenvironment, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
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- Key Laboratory of Vertebrate Evolution and Human Origins, Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Center for Excellence in Life and Paleoenvironment, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
- Science and Technology Archaeology, National Centre for Archaeology, Beijing, China
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- Key Laboratory of Vertebrate Evolution and Human Origins, Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Center for Excellence in Life and Paleoenvironment, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
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- Joint International Research Laboratory of Environmental and Social Archaeology, Shandong University, Qingdao, China
- Shaanxi Academy of Archaeology, Xi’an, China
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- Key Laboratory of Vertebrate Evolution and Human Origins, Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Center for Excellence in Life and Paleoenvironment, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
- University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
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- Key Laboratory of Vertebrate Evolution and Human Origins, Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Center for Excellence in Life and Paleoenvironment, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
- University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
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Lyu Q, Veldhuizen EJA, Ludwig IS, Rutten VPMG, van Eden W, Sijts AJAM, Broere F. Characterization of polarization states of canine monocyte derived macrophages. PLoS One 2023; 18:e0292757. [PMID: 37939066 PMCID: PMC10631683 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0292757] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/29/2023] [Accepted: 09/27/2023] [Indexed: 11/10/2023] Open
Abstract
Macrophages can reversibly polarize into multiple functional subsets depending on their micro-environment. Identification and understanding the functionality of these subsets is relevant for the study of immune‑related diseases. However, knowledge about canine macrophage polarization is still in its infancy. In this study, we polarized canine monocytes using GM-CSF/IFN- γ and LPS towards M1 macrophages or M-CSF and IL-4 towards M2 macrophages and compared them to undifferentiated monocytes (M0). Polarized M1 and M2 macrophages were thoroughly characterized for morphology, surface marker features, gene profiles and functional properties. Our results showed that canine M1-polarized macrophages obtained a characteristic large, roundish, or amoeboid shape, while M2-polarized macrophages were smaller and adopted an elongated spindle-like morphology. Phenotypically, all macrophage subsets expressed the pan-macrophage markers CD14 and CD11b. M1-polarized macrophages expressed increased levels of CD40, CD80 CD86 and MHC II, while a significant increase in the expression levels of CD206, CD209, and CD163 was observed in M2-polarized macrophages. RNAseq of the three macrophage subsets showed distinct gene expression profiles, which are closely associated with immune responsiveness, cell differentiation and phagocytosis. However, the complexity of the gene expression patterns makes it difficult to assign clear new polarization markers. Functionally, undifferentiated -monocytes, and M1- and M2- like subsets of canine macrophages can all phagocytose latex beads. M2-polarized macrophages exhibited the strongest phagocytic capacity compared to undifferentiated monocytes- and M1-polarized cells. Taken together, this study showed that canine M1 and M2-like macrophages have distinct features largely in parallel to those of well-studied species, such as human, mouse and pig. These findings enable future use of monocyte derived polarized macrophages particularly in studies of immune related diseases in dogs.
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- Qingkang Lyu
- Department Biomolecular Health Sciences, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands
- Immunology Center of Georgia, Augusta University, Augusta, GA, United States of America
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- Department Biomolecular Health Sciences, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands
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- Department Biomolecular Health Sciences, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands
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- Department Biomolecular Health Sciences, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands
- Department of Veterinary Tropical diseases, Faculty of Veterinary Science, Pretoria University, Pretoria, South Africa
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- Department Biomolecular Health Sciences, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands
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- Department Biomolecular Health Sciences, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands
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- Department Biomolecular Health Sciences, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands
- Department of Clinical Sciences of Companion Animals, Faculty Veterinary Medicine, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands
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Kowal K, Tkaczyk-Wlizło A, Jusiak M, Grzybowska-Szatkowska L, Ślaska B. Canis MitoSNP database: a functional tool useful for comparative analyses of human and canine mitochondrial genomes. J Appl Genet 2023; 64:515-520. [PMID: 37351774 PMCID: PMC10457218 DOI: 10.1007/s13353-023-00764-w] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/29/2023] [Revised: 04/21/2023] [Accepted: 04/22/2023] [Indexed: 06/24/2023]
Abstract
Canis MitoSNP is a tool allowing assignment of each mitochondrial genomic position a corresponding position in the mitochondrial gene and in the structure of tRNA, rRNA, and protein. The main aim of this bioinformatic tool was to use data from other bioinformatic tools (TMHMM, SOPMA, tRNA-SCAN, RNAfold, ConSurf) for dog and human mitochondrial genes in order to shorten the time necessary for the analysis of the whole genome single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) as well as amino acid and protein analyses. Each position in the canine mitochondrial genome is assigned a position in genes, in codons, an amino acid position in proteins, or a position in tRNA or rRNA molecules. Therefore, a user analysing changes in the canine and human mitochondrial genome does not need to extract the sequences of individual genes from the mitochondrial genome for analysis and there is no need to rewrite them into amino acid sequences to assess whether the change is synonymous or nonsynonymous. Canis mitoSNP allows the comparison between the human and canine mitochondrial genomes as well. The Clustal W alignment of the dog and human mitochondrial DNA reference sequences for each gene obtained from GenBank (NC_002008.4 dog, NC_012920.1 human) was performed in order to determine which position in the canine mitochondrial genome corresponds to the position in the human mitochondrial genome. This function may be useful for the comparative analyses. The tool is available at: https://canismitosnp.pl .
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- Krzysztof Kowal
- Institute of Biological Bases of Animal Production, University of Life Sciences in Lublin, Akademicka 13 St., 20-950, Lublin, Poland
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- Institute of Biological Bases of Animal Production, University of Life Sciences in Lublin, Akademicka 13 St., 20-950, Lublin, Poland
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- Institute of Biological Bases of Animal Production, University of Life Sciences in Lublin, Akademicka 13 St., 20-950, Lublin, Poland
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- Institute of Biological Bases of Animal Production, University of Life Sciences in Lublin, Akademicka 13 St., 20-950, Lublin, Poland.
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Tamarindo GH, Novais AA, Chuffa LGA, Zuccari DAPC. Metabolic Alterations in Canine Mammary Tumors. Animals (Basel) 2023; 13:2757. [PMID: 37685021 PMCID: PMC10487042 DOI: 10.3390/ani13172757] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/14/2023] [Revised: 08/16/2023] [Accepted: 08/25/2023] [Indexed: 09/10/2023] Open
Abstract
Canine mammary tumors (CMTs) are among the most common diseases in female dogs and share similarities with human breast cancer, which makes these animals a model for comparative oncology studies. In these tumors, metabolic reprogramming is known as a hallmark of carcinogenesis whereby cells undergo adjustments to meet the high bioenergetic and biosynthetic demands of rapidly proliferating cells. However, such alterations are also vulnerabilities that may serve as a therapeutic strategy, which has mostly been tested in human clinical trials but is poorly explored in CMTs. In this dedicated review, we compiled the metabolic changes described for CMTs, emphasizing the metabolism of carbohydrates, amino acids, lipids, and mitochondrial functions. We observed key factors associated with the presence and aggressiveness of CMTs, such as an increase in glucose uptake followed by enhanced anaerobic glycolysis via the upregulation of glycolytic enzymes, changes in glutamine catabolism due to the overexpression of glutaminases, increased fatty acid oxidation, and distinct effects depending on lipid saturation, in addition to mitochondrial DNA, which is a hotspot for mutations. Therefore, more attention should be paid to this topic given that targeting metabolic fragilities could improve the outcome of CMTs.
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- Guilherme Henrique Tamarindo
- Department of Molecular Biology, São José do Rio Preto Faculty of Medicine, São José do Rio Preto 15090-000, SP, Brazil
- Brazilian Biosciences National Laboratory, Brazilian Center for Research in Energy and Materials (CNPEM), Campinas 13083-970, SP, Brazil
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- Health Sciences Institute (ICS), Mato Grosso Federal University (UFMT), Sinop 78550-728, MT, Brazil
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- Department of Structural and Functional Biology, Institute of Biosciences, São Paulo State University (UNESP), Botucatu 18618-689, SP, Brazil
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Meadows JRS, Kidd JM, Wang GD, Parker HG, Schall PZ, Bianchi M, Christmas MJ, Bougiouri K, Buckley RM, Hitte C, Nguyen AK, Wang C, Jagannathan V, Niskanen JE, Frantz LAF, Arumilli M, Hundi S, Lindblad-Toh K, Ginja C, Agustina KK, André C, Boyko AR, Davis BW, Drögemüller M, Feng XY, Gkagkavouzis K, Iliopoulos G, Harris AC, Hytönen MK, Kalthoff DC, Liu YH, Lymberakis P, Poulakakis N, Pires AE, Racimo F, Ramos-Almodovar F, Savolainen P, Venetsani S, Tammen I, Triantafyllidis A, vonHoldt B, Wayne RK, Larson G, Nicholas FW, Lohi H, Leeb T, Zhang YP, Ostrander EA. Genome sequencing of 2000 canids by the Dog10K consortium advances the understanding of demography, genome function and architecture. Genome Biol 2023; 24:187. [PMID: 37582787 PMCID: PMC10426128 DOI: 10.1186/s13059-023-03023-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/23/2022] [Accepted: 07/25/2023] [Indexed: 08/17/2023] Open
Abstract
BACKGROUND The international Dog10K project aims to sequence and analyze several thousand canine genomes. Incorporating 20 × data from 1987 individuals, including 1611 dogs (321 breeds), 309 village dogs, 63 wolves, and four coyotes, we identify genomic variation across the canid family, setting the stage for detailed studies of domestication, behavior, morphology, disease susceptibility, and genome architecture and function. RESULTS We report the analysis of > 48 M single-nucleotide, indel, and structural variants spanning the autosomes, X chromosome, and mitochondria. We discover more than 75% of variation for 239 sampled breeds. Allele sharing analysis indicates that 94.9% of breeds form monophyletic clusters and 25 major clades. German Shepherd Dogs and related breeds show the highest allele sharing with independent breeds from multiple clades. On average, each breed dog differs from the UU_Cfam_GSD_1.0 reference at 26,960 deletions and 14,034 insertions greater than 50 bp, with wolves having 14% more variants. Discovered variants include retrogene insertions from 926 parent genes. To aid functional prioritization, single-nucleotide variants were annotated with SnpEff and Zoonomia phyloP constraint scores. Constrained positions were negatively correlated with allele frequency. Finally, the utility of the Dog10K data as an imputation reference panel is assessed, generating high-confidence calls across varied genotyping platform densities including for breeds not included in the Dog10K collection. CONCLUSIONS We have developed a dense dataset of 1987 sequenced canids that reveals patterns of allele sharing, identifies likely functional variants, informs breed structure, and enables accurate imputation. Dog10K data are publicly available.
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- Jennifer R S Meadows
- Science for Life Laboratory, Department of Medical Biochemistry and Microbiology, Uppsala University, 75132, Uppsala, Sweden.
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- Department of Human Genetics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, 48107, USA.
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- State Key Laboratory of Genetic Resources and Evolution, Kunming Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, 650223, China
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- National Human Genome Research Institute, National Institutes of Health, 50 South Drive, Building 50 Room 5351, Bethesda, MD, 20892, USA
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- Department of Human Genetics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, 48107, USA
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- Science for Life Laboratory, Department of Medical Biochemistry and Microbiology, Uppsala University, 75132, Uppsala, Sweden
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- Science for Life Laboratory, Department of Medical Biochemistry and Microbiology, Uppsala University, 75132, Uppsala, Sweden
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- Section for Molecular Ecology and Evolution, Globe Institute, University of Copenhagen, Øster Voldgade 5-7, 1350, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- National Human Genome Research Institute, National Institutes of Health, 50 South Drive, Building 50 Room 5351, Bethesda, MD, 20892, USA
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- University of Rennes, CNRS, Institute Genetics and Development Rennes - UMR6290, 35000, Rennes, France
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- Department of Human Genetics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, 48107, USA
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- Science for Life Laboratory, Department of Medical Biochemistry and Microbiology, Uppsala University, 75132, Uppsala, Sweden
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- Institute of Genetics, Vetsuisse Faculty, University of Bern, 3001, Bern, Switzerland
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- Department of Medical and Clinical Genetics, Department of Veterinary Biosciences, University of Helsinki and Folkhälsan Research Center, 02900, Helsinki, Finland
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- School of Biological and Behavioural Sciences, Queen Mary University of London, London E14NS, UK and Palaeogenomics Group, Department of Veterinary Sciences, Ludwig Maximilian University, D-80539, Munich, Germany
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- Department of Medical and Clinical Genetics, Department of Veterinary Biosciences, University of Helsinki and Folkhälsan Research Center, 02900, Helsinki, Finland
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- Department of Medical and Clinical Genetics, Department of Veterinary Biosciences, University of Helsinki and Folkhälsan Research Center, 02900, Helsinki, Finland
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- Science for Life Laboratory, Department of Medical Biochemistry and Microbiology, Uppsala University, 75132, Uppsala, Sweden
- Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, 02142, USA
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- BIOPOLIS-CIBIO-InBIO-Centro de Investigação Em Biodiversidade E Recursos Genéticos - ArchGen Group, Universidade Do Porto, 4485-661, Vairão, Portugal
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- University of Rennes, CNRS, Institute Genetics and Development Rennes - UMR6290, 35000, Rennes, France
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- Department of Biomedical Sciences, Cornell University, 930 Campus Road, Ithaca, NY, 14853, USA
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- Department of Veterinary Integrative Biosciences, School of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, 77843, USA
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- Institute of Genetics, Vetsuisse Faculty, University of Bern, 3001, Bern, Switzerland
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- State Key Laboratory of Genetic Resources and Evolution, Kunming Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, 650223, China
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- Department of Genetics, School of Biology, ), Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Macedonia 54124, Greece and Genomics and Epigenomics Translational Research (GENeTres), Center for Interdisciplinary Research and Innovation (CIRI-AUTH, Balkan Center, Thessaloniki, Greece
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- NGO "Callisto", Wildlife and Nature Conservation Society, 54621, Thessaloniki, Greece
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- National Human Genome Research Institute, National Institutes of Health, 50 South Drive, Building 50 Room 5351, Bethesda, MD, 20892, USA
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- Department of Medical and Clinical Genetics, Department of Veterinary Biosciences, University of Helsinki and Folkhälsan Research Center, 02900, Helsinki, Finland
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- NGO "Callisto", Wildlife and Nature Conservation Society, 54621, Thessaloniki, Greece
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- State Key Laboratory of Genetic Resources and Evolution, Kunming Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, 650223, China
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- Natural History Museum of Crete & Department of Biology, University of Crete, 71202, Irakleio, Greece
- Biology Department, School of Sciences and Engineering, University of Crete, Heraklion, Greece
- Palaeogenomics and Evolutionary Genetics Lab, Institute of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology (IMBB), Foundation for Research and Technology - Hellas (FORTH), Heraklion, Greece
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- Natural History Museum of Crete & Department of Biology, University of Crete, 71202, Irakleio, Greece
- Biology Department, School of Sciences and Engineering, University of Crete, Heraklion, Greece
- Palaeogenomics and Evolutionary Genetics Lab, Institute of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology (IMBB), Foundation for Research and Technology - Hellas (FORTH), Heraklion, Greece
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- BIOPOLIS-CIBIO-InBIO-Centro de Investigação Em Biodiversidade E Recursos Genéticos - ArchGen Group, Universidade Do Porto, 4485-661, Vairão, Portugal
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- Section for Molecular Ecology and Evolution, Globe Institute, University of Copenhagen, Øster Voldgade 5-7, 1350, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Department of Gene Technology, Science for Life Laboratory, KTH - Royal Institute of Technology, 17121, Solna, Sweden
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- Department of Genetics, School of Biology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, 54124, Thessaloniki, Macedonia, Greece
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- Sydney School of Veterinary Science, The University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, 2570, Australia
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- Department of Genetics, School of Biology, ), Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Macedonia 54124, Greece and Genomics and Epigenomics Translational Research (GENeTres), Center for Interdisciplinary Research and Innovation (CIRI-AUTH, Balkan Center, Thessaloniki, Greece
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, 08544, USA
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, 90095-7246, USA
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- Palaeogenomics and Bio-Archaeology Research Network, School of Archaeology, University of Oxford, Oxford, OX1 3TG, UK
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- Sydney School of Veterinary Science, The University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, 2570, Australia
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- Department of Medical and Clinical Genetics, Department of Veterinary Biosciences, University of Helsinki and Folkhälsan Research Center, 02900, Helsinki, Finland
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- Institute of Genetics, Vetsuisse Faculty, University of Bern, 3001, Bern, Switzerland
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- State Key Laboratory of Genetic Resources and Evolution, Kunming Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, 650223, China
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- National Human Genome Research Institute, National Institutes of Health, 50 South Drive, Building 50 Room 5351, Bethesda, MD, 20892, USA.
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Thai QK, Nguyen TC, Le CT, Chung AD, Nguyen TML, Tran QD, Savolainen P, Quan QD, Tran DL, Tran HD. HV1 mtDNA Reveals the High Genetic Diversity and the Ancient Origin of Vietnamese Dogs. Animals (Basel) 2023; 13:ani13061036. [PMID: 36978577 PMCID: PMC10044065 DOI: 10.3390/ani13061036] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/14/2023] [Revised: 02/27/2023] [Accepted: 03/01/2023] [Indexed: 03/14/2023] Open
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In this study, samples from 429 dog individuals across three main regions of Vietnam (Southern Vietnam (SVN), Central Vietnam (CVN), and Northern Vietnam (NVN)) were collected to analyze the 582 bp region mtDNA HVI, so as to study the genetic diversity and to screen the rare haplotype E in the Vietnamese village dog population. Nine new haplotypes A, two new haplotypes B, and three haplotypes C were unique to Vietnam dogs, in which the new haplotypes An3, An7, Cn1, and Cn3 concerned mutations at new polymorphism sites (15,517, 15,505, 15,479, and 15,933, respectively) which have not been previously reported. The detection of haplotypes A9 and A29, and the appearance of haplotype A200 in the two individual dogs sampled support that the Southeast Asian dog is the ancestor of today’s Australian dingo and Polynesian dog. The two rare haplotypes E (E1 and E4) were reconfirmed in Vietnamese dogs and discussed. This study also contributes to strengthening the theory of domestication of dogs to the south of the Yangtze River and the Southeast Asian origin of the dingo.
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- Quan Ke Thai
- Faculty of Natural science Education, Saigon University, 273 An Duong Vuong, Ward 3, District 5, Ho Chi Minh City 72710, Vietnam
- Correspondence: (Q.K.T.); (H.-D.T.); Tel.: +84-918-297-640 (Q.K.T.); +84-772-999-537 (H-D.T.)
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- Faculty of Biotechnology, Nguyen-Tat-Thanh University, 298A-300A Nguyen-Tat-Thanh Street, District 04, Ho Chi Minh City 72820, Vietnam
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- Soc Trang Vocational College, 176 Nam Ky Khoi Nghia Street, Ward 7, Soc Trang City 96114, Vietnam
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- Biotechnology Division, Institute of Agricultural Sciences for Southern Viet Nam, 121 Nguyen Binh Khiem Street, Da Kao Ward, 1st District, Ho Chi Minh City 710302, Vietnam
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- Faculty of Business Administration, TU Bergakademie Freiberg, Akademiestraße 6, 09599 Freiberg, Germany
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- Faculty of Biology, University of Education, Hue University, 34 Le 5Loi Street, Hue City 49118, Vietnam
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- Science for Life Laboratory, School of Biotechnology, Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), 171 65 Solna, Sweden
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- Agency for Southern Affairs of Ministry of Science and Technology, 31 Han Thuyen Street, Ben Nghe Ward, District 1, Ho Chi Minh City 70055, Vietnam
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- Department of Supervisor Inspector, Van Lang University, Nguyen Khac Nhu Street, Co Giang Ward, Distric 1, Ho Chi Minh City 700000, Vietnam
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- Faculty of Biology and Environment, Ho Chi Minh City University of Food Industry, 140 Le Trong Tan Street, Tay Thanh Ward, Tan Phu District, Ho Chi Minh City 72009, Vietnam
- Institute of Applied Research and Technology Transfer HUFI, Ho Chi Minh City University of Food Industry, 140 Le Trong Tan Street, Tay Thanh Ward, Tan Phu District, Ho Chi Minh City 72009, Vietnam
- Correspondence: (Q.K.T.); (H.-D.T.); Tel.: +84-918-297-640 (Q.K.T.); +84-772-999-537 (H-D.T.)
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Sosale MS, Songsasen N, İbiş O, Edwards CW, Figueiró HV, Koepfli KP. The complete mitochondrial genome and phylogenetic characterization of two putative subspecies of golden jackal (Canis aureus cruesemanni and Canis aureus moreotica). Gene 2023; 866:147303. [PMID: 36854348 DOI: 10.1016/j.gene.2023.147303] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/15/2022] [Revised: 02/07/2023] [Accepted: 02/17/2023] [Indexed: 02/27/2023]
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The golden jackal (Canis aureus) is a canid species found across southern Eurasia. Several subspecies of this animal have been genetically studied in regions such as Europe, the Middle East, and India. However, one subspecies that lacks current research is the Indochinese jackal (Canis aureus cruesemanni), which is primarily found in Southeast Asia. Using a genome skimming approach, we assembled the first complete mitochondrial genome for an Indochinese jackal from Thailand. To expand the number of available Canis aureus mitogenomes, we also assembled and sequenced the first complete mitochondrial genome of a golden jackal from Turkey, representing the C. a. moreotica subspecies. The mitogenomes contained 37 annotated genes and are 16,729 bps (C. a. cruesemanni) and 16,669 bps (C. a. moreotica) in length. Phylogenetic analysis with 26 additional canid mitogenomes and analyses of a cytochrome b gene-only data set together support the Indochinese jackal as a distinct and early-branching lineage among golden jackals, thereby supporting its recognition as a possible subspecies. These analyses also demonstrate that the golden jackal from Turkey is likely not a distinct lineage due to close genetic relationships with golden jackals from India and Israel.
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- Medhini S Sosale
- Department of Bioengineering, Volgenau School of Engineering, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, USA; Smithsonian-Mason School of Conservation, George Mason University, Front Royal, VA, USA.
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- Center for Species Survival, Smithsonian's National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute, Front Royal, VA, USA
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- Department of Agricultural Biotechnology, Faculty of Agriculture, Erciyes University, Kayseri, Turkey; Genome and Stem Cell Center (GENKOK), Erciyes University, Kayseri, Turkey; Vectors and Vector-Borne Diseases Implementation and Research Center, Erciyes University, Kayseri, Turkey
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- Smithsonian-Mason School of Conservation, George Mason University, Front Royal, VA, USA; Department of Biology, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, USA
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- Smithsonian-Mason School of Conservation, George Mason University, Front Royal, VA, USA
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- Smithsonian-Mason School of Conservation, George Mason University, Front Royal, VA, USA; Center for Species Survival, Smithsonian's National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute, Front Royal, VA, USA.
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Comparison and Phylogenetic Analysis of Mitochondrial Genomes of Talpidae Animals. Animals (Basel) 2023; 13:ani13020186. [PMID: 36670726 PMCID: PMC9854984 DOI: 10.3390/ani13020186] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/11/2022] [Revised: 12/30/2022] [Accepted: 12/31/2022] [Indexed: 01/06/2023] Open
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Talpidae is a model group for evolutionary studies due to their highly specialized morphologies and diverse lifestyles. Mitochondrial genomes are molecular markers commonly used in species evolution and phylogenetic studies. In this study, the complete mitochondrial genome sequence of Scaptochirus moschatus was obtained by Illumina NovaSeq sequencing. The complete mitochondrial genomes of 14 Talpidae species (including Scaptochirus moschatus obtained in the present study) and the cytochrome b (Cyt b) gene sequences of 48 Talpidae species were downloaded from the NCBI database for comparison and phylogenetic studies to analyze the phylogenetic relationships and to find the possible reasons of the niche differentiation and ecotype specialization of Talpidae animals. The results showed that the mitochondrial genome sequences of 14 species belonging to the family Talpidae were 16,528 to 16,962 bp, all containing 13 protein-coding genes, 22 tRNA, two rRNA, and a non-coding region (control region). The difference in the number of repetitive repeats in the control region is responsible for the difference in the length of Talpidae mitochondrial genome sequences. Combining the divergence time of Talpidae animals with the geological history, it is found that the niche differentiation and ecotype divergence of Talpidae is closely related to historically global climate changes. Semi-aquatic groups diverged in the early Oligocene (about 31.22 MYA), probably in response to the global climate transition from warm to cool. During the early Miocene (about 19.54 MYA), some species of Talpidae moved to underground habitats and formed fossorial groups that were adept at digging due to the effects of the glaciation. In the middle Miocene (about 16.23 MYA), some Talpidae animals returned to the ground and formed semi-fossorial shrew moles as global climate warming again.
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Camacho MA, Cadar D, Horváth B, Merino-Viteri A, Murienne J. Revised phylogeny from complete mitochondrial genomes of phyllostomid bats resolves subfamilial classification. Zool J Linn Soc 2022. [DOI: 10.1093/zoolinnean/zlac055] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022]
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Classically, molecular phylogenetic trees of Phyllostomidae have been inferred using a combination of a few mitochondrial and nuclear markers. However, there is still uncertainty in the relationships, especially among deep clades within the family. In this study, we provide newly sequenced complete mitochondrial genomes from 26 bat species, including genomes of 23 species reported here for the first time. By carefully analysing these genomes using maximum likelihood and Bayesian methods and different ingroup and outgroup samples, partition schemes and data types, we investigated the robustness and sensitivity of our phylogenetic results. The optimal topologies were those inferred from the complete data matrix of nucleotides, with complex and highly parameterized substitution models and partition schemes. Our results show a statistically robust picture of the evolutionary relationships between phyllostomid subfamilies and clarify hitherto uncertain relationships of Lonchorhininae and Macrotinae.
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- M Alejandra Camacho
- Museo de Zoología (QCAZ), Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador , Quito, Pichincha , Ecuador
- Laboratoire Evolution et Diversité Biologique (UMR5174), CNRS, IRD, Université Paul Sabatier , Toulouse , France
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- WHO Collaborating Centre for Arbovirus and Haemorrhagic Fever Reference and Research, BernhardNocht Institute for Tropical Medicine , Hamburg , Germany
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- WHO Collaborating Centre for Arbovirus and Haemorrhagic Fever Reference and Research, BernhardNocht Institute for Tropical Medicine , Hamburg , Germany
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- Museo de Zoología (QCAZ), Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador , Quito, Pichincha , Ecuador
- Laboratorio de Ecofisiología, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Pontificia Universidad Católicadel Ecuador , Quito, Pichincha , Ecuador
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- Laboratoire Evolution et Diversité Biologique (UMR5174), CNRS, IRD, Université Paul Sabatier , Toulouse , France
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Evaluation of the tRNA-Leu (UUR) gene haplotype profile observed in canine mammary gland tumours based on comparative analysis with the MT-TL1 human gene. ANNALS OF ANIMAL SCIENCE 2022. [DOI: 10.2478/aoas-2022-0009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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The aetiology and pathogenesis of many canine tumours are likely to be similar to cancers found in humans. This study aimed to evaluate a plausible link between changes in the tRNA-Leu (UUR) gene and the carcinogenesis process in dogs with mammary gland tumours. The whole mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) isolated from blood and tumour tissues of 13 dogs with malignant mammary gland tumours was sequenced. The present work is the first report showing that some polymorphisms might occur at the corresponding positions in the human and canine mtDNA genome, which in turn may provoke similar deleterious effects. The homology between the human MT-TL1 and canine tRNA-Leu (UUR) genes was 84%. After resequencing of the whole mitochondrial DNA genome with the use of the NGS technology, two polymorphisms in two haplotypes were identified: m.2683G>A (observed in 18 out of 27 samples) and m.2678_2679insG (27 out of 27 samples). The m.2683G>A polymorphism corresponded to a deleterious change at m.3243A>G, which is linked with MELAS (Mitochondrial Encephalomyopathy, Lactic Acidosis, Stroke-like episodes) syndrome and with different types of cancers in humans as well. The comparative analysis of MT-TL1 and tRNA-Leu (UUR) led us to hypothesise that the m.2678_2679insG and m.2683G>A polymorphisms might influence the dog’s condition and might be linked with tumourigenesis, as observed in humans.
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Mitochondrial DNA alterations in the domestic dog (Canis lupus familiaris) and their association with development of diseases: a review. Mitochondrion 2022; 63:72-84. [DOI: 10.1016/j.mito.2022.02.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/25/2021] [Revised: 01/26/2022] [Accepted: 02/02/2022] [Indexed: 12/06/2022]
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Skorupski J. Characterisation of the Complete Mitochondrial Genome of Critically Endangered Mustela lutreola (Carnivora: Mustelidae) and Its Phylogenetic and Conservation Implications. Genes (Basel) 2022; 13:genes13010125. [PMID: 35052465 PMCID: PMC8774856 DOI: 10.3390/genes13010125] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/03/2021] [Revised: 12/28/2021] [Accepted: 01/06/2022] [Indexed: 02/07/2023] Open
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In this paper, a complete mitochondrial genome of the critically endangered European mink Mustela lutreola L., 1761 is reported. The mitogenome was 16,504 bp in length and encoded the typical 13 protein-coding genes, two ribosomal RNA genes and 22 transfer RNA genes, and harboured a putative control region. The A+T content of the entire genome was 60.06% (A > T > C > G), and the AT-skew and GC-skew were 0.093 and −0.308, respectively. The encoding-strand identity of genes and their order were consistent with a collinear gene order characteristic for vertebrate mitogenomes. The start codons of all protein-coding genes were the typical ATN. In eight cases, they were ended by complete stop codons, while five had incomplete termination codons (TA or T). All tRNAs had a typical cloverleaf secondary structure, except tRNASer(AGC) and tRNALys, which lacked the DHU stem and had reduced DHU loop, respectively. Both rRNAs were capable of folding into complex secondary structures, containing unmatched base pairs. Eighty-one single nucleotide variants (substitutions and indels) were identified. Comparative interspecies analyses confirmed the close phylogenetic relationship of the European mink to the so-called ferret group, clustering the European polecat, the steppe polecat and the black-footed ferret. The obtained results are expected to provide useful molecular data, informing and supporting effective conservation measures to save M. lutreola.
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- Jakub Skorupski
- Institute of Marine and Environmental Sciences, University of Szczecin, Adama Mickiewicza 16 St., 70-383 Szczecin, Poland; ; Tel.: +48-91-444-16-85
- Polish Society for Conservation Genetics LUTREOLA, Maciejkowa 21 St., 71-784 Szczecin, Poland
- The European Mink Centre, 71-415 Szczecin, Poland
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Kowal K, Tkaczyk-Wlizło A, Pierzchała M, Gawor J, Ślaska B. Molecular differences in mitochondrial DNA genomes of dogs with malignant mammary tumours. Vet Comp Oncol 2021; 20:256-264. [PMID: 34554638 DOI: 10.1111/vco.12772] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/31/2021] [Revised: 07/01/2021] [Accepted: 09/20/2021] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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The aim of this study was to determine molecular defects in mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) with the use of large-scale genome analysis in malignant canine mammary gland tumours and indicate whether these changes were linked with the carcinogenesis process. With the use of the NGS technology, we sequenced 27 samples of mtDNA isolated from blood and tumours obtained from 13 dogs with mammary gland tumours. The total number of mutations and polymorphisms in the analysed mitochondrial genomes was 557. We identified 383 single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNP), 32 indels (or length polymorphisms), 4 mutations, 137 heteroplasmic positions and 1 indel mutation. The highest variability (132 changes) was observed in the variable number of tandem repeats (VNTR) region. The heteroplasmy rate in VNTR varied among individuals and even between two tumours in one organism. Our previous study resulted in determination of a probable CpG island in this region, thus it is not excluded that these changes might alter mtDNA methylation. Only the ATP8 gene was not affected by any polymorphisms or mutations, whereas the COX1 gene had the highest number of polymorphisms from all protein-coding genes. One change m.13594G>A was detected in a region spanning two genes: ND5 and ND6, from which a deleterious effect was observed for the ND5 protein. Molecular changes were frequently observed in the TΨC loop, which is thought to interact with ribosomal RNA.
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- Krzysztof Kowal
- Institute of Biological Bases of Animal Production, University of Life Sciences in Lublin, Lublin, Poland
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- Institute of Biological Bases of Animal Production, University of Life Sciences in Lublin, Lublin, Poland
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- Department of Genomics and Biodiversity, Institute of Genetics and Animal Biotechnology, Polish Academy of Sciences, Jastrzębiec, Poland
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- DNA Sequencing and Synthesis Facility, Institute of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland
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- Institute of Biological Bases of Animal Production, University of Life Sciences in Lublin, Lublin, Poland
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Zhang M, Sun G, Ren L, Yuan H, Dong G, Zhang L, Liu F, Cao P, Ko AMS, Yang MA, Hu S, Wang GD, Fu Q. Ancient DNA Evidence from China Reveals the Expansion of Pacific Dogs. Mol Biol Evol 2021; 37:1462-1469. [PMID: 31913480 DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msz311] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/14/2022] Open
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The ancestral homeland of Australian dingoes and Pacific dogs is proposed to be in South China. However, the location and timing of their dispersal and relationship to dog domestication is unclear. Here, we sequenced 7,000- to 2,000-year-old complete mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) genomes of 27 ancient canids (one gray wolf and 26 domestic dogs) from the Yellow River and Yangtze River basins (YYRB). These are the first complete ancient mtDNA of Chinese dogs from the cradle of early Chinese civilization. We found that most ancient dogs (18/26) belong to the haplogroup A1b lineage that is found in high frequency in present-day Australian dingoes and precolonial Pacific Island dogs but low frequency in present-day China. Particularly, a 7,000-year-old dog from the Tianluoshan site in Zhejiang province possesses a haplotype basal to the entire haplogroup A1b lineage. We propose that A1b lineage dogs were once widely distributed in the YYRB area. Following their dispersal to South China, and then into Southeast Asia, New Guinea and remote Oceania, they were largely replaced by dogs belonging to other lineages in the last 2,000 years in present-day China, especially North China.
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- Ming Zhang
- Key Laboratory of Vertebrate Evolution and Human Origins, Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China.,CAS Center for Excellence in Life and Paleoenvironment, Beijing, China.,University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
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- Zhejiang Provincial Institute of Relics and Archaeology, Hangzhou, China
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- School of History and Culture, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, China
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- National Demonstration Center for Experimental Archaeology Education, Department of Archaeology, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China
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- Key Laboratory of Western China's Environmental Systems (Ministry of Education), College of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, China
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- Key Laboratory of Vertebrate Evolution and Human Origins, Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
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- Key Laboratory of Vertebrate Evolution and Human Origins, Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
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- Key Laboratory of Vertebrate Evolution and Human Origins, Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
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- Key Laboratory of Vertebrate Evolution and Human Origins, Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
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- Department of Biology, University of Richmond, Richmond, VA
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- Shaanxi Academy of Archaeology, Xi'an, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Genetic Resources and Evolution, Kunming Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, China.,Center for Excellence in Animal Evolution and Genetics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, China
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- Key Laboratory of Vertebrate Evolution and Human Origins, Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China.,CAS Center for Excellence in Life and Paleoenvironment, Beijing, China.,University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
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Player RA, Forsyth ER, Verratti KJ, Mohr DW, Scott AF, Bradburne CE. A novel canis lupus familiaris reference genome improves variant resolution for use in breed-specific GWAS. Life Sci Alliance 2021; 4:4/4/e202000902. [PMID: 33514656 PMCID: PMC7898556 DOI: 10.26508/lsa.202000902] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/03/2020] [Revised: 01/07/2021] [Accepted: 01/13/2021] [Indexed: 11/24/2022] Open
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Reference genome fidelity is critically important for genome wide association studies, yet most vary widely from the study population. A typical whole genome sequencing approach implies short-read technologies resulting in fragmented assemblies with regions of ambiguity. Further information is lost by economic necessity when genotyping populations, as lower resolution technologies such as genotyping arrays are commonly used. Here, we present a phased reference genome for Canis lupus familiaris using high molecular weight DNA-sequencing technologies. We tested wet laboratory and bioinformatic approaches to demonstrate a minimum workflow to generate the 2.4 gigabase genome for a Labrador Retriever. The de novo assembly required eight Oxford Nanopore R9.4 flowcells (∼23X depth) and running a 10X Genomics library on the equivalent of one lane of an Illumina NovaSeq S1 flowcell (∼88X depth), bringing the cost of generating a nearly complete reference genome to less than $10K (USD). Mapping of short-read data from 10 Labrador Retrievers against this reference resulted in 1% more aligned reads versus the current reference (CanFam3.1, P < 0.001), and a 15% reduction of variant calls, increasing the chance of identifying true, low-effect size variants in a genome-wide association studies. We believe that by incorporating the cost to produce a full genome assembly into any large-scale genotyping project, an investigator can improve study power, decrease costs, and optimize the overall scientific value of their study.
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- Robert A Player
- Asymmetric Operations Sector, The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, MD, USA
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- Asymmetric Operations Sector, The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, MD, USA
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- Asymmetric Operations Sector, The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, MD, USA
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- McKusick-Nathans Department of Genetic Medicine, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
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- McKusick-Nathans Department of Genetic Medicine, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
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- Asymmetric Operations Sector, The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, MD, USA .,McKusick-Nathans Department of Genetic Medicine, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
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Anza-Burgess K, Lepofsky D, Yang D. “A Part of the People”: Human-Dog Relationships Among the Northern Coast Salish of SW British Columbia. J ETHNOBIOL 2020. [DOI: 10.2993/0278-0771-40.4.434] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/03/2022]
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- Kasia Anza-Burgess
- Department of Physical Therapy, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC. V6T 1Z3 Canada
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- Department of Archaeology, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC, Canada
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- Department of Archaeology, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC, Canada
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Koupadi K, Fontani F, Ciucani MM, Maini E, De Fanti S, Cattani M, Curci A, Nenzioni G, Reggiani P, Andrews AJ, Sarno S, Bini C, Pelotti S, Caniglia R, Luiselli D, Cilli E. Population Dynamics in Italian Canids between the Late Pleistocene and Bronze Age. Genes (Basel) 2020; 11:genes11121409. [PMID: 33256122 PMCID: PMC7761486 DOI: 10.3390/genes11121409] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/30/2020] [Revised: 11/21/2020] [Accepted: 11/23/2020] [Indexed: 12/20/2022] Open
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Dog domestication is still largely unresolved due to time-gaps in the sampling of regions. Ancient Italian canids are particularly understudied, currently represented by only a few specimens. In the present study, we sampled 27 canid remains from Northern Italy dated between the Late Pleistocene and Bronze Age to assess their genetic variability, and thus add context to dog domestication dynamics. They were targeted at four DNA fragments of the hypervariable region 1 of mitochondrial DNA. A total of 11 samples had good DNA preservation and were used for phylogenetic analyses. The dog samples were assigned to dog haplogroups A, C and D, and a Late Pleistocene wolf was set into wolf haplogroup 2. We present our data in the landscape of ancient and modern dog genetic variability, with a particular focus on the ancient Italian samples published thus far. Our results suggest there is high genetic variability within ancient Italian canids, where close relationships were evident between both a ~24,700 years old Italian canid, and Iberian and Bulgarian ancient dogs. These findings emphasize that disentangling dog domestication dynamics benefits from the analysis of specimens from Southern European regions.
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- Kyriaki Koupadi
- Hellenic Ministry of Culture and Sports, Ephorate of Antiquities of the City of Athens, Makriyianni 2-4, 11742 Athens, Greece;
- Department of Cultural Heritage, University of Bologna, Via Degli Ariani 1, 48121 Ravenna, Italy; (F.F.); (A.J.A.); (D.L.)
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- Department of Cultural Heritage, University of Bologna, Via Degli Ariani 1, 48121 Ravenna, Italy; (F.F.); (A.J.A.); (D.L.)
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- Section for Evolutionary Genomics, the GLOBE Institute, University of Copenhagen, Oester Voldgade 5-7, 1350 Copenhagen, Denmark;
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- ArcheoLaBio—Research Centre for Bioarchaeology, Department of History and Cultures, University of Bologna, Via San Vitale 30, 48121 Ravenna, Italy; (E.M.); (A.C.)
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- Department of Biological Geological and Environmental Sciences, University of Bologna, via Selmi 3, 40126 Bologna, Italy; (S.D.F.); (S.S.)
- Interdepartmental Centre “Alma Mater Research Institute on Global Challenges and Climate Change (Alma Climate)”, University of Bologna, Via Petroni 26, 40126 Bologna, Italy
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- Department of History and Cultures, University of Bologna, Via San Vitale 30, 48121 Ravenna, Italy;
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- ArcheoLaBio—Research Centre for Bioarchaeology, Department of History and Cultures, University of Bologna, Via San Vitale 30, 48121 Ravenna, Italy; (E.M.); (A.C.)
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- Museo della Preistoria “Luigi Donini”, Via Fratelli Canova 49, 40068 San Lazzaro di Savena, BO, Italy;
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- Paleostudy, Via Martiri delle Foibe 1, 35028 Piove di Sacco, PD, Italy;
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- Department of Cultural Heritage, University of Bologna, Via Degli Ariani 1, 48121 Ravenna, Italy; (F.F.); (A.J.A.); (D.L.)
- Department of Biological Geological and Environmental Sciences, University of Bologna, via Selmi 3, 40126 Bologna, Italy; (S.D.F.); (S.S.)
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- Department of Biological Geological and Environmental Sciences, University of Bologna, via Selmi 3, 40126 Bologna, Italy; (S.D.F.); (S.S.)
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- Department of Medical and Surgical Sciences, University of Bologna, Via Irnerio 49, 40126 Bologna, Italy; (C.B.); (S.P.)
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- Department of Medical and Surgical Sciences, University of Bologna, Via Irnerio 49, 40126 Bologna, Italy; (C.B.); (S.P.)
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- Unit for Conservation Genetics (BIO-CGE), Italian Institute for Environmental Protection and Research (ISPRA), Via Ca’ Fornacetta 9, 40064 Ozzano dell’Emilia, BO, Italy;
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- Department of Cultural Heritage, University of Bologna, Via Degli Ariani 1, 48121 Ravenna, Italy; (F.F.); (A.J.A.); (D.L.)
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- Department of Cultural Heritage, University of Bologna, Via Degli Ariani 1, 48121 Ravenna, Italy; (F.F.); (A.J.A.); (D.L.)
- Correspondence:
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Bergström A, Frantz L, Schmidt R, Ersmark E, Lebrasseur O, Girdland-Flink L, Lin AT, Storå J, Sjögren KG, Anthony D, Antipina E, Amiri S, Bar-Oz G, Bazaliiskii VI, Bulatović J, Brown D, Carmagnini A, Davy T, Fedorov S, Fiore I, Fulton D, Germonpré M, Haile J, Irving-Pease EK, Jamieson A, Janssens L, Kirillova I, Horwitz LK, Kuzmanovic-Cvetković J, Kuzmin Y, Losey RJ, Dizdar DL, Mashkour M, Novak M, Onar V, Orton D, Pasarić M, Radivojević M, Rajković D, Roberts B, Ryan H, Sablin M, Shidlovskiy F, Stojanović I, Tagliacozzo A, Trantalidou K, Ullén I, Villaluenga A, Wapnish P, Dobney K, Götherström A, Linderholm A, Dalén L, Pinhasi R, Larson G, Skoglund P. Origins and genetic legacy of prehistoric dogs. Science 2020; 370:557-564. [PMID: 33122379 PMCID: PMC7116352 DOI: 10.1126/science.aba9572] [Citation(s) in RCA: 103] [Impact Index Per Article: 25.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/22/2020] [Accepted: 09/10/2020] [Indexed: 12/11/2022]
Abstract
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 all dogs share a common ancestry distinct from present-day wolves, with limited gene flow from wolves since domestication but substantial dog-to-wolf gene flow. By 11,000 years ago, at least five major ancestry lineages had diversified, demonstrating a deep genetic history of dogs during the Paleolithic. Coanalysis with human genomes reveals aspects of dog population history that mirror humans, including Levant-related ancestry in Africa and early agricultural Europe. Other aspects differ, including the impacts of steppe pastoralist expansions in West and East Eurasia and a near-complete turnover of Neolithic European dog ancestry.
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- Anders Bergström
- Ancient Genomics Laboratory, The Francis Crick Institute, London, UK.
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- School of Biological and Chemical Sciences, Queen Mary University of London, London, UK.
- Palaeogenomics Group, Department of Veterinary Sciences, Ludwig Maximilian University, Munich, Germany
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- School of Archaeology and Earth Institute, University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
- CIBIO-InBIO, University of Porto, Campus de Vairão, Portugal
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- Department of Bioinformatics and Genetics, Swedish Museum of Natural History, Stockholm, Sweden
- Centre for Palaeogenetics, Svante Arrhenius väg 18C, Stockholm, Sweden
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- The Palaeogenomics and Bio-Archaeology Research Network, Research Laboratory for Archaeology and History of Art, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
- Department of Archaeology, Classics and Egyptology, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK
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- Department of Archaeology, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, UK
- Liverpool John Moores University, Liverpool, UK
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- The Palaeogenomics and Bio-Archaeology Research Network, Research Laboratory for Archaeology and History of Art, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
- Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
- Department of Anthropology, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, USA
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- Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Hartwick College, Oneonta, NY, USA
- Department of Human Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA
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- Institute of Archaeology of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russian Federation
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- Bioarchaeology Laboratory, Central Laboratory, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran
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- School of Biological and Chemical Sciences, Queen Mary University of London, London, UK
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- Ancient Genomics Laboratory, The Francis Crick Institute, London, UK
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- North-Eastern Federal University, Yakutsk, Russian Federation
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- Bioarchaeology Service, Museo delle Civiltà, Rome, Italy
- Environmental and Evolutionary Biology Doctoral Program, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy
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- University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- The Palaeogenomics and Bio-Archaeology Research Network, Research Laboratory for Archaeology and History of Art, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
- Lundbeck GeoGenetics Centre, The Globe Institute, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- The Palaeogenomics and Bio-Archaeology Research Network, Research Laboratory for Archaeology and History of Art, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
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- Sobolev Institute of Geology and Mineralogy of the Siberian Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk, Russian Federation
- Tomsk State University, Tomsk, Russian Federation
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- Bioarchaeology Laboratory, Central Laboratory, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran
- Archéozoologie, Archéobotanique, Sociétés, Pratiques et Environnements, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris, France
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- Centre for Applied Bioanthropology, Institute for Anthropological Research, Zagreb, Croatia
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- Istanbul University-Cerrahpaşa, Istanbul, Turkey
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- Institute of Ethnology and Folklore Research, Zagreb, Croatia
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- The Palaeogenomics and Bio-Archaeology Research Network, Research Laboratory for Archaeology and History of Art, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
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- Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation
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- Hellenic Ministry of Culture & Sports, Athens, Greece
- University of Thessaly, Argonauton & Philellinon, Volos, Greece
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- National Historical Museums, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Consolidated Research Group on Prehistory (IT-1223-19), University of the Basque Country (UPV-EHU), Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain
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- Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, USA
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- Department of Archaeology, Classics and Egyptology, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK
- Department of Archaeology, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, UK
- Department of Archaeology, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC, Canada
- School of Philosophical and Historical Inquiry, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia
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- Centre for Palaeogenetics, Svante Arrhenius väg 18C, Stockholm, Sweden
- Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Bioinformatics and Genetics, Swedish Museum of Natural History, Stockholm, Sweden
- Centre for Palaeogenetics, Svante Arrhenius väg 18C, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Evolutionary Anthropology, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria.
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- The Palaeogenomics and Bio-Archaeology Research Network, Research Laboratory for Archaeology and History of Art, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
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- Ancient Genomics Laboratory, The Francis Crick Institute, London, UK.
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Boschin F, Bernardini F, Pilli E, Vai S, Zanolli C, Tagliacozzo A, Fico R, Fedi M, Corny J, Dreossi D, Lari M, Modi A, Vergata C, Tuniz C, Moroni A, Boscato P, Caramelli D, Ronchitelli A. The first evidence for Late Pleistocene dogs in Italy. Sci Rep 2020; 10:13313. [PMID: 32770100 PMCID: PMC7414845 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-020-69940-w] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/21/2019] [Accepted: 05/18/2020] [Indexed: 01/25/2023] Open
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The identification of the earliest dogs is challenging because of the absence and/or mosaic pattern of morphological diagnostic features in the initial phases of the domestication process. Furthermore, the natural occurrence of some of these characters in Late Pleistocene wolf populations and the time it took from the onset of traits related to domestication to their prevalence remain indefinite. For these reasons, the spatiotemporal context of the early domestication of dogs is hotly debated. Our combined molecular and morphological analyses of fossil canid remains from the sites of Grotta Paglicci and Grotta Romanelli, in southern Italy, attest of the presence of dogs at least 14,000 calibrated years before present. This unambiguously documents one of the earliest occurrence of domesticates in the Upper Palaeolithic of Europe and in the Mediterranean. The genetic affinity between the Palaeolithic dogs from southern Italy and contemporaneous ones found in Germany also suggest that these animals were an important common adjunct during the Late Glacial, when strong cultural diversification occurred between the Mediterranean world and European areas north of the Alps. Additionally, aDNA analyses indicate that this Upper Palaeolithic dog lineage from Italy may have contributed to the genetic diversity of living dogs.
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- Francesco Boschin
- U.R. Preistoria e Antropologia, Dipartimento di Scienze Fisiche, della Terra e dell'Ambiente, Università degli Studi di Siena, Via Laterina 8, 53100, Siena, Italy.
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- Centro Fermi-Museo Storico della Fisica e Centro di Studi e Ricerche Enrico Fermi, Piazza del Viminale 1, 00184, Rome, Italy.,Multidisciplinary Laboratory, The Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Via Beirut 31, 34151, Trieste, Italy
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- Laboratory of Anthropology -Molecular Anthropology and Forensic Unit, Department of Biology, University of Florence, Firenze, Italy
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- Laboratory of Anthropology -Molecular Anthropology and Forensic Unit, Department of Biology, University of Florence, Firenze, Italy
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- Laboratoire PACEA, UMR 5199 CNRS, Université de Bordeaux, Bâtiment B8, allée Geoffroy Saint Hilaire, 33615, Pessac Cedex, France
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- Bioarchaeology Section of Museo delle Civiltà, Museo Nazionale Preistorico Etnografico "Luigi Pigorini", Piazza G. Marconi 14, 00144, Rome, Italy
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- Centro di Referenza Nazionale per la Medicina Forense Veterinaria, Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale delle Regioni Lazio e Toscana "M. Aleandri", Viale Europa, 30, 58100, Grosseto, Italy
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- INFN (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare) Sezione di Firenze, Via Sansone 1, 50019, Sesto Fiorentino, FI, Italy
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- Département Homme & Environnement, Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, UMR 7194, CNRS, Musée de l'Homme, Paris, France
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- Sincrotrone Trieste S.C.p.A., AREA Science Park, Basovizza, Trieste, Italy
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- Laboratory of Anthropology -Molecular Anthropology and Forensic Unit, Department of Biology, University of Florence, Firenze, Italy
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- Laboratory of Anthropology -Molecular Anthropology and Forensic Unit, Department of Biology, University of Florence, Firenze, Italy
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- Laboratory of Anthropology -Molecular Anthropology and Forensic Unit, Department of Biology, University of Florence, Firenze, Italy
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- Centro Fermi-Museo Storico della Fisica e Centro di Studi e Ricerche Enrico Fermi, Piazza del Viminale 1, 00184, Rome, Italy.,Multidisciplinary Laboratory, The Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Via Beirut 31, 34151, Trieste, Italy.,Centre for Archaeological Science, University of Wollongong, Northfields Avenue, Wollongong, NSW, 2522, Australia
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- U.R. Preistoria e Antropologia, Dipartimento di Scienze Fisiche, della Terra e dell'Ambiente, Università degli Studi di Siena, Via Laterina 8, 53100, Siena, Italy.,Centro Studi sul Quaternario Onlus, Sansepolcro, Arezzo, Italy.,Istituto Italiano di Paleontologia Umana, Roma, Italy
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- U.R. Preistoria e Antropologia, Dipartimento di Scienze Fisiche, della Terra e dell'Ambiente, Università degli Studi di Siena, Via Laterina 8, 53100, Siena, Italy
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- Laboratory of Anthropology -Molecular Anthropology and Forensic Unit, Department of Biology, University of Florence, Firenze, Italy
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- U.R. Preistoria e Antropologia, Dipartimento di Scienze Fisiche, della Terra e dell'Ambiente, Università degli Studi di Siena, Via Laterina 8, 53100, Siena, Italy
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Defect in Mitochondrial NADH-Dehydrogenase Genes in Canine Mast Cell Tumours. ANNALS OF ANIMAL SCIENCE 2020. [DOI: 10.2478/aoas-2020-0027] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/06/2023]
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Recent studies have demonstrated a significant role of mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) defects in the pathogenesis of many human and some canine tumours. The aim of this study was to identify mutations in the ND2 and ND4 mitochondrial genes in canine mast cell tumours and determine their association with the process of neoplastic transformation and the phenotypic traits of dogs. In total, 136 gene sequences from 68 biological samples, including blood and neoplastic tissue samples from 34 dogs with diagnosed MCTs, were analysed. The study consisted in DNA sequencing of the ND2 and ND4 genes as well as bioinformatics and statistical analyses. For the first time, mutations in NADH-dehydrogenase genes were detected in dogs with MCTs. In total, 22 polymorphic loci and 19 mutations in the ND2 and ND4 genes were identified. The majority of the identified mutations were homoplasmic, and tumour heteroplasmy was detected in eight nucleotide positions in three dogs. Seven of the ND2 mutations and two of the ND4 mutations caused an amino acid change. The changes in non-synonymous protein-coding SNPs did not exert an adverse effect on proteins. A statistically significant correlation of the presence of mutations/polymorphisms with the sex, age, and size of the dogs and the tumour location was demonstrated. Polymorphisms and mutations in NADH-dehydrogenase genes, including mastocyte-specific changes, in canine mast cell tumours that had not been reported earlier in the literature were identified. Some of these changes may imply that these are the hotspot mutations in canine mast cell tumours. It cannot be excluded that the molecular changes are directly associated with the development of mast cell tumours, and further investigations are needed to verify whether they can become molecular markers of MCTs in the future.
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Development of a mitochondrial DNA marker that distinguishes domestic dogs from Washington state gray wolves. CONSERV GENET RESOUR 2020. [DOI: 10.1007/s12686-020-01130-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/25/2022]
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Weich K, Affolter V, York D, Rebhun R, Grahn R, Kallenberg A, Bannasch D. Pigment Intensity in Dogs is Associated with a Copy Number Variant Upstream of KITLG. Genes (Basel) 2020; 11:genes11010075. [PMID: 31936656 PMCID: PMC7017362 DOI: 10.3390/genes11010075] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/10/2019] [Revised: 01/06/2020] [Accepted: 01/08/2020] [Indexed: 01/14/2023] Open
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Dogs exhibit a wide variety of coat color types, and many genes have been identified that control pigment production, appearance, and distribution. Some breeds, such as the Nova Scotia Duck Tolling Retriever (NSDTR), exhibit variation in pheomelanin pigment intensity that is not explained by known genetic variants. A genome-wide association study comparing light red to dark red in the NSDTR identified a significantly associated region on canine chromosome 15 (CFA 15:23 Mb–38 Mb). Coverage analysis of whole genome sequence data from eight dogs identified a 6 kb copy number variant (CNV) 152 kb upstream of KITLG. Genotyping with digital droplet PCR (ddPCR) confirmed a significant association between an increased copy number with the dark-red coat color in NSDTR (p = 6.1 × 10−7). The copy number of the CNV was also significantly associated with coat color variation in both eumelanin and pheomelanin-based Poodles (p = 1.5 × 10−8, 4.0 × 10−9) and across other breeds. Moreover, the copy number correlated with pigment intensity along the hair shaft in both pheomelanin and eumelanin coats. KITLG plays an important role in melanogenesis, and variants upstream of KITLG have been associated with coat color variation in mice as well as hair color in humans consistent with its role in the domestic dog.
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- Kalie Weich
- Department of Population Health and Reproduction, University of California-Davis, Davis, CA 95616, USA;
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- Department of Pathology, Microbiology, and Immunology, University of California-Davis, Davis, CA 95616, USA;
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- Department of Surgical and Radiological Sciences, University of California-Davis, Davis, CA 95616, USA; (D.Y.); (R.R.)
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- Department of Surgical and Radiological Sciences, University of California-Davis, Davis, CA 95616, USA; (D.Y.); (R.R.)
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- Veterinary Genetics Laboratory, University of California-Davis, Davis, CA 95616, USA; (R.G.); (A.K.)
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- Veterinary Genetics Laboratory, University of California-Davis, Davis, CA 95616, USA; (R.G.); (A.K.)
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- Department of Population Health and Reproduction, University of California-Davis, Davis, CA 95616, USA;
- Correspondence: ; Tel.: +1-530-754-8728
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Yankova I, Marinov M, Neov B, Petrova M, Spassov N, Hristov P, Radoslavov G. Evidence for Early European Neolithic Dog Dispersal: New Data on Southeastern European Subfossil Dogs from the Prehistoric and Antiquity Ages. Genes (Basel) 2019; 10:genes10100757. [PMID: 31561553 PMCID: PMC6826387 DOI: 10.3390/genes10100757] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/02/2019] [Revised: 09/20/2019] [Accepted: 09/22/2019] [Indexed: 01/03/2023] Open
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The history of dog domestication is still under debate, but it is doubtless the process of an ancient partnership between dogs (Canis familiaris) and humans. Although data on ancient DNA for dog diversity are still incomplete, it is clear that several regional dog populations had formed in Eurasia up to the Holocene. During the Neolithic Revolution and the transition from hunter-gatherer to farmer societies, followed by civilization changes in the Antiquity period, the dog population structure also changed. This process was due to replacement with newly formed dog populations. In this study, we present for the first time mitochondrial data of ancient dog remains from the Early Neolithic (8000 years before present (BP)) to Late Antiquity (up to 3th century AD) from southeastern Europe (the Balkans). A total of 16 samples were analyzed, using the mitochondrial D-loop region (HVR1). The results show the presence of A (70%) and B (25%) clades throughout the Early and Late Neolithic Period. In order to clarify the position of our results within the ancient dog population in Eneolithic Eurasia, we performed phylogenetic analysis with the available genetic data sets. This data showed a similarity of the ancient Bulgarian dogs to Italian (A, B, and C clades) and Iberian (clades A and C) dogs’ populations. A clear border can be seen between southern European genetic dog structure, on the one hand, and on the other hand, central-western (clade C), eastern (clade D) and northern Europe (clades A and C). This corresponds to genetic data for European humans during the same period, without admixture between dog populations. Also, our data have shown the presence of clade B in ancient Eurasia. This is not unexpected, as the B haplogroup is widely distributed in extant Balkan dogs and wolves. The presence of this clade both in dogs and in wolves on the Balkans may be explained with hybridization events before the Neolithic period. The spreading of this clade across Europe, together with the A clade, is related to the possible dissemination of newly formed dog breeds from Ancient Greece, Thrace, and the Roman Empire.
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- Iskra Yankova
- Department of Animal Diversity and Resources, Institute of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Research, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 1040 Sofia, Bulgaria.
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- Department of Animal Diversity and Resources, Institute of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Research, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 1040 Sofia, Bulgaria.
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- Department of Animal Diversity and Resources, Institute of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Research, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 1040 Sofia, Bulgaria.
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- Department of Structure and Function of Chromatin, Institute of Molecular Biology, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 1040 Sofia, Bulgaria.
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- Palaeontology and Mineralogy Department, National Museum of Natural History, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 1040 Sofia, Bulgaria.
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- Department of Animal Diversity and Resources, Institute of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Research, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 1040 Sofia, Bulgaria.
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- Department of Animal Diversity and Resources, Institute of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Research, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 1040 Sofia, Bulgaria.
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Reale S, Randi E, Cumbo V, Sammarco I, Bonanno F, Spinnato A, Seminara S. Biodiversity lost: The phylogenetic relationships of a complete mitochondrial DNA genome sequenced from the extinct wolf population of Sicily. Mamm Biol 2019. [DOI: 10.1016/j.mambio.2019.06.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/29/2023]
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Jiang L, Peng L, Tang M, You Z, Zhang M, West A, Ruan Q, Chen W, Merilä J. Complete mitochondrial genome sequence of the Himalayan Griffon, Gyps himalayensis (Accipitriformes: Accipitridae): Sequence, structure, and phylogenetic analyses. Ecol Evol 2019; 9:8813-8828. [PMID: 31410282 PMCID: PMC6686361 DOI: 10.1002/ece3.5433] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/01/2019] [Revised: 06/12/2019] [Accepted: 06/17/2019] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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This is the first study to describe the mitochondrial genome of the Himalayan Griffon, Gyps himalayensis, which is an Old World vulture belonging to the family Accipitridae and occurring along the Himalayas and the adjoining Tibetan Plateau. Its mitogenome is a closed circular molecule 17,381 bp in size containing 13 protein-coding genes, 22 tRNA coding genes, two rRNA-coding genes, a control region (CR), and an extra pseudo-control region (CCR) that are conserved in most Accipitridae mitogenomes. The overall base composition of the G. himalayensis mitogenome is 24.55% A, 29.49% T, 31.59% C, and 14.37% G, which is typical for bird mitochondrial genomes. The alignment of the Accipitridae species control regions showed high levels of genetic variation and abundant AT content. At the 5' end of the domain I region, a long continuous poly-C sequence was found. Two tandem repeats were found in the pseudo-control regions. Phylogenetic analysis with Bayesian inference and maximum likelihood based on 13 protein-coding genes indicated that the relationships at the family level were (Falconidae + (Cathartidae + (Sagittariidae + (Accipitridae + Pandionidae))). In the Accipitridae clade, G. himalayensis is more closely related to Aegypius monachus than to Spilornis cheela. The complete mitogenome of G. himalayensis provides a potentially useful resource for further exploration of the taxonomic status and phylogenetic history of Gyps species.
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- Lichun Jiang
- Key Laboratory for Molecular Biology and Biopharmaceutics, School of Life Science and TechnologyMianyang Normal UniversityMianyangSichuanChina
- Ecological Security and Protection Key Laboratory of Sichuan ProvinceMianyang Normal UniversityMianyangSichuanChina
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- Ecological Security and Protection Key Laboratory of Sichuan ProvinceMianyang Normal UniversityMianyangSichuanChina
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- Ecological Security and Protection Key Laboratory of Sichuan ProvinceMianyang Normal UniversityMianyangSichuanChina
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- Ecological Security and Protection Key Laboratory of Sichuan ProvinceMianyang Normal UniversityMianyangSichuanChina
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- Key Laboratory for Molecular Biology and Biopharmaceutics, School of Life Science and TechnologyMianyang Normal UniversityMianyangSichuanChina
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- Centre for Integrative Ecology, School of Life and Environmental SciencesDeakin UniversityGeelongVicAustralia
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- Key Laboratory for Molecular Biology and Biopharmaceutics, School of Life Science and TechnologyMianyang Normal UniversityMianyangSichuanChina
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- Key Laboratory for Molecular Biology and Biopharmaceutics, School of Life Science and TechnologyMianyang Normal UniversityMianyangSichuanChina
- Ecological Security and Protection Key Laboratory of Sichuan ProvinceMianyang Normal UniversityMianyangSichuanChina
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- Ecological Genetics Research Unit, Organismal and Evolutionary Biology Research Programme, Faculty Biological & Environmental SciencesUniversity of HelsinkiHelsinkiFinland
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Analysis of Mitochondrial Genome from Labrador (Canis lupus familiaris) with Mammary Gland Tumour Reveals Novel Mutations and Polymorphisms. ANNALS OF ANIMAL SCIENCE 2019. [DOI: 10.2478/aoas-2019-0027] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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The aim of the study was to find associations between the process of neoplastic transformation and mtDNA mutations/polymorphisms, i.e. factors with potential prognostic significance, and to determine their impact on the biochemical properties, as well as structural, and functional properties of proteins. Blood and neoplastic tissue samples were collected from a 9-year-old Labrador dog with a diagnosed malignant mammary tumour. Next-generation genome sequencing (NGS) of the entire mitochondrial genome was performed using Illumina technology, and bioinformatics analyses were carried out. This is the first report demonstrating the application of NGS in the analysis of the canine mtDNA genome in neoplastic disease. The proposed strategy is innovative and promising. For the first time in the literature, the sequence of 29 genes was analysed to determine their association with the prevalence of tumour. In total, 32 polymorphic loci and 15 mutations were identified. For the first time, as many as 24 polymorphisms and all the mutations have been described to be associated with the neoplastic process in dogs. Most polymorphisms/mutations were found in the D-loop (31% of the polymorphisms and 93% of the mutations) and the COX1 gene sequence (16% of the polymorphisms). Blood or cancer heteroplasmy was noted in 93% of the mutations. Four of the 18 polymorphisms detected in the protein-coding genes were non-synonymous polymorphisms that have not been described in the literature so far (m.T7593C in COX2, m.G8807A in COX3, m.A9911G in ND4L, and m.T13299A in ND5) but resulted in changes in amino acids in proteins. These mutations and polymorphisms can affect mitochondrial functions and may be a result of cell adaptation to the changes in the environment occurring during carcinogenesis. The replacement of “wild type” mtDNA by a mutated molecule may be an important phenomenon accompanying carcinogenesis.
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Powers JM, Murphy JEJ. Sunlight radiation as a villain and hero: 60 years of illuminating research. Int J Radiat Biol 2019; 95:1043-1049. [PMID: 31157572 DOI: 10.1080/09553002.2019.1627440] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/27/2022]
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In the 60 years since the inaugural edition of the International Journal of Radiation Biology, much of our understanding of the biological effects of solar radiation has changed. Earlier in the century, sunlight played a 'hero's' role in reducing disabling rickets, while today debate still continues on the amount of sun required before exposure reveals the 'villainous' side of solar radiation. Although knowledge of the ultra violet (UV) component of sunlight as a carcinogen has become widespread, skin cancer rates are still rising yearly. Twentieth century attitudes have seen an about-face in the field of dermatological sun protection, with sunscreens changing from recipes designed to promote a 'healthy tan' to formulations proven to block both ultraviolet B (UVB) and more recently, ultraviolet A (UVA), to minimize premature sun-aging and skin cancer risk. In the early 1960s, DNA was first found to exist within mitochondria, while recently the connections between mitochondrial changes and UV radiation exposure have been expanded. Sixty years ago, understanding of the endocrine systems of mammals was enjoying its infancy. Early discoveries that light, particularly natural light, could have profound effects on functions such as sleep patterns and hormonal balance were made, while today more advanced knowledge has led to lighting improvements having pronounced effects on human wellbeing. Photosensitization 60 years ago was a health concern for both humans and their domestic animals, while today chemically engineered photosensitizing drugs can be administered along with highly directed light to pinpoint delivery targets for drug action. Life on earth is inextricably bound up with solar radiation. This article attempts to outline many of the ways in which our opinions about solar radiation have changed since the journal's inception.
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- Julia Montelin Powers
- a Cellular Health and Toxicology Research Group, Department of Health and Nutritional Sciences , Institute of Technology Sligo , Sligo , Ireland
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- a Cellular Health and Toxicology Research Group, Department of Health and Nutritional Sciences , Institute of Technology Sligo , Sligo , Ireland
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Śmiech A, Ślaska B, Bownik A, Grzybowska-Szatkowska L, Dudka J, Łopuszyński W. Heteroplasmic Mutations and Polymorphisms in the Cyb Gene of Mitochondrial DNA in Canine Mast Cell Tumours. In Vivo 2018; 33:57-63. [PMID: 30587603 DOI: 10.21873/invivo.11439] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/05/2018] [Revised: 10/08/2018] [Accepted: 10/12/2018] [Indexed: 11/10/2022]
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AIM Identification of mutations and polymorphisms in the cytochrome b gene (Cyb) of mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) in canine mast cell tumours and determinatiion of their association with the process of neoplastic transformation. MATERIALS AND METHODS The samples comprised tumour tissues and blood obtained from 34 dogs of various breeds. Mutations and polymorphisms in the Cyb gene were detected using amplification and sequencing methods. RESULTS Heteroplasmic mutations were detected at seven positions of mtDNA in 86% of the individuals. Blood and tumour heteroplasmy were recorded at five nucleotide positions of the Cyb gene, whereas tumour heteroplasmy was detected at two positions. Polymorphisms were detected at 14 Cyb gene positions in in the blood of 91% of dogs with mast cell tumours. CONCLUSION The presence of numerous mutations and polymorphisms of Cyb in the blood and tumour tissues and the high frequency of heteroplasmy indicate their involvement in the process of neoplastic transformation in dogs.
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- Anna Śmiech
- Sub-Department of Pathomorphology and Forensic Veterinary Medicine, Department and Clinic of Internal Animal Diseases, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Life Sciences in Lublin, Lublin, Poland
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- Department of Biological Bases of Animal Production, Faculty of Animal Breeding and Biology, University of Life Sciences in Lublin, Lublin, Poland
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- Department of Biological Bases of Animal Production, Faculty of Animal Breeding and Biology, University of Life Sciences in Lublin, Lublin, Poland
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- Chair and Department of Toxicology, Medical University of Lublin, Lublin, Poland
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- Sub-Department of Pathomorphology and Forensic Veterinary Medicine, Department and Clinic of Internal Animal Diseases, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Life Sciences in Lublin, Lublin, Poland
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Marinov M, Teofanova D, Gadjev D, Radoslavov G, Hristov P. Mitochondrial diversity of Bulgarian native dogs suggests dual phylogenetic origin. PeerJ 2018; 6:e5060. [PMID: 29967734 PMCID: PMC6026455 DOI: 10.7717/peerj.5060] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/07/2018] [Accepted: 06/04/2018] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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The dog has been the first domesticated animal to have a central role in human society from ancient times to present day. Although there have been numerous investigations of dog phylogeny and origin, genetic data of dogs in the region of the Balkan Peninsula (South-Eastern Europe) are still scarce. Therefore, the aim of the present study was to perform phylogenetic analysis of three native Bulgarian dog breeds. A total of 130 samples were analyzed at HVR1 (hypervariable region, D-loop region). The samples were taken from two hunting dog breeds (Bulgarian Hound Dog: Barak, n = 34; Bulgarian Scenthound Dog: Gonche, n = 45) as well as from a Bulgarian Shepherd Dog (n = 51). The first two breeds are reared in a flat region of the country (the Northern part of Bulgaria, the Danubian Plain), while the last breed is a typical representative of the mountainous part of the country. The results have shown the presence of almost all main clades—A, B, C and D—in the three dog breeds taken together, except clades E and F, as expected. With regard to haplogroups distribution, there are clear differences among investigated breeds. While hunting breeds exhibit a prevalence of clade C, the mountainous Shepherd dog shows presence of the D2 haplogroup but absence of the C clade. In conclusion, the present study has been the first to investigate the mitochondrial DNA diversity of native dog breeds in Bulgaria. The results have revealed a clear difference of haplogroups dissemination in native hunting and shepherd dogs, which suggests a dual independent phylogenetic origin, without hybridization events between these dogs.
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- Miroslav Marinov
- Institute of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Research, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia, Bulgaria
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- Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Biology, Sofia University "St. Kliment Ohridski", Sofia, Bulgaria
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- Agricultural and Stockbreeding Experimental Station, Agricultural Academy, Smolyan, Bulgaria
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- Institute of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Research, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia, Bulgaria
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- Institute of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Research, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia, Bulgaria
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Garofalo L, Mariacher A, Fanelli R, Fico R, Lorenzini R. Hindering the illegal trade in dog and cat furs through a DNA-based protocol for species identification. PeerJ 2018; 6:e4902. [PMID: 29888130 PMCID: PMC5993017 DOI: 10.7717/peerj.4902] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/28/2018] [Accepted: 05/15/2018] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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In Western countries dogs and cats are the most popular pets, and people are increasingly opposed to their rearing for the fur industry. In 2007, a Regulation of the European Union (EU) banned the use and trade of dog and cat furs, but an official analytical protocol to identify them as source species was not provided, and violations of law are still frequent in all Member States. In this paper we report on the development and validation of a simple and affordable DNA method for species detection in furs to use as an effective tool to combat illegal trade in fur products. A set of mitochondrial primers was designed for amplification of partial cytochrome b, control region and ND1 gene in highly degraded samples, like furs and pelts. Our amplification workflow involved the use of a non-specific primer pair to perform a first test to identify the species through sequencing, then the application of species-specific primer pairs to use in singleplex end-point PCRs as confirmation tests. The advantage of this two-step procedure is twofold: on the one hand it minimises the possibility of negative test results from degraded samples, since failure of amplification with a first set of primers can be offset by successful amplification of the second, and on the other it adds confidence and reliability to final authentication of species. All designed primers were validated on a reference collection of tissue samples, obtaining solid results in terms of specificity, sensitivity, repeatability and reproducibility. Application of the protocol on real caseworks from seized furs yielded successful results also from old and dyed furs, suggesting that age and chemical staining do not necessarily affect positive amplifications. Major pros of this approach are: (1) sensitive and informative primer sets for detection of species; (2) short PCR amplicons for the analysis of poor quality DNA; (3) binding primers that avoid contamination from human DNA; (4) user-friendly protocol for any laboratory equipped for analysis of low-copy-number DNA. Our molecular procedure proved to be a good starting point for enforcing the EU Regulation against dog and cat fur trade in forensic contexts where source attribution is essential to the assignment of responsibilities.
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- Luisa Garofalo
- Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale delle Regioni Lazio e Toscana "M. Aleandri", Centro di Referenza Nazionale per la Medicina Forense Veterinaria, Rieti, Italy
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- Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale delle Regioni Lazio e Toscana "M. Aleandri", Centro di Referenza Nazionale per la Medicina Forense Veterinaria, Grosseto, Italy
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- Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale delle Regioni Lazio e Toscana "M. Aleandri", Centro di Referenza Nazionale per la Medicina Forense Veterinaria, Rieti, Italy
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- Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale delle Regioni Lazio e Toscana "M. Aleandri", Centro di Referenza Nazionale per la Medicina Forense Veterinaria, Grosseto, Italy
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- Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale delle Regioni Lazio e Toscana "M. Aleandri", Centro di Referenza Nazionale per la Medicina Forense Veterinaria, Rieti, Italy
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Heintzman PD, Zazula GD, MacPhee RDE, Scott E, Cahill JA, McHorse BK, Kapp JD, Stiller M, Wooller MJ, Orlando L, Southon J, Froese DG, Shapiro B. A new genus of horse from Pleistocene North America. eLife 2017; 6. [PMID: 29182148 PMCID: PMC5705217 DOI: 10.7554/elife.29944] [Citation(s) in RCA: 50] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/26/2017] [Accepted: 11/02/2017] [Indexed: 11/19/2022] Open
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The extinct ‘New World stilt-legged’, or NWSL, equids constitute a perplexing group of Pleistocene horses endemic to North America. Their slender distal limb bones resemble those of Asiatic asses, such as the Persian onager. Previous palaeogenetic studies, however, have suggested a closer relationship to caballine horses than to Asiatic asses. Here, we report complete mitochondrial and partial nuclear genomes from NWSL equids from across their geographic range. Although multiple NWSL equid species have been named, our palaeogenomic and morphometric analyses support the idea that there was only a single species of middle to late Pleistocene NWSL equid, and demonstrate that it falls outside of crown group Equus. We therefore propose a new genus, Haringtonhippus, for the sole species H. francisci. Our combined genomic and phenomic approach to resolving the systematics of extinct megafauna will allow for an improved understanding of the full extent of the terminal Pleistocene extinction event. The horse family – which also includes zebras, donkeys and asses – is often featured on the pages of textbooks about evolution. All living horses belong to a group, or genus, called Equus. The fossil record shows how the ancestors of these animals evolved from dog-sized, three-toed browsers to larger, one-toed grazers. This process took around 55 million years, and many members of the horse family tree went extinct along the way. Nevertheless, the details of the horse family tree over the past 2.5 million years remain poorly understood. In North America, horses from this period – which is referred to as the Pleistocene – have been classed into two major groups: stout-legged horses and stilt-legged horses. Both groups became extinct near the end of the Pleistocene in North America, and it was not clear how they relate to one another. Based on their anatomy, many scientists suggested that stilt-legged horses were most closely related to modern-day asses living in Asia. Yet, other studies using ancient DNA placed the stilt-legged horses closer to the stout-legged horses. Heintzman et al. set out to resolve where the stilt-legged horses sit within the horse family tree by examining more ancient DNA than the previous studies. The analyses showed that the stilt-legged horses were much more distinct than previously thought. In fact, contrary to all previous findings, these animals actually belonged outside of the genus Equus. Heintzman et al. named the new genus for the stilt-legged horses Haringtonhippus, and showed that all stilt-legged horses belonged to a single species within this genus, Haringtonhippus francisci. Together these new findings provide a benchmark for reclassifying problematic fossil groups across the tree of life. A similar approach could be used to resolve the relationships in other problematic groups of Pleistocene animals, such as mammoths and bison. This would give scientists a more nuanced understanding of evolution and extinction during this period.
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- Peter D Heintzman
- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, United States.,Tromsø University Museum, UiT - The Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø, Norway
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- Yukon Palaeontology Program, Government of Yukon, Whitehorse, Canada
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- Department of Mammalogy, Division of Vertebrate Zoology, American Museum of Natural History, New York, United States
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- Cogstone Resource Management, Incorporated, Riverside, United States.,California State University San Bernardino, San Bernardino, United States
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, United States
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- Department of Organismal and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, United States
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, United States
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, United States.,Department of Translational Skin Cancer Research, German Consortium for Translational Cancer Research, Essen, Germany
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- College of Fisheries and Ocean Sciences, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, United States.,Alaska Stable Isotope Facility, Water and Environmental Research Center, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, United States
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- Centre for GeoGenetics, Natural History Museum of Denmark, København K, Denmark.,Université Paul Sabatier, Université de Toulouse, Toulouse, France
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- Keck-CCAMS Group, Earth System Science Department, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, United States
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- Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, United States.,UCSC Genomics Institute, University of California, Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, United States
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Campana MG. BaitsTools: Software for hybridization capture bait design. Mol Ecol Resour 2017; 18:356-361. [PMID: 28941033 DOI: 10.1111/1755-0998.12721] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/03/2017] [Revised: 09/12/2017] [Accepted: 09/14/2017] [Indexed: 12/01/2022]
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Nucleic acid hybridization capture is a principal technology in molecular ecology and genomics. Bait design, however, is a nontrivial task and few resources currently exist to automate the process. Here, I present baitstools, an open-source, user-friendly software package to facilitate the design of nucleic acid baits for hybridization capture.
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- Michael G Campana
- Center for Conservation Genomics, Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute, Washington, DC, USA
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Kemp BM, Judd K, Monroe C, Eerkens JW, Hilldorfer L, Cordray C, Schad R, Reams E, Ortman SG, Kohler TA. Prehistoric mitochondrial DNA of domesticate animals supports a 13th century exodus from the northern US southwest. PLoS One 2017; 12:e0178882. [PMID: 28746407 PMCID: PMC5528258 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0178882] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/23/2017] [Accepted: 05/19/2017] [Indexed: 01/24/2023] Open
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The 13th century Puebloan depopulation of the Four Corners region of the US Southwest is an iconic episode in world prehistory. Studies of its causes, as well as its consequences, have a bearing not only on archaeological method and theory, but also social responses to climate change, the sociology of social movements, and contemporary patterns of cultural diversity. Previous research has debated the demographic scale, destinations, and impacts of Four Corners migrants. Much of this uncertainty stems from the substantial differences in material culture between the Four Corners vs. hypothesized destination areas. Comparable biological evidence has been difficult to obtain due to the complete departure of farmers from the Four Corners in the 13th century CE and restrictions on sampling human remains. As an alternative, patterns of genetic variation among domesticated species were used to address the role of migration in this collapse. We collected mitochondrial haplotypic data from dog (Canis lupus familiaris) and turkey (Meleagris gallopavo) remains from archaeological sites in the most densely-populated portion of the Four Corners region, and the most commonly proposed destination area for that population under migration scenarios. Results are consistent with a large-scale migration of humans, accompanied by their domestic turkeys, during the 13th century CE. These results support scenarios that suggest contemporary Pueblo peoples of the Northern Rio Grande are biological and cultural descendants of Four Corners populations.
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- Brian M. Kemp
- Department of Anthropology, University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma, United States of America
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- Laboratory of Molecular Anthropology and Ancient DNA, Washington State University, Pullman, Washington, United States of America
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- Department of Anthropology, Washington State University, Pullman, Washington, United States of America
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- Department of Anthropology, University of California, Davis, California, United States of America
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- School of Biological Sciences, Washington State University, Pullman, Washington, United States of America
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- Laboratory of Molecular Anthropology and Ancient DNA, Washington State University, Pullman, Washington, United States of America
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- Laboratory of Molecular Anthropology and Ancient DNA, Washington State University, Pullman, Washington, United States of America
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- Laboratory of Molecular Anthropology and Ancient DNA, Washington State University, Pullman, Washington, United States of America
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- Department of Anthropology, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado, United States of America
- Santa Fe Institute, Santa Fe, New Mexico, United States of America
- Crow Canyon Archaeological Center, Cortez, Colorado, United States of America
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- Department of Anthropology, Washington State University, Pullman, Washington, United States of America
- Santa Fe Institute, Santa Fe, New Mexico, United States of America
- Crow Canyon Archaeological Center, Cortez, Colorado, United States of America
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Thai QK, Chung DA, Tran HD. Canis mtDNA HV1 database: a web-based tool for collecting and surveying Canis mtDNA HV1 haplotype in public database. BMC Genet 2017; 18:60. [PMID: 28651548 PMCID: PMC5485557 DOI: 10.1186/s12863-017-0528-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/02/2017] [Accepted: 06/21/2017] [Indexed: 11/10/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND Canine and wolf mitochondrial DNA haplotypes, which can be used for forensic or phylogenetic analyses, have been defined in various schemes depending on the region analyzed. In recent studies, the 582 bp fragment of the HV1 region is most commonly used. 317 different canine HV1 haplotypes have been reported in the rapidly growing public database GenBank. These reported haplotypes contain several inconsistencies in their haplotype information. To overcome this issue, we have developed a Canis mtDNA HV1 database. This database collects data on the HV1 582 bp region in dog mitochondrial DNA from the GenBank to screen and correct the inconsistencies. It also supports users in detection of new novel mutation profiles and assignment of new haplotypes. DESCRIPTION The Canis mtDNA HV1 database (CHD) contains 5567 nucleotide entries originating from 15 subspecies in the species Canis lupus. Of these entries, 3646 were haplotypes and grouped into 804 distinct sequences. 319 sequences were recognized as previously assigned haplotypes, while the remaining 485 sequences had new mutation profiles and were marked as new haplotype candidates awaiting further analysis for haplotype assignment. Of the 3646 nucleotide entries, only 414 were annotated with correct haplotype information, while 3232 had insufficient or lacked haplotype information and were corrected or modified before storing in the CHD. The CHD can be accessed at http://chd.vnbiology.com . It provides sequences, haplotype information, and a web-based tool for mtDNA HV1 haplotyping. The CHD is updated monthly and supplies all data for download. CONCLUSIONS The Canis mtDNA HV1 database contains information about canine mitochondrial DNA HV1 sequences with reconciled annotation. It serves as a tool for detection of inconsistencies in GenBank and helps identifying new HV1 haplotypes. Thus, it supports the scientific community in naming new HV1 haplotypes and to reconcile existing annotation of HV1 582 bp sequences.
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- Quan Ke Thai
- Saigon University, 273 An Duong Vuong street, District 5, Ho Chi Minh city, Vietnam
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- Institute of Agricultural science for Southern Vietnam, 121 Nguyen Binh Khiem street, District 1, Ho Chi Minh city, Vietnam
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- Nguyen Tat Thanh University, 300A Nguyen Tat Thanh street, District 4, Ho Chi Minh city, Vietnam
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Genome sequence, population history, and pelage genetics of the endangered African wild dog (Lycaon pictus). BMC Genomics 2016; 17:1013. [PMID: 27938335 PMCID: PMC5148847 DOI: 10.1186/s12864-016-3368-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/22/2016] [Accepted: 12/02/2016] [Indexed: 12/22/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND The African wild dog (Lycaon pictus) is an endangered African canid threatened by severe habitat fragmentation, human-wildlife conflict, and infectious disease. A highly specialized carnivore, it is distinguished by its social structure, dental morphology, absence of dewclaws, and colorful pelage. RESULTS We sequenced the genomes of two individuals from populations representing two distinct ecological histories (Laikipia County, Kenya and KwaZulu-Natal Province, South Africa). We reconstructed population demographic histories for the two individuals and scanned the genomes for evidence of selection. CONCLUSIONS We show that the African wild dog has undergone at least two effective population size reductions in the last 1,000,000 years. We found evidence of Lycaon individual-specific regions of low diversity, suggestive of inbreeding or population-specific selection. Further research is needed to clarify whether these population reductions and low diversity regions are characteristic of the species as a whole. We documented positive selection on the Lycaon mitochondrial genome. Finally, we identified several candidate genes (ASIP, MITF, MLPH, PMEL) that may play a role in the characteristic Lycaon pelage.
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Rensch T, Villar D, Horvath J, Odom DT, Flicek P. Mitochondrial heteroplasmy in vertebrates using ChIP-sequencing data. Genome Biol 2016; 17:139. [PMID: 27349964 PMCID: PMC4922064 DOI: 10.1186/s13059-016-0996-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/09/2015] [Accepted: 06/03/2016] [Indexed: 01/29/2023] Open
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BACKGROUND Mitochondrial heteroplasmy, the presence of more than one mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) variant in a cell or individual, is not as uncommon as previously thought. It is mostly due to the high mutation rate of the mtDNA and limited repair mechanisms present in the mitochondrion. Motivated by mitochondrial diseases, much focus has been placed into studying this phenomenon in human samples and in medical contexts. To place these results in an evolutionary context and to explore general principles of heteroplasmy, we describe an integrated cross-species evaluation of heteroplasmy in mammals that exploits previously reported NGS data. Focusing on ChIP-seq experiments, we developed a novel approach to detect heteroplasmy from the concomitant mitochondrial DNA fraction sequenced in these experiments. RESULTS We first demonstrate that the sequencing coverage of mtDNA in ChIP-seq experiments is sufficient for heteroplasmy detection. We then describe a novel detection method for accurate detection of heteroplasmies, which also accounts for the error rate of NGS technology. Applying this method to 79 individuals from 16 species resulted in 107 heteroplasmic positions present in a total of 45 individuals. Further analysis revealed that the majority of detected heteroplasmies occur in intergenic regions. CONCLUSION In addition to documenting the prevalence of mtDNA in ChIP-seq data, the results of our mitochondrial heteroplasmy detection method suggest that mitochondrial heteroplasmies identified across vertebrates share similar characteristics as found for human heteroplasmies. Although largely consistent with previous studies in individual vertebrates, our integrated cross-species analysis provides valuable insights into the evolutionary dynamics of mitochondrial heteroplasmy.
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- Thomas Rensch
- European Molecular Biology Laboratory, European Bioinformatics Institute, Wellcome Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge, CB10 1SD, UK
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- Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute, University of Cambridge, Robinson Way, Cambridge, CB2 0RE, UK
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- Biological and Biomedical Sciences, North Carolina Central University, Durham, NC, 27707, USA
- North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences, Raleigh, NC, 27601, USA
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- Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute, University of Cambridge, Robinson Way, Cambridge, CB2 0RE, UK
- Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Wellcome Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge, CB10 1SA, UK
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- European Molecular Biology Laboratory, European Bioinformatics Institute, Wellcome Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge, CB10 1SD, UK.
- Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Wellcome Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge, CB10 1SA, UK.
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Surdyka M, Slaska B. Defect in ND2, COX2, ATP6 and COX3 mitochondrial genes as a risk factor for canine mammary tumour. Vet Comp Oncol 2016; 15:1062-1072. [PMID: 27278673 DOI: 10.1111/vco.12247] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/18/2016] [Revised: 05/02/2016] [Accepted: 05/20/2016] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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The aim of this study was to identify mutations in ND2, COX2, ATP6 and COX3 mitochondrial genes in canine mammary tumour, determine their association with the process of neoplastic transformation, and phenotypic traits of dogs. In total, 93 biological samples, including blood, normal and neoplastic tissue samples from 31 dogs with diagnosed malignant canine mammary tumours were analysed. DNA sequencing of genes as well as bioinformatics and statistical analyses were performed. A total of 28 polymorphic loci and 11 mutations were identified. One of the mutations was blood heteroplasmy and two of the mutations caused an amino acid change in p.N117S and p.A184T. For the first time, mutations in mitochondrial genes were detected in dogs with mammary tumours. A statistically significant association between the presence of mutations and the size and age of dogs was demonstrated. Some of these changes may imply that these are the hotspot mutations of canine mammary tumour.
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- M Surdyka
- Department of Biological Bases of Animal Production, University of Life Sciences in Lublin, Lublin, Poland
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- Department of Biological Bases of Animal Production, University of Life Sciences in Lublin, Lublin, Poland
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Frantz LAF, Mullin VE, Pionnier-Capitan M, Lebrasseur O, Ollivier M, Perri A, Linderholm A, Mattiangeli V, Teasdale MD, Dimopoulos EA, Tresset A, Duffraisse M, McCormick F, Bartosiewicz L, Gál E, Nyerges ÉA, Sablin MV, Bréhard S, Mashkour M, Bălăşescu A, Gillet B, Hughes S, Chassaing O, Hitte C, Vigne JD, Dobney K, Hänni C, Bradley DG, Larson G. Genomic and archaeological evidence suggest a dual origin of domestic dogs. Science 2016; 352:1228-31. [PMID: 27257259 DOI: 10.1126/science.aaf3161] [Citation(s) in RCA: 212] [Impact Index Per Article: 26.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/02/2016] [Accepted: 04/25/2016] [Indexed: 01/19/2023]
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The geographic and temporal origins of dogs remain controversial. We generated genetic sequences from 59 ancient dogs and a complete (28x) genome of a late Neolithic dog (dated to ~4800 calendar years before the present) from Ireland. Our analyses revealed a deep split separating modern East Asian and Western Eurasian dogs. Surprisingly, the date of this divergence (~14,000 to 6400 years ago) occurs commensurate with, or several millennia after, the first appearance of dogs in Europe and East Asia. Additional analyses of ancient and modern mitochondrial DNA revealed a sharp discontinuity in haplotype frequencies in Europe. Combined, these results suggest that dogs may have been domesticated independently in Eastern and Western Eurasia from distinct wolf populations. East Eurasian dogs were then possibly transported to Europe with people, where they partially replaced European Paleolithic dogs.
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- Laurent A F Frantz
- The Palaeogenomics and Bio-Archaeology Research Network, Research Laboratory for Archaeology and History of Art, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
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- Smurfit Institute of Genetics, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin 2, Ireland
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- CNRS/ENS de Lyon, IGFL, UMR 5242 and French National Platform of Paleogenetics, PALGENE, Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon, 46 Allée d'Italie, 69364 Lyon Cedex 07, France/Université Grenoble Alpes, Laboratoire d'Ecologie Alpine (LECA), F-38000 Grenoble, France. CNRS/Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle/Sorbonne Universités, Archéozoologie, Archéobotanique: Sociétés, Pratiques et Environnement (UMR 7209), CP56, 55 rue Buffon, F-75005 Paris, France
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- The Palaeogenomics and Bio-Archaeology Research Network, Research Laboratory for Archaeology and History of Art, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
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- CNRS/ENS de Lyon, IGFL, UMR 5242 and French National Platform of Paleogenetics, PALGENE, Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon, 46 Allée d'Italie, 69364 Lyon Cedex 07, France/Université Grenoble Alpes, Laboratoire d'Ecologie Alpine (LECA), F-38000 Grenoble, France
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- Department of Human Evolution, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, 04103 Leipzig, Germany
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- The Palaeogenomics and Bio-Archaeology Research Network, Research Laboratory for Archaeology and History of Art, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK. Department of Anthropology, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843-4352, USA
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- Smurfit Institute of Genetics, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin 2, Ireland
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- The Palaeogenomics and Bio-Archaeology Research Network, Research Laboratory for Archaeology and History of Art, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK. School of Biology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece
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- CNRS/Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle/Sorbonne Universités, Archéozoologie, Archéobotanique: Sociétés, Pratiques et Environnement (UMR 7209), CP56, 55 rue Buffon, F-75005 Paris, France
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- CNRS/ENS de Lyon, IGFL, UMR 5242 and French National Platform of Paleogenetics, PALGENE, Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon, 46 Allée d'Italie, 69364 Lyon Cedex 07, France/Université Grenoble Alpes, Laboratoire d'Ecologie Alpine (LECA), F-38000 Grenoble, France
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- School of Geography, Archaeology and Palaeoecology, Queen's University Belfast, University Road, Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK
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- Osteoarchaeological Research Laboratory, University of Stockholm, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Archaeological Institute, Research Centre for the Humanities, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary
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- Archaeological Institute, Research Centre for the Humanities, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary
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- Zoological Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Universitetskaya Nab. 1, 199034 Saint-Petersburg, Russia
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- CNRS/Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle/Sorbonne Universités, Archéozoologie, Archéobotanique: Sociétés, Pratiques et Environnement (UMR 7209), CP56, 55 rue Buffon, F-75005 Paris, France
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- CNRS/Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle/Sorbonne Universités, Archéozoologie, Archéobotanique: Sociétés, Pratiques et Environnement (UMR 7209), CP56, 55 rue Buffon, F-75005 Paris, France
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- The National Museum of Romanian History, 12 Calea Victoriei, 030026 Bucharest, Romania
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- CNRS/ENS de Lyon, IGFL, UMR 5242 and French National Platform of Paleogenetics, PALGENE, Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon, 46 Allée d'Italie, 69364 Lyon Cedex 07, France/Université Grenoble Alpes, Laboratoire d'Ecologie Alpine (LECA), F-38000 Grenoble, France
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- CNRS/ENS de Lyon, IGFL, UMR 5242 and French National Platform of Paleogenetics, PALGENE, Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon, 46 Allée d'Italie, 69364 Lyon Cedex 07, France/Université Grenoble Alpes, Laboratoire d'Ecologie Alpine (LECA), F-38000 Grenoble, France
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- CNRS/ENS de Lyon, IGFL, UMR 5242 and French National Platform of Paleogenetics, PALGENE, Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon, 46 Allée d'Italie, 69364 Lyon Cedex 07, France/Université Grenoble Alpes, Laboratoire d'Ecologie Alpine (LECA), F-38000 Grenoble, France
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- Institut de Génétique et Développement de Rennes, CNRS-UMR6290, Université de Rennes 1, Rennes, France
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- CNRS/Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle/Sorbonne Universités, Archéozoologie, Archéobotanique: Sociétés, Pratiques et Environnement (UMR 7209), CP56, 55 rue Buffon, F-75005 Paris, France
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- Department of Archaeology, School of Geosciences, University of Aberdeen, St. Mary's, Elphinstone Road, AB24 3UF, UK. Department of Archaeology, Classics and Egyptology, University of Liverpool, 12-14 Abercromby Square, Liverpool L69 7WZ, UK
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- CNRS/ENS de Lyon, IGFL, UMR 5242 and French National Platform of Paleogenetics, PALGENE, Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon, 46 Allée d'Italie, 69364 Lyon Cedex 07, France/Université Grenoble Alpes, Laboratoire d'Ecologie Alpine (LECA), F-38000 Grenoble, France
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- Smurfit Institute of Genetics, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin 2, Ireland.
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- The Palaeogenomics and Bio-Archaeology Research Network, Research Laboratory for Archaeology and History of Art, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
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Surdyka M, Slaska B. Defect of the mitochondrial DNA hypervariable region as a risk factor for canine mammary tumour. Vet Comp Oncol 2016; 15:820-828. [PMID: 27198058 DOI: 10.1111/vco.12224] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/05/2015] [Revised: 01/05/2016] [Accepted: 02/07/2016] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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The aim of this study was to identify mutations in the hypervariable region of mitochondrial DNA in canine mammary tumours and to determine their association with the process of neoplastic transformation. A total of 93 biological samples, including blood as well as normal and neoplastic tissue samples from 31 dogs with diagnosed malignant canine mammary tumours were analysed. DNA extraction, amplification and sequencing of the D-loop as well as bioinformatic and statistical analyses were performed. In the mitochondrial D-loop sequence, 26 polymorphic loci and 5 mutations were identified. For the first time, D-loop length heteroplasmy was detected in dogs with mammary tumours. The malignancy grade exerted no effect on the presence of nucleotide changes. A statistically significant association between the presence of mutations and polymorphisms and the size of dogs was demonstrated. The 100% frequency of length heteroplasmy may imply that this is a hotspot mutation of canine mammary tumour.
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- M Surdyka
- Department of Biological Bases of Animal Production, University of Life Sciences in Lublin, Lublin, Poland
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- Department of Biological Bases of Animal Production, University of Life Sciences in Lublin, Lublin, Poland
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Śmiech A, Ślaska B, Surdyka M, Grzybowska-Szatkowska L, Łopuszyński W, Różańska D. Identification of additional mitochondrial DNA mutations in canine mast cell tumours. Acta Vet Scand 2016; 58:28. [PMID: 27146669 PMCID: PMC4855722 DOI: 10.1186/s13028-016-0210-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/24/2015] [Accepted: 04/24/2016] [Indexed: 11/10/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND Research has revealed the presence of somatic mutations in mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) of certain types of tumours. As this has not been studied for canine mast cell tumours, the aim of this study was to identify mutations in the hypervariable region of mtDNA in mast cell tumours in dogs and determine their association with the process of neoplastic transformation. RESULTS Samples from 17 dogs with histopathologically confirmed mast cell tumours were analysed. The samples consisted of tumour tissues (n = 17), normal tissues (n = 17), and blood (n = 17). Amplicons of the displacement loop (D-loop) were sequenced and the obtained nucleotide sequences were subjected to bioinformatics analyses. Somatic mutations were detected in seven positions of the D-loop nucleotide sequences in 47 % of the dogs, while polymorphisms were identified in 94 % of the dogs. Most of these changes were homoplasmic, while heteroplasmy was detected in two individuals. Six new haplotypes were established as being characteristic for canine mast cell tumours. There was no association between the presence of the mutations and sex, haplotype, or malignancy grade assessed in 3 and 2-grade scales. CONCLUSIONS Differences in the frequency of somatic mutations imply their direct association with the neoplastic transformation. However, their functional consequences and clinical significance are not clear. The mutations may be used for diagnosis and prognosis of canine mast cell tumours in the future.
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Munoz J, Mayer DG. Toxoplasma gondii and Giardia duodenalis infections in domestic dogs in New York City public parks. Vet J 2016; 211:97-9. [DOI: 10.1016/j.tvjl.2016.02.015] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/30/2015] [Revised: 01/02/2016] [Accepted: 02/27/2016] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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Adding Emulsified Isoflurane to Cardioplegia Solution Produces Cardiac Protection in a Dog Cardiopulmonary Bypass Model. Sci Rep 2016; 6:23572. [PMID: 27121996 PMCID: PMC4848478 DOI: 10.1038/srep23572] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/18/2015] [Accepted: 03/03/2016] [Indexed: 02/05/2023] Open
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This study investigated whether caridoplegia solution with Emulsified Isoflurane (EI) could improve cardiaoprotection in a dog CPB model of great similarity to clinical settings. Adult dogs were randomly assigned to receive one of the following cardioplegia solutions: St. Thomas with EI (group ST+EI), St. Thomas with 30% Intralipid (group ST+EL) and St. Thomas alone (group ST). The aorta was cross-clamped for two hours followed by reperfusion for another two hours, during which cardiac output was measured and dosages of positive inotropic agent to maintain normal hemodynamics were recorded. Serum level of cardiac troponin I (cTnI) and CK-MB were measured. Deletion of cardiac mitochondrial DNA was examined at the end of reperfusion. Compared with ST, ST+EI decreased the requirement of dopamine support while animals receiving ST+EI had a significantly larger cardiac output. ST+EI reduced post-CPB release of cTnI and CK-MB. Mitochondrial DNA loss was observed in only one of the tested animals from group ST+EI while it was seen in all the tested animals from group ST+EL and ST. Addition of emulsified isoflurane into cardioplegia solution protects against myocardial ischemia reperfusion injury. This protective effect might be mediated by preserving mitochondrial ultrastructure and DNA integrity.
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Song JJ, Wang WZ, Otecko NO, Peng MS, Zhang YP. Reconciling the conflicts between mitochondrial DNA haplogroup trees of Canis lupus. Forensic Sci Int Genet 2016; 23:83-85. [PMID: 27042801 DOI: 10.1016/j.fsigen.2016.03.008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/27/2015] [Revised: 03/25/2016] [Accepted: 03/25/2016] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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- Jiao-Jiao Song
- Institute of Health Sciences, Anhui University, 111 Jiulong Lu, 230601 Hefei, China; State Key Laboratory of Genetic Resources and Evolution, Yunnan Laboratory of Molecular Biology of Domestic Animals, and Germplasm Bank of Wild Species, Kunming Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 32 Jiaochang Donglu, 650223 Kunming, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Genetic Resources and Evolution, Yunnan Laboratory of Molecular Biology of Domestic Animals, and Germplasm Bank of Wild Species, Kunming Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 32 Jiaochang Donglu, 650223 Kunming, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Genetic Resources and Evolution, Yunnan Laboratory of Molecular Biology of Domestic Animals, and Germplasm Bank of Wild Species, Kunming Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 32 Jiaochang Donglu, 650223 Kunming, China; Kunming College of Life Science, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, 19 Qingsong Lu, 650204 Kunming, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Genetic Resources and Evolution, Yunnan Laboratory of Molecular Biology of Domestic Animals, and Germplasm Bank of Wild Species, Kunming Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 32 Jiaochang Donglu, 650223 Kunming, China; Kunming College of Life Science, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, 19 Qingsong Lu, 650204 Kunming, China.
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- State Key Laboratory of Genetic Resources and Evolution, Yunnan Laboratory of Molecular Biology of Domestic Animals, and Germplasm Bank of Wild Species, Kunming Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 32 Jiaochang Donglu, 650223 Kunming, China; Kunming College of Life Science, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, 19 Qingsong Lu, 650204 Kunming, China; State Key Laboratory for Conservation and Utilization of Bio-Resources, Yunnan University, 2 Cuihu Beilu, 650091 Kunming, China.
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Robinson LM, Skiver Thompson R, Ha JC. Puppy Temperament Assessments Predict Breed and American Kennel Club Group but Not Adult Temperament. J APPL ANIM WELF SCI 2016; 19:101-14. [PMID: 26882034 DOI: 10.1080/10888705.2015.1127765] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/23/2023]
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Puppy assessments for companion dogs have shown mixed long-term reliability. Temperament is cited among the reasons for surrendering dogs to shelters. A puppy temperament test that reliably predicts adult behavior is one potential way to lower the number of dogs given to shelters. This study used a longitudinal design to assess temperament in puppies from 8 different breeds at 7 weeks old (n = 52) and 6 years old (n = 34) using modified temperament tests, physiological measures, and a follow-up questionnaire. For 7-week-old puppies, results revealed (a) puppy breed was predictable using 3 variables, (b) 4 American Kennel Club breed groups had some validity based on temperament, (c) temperament was variable within litters of puppies, and (d) certain measures of temperament were related to physiological measures (heart rate). Finally, puppy temperament assessments were reliable in predicting the scores of 2 of the 8 adult dog temperament measures. However, overall, the puppy temperament scores were unreliable in predicting adult temperament.
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- Lauren M Robinson
- a Department of Psychology , School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences, University of Edinburgh , United Kingdom.,b Jeanne Marchig International Centre for Animal Welfare Education, Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies, University of Edinburgh , United Kingdom
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- c Department of Psychology , University of Washington
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Yu JN, Kwak M. The complete mitochondrial genome of Brachymystax lenok tsinlingensis (Salmoninae, Salmonidae) and its intraspecific variation. Gene 2015; 573:246-53. [PMID: 26188159 DOI: 10.1016/j.gene.2015.07.049] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/11/2014] [Revised: 07/02/2015] [Accepted: 07/14/2015] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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The Manchurian trout, Brachymystax lenok tsinlingensis, is endangered in Korea, where the southern range limit for this cold-freshwater fish occurs. In this study, the complete mitochondrial genome of Korean B. lenok tsinlingensis was sequenced and its genetic characteristics were identified. The mitogenome of B. lenok tsinlingensis comprises 16,748 base pairs containing 37 genes (13 protein-coding genes, 22 tRNA genes, and 2 rRNA genes) and one major non-coding region (control region), making it similar to the majority of vertebrate mitogenomes. Interestingly, at the base of the stem region of OL in B. lenok tsinlingensis, the conserved motif is replaced by a 5'-ACCGG-3' motif instead of the 5'-GCCGG-3'. We also identified an 81-base-pair tandem-repeat motif in the control region, the length of which is reduced by one nucleotide compared to those in B. lenok and Hucho species. The number of repeat motifs differed between Korean and Chinese B. lenok tsinlingensis, with two and three reiterations, respectively. The control region of B. lenok and its relatives will be used as a genetic marker in evolution/genetic studies and as a PCR-based marker for rapid identification of their lineages.
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- Jeong-Nam Yu
- National Institute of Biological Resources, Environmental Research Complex, Incheon 404-708, Republic of Korea
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- National Institute of Biological Resources, Environmental Research Complex, Incheon 404-708, Republic of Korea.
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Genetic structure in village dogs reveals a Central Asian domestication origin. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2015; 112:13639-44. [PMID: 26483491 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1516215112] [Citation(s) in RCA: 113] [Impact Index Per Article: 12.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Dogs were the first domesticated species, originating at least 15,000 y ago from Eurasian gray wolves. Dogs today consist primarily of two specialized groups--a diverse set of nearly 400 pure breeds and a far more populous group of free-ranging animals adapted to a human commensal lifestyle (village dogs). Village dogs are more genetically diverse and geographically widespread than purebred dogs making them vital for unraveling dog population history. Using a semicustom 185,805-marker genotyping array, we conducted a large-scale survey of autosomal, mitochondrial, and Y chromosome diversity in 4,676 purebred dogs from 161 breeds and 549 village dogs from 38 countries. Geographic structure shows both isolation and gene flow have shaped genetic diversity in village dog populations. Some populations (notably those in the Neotropics and the South Pacific) are almost completely derived from European stock, whereas others are clearly admixed between indigenous and European dogs. Importantly, many populations--including those of Vietnam, India, and Egypt-show minimal evidence of European admixture. These populations exhibit a clear gradient of short--range linkage disequilibrium consistent with a Central Asian domestication origin.
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Greig K, Boocock J, Prost S, Horsburgh KA, Jacomb C, Walter R, Matisoo-Smith E. Complete Mitochondrial Genomes of New Zealand's First Dogs. PLoS One 2015; 10:e0138536. [PMID: 26444283 PMCID: PMC4596854 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0138536] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/21/2015] [Accepted: 09/01/2015] [Indexed: 11/25/2022] Open
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Dogs accompanied people in their migrations across the Pacific Ocean and ultimately reached New Zealand, which is the southern-most point of their oceanic distribution, around the beginning of the fourteenth century AD. Previous ancient DNA analyses of mitochondrial control region sequences indicated the New Zealand dog population included two lineages. We sequenced complete mitochondrial genomes of fourteen dogs from the colonisation era archaeological site of Wairau Bar and found five closely-related haplotypes. The limited number of mitochondrial lineages present at Wairau Bar suggests that the founding population may have comprised only a few dogs; or that the arriving dogs were closely related. For populations such as that at Wairau Bar, which stemmed from relatively recent migration events, control region sequences have insufficient power to address questions about population structure and founding events. Sequencing mitogenomes provided the opportunity to observe sufficient diversity to discriminate between individuals that would otherwise be assigned the same haplotype and to clarify their relationships with each other. Our results also support the proposition that at least one dispersal of dogs into the Pacific was via a south-western route through Indonesia.
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- Karen Greig
- Allan Wilson Centre, Department of Anatomy, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand
- Department of Anthropology and Archaeology, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand
- * E-mail: (KG); (EMS)
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- Allan Wilson Centre, Department of Anatomy, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand
- Department of Biochemistry, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand
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- Allan Wilson Centre, Department of Anatomy, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand
- Department of Integrative Biology, University of California, Berkeley, United States of America
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- Department of Anthropology, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, United States of America
- School of Geography, Archaeology and Environmental Studies, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
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- Department of Anthropology and Archaeology, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand
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- Department of Anthropology and Archaeology, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand
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- Allan Wilson Centre, Department of Anatomy, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand
- * E-mail: (KG); (EMS)
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Complete mitochondrial genome database and standardized classification system for Canis lupus familiaris. Forensic Sci Int Genet 2015. [PMID: 26218982 DOI: 10.1016/j.fsigen.2015.06.014] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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To contribute to the complete mitogenome database of the species Canis lupus familiaris and shed more light on its origin, we have sequenced mitochondrial genomes of 120 modern dogs from worldwide populations. Together with all the previously published mitogenome sequences of acceptable quality, we have reconstructed a global phylogenetic tree of 555 C. l. familiaris mitogenomes and standardized haplogroup nomenclature. The phylogenetic tree presented here and available online at http://clf.mtdna.tree.cm.umk.pl/ could be further used by forensic and evolutionary geneticists as well cynologists, for data quality control and unambiguous haplogroup classification. Our in-depth phylogeographic analysis of all C. l. familiaris mitogenomes confirmed that domestic dogs may have originated in East Asia during the Mesolithic and Upper Paleolithic time periods and started to expand to other parts of the world during Neolithic times.
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