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Yordanov G, Palova N, Mehandjyiski I, Hristov P. Mitochondrial DNA sequencing illuminates genetic diversity and origin of Hunagrian Nonius horse breed and his relatives - Danubian horse and Serbian Nonius. Anim Biotechnol 2023; 34:3897-3907. [PMID: 37489100 DOI: 10.1080/10495398.2023.2237533] [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] [Indexed: 07/26/2023]
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From a historical perspective, horse breeding in Bulgaria has been very well developed since the time of the Thracians (early Bronze Age c. 3000 BCE). Archaeological discoveries from this era present us with an extremely rich type diversity, including wild and local primitive horses, the prototype of heavy draft horses, and fine riding horses.The objective of this study was to investigate the genetic structure of unexamined populations of three closely related horse breeds - the Danubian Nonius Hungarian Nonius and Serbian Nonius horses. A 608 bp long fragment of the mtDNA D-loop region was amplified and sequenced. The obtained results showed completely different genetic profiles between the investigated breeds. We identified nine of the 17 haplogroups described in modern horses. Most of the obtained sequences fell into M, L, G, and O'P lineages, which reflects the genetic profiles of the ancestral mares that were probably used at the initial stages of formation of the breeds. The population of the Danubian horse was characterized by a high prevalence of Central Asian specific haplogroup G (45%), followed by Western Eurasian specific haplogroups L and M (both about 21%). In contrast to the Danubian horse, in the Nonius breed the highest frequency of Western Eurasian haplogroup M (43.5%) was found, followed by Middle Eastern haplogroups O'P (26.1%) Central Asian specific E (13.0%) and G (13.1%). The Serbian Nonius horse showed a completely different genetic profile with a prevalence of the rare for Europe haplogroup D (66.7%), followed by Central Asian specific G (16.7%). The high mitochondrial haplotype diversity (Hd = 0.886) found in the investigated samples is evidence for multiple maternal origins in all populations.In conclusion, the obtained results demonstrated a high percentage of haplogroup sharing especially in the Danubian and Hungarian Nonius horse breeds, which reflects the possible common origins of the two breeds. In contrast to these breeds, the Serbian Nonius, despite the small number of investigated animals, showed a specific genetic profile, which could be explained by different and independent origins.
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- Georgi Yordanov
- Executive Agency for Selection and Reproduction in Animal Breeding, Sofia, Bulgaria
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- Scientific Center of Agriculture, Agricultural Academy, Sredets, Bulgaria
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- Research Centre of Stockbreeding and Agriculture, Agricultural Academy, Smolyan, Bulgaria
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- Department of Animal Diversity and Resources, Institute of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Research, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia, Bulgaria
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Nishita Y, Amaike Y, Spassov N, Hristova L, Kostov D, Vladova D, Peeva S, Raichev E, Vlaeva R, Masuda R. Diversity of mitochondrial D-loop haplotypes from ancient Thracian horses in Bulgaria. Anim Sci J 2023; 94:e13810. [PMID: 36717086 DOI: 10.1111/asj.13810] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/11/2022] [Revised: 01/05/2023] [Accepted: 01/10/2023] [Indexed: 02/01/2023]
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The domestication of the horse began possibly more than 5000 years ago in the western part of the Eurasian steppe, and according to the leading hypothesis, horses first spread from the Steppe toward the region of the Thracian culture, starting in the second half of the 2nd millennium BCE and flourished from the fifth to first centuries BCE, mainly located in present-day Bulgaria. We analyzed 17 horse bone remains excavated from Thracian archaeological sites (fourth to first centuries BCE) in Bulgaria and successfully identified 17 sequences representing 14 different haplotypes of the mitochondrial D-loop. Compared with the mtDNA haplotypes of modern horses around the world, ancient Thracian horses in Bulgaria are thought to be more closely related to modern horses of Southern Europe and less related to those of Central Asia. In addition, the haplotypes we obtained represented 11 previously reported modern horse mtDNA haplogroups: A, B, D, E, G, H, I, L, N, P, and Q. All the haplogroups contain modern and regionally predominant haplotypes occurring in Europe, the Middle East, and Central Asia. Our results indicate that Thracian horses in Bulgaria have had relatively high genetic diversity and are closely related to modern horse breeds.
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- Yoshinori Nishita
- Department of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Science, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Science, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan
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- National Museum of Natural History, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia, Bulgaria
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- National Museum of Natural History, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia, Bulgaria
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- Department of Veterinary Anatomy, Histology and Embryology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Trakia University, Stara Zagora, Bulgaria
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- Department of Veterinary Anatomy, Histology and Embryology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Trakia University, Stara Zagora, Bulgaria
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- Department of Animal Production, Faculty of Agricultural Science, Trakia University, Stara Zagora, Bulgaria
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- Department of Animal Production, Faculty of Agricultural Science, Trakia University, Stara Zagora, Bulgaria
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- Department of Animal Production, Faculty of Agricultural Science, Trakia University, Stara Zagora, Bulgaria
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Science, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan
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Cardinali I, Giontella A, Tommasi A, Silvestrelli M, Lancioni H. Unlocking Horse Y Chromosome Diversity. Genes (Basel) 2022; 13:genes13122272. [PMID: 36553539 PMCID: PMC9777570 DOI: 10.3390/genes13122272] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/22/2022] [Revised: 11/30/2022] [Accepted: 11/30/2022] [Indexed: 12/11/2022] Open
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The present equine genetic variation mirrors the deep influence of intensive breeding programs during the last 200 years. Here, we provide a comprehensive current state of knowledge on the trends and prospects on the variation in the equine male-specific region of the Y chromosome (MSY), which was assembled for the first time in 2018. In comparison with the other 12 mammalian species, horses are now the most represented, with 56 documented MSY genes. However, in contrast to the high variability in mitochondrial DNA observed in many horse breeds from different geographic areas, modern horse populations demonstrate extremely low genetic Y-chromosome diversity. The selective pressures employed by breeders using pedigree data (which are not always error-free) as a predictive tool represent the main cause of this lack of variation in the Y-chromosome. Nevertheless, the detailed phylogenies obtained by recent fine-scaled Y-chromosomal genotyping in many horse breeds worldwide have contributed to addressing the genealogical, forensic, and population questions leading to the reappraisal of the Y-chromosome as a powerful genetic marker to avoid the loss of biodiversity as a result of selective breeding practices, and to better understand the historical development of horse breeds.
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- Irene Cardinali
- Department of Chemistry, Biology and Biotechnology, University of Perugia, 06123 Perugia, Italy
- Correspondence: (I.C.); (A.G.)
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- Department of Veterinary Medicine, University of Perugia, 06126 Perugia, Italy
- Correspondence: (I.C.); (A.G.)
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- Department of Biology and Biotechnology “L. Spallanzani”, University of Pavia, 27100 Pavia, Italy
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- Department of Chemistry, Biology and Biotechnology, University of Perugia, 06123 Perugia, Italy
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Delsol N, Stucky BJ, Oswald JA, Reitz EJ, Emery KF, Guralnick R. Analysis of the earliest complete mtDNA genome of a Caribbean colonial horse (Equus caballus) from 16th-century Haiti. PLoS One 2022; 17:e0270600. [PMID: 35895670 PMCID: PMC9328532 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0270600] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/09/2021] [Accepted: 06/13/2022] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Unlike other European domesticates introduced in the Americas after the European invasion, equids (Equidae) were previously in the Western Hemisphere but were extinct by the late Holocene era. The return of equids to the Americas through the introduction of the domestic horse (Equus caballus) is documented in the historical literature but is not explored fully either archaeologically or genetically. Historical documents suggest that the first domestic horses were brought from the Iberian Peninsula to the Caribbean in the late 15th century CE, but archaeological remains of these early introductions are rare. This paper presents the mitochondrial genome of a late 16th century horse from the Spanish colonial site of Puerto Real (northern Haiti). It represents the earliest complete mitogenome of a post-Columbian domestic horse in the Western Hemisphere offering a unique opportunity to clarify the phylogeographic history of this species in the Americas. Our data supports the hypothesis of an Iberian origin for this early translocated individual and clarifies its phylogenetic relationship with modern breeds in the Americas.
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- Nicolas Delsol
- Florida Museum of Natural History, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America
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- Florida Museum of Natural History, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America
- Agricultural Research Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Beltsville, MD, United States of America
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- Florida Museum of Natural History, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America
- Biology Department, University of Nevada, Reno, Reno, NV, United States of America
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- Georgia Museum of Natural History, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America
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- Florida Museum of Natural History, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America
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- Florida Museum of Natural History, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America
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Hong JH, Oh CS, Kim S, Kang IU, Shin DH. Genetic analysis of mitochondrial DNA from ancient <i>Equus caballus</i> bones found at archaeological site of Joseon dynasty period capital area. Anim Biosci 2022; 35:1141-1150. [PMID: 35240033 PMCID: PMC9262724 DOI: 10.5713/ab.21.0500] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/10/2021] [Accepted: 01/28/2022] [Indexed: 11/27/2022] Open
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Objective To understand the domestication and spread of horses in history, genetic information is essential. However, mitogenetic traits of ancient or medieval horses have yet to be comprehensively revealed, especially for East Asia. This study thus set out to reveal the maternal lineage of skeletal horse remains retrieved from a 15th century archaeological site (Gongpyeongdong) at Old Seoul City in South Korea. Methods We extracted DNA from the femur of Equus caballus (SNU-A001) from Joseon period Gongpyeongdong site. Mitochondrial (mt) DNA (HRS 15128-16116) of E. caballus was amplified by polymerase chain reaction. Cloning and sequencing were conducted for the mtDNA amplicons. The sequencing results were analyzed by NCBI/BLAST and phylogenetic tool of MEGA7 software. Results By means of mtDNA cytochrome b and D-loop analysis, we found that the 15th century Korean horse belonged to haplogroup Q representing those horses that have historically been raised widely in East Asia. Conclusion The horse is unique among domesticated animals for the remarkable impact it has on human civilization in terms of transportation and trade. Utilizing the Joseon-period horse remains, we can obtain clues to reveal the genetic traits of Korean horse that existed before the introduction of Western horses.
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The Sequence Analysis of Mitochondrial DNA Revealed Some Major Centers of Horse Domestications: The Archaeologist's Cut. J Equine Vet Sci 2021; 109:103830. [PMID: 34871751 DOI: 10.1016/j.jevs.2021.103830] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/24/2021] [Revised: 11/28/2021] [Accepted: 11/29/2021] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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The question about the time and the place of horse domestication, a process which had a profound impact on the progress of mankind, is disputable. According to the most widely accepted hypothesis, the earliest domestication of the horse happened in the western parts of the Eurasian steppes, between the Northern Black Sea region and present-day Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan. It seems that it occurred not earlier than the first half and most probably during the middle (even the last third) of the fourth millennium BC (from ∼ 5.5 kya). The next steps of large-scale horse breeding occurred almost simultaneously in Eurasia and North Africa due to the development of the social structure of human communities. On the other hand, the morphological differences between wild and domestic animals are rather vague and the genetic introgression between them is speculative. In this review, we have tried to gather all available scientific data on the existing possible hypotheses for the earliest domestication of the horse, as well as to highlight some data on the most plausible ones. This is due to the frequency of some significant data on the frequency of strictly defined mitotypes in different historical periods of human civilizations existing in the same periods.
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Yordanov G, Zlatanovic N, Palova N, Mehandjyiski I, Neov B, Radoslavov G, Hristov P. Sequence analysis of the mitochondrial D-loop region throws a new light on the origin of Hungarian Nonius, Danubian Horse and Serbian Nonius. Acta Vet Hung 2021; 69:239-248. [PMID: 34343110 DOI: 10.1556/004.2021.00029] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/05/2021] [Accepted: 07/07/2021] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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The objective of our study was to investigate the genetic structure of yet uninvestigated populations of three closely related horse breeds - the Danubian Horse, the Hungarian Nonius and the Serbian Nonius - in order to clarify their origin and genetic diversity. A 640-bp-long fragment of the mtDNA D-loop region was amplified and sequenced. The results showed that the investigated breeds have different genetic profiles although they share some common characteristics. We identified nine of the 17 haplogroups described in modern horses. Most of the obtained sequences fall into the M, L, G, and O'P lineages, which is indicative of the genetic profile of the ancestral mares that had probably been used at the initial stages of the formation of the breeds. The population of the Danubian Horse is characterised by a high prevalence of the Anatolian specific haplogroup G (45%), followed by the Western Eurasian specific haplogroups L and M (both about 21%). In the Hungarian Nonius breed we found the highest frequency of the Western Eurasian haplogroup M (44%), followed by the Middle Eastern O'P (26%) and the Central Asian specific E (13%) and G (13%). The Serbian Nonius showed a distinct genetic profile, characterised by a high prevalence of the rare European haplogroup D (67%), followed by the Central Asian specific haplogroup G (17%). The high percentage of haplogroups shared especially between the Danubian and the Hungarian Nonius indicates the possibility of a common origin of the two breeds. In contrast, the Serbian Nonius showed a specific genetic profile, which can be explained by a different and independent origin.
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- Georgi Yordanov
- 1 Executive Agency for Selection and Reproduction in Animal Breeding, Sofia, Bulgaria
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- 3 Scientific Center of Agriculture, Agricultural Academy, Sredets, Bulgaria
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- 4 Research Centеr of Stockbreeding and Agriculture, Agricultural Academy, Smolyan, Bulgaria
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- 5 Department of Animal Diversity and Resources, Institute of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Research, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, ‘Acad. G. Bonchev’ Str., Bl. 25, 1113, Sofia, Bulgaria
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- 5 Department of Animal Diversity and Resources, Institute of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Research, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, ‘Acad. G. Bonchev’ Str., Bl. 25, 1113, Sofia, Bulgaria
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- 5 Department of Animal Diversity and Resources, Institute of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Research, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, ‘Acad. G. Bonchev’ Str., Bl. 25, 1113, Sofia, Bulgaria
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From the Eurasian Steppes to the Roman Circuses: A Review of Early Development of Horse Breeding and Management. Animals (Basel) 2021; 11:ani11071859. [PMID: 34206575 PMCID: PMC8300240 DOI: 10.3390/ani11071859] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/01/2021] [Revised: 06/16/2021] [Accepted: 06/17/2021] [Indexed: 01/14/2023] Open
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Simple Summary Horses were domesticated later than any other major livestock species. Their role in shaping ancient civilizations cannot be overestimated. As a primary means of transportation, an essential asset in warfare, and later one of the key elements of circus entertainment, horses quickly became luxurious goods. Vast amounts of money were invested in the horse industry resulted resulting in the rapid development of horse breeding and husbandry. This review examines paleogenetic, archeological, and classical studies on managing horses in antiquity. Many ancient approaches and practices in horse management are still relevant today and some of them, now abandoned, are worth re-examination. Abstract The domestication of the horse began about 5500 years ago in the Eurasian steppes. In the following millennia horses spread across the ancient world, and their role in transportation and warfare affected every ancient culture. Ownership of horses became an indicator of wealth and social status. The importance of horses led to a growing interest in their breeding and management. Many phenotypic traits, such as height, behavior, and speed potential, have been proven to be a subject of selection; however, the details of ancient breeding practices remain mostly unknown. From the fourth millennium BP, through the Iron Age, many literature sources thoroughly describe horse training systems, as well as various aspects of husbandry, many of which are still in use today. The striking resemblance of ancient and modern equine practices leaves us wondering how much was accomplished through four thousand years of horse breeding.
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Microevolution operating in domestic animals: evidence from the Colombian Paso horses. Mamm Biol 2021. [DOI: 10.1007/s42991-021-00103-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/22/2022]
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The equid family contains only one single extant genus, Equus, including seven living species grouped into horses on the one hand and zebras and asses on the other. In contrast, the equine fossil record shows that an extraordinarily richer diversity existed in the past and provides multiple examples of a highly dynamic evolution punctuated by several waves of explosive radiations and extinctions, cross-continental migrations, and local adaptations. In recent years, genomic technologies have provided new analytical solutions that have enhanced our understanding of equine evolution, including the species radiation within Equus; the extinction dynamics of several lineages; and the domestication history of two individual species, the horse and the donkey. Here, we provide an overview of these recent developments and suggest areas for further research.
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- Pablo Librado
- Laboratoire d'Anthropobiologie Moléculaire et d'Imagerie de Synthèse, CNRS UMR 5288, Université Paul Sabatier, Toulouse 31000, France;
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- Laboratoire d'Anthropobiologie Moléculaire et d'Imagerie de Synthèse, CNRS UMR 5288, Université Paul Sabatier, Toulouse 31000, France;
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Guimaraes S, Arbuckle BS, Peters J, Adcock SE, Buitenhuis H, Chazin H, Manaseryan N, Uerpmann HP, Grange T, Geigl EM. Ancient DNA shows domestic horses were introduced in the southern Caucasus and Anatolia during the Bronze Age. SCIENCE ADVANCES 2020; 6:eabb0030. [PMID: 32938680 PMCID: PMC7494339 DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.abb0030] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/22/2020] [Accepted: 07/31/2020] [Indexed: 05/12/2023]
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Despite the important roles that horses have played in human history, particularly in the spread of languages and cultures, and correspondingly intensive research on this topic, the origin of domestic horses remains elusive. Several domestication centers have been hypothesized, but most of these have been invalidated through recent paleogenetic studies. Anatolia is a region with an extended history of horse exploitation that has been considered a candidate for the origins of domestic horses but has never been subject to detailed investigation. Our paleogenetic study of pre- and protohistoric horses in Anatolia and the Caucasus, based on a diachronic sample from the early Neolithic to the Iron Age (~8000 to ~1000 BCE) that encompasses the presumed transition from wild to domestic horses (4000 to 3000 BCE), shows the rapid and large-scale introduction of domestic horses at the end of the third millennium BCE. Thus, our results argue strongly against autochthonous independent domestication of horses in Anatolia.
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- Silvia Guimaraes
- Institut Jacques Monod, CNRS, University of Paris, Paris, France
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- Department of Anthropology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA
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- ArchaeoBioCenter and Department of Veterinary Sciences, Institute of Palaeoanatomy, Domestication and the History of Veterinary Medicine, Ludwig Maximilian University Munich, Kaulbachstraße 37/111, 80539 Munich, Germany
- State Collection of Anthropology and Palaeoanatomy Munich, Bavarian Natural History Collections, Karolinenplatz 2a, 80333 Munich, Germany
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- Department of Anthropology, University of Chicago, 1126 East 59th Street, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
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- Groningen Institute of Archaeology, University of Groningen, 9712 ER Groningen, Netherlands
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- Department of Anthropology, Columbia University, 1200 Amsterdam Avenue, New York, NY 10031, USA
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- Scientific Center of Zoology and Hydroecology, Institute of Zoology, National Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Armenia, 7 Paruyr Sevak Str., Yerevan 0014, Armenia
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- Institut für Ur- und Frühgeschichte und Archäologie des Mittelalters, Abteilung für Ältere Urgeschichte und Quartärökologie, Zentrum für Naturwissenschaftliche Archäologie, Universität Tübingen, Rümelinstraße 23, 72070 Tübingen, Germany
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- Institut Jacques Monod, CNRS, University of Paris, Paris, France
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- Institut Jacques Monod, CNRS, University of Paris, Paris, France.
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Han H, Bryan K, Shiraigol W, Bai D, Zhao Y, Bao W, Yang S, Zhang W, MacHugh DE, Dugarjaviin M, Hill EW. Refinement of Global Domestic Horse Biogeography Using Historic Landrace Chinese Mongolian Populations. J Hered 2020; 110:769-781. [PMID: 31628847 DOI: 10.1093/jhered/esz032] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/27/2018] [Accepted: 08/01/2019] [Indexed: 01/02/2023] Open
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The Mongolian horse is one of the oldest extant horse populations and although domesticated, most animals are free-ranging and experience minimal human intervention. As an ancient population originating in one of the key domestication centers, the Mongolian horse may play a key role in understanding the origins and recent evolutionary history of horses. Here we describe an analysis of high-density genome-wide single-nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) data in 40 globally dispersed horse populations (n = 895). In particular, we have focused on new results from Chinese Mongolian horses (n = 100) that represent 5 distinct populations. These animals were genotyped for 670K SNPs and the data were analyzed in conjunction with 35K SNP data for 35 distinct breeds. Analyses of these integrated SNP data sets demonstrated that the Chinese Mongolian populations were genetically distinct from other modern horse populations. In addition, compared to other domestic horse breeds, the Chinese Mongolian horse populations exhibited relatively high genomic diversity. These results suggest that, in genetic terms, extant Chinese Mongolian horses may be the most similar modern populations to the animals originally domesticated in this region of Asia. Chinese Mongolian horse populations may therefore retain ancestral genetic variants from the earliest domesticates. Further genomic characterization of these populations in conjunction with archaeogenetic sequence data should be prioritized for understanding recent horse evolution and the domestication process that has led to the wealth of diversity observed in modern global horse breeds.
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- Haige Han
- UCD School of Agriculture and Food Science, University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin, Ireland
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- UCD School of Agriculture and Food Science, University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin, Ireland
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- College of Animal Science, Inner Mongolia Agricultural University, Hohhot, P.R. China
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- College of Animal Science, Inner Mongolia Agricultural University, Hohhot, P.R. China
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- College of Animal Science, Inner Mongolia Agricultural University, Hohhot, P.R. China
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- Vocational and Technical College of Inner Mongolia Agricultural University, Hohhot, P.R. China
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- Inner Mongolia University for the Nationalities, Tongliao, P.R. China
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- Institute of Animal Science, Chinese Academy of Agriculture Sciences, Beijing, P.R. China
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- UCD School of Agriculture and Food Science, University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin, Ireland.,UCD Conway Institute of Biomolecular and Biomedical Research, University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin, Ireland
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- College of Animal Science, Inner Mongolia Agricultural University, Hohhot, P.R. China
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- UCD School of Agriculture and Food Science, University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin, Ireland
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Liu S, Yang Y, Pan Q, Sun Y, Ma H, Liu Y, Wang M, Zhao C, Wu C. Ancient Patrilineal Lines and Relatively High ECAY Diversity Preserved in Indigenous Horses Revealed With Novel Y-Chromosome Markers. Front Genet 2020; 11:467. [PMID: 32508879 PMCID: PMC7253630 DOI: 10.3389/fgene.2020.00467] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/29/2019] [Accepted: 04/15/2020] [Indexed: 02/06/2023] Open
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Extremely low nucleotide diversity of modern horse Y-chromosome has been reported, and only poor phylogenetic resolution could be resulted from limited Y-chromosome markers. In this study, three types of horse Y-chromosome markers, including Single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs), copy number variants (CNVs), and allele-specific CNVs, were developed by screening more than 300 male horses from 23 indigenous Chinese horse populations and 4 imported horse breeds. Fourteen segregating sites including a novel SNP in the AMELY gene were found in approximately 53 kb of male-specific Y-chromosome sequences. CNVs were detected at 11 of 14 sites, while allele-specific CNVs at 6 polymorphic sites in repeated fragments were also determined. The phylogenetic analyses with the SNPs identified in this study and previously published 51 SNPs obtained mainly from European horses showed that indigenous Chinese horses exhibit much deeper divergence than European and Middle Eastern horses, while individuals of Chinese horses with the C allele of the AMELY gene constituted the most ancient group. Via SNPs, CNVs, and allele-specific CNVs, much higher diversity of paternal lines can be detected than those identified with merely SNPs. Our results indicated that there are ancient paternal horse lines preserved in southwestern China, which sheds new light on the domestication and immigration of horses, and suggest that the priorities of the conservation should be given to the ancient and rare paternal lines. These three marker types provided finer phylogenetic resolution of horse patrilineal lines, and the strategies used in the present study also provide valuable reference for the genetic studies of other mammalian patrilineages.
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- Shuqin Liu
- College of Animal Science and Technology, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China.,Equine Center, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China
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- College of Animal Science and Technology, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China.,Equine Center, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China
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- School of Animal Science and Technology, Qingdao Agricultural University, Shandong, China
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- School of Animal Science and Technology, Qingdao Agricultural University, Shandong, China
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- College of Animal Science and Technology, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China.,Equine Center, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China
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- College of Animal Science and Technology, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China.,Equine Center, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China
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- College of Animal Science and Technology, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China.,Equine Center, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China
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- College of Animal Science and Technology, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China.,Equine Center, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China.,National Engineering Laboratory for Animal Breeding, Beijing, China.,Key Laboratory of Animal Genetics, Breeding and Reproduction, Ministry of Agriculture, Beijing, China.,Beijing Key Laboratory for Animal Genetic Improvement, Beijing, China
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- College of Animal Science and Technology, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China.,Equine Center, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China.,National Engineering Laboratory for Animal Breeding, Beijing, China.,Key Laboratory of Animal Genetics, Breeding and Reproduction, Ministry of Agriculture, Beijing, China.,Beijing Key Laboratory for Animal Genetic Improvement, Beijing, China
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Massacci FR, Clark A, Ruet A, Lansade L, Costa M, Mach N. Inter-breed diversity and temporal dynamics of the faecal microbiota in healthy horses. J Anim Breed Genet 2019; 137:103-120. [PMID: 31523867 DOI: 10.1111/jbg.12441] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/25/2019] [Revised: 08/09/2019] [Accepted: 08/28/2019] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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Understanding gut microbiota similarities and differences across breeds in horses has the potential to advance approaches aimed at personalized microbial modifications, particularly those involved in improving sport athletic performance. Here, we explore whether faecal microbiota composition based on faecal 16S ribosomal RNA gene sequencing varies across six different sport breeds at two time points 8 months apart within a cohort of 189 healthy horses cared for under similar conditions. Lusitano horses presented the smallest and Hanoverians the greatest bacterial diversity. We found subtle but significant differences in β-diversity between Lusitano, Anglo Arabian and the central European breeds, and we reproduced these results across the two time points. Repeat sampling of subjects showed community to be temporally more stable in Lusitano and Anglo Arabian breeds. Additionally, we found that 27 genera significantly varied in abundance across breeds. Overall, 33% of these taxa overlapped with previously identified taxa that were associated with genetic variation in humans or other species. However, a non-significant correlation was observed between microbial composition and the host pedigree-based kinship. Despite a notable variation in the diversity and composition of the faecal microbiota, breed exerted limited effects on the equine faecal microbiota.
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- Francesca Romana Massacci
- UMR 1313, INRA, AgroParisTech, Université Paris-Saclay, Jouy-en-Josas, France.,Research and Development Department, Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale dell'Umbria e delle Marche 'Togo Rosati', Perugia, Italy.,Agricultural and Food Sciences Department, Alma Mater Studiorum University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy
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- Gastroenterology Department, Vall d'Hebron Research Center, Barcelona, Spain
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- PRC, INRA, CNRS, IFCE, University of Tours, Nouzilly, France
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- PRC, INRA, CNRS, IFCE, University of Tours, Nouzilly, France
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- Biomedical Veterinary Sciences Department, University of Montreal, Saint-Hyacinthe, QC, Canada
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- UMR 1313, INRA, AgroParisTech, Université Paris-Saclay, Jouy-en-Josas, France
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Fages A, Hanghøj K, Khan N, Gaunitz C, Seguin-Orlando A, Leonardi M, McCrory Constantz C, Gamba C, Al-Rasheid KAS, Albizuri S, Alfarhan AH, Allentoft M, Alquraishi S, Anthony D, Baimukhanov N, Barrett JH, Bayarsaikhan J, Benecke N, Bernáldez-Sánchez E, Berrocal-Rangel L, Biglari F, Boessenkool S, Boldgiv B, Brem G, Brown D, Burger J, Crubézy E, Daugnora L, Davoudi H, de Barros Damgaard P, de Los Ángeles de Chorro Y de Villa-Ceballos M, Deschler-Erb S, Detry C, Dill N, do Mar Oom M, Dohr A, Ellingvåg S, Erdenebaatar D, Fathi H, Felkel S, Fernández-Rodríguez C, García-Viñas E, Germonpré M, Granado JD, Hallsson JH, Hemmer H, Hofreiter M, Kasparov A, Khasanov M, Khazaeli R, Kosintsev P, Kristiansen K, Kubatbek T, Kuderna L, Kuznetsov P, Laleh H, Leonard JA, Lhuillier J, Liesau von Lettow-Vorbeck C, Logvin A, Lõugas L, Ludwig A, Luis C, Arruda AM, Marques-Bonet T, Matoso Silva R, Merz V, Mijiddorj E, Miller BK, Monchalov O, Mohaseb FA, Morales A, Nieto-Espinet A, Nistelberger H, Onar V, Pálsdóttir AH, Pitulko V, Pitskhelauri K, Pruvost M, Rajic Sikanjic P, Rapan Papeša A, Roslyakova N, Sardari A, Sauer E, Schafberg R, Scheu A, Schibler J, Schlumbaum A, Serrand N, Serres-Armero A, Shapiro B, Sheikhi Seno S, Shevnina I, Shidrang S, Southon J, Star B, Sykes N, Taheri K, Taylor W, Teegen WR, Trbojević Vukičević T, Trixl S, Tumen D, Undrakhbold S, Usmanova E, Vahdati A, Valenzuela-Lamas S, Viegas C, Wallner B, Weinstock J, Zaibert V, Clavel B, Lepetz S, Mashkour M, Helgason A, Stefánsson K, Barrey E, Willerslev E, Outram AK, Librado P, Orlando L. Tracking Five Millennia of Horse Management with Extensive Ancient Genome Time Series. Cell 2019; 177:1419-1435.e31. [PMID: 31056281 PMCID: PMC6547883 DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2019.03.049] [Citation(s) in RCA: 113] [Impact Index Per Article: 22.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/19/2018] [Revised: 02/14/2019] [Accepted: 03/27/2019] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Horse domestication revolutionized warfare and accelerated travel, trade, and the geographic expansion of languages. Here, we present the largest DNA time series for a non-human organism to date, including genome-scale data from 149 ancient animals and 129 ancient genomes (≥1-fold coverage), 87 of which are new. This extensive dataset allows us to assess the modern legacy of past equestrian civilizations. We find that two extinct horse lineages existed during early domestication, one at the far western (Iberia) and the other at the far eastern range (Siberia) of Eurasia. None of these contributed significantly to modern diversity. We show that the influence of Persian-related horse lineages increased following the Islamic conquests in Europe and Asia. Multiple alleles associated with elite-racing, including at the MSTN "speed gene," only rose in popularity within the last millennium. Finally, the development of modern breeding impacted genetic diversity more dramatically than the previous millennia of human management.
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- Antoine Fages
- Laboratoire d'Anthropobiologie Moléculaire et d'Imagerie de Synthèse, CNRS UMR 5288, Université de Toulouse, Université Paul Sabatier, 31000 Toulouse, France; Lundbeck Foundation GeoGenetics Center, University of Copenhagen, 1350K Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Laboratoire d'Anthropobiologie Moléculaire et d'Imagerie de Synthèse, CNRS UMR 5288, Université de Toulouse, Université Paul Sabatier, 31000 Toulouse, France; Lundbeck Foundation GeoGenetics Center, University of Copenhagen, 1350K Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Lundbeck Foundation GeoGenetics Center, University of Copenhagen, 1350K Copenhagen, Denmark; Department of Biotechnology, Abdul Wali Khan University, Mardan, Pakistan
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- Lundbeck Foundation GeoGenetics Center, University of Copenhagen, 1350K Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Laboratoire d'Anthropobiologie Moléculaire et d'Imagerie de Synthèse, CNRS UMR 5288, Université de Toulouse, Université Paul Sabatier, 31000 Toulouse, France; Lundbeck Foundation GeoGenetics Center, University of Copenhagen, 1350K Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Lundbeck Foundation GeoGenetics Center, University of Copenhagen, 1350K Copenhagen, Denmark; Evolutionary Ecology Group, Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 3EJ, UK
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- Lundbeck Foundation GeoGenetics Center, University of Copenhagen, 1350K Copenhagen, Denmark; Institute for Immunity, Transplantation and Infection, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA
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- Lundbeck Foundation GeoGenetics Center, University of Copenhagen, 1350K Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Zoology Department, College of Science, King Saud University, Riyadh 11451, Saudi Arabia
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- Seminari d'Estudis i Recerques Prehistoriques, HAR2017-87695-P, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
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- Zoology Department, College of Science, King Saud University, Riyadh 11451, Saudi Arabia
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- Lundbeck Foundation GeoGenetics Center, University of Copenhagen, 1350K Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Zoology Department, College of Science, King Saud University, Riyadh 11451, Saudi Arabia
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- Anthropology Department, Hartwick College 1, Oneonta, NY 13820, USA
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- McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, Department of Archaeology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 3ER, UK
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- Deutsches Archäologisches Institut (DAI), 14195 Berlin, Germany
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- Laboratorio de Paleontologia y Paleobiologia, Instituto Andaluz del Patrimonio Historico, Sevilla, Spain
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- Departamento de Prehistoria y Arqueología, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Madrid, Spain
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- Department of Paleolithic, National Museum of Iran, 1136918111, Tehran, Iran
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- Centre for Ecological and Evolutionary Synthesis (CEES), Department of Biosciences, University of Oslo, Postbox 1066, Blindern, 0316 Oslo, Norway
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- Ecology Group, Department of Biology, School of Arts and Sciences, National University of Mongolia, Ulaanbaatar 14201, Mongolia
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- Institute of Animal Breeding and Genetics, Department of Biomedical Sciences, Veterinary University of Vienna, 1210 Vienna, Austria
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- Anthropology Department, Hartwick College 1, Oneonta, NY 13820, USA
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- Palaeogenetics Group, Institute of Organismic and Molecular Evolution (iOME), Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz, 55099 Mainz, Germany
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- Laboratoire d'Anthropobiologie Moléculaire et d'Imagerie de Synthèse, CNRS UMR 5288, Université de Toulouse, Université Paul Sabatier, 31000 Toulouse, France
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- Osteological material research laboratory, Klaipėda university, Klaipėda 92294, Lithuania
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- Department of Osteology, National Museum of Iran, 1136918111, Tehran, Iran; Department of Archaeology, Faculty of Humanities, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran
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- Integrative prähistorische und naturwissenschaftliche Archäologie (IPNA), 4055 Basel, Switzerland
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- Uniarq, Centro de Arqueologia da Universidade de Lisboa, Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Lisboa, 1600-214 Lisboa, Portugal
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- Integrative prähistorische und naturwissenschaftliche Archäologie (IPNA), 4055 Basel, Switzerland
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- CE3C-Centre for Ecology, Evolution and Environmental Changes, Faculdade de Ciências, Universidade de Lisboa, 1749-016 Lisboa, Portugal
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- Institute for Pre- and Protohistoric Archaeology and Archaeology of the Roman Provinces, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, 80539 München, Germany; ArchaeoBioCenter, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, 80539 München, Germany; Institute of Palaeoanatomy, Domestication Research and History of Veterinary Medicine, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, 80539 München, Germany
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- Department of Osteology, National Museum of Iran, 1136918111, Tehran, Iran; Archaezoology section, Bioarchaeology Laboratory of the Central Laboratory, University of Tehran, Tehran CP1417634934, Iran
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- Institute of Animal Breeding and Genetics, Department of Biomedical Sciences, Veterinary University of Vienna, 1210 Vienna, Austria
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- Departamento de Sistemas Físicos, Químicos y Naturales, Universidad Pablo de Olavide, 41013 Sevilla, Spain
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- Operational Direction, Earth and History of Life, Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences, 1000, Brussels, Belgium
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- Integrative prähistorische und naturwissenschaftliche Archäologie (IPNA), 4055 Basel, Switzerland
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- Faculty of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, The Agricultural University of Iceland, Keldnaholti - Árleyni 22, 112 Reykjavík, Iceland
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- Palaeogenetics Group, Institute of Organismic and Molecular Evolution (iOME), Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz, 55099 Mainz, Germany
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- University of Potsdam, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, Institute for Biochemistry and Biology, 14476 Potsdam, Germany
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- Institute for the History of Material Culture, Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg 191186, Russia
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- Department of Osteology, National Museum of Iran, 1136918111, Tehran, Iran; Archaezoology section, Bioarchaeology Laboratory of the Central Laboratory, University of Tehran, Tehran CP1417634934, Iran
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- Institute of Plant and Animal Ecology, Urals Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Ekaterinburg 620144, Russia
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- Department of History, Kyrgyz-Turkish Manas University, Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan
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- Institut de Biologia Evolutiva, (CSIC-Universitat Pompeu Fabra), PRBB, Barcelona, Catalonia 08003, Spain
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- Samara State University of Social Science and Education, Samara, Russia
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- Archaezoology section, Bioarchaeology Laboratory of the Central Laboratory, University of Tehran, Tehran CP1417634934, Iran; Department of Archaeology, Faculty of Humanities, University of Tehran, Iran
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- Conservation and Evolutionary Genetics Group, Estación Biológica de Doñana (EBD-CSIC), 41092 Sevilla, Spain
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- Laboratoire Archéorient, UMR 5133, Maison de l'Orient et de la Méditerranée, 69365 Lyon Cedex 7, France
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- Laboratory for Archaeological Research, Faculty of History and Law, Kostanay State University, Kostanay, Kazakhstan
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- Archaeological Research Collection, Tallinn University, 10130 Tallinn, Estonia
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- Department of Evolutionary Genetics, Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research, 10315 Berlin, Germany; Faculty of Life Sciences, Albrecht Daniel Thaer-Institute, Humboldt University Berlin, 10115 Berlin, Germany
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- Museu Nacional de História Natural e da Ciência, Universidade de Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal; Centro Interuniversitário de História das Ciências e da Tecnologia (CIUHCT), Faculdade de Ciências, Universidade de Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal; Instituto Universitário de Lisboa (ISCTE-IUL), CIES-IUL, Lisboa, Portugal
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- Uniarq, Centro de Arqueologia da Universidade de Lisboa, Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Lisboa, 1600-214 Lisboa, Portugal
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- Institut de Biologia Evolutiva, (CSIC-Universitat Pompeu Fabra), PRBB, Barcelona, Catalonia 08003, Spain; Catalan Institution of Research and Advanced Studies (ICREA), 08010 Barcelona, Spain; CNAG-CRG, Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG), Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology (BIST), 08028 Barcelona, Spain; Institut Català de Paleontologia Miquel Crusafont, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Edifici ICTA-ICP, c/ Columnes s/n, 08193, Cerdanyola del Vallès, Barcelona, Spain
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- S.Toraighyrov Pavlodar State University, Joint Research Center for Archeological Studies, 637000 Pavlodar, Kazakhstan
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- Department of Archaeology, Ulaanbaatar State University, Ulaanbaatar 51, Mongolia
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- University of Oxford, Faculty of History, George Street, Oxford, OX1 2RL, UK
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- Samara State University of Social Science and Education, Samara, Russia
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- Department of Osteology, National Museum of Iran, 1136918111, Tehran, Iran; Archaezoology section, Bioarchaeology Laboratory of the Central Laboratory, University of Tehran, Tehran CP1417634934, Iran; Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Archéozoologie, Archéobotanique, Sociétés, Pratiques et Environnements (UMR 7209), 75005 Paris, France
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- Laboratory of Archaeozoology, Department Biología, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Madrid, Spain
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- Archaeology of Social Dynamics Group (ADS), Institució Milà i Fontanals-Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (IMF-CSIC), 08001 Barcelona, Spain; Grup d'Investigació Prehistòrica, HAR2016-78277-R, Universitat de Lleida, 25003 Lleida, Spain
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- Centre for Ecological and Evolutionary Synthesis (CEES), Department of Biosciences, University of Oslo, Postbox 1066, Blindern, 0316 Oslo, Norway
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- Osteoarchaeology Practice and Research Center and Department of Anatomy, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Istanbul University-Cerrahpaşa, 34320, Avcılar, Istanbul, Turkey
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- Centre for Ecological and Evolutionary Synthesis (CEES), Department of Biosciences, University of Oslo, Postbox 1066, Blindern, 0316 Oslo, Norway; Faculty of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, The Agricultural University of Iceland, Keldnaholti - Árleyni 22, 112 Reykjavík, Iceland
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- Institute for the History of Material Culture, Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg 191186, Russia
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- Université de Bordeaux, CNRS, UMR 5199-PACEA, 33615 Pessac Cedex, France
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- Iranian Center for Archaeological Research (ICAR), Iranian Cultural Heritage, Handicrafts, and Tourism Organization (ICHHTO), 1136918111, Tehran, Iran
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- School of History, Classics and Archaeology, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, EH8 9AG, UK
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- Central Natural Science Collections (ZNS), Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Domplatz 4, 06108 Halle (Saale), Germany
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- Palaeogenetics Group, Institute of Organismic and Molecular Evolution (iOME), Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz, 55099 Mainz, Germany
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- Integrative prähistorische und naturwissenschaftliche Archäologie (IPNA), 4055 Basel, Switzerland
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- Integrative prähistorische und naturwissenschaftliche Archäologie (IPNA), 4055 Basel, Switzerland
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- Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Archéozoologie, Archéobotanique, Sociétés, Pratiques et Environnements (UMR 7209), 75005 Paris, France; INRAP Guadeloupe, Centre de recherches archéologiques, UMR 7209 CNRS/MNHN, 97113 Gourbeyre, Guadeloupe
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- Institut de Biologia Evolutiva, (CSIC-Universitat Pompeu Fabra), PRBB, Barcelona, Catalonia 08003, Spain
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of California, Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA 95060, USA
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- Department of Osteology, National Museum of Iran, 1136918111, Tehran, Iran; Archaezoology section, Bioarchaeology Laboratory of the Central Laboratory, University of Tehran, Tehran CP1417634934, Iran; Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Archéozoologie, Archéobotanique, Sociétés, Pratiques et Environnements (UMR 7209), 75005 Paris, France
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- Laboratory for Archaeological Research, Faculty of History and Law, Kostanay State University, Kostanay, Kazakhstan
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- Saeedi Institute for Advanced Studies, University of Kashan, Kashan 87317-51167, Iran
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- Department Earth System Science, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA 92697, USA
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- Centre for Ecological and Evolutionary Synthesis (CEES), Department of Biosciences, University of Oslo, Postbox 1066, Blindern, 0316 Oslo, Norway
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- Department of Archaeology, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, NG7 2RD, UK; Department of Archaeology, University of Exeter, Exeter, EX4 4QE, UK
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- Kermanshah Regional Water Authority, Kermanshah 67145-1466, Iran
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- Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, 07745 Jena, Germany
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- Institute for Pre- and Protohistoric Archaeology and Archaeology of the Roman Provinces, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, 80539 München, Germany; ArchaeoBioCenter, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, 80539 München, Germany
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- Department of Anatomy, Histology and Embryology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Zagreb, 10 000 Zagreb, Croatia
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- Institute of Palaeoanatomy, Domestication Research and History of Veterinary Medicine, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, 80539 München, Germany
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- Department of Anthropology and Archaeology, School of Arts and Sciences, National University of Mongolia, Ulaanbaatar 14201, Mongolia
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- Ecology Group, Department of Biology, School of Arts and Sciences, National University of Mongolia, Ulaanbaatar 14201, Mongolia
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- Saryarka Archaeological Institute of Buketov Karaganda State University, Karaganda 100074, Kazakhstan
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- Iranian Center for Archaeological Research (ICAR), Iranian Cultural Heritage, Handicrafts, and Tourism Organization (ICHHTO), 1136918111, Tehran, Iran
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- Archaeology of Social Dynamics Group (ADS), Institució Milà i Fontanals-Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (IMF-CSIC), 08001 Barcelona, Spain
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- Uniarq, Centro de Arqueologia da Universidade de Lisboa, Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Lisboa, 1600-214 Lisboa, Portugal
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- Institute of Animal Breeding and Genetics, Department of Biomedical Sciences, Veterinary University of Vienna, 1210 Vienna, Austria
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- Faculty of Humanities (Archaeology), University of Southampton, Avenue Campus, Highfield, Southampton SO17 1BF, UK
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- Scientific Research Institute of Archaeology and Steppe Civilizations, Al Farabi Kazakh National University, 050040 Almaty, Kazakhstan
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- Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Archéozoologie, Archéobotanique, Sociétés, Pratiques et Environnements (UMR 7209), 75005 Paris, France
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- Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Archéozoologie, Archéobotanique, Sociétés, Pratiques et Environnements (UMR 7209), 75005 Paris, France
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- Department of Osteology, National Museum of Iran, 1136918111, Tehran, Iran; Archaezoology section, Bioarchaeology Laboratory of the Central Laboratory, University of Tehran, Tehran CP1417634934, Iran; Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Archéozoologie, Archéobotanique, Sociétés, Pratiques et Environnements (UMR 7209), 75005 Paris, France
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- GABI UMR1313, INRA, AgroParisTech, Université Paris-Saclay, Jouy-en-Josas, France
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- Lundbeck Foundation GeoGenetics Center, University of Copenhagen, 1350K Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Department of Archaeology, University of Exeter, Exeter, EX4 4QE, UK
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- Laboratoire d'Anthropobiologie Moléculaire et d'Imagerie de Synthèse, CNRS UMR 5288, Université de Toulouse, Université Paul Sabatier, 31000 Toulouse, France; Lundbeck Foundation GeoGenetics Center, University of Copenhagen, 1350K Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Laboratoire d'Anthropobiologie Moléculaire et d'Imagerie de Synthèse, CNRS UMR 5288, Université de Toulouse, Université Paul Sabatier, 31000 Toulouse, France; Lundbeck Foundation GeoGenetics Center, University of Copenhagen, 1350K Copenhagen, Denmark.
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Yang L, Kong X, Yang S, Dong X, Yang J, Gou X, Zhang H. Haplotype diversity in mitochondrial DNA reveals the multiple origins of Tibetan horse. PLoS One 2018; 13:e0201564. [PMID: 30052677 PMCID: PMC6063445 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0201564] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/21/2018] [Accepted: 07/17/2018] [Indexed: 12/11/2022] Open
Abstract
The Tibetan horse is a species endemic to the Tibetan plateau, with considerable economic value in the region. However, we currently have little genetic evidence to verify whether the breed originated in Tibet or if it entered the area via an ancient migratory route. In the present study, we analyzed the hypervariable segment I sequences of mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) in 2,050 horses, including 290 individuals from five Tibetan populations and 1,760 from other areas across Asia. Network analysis revealed multiple maternal lineages in the Tibetan horse. Component analysis of sub-lineage F3 indicated that it decreased in frequency from east to west, a trend reflected both southward and northward from Inner Mongolia. Analysis of population genetics showed that the Deqen horse of eastern Tibet was more closely related to the Ningqiang horse of northern China than to other Tibetan horses or the Yunnan horse. These results indicated that the Tibetan horse migrated first from Central Asia to Mongolia, moved south to eastern Tibet (near Deqen), then finally westward to other regions of Tibet. We also identified a novel lineage K that mainly comprises Tibetan and Yunnan horses, suggesting autochthonous domesticated origin for some Tibetan horse breeds from local wild horses. In conclusion, our study demonstrated that modern Tibetan horse breeds originated from the introgression of local wild horses with exotic domesticated populations outside China.
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- Lin Yang
- Key Laboratory of Animal Genetics, Breeding and Reproduction, Ministry of Agriculture, College of Animal Science and Technology, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China
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- College of Animal Science and Technology, Yunnan Agricultural University, Kunming, China
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- College of Animal Science and Technology, Yunnan Agricultural University, Kunming, China
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- College of Animal Science and Technology, Yunnan Agricultural University, Kunming, China
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- College of Animal Science and Technology, Yunnan Agricultural University, Kunming, China
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- College of Animal Science and Technology, Yunnan Agricultural University, Kunming, China
- * E-mail: (HZ); (XG)
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- Key Laboratory of Animal Genetics, Breeding and Reproduction, Ministry of Agriculture, College of Animal Science and Technology, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China
- * E-mail: (HZ); (XG)
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Leonardi M, Boschin F, Giampoudakis K, Beyer RM, Krapp M, Bendrey R, Sommer R, Boscato P, Manica A, Nogues-Bravo D, Orlando L. Late Quaternary horses in Eurasia in the face of climate and vegetation change. SCIENCE ADVANCES 2018; 4:eaar5589. [PMID: 30050986 PMCID: PMC6059734 DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.aar5589] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/24/2017] [Accepted: 06/13/2018] [Indexed: 06/08/2023]
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Wild horses thrived across Eurasia until the Last Glacial Maximum to collapse after the beginning of the Holocene. The interplay of climate change, species adaptability to different environments, and human domestication in horse history is still lacking coherent continental-scale analysis integrating different lines of evidence. We assembled temporal and geographical information on 3070 horse occurrences across Eurasia, frequency data for 1120 archeological layers in Europe, and matched them to paleoclimatic and paleoenvironmental simulations for the Late Quaternary. Climate controlled the distribution of horses, and they inhabited regions in Europe and Asia with different climates and ecosystem productivity, suggesting plasticity to populate different environments. Their decline in Europe during the Holocene appears associated with an increasing loss and fragmentation of open habitats. Europe was the most likely source for the spread of horses toward more temperate regions, and we propose both Iberia and central Asia as potential centers of domestication.
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- Michela Leonardi
- Centre for GeoGenetics, Natural History Museum of Denmark, University of Copenhagen, Øster Voldgade 5-7, 1350K Copenhagen, Denmark
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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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- Center for Macroecology, Evolution and Climate, University of Copenhagen, Universitetsparken 15, DK-2100 Copenhagen Ø, Denmark
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- Evolutionary Ecology Group, Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge, Downing Street, Cambridge CB2 3EJ, UK
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- Evolutionary Ecology Group, Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge, Downing Street, Cambridge CB2 3EJ, UK
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- School of History, Classics and Archaeology, University of Edinburgh, Old Medical School, Teviot Place, Edinburgh EH8 9AG, UK
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- Universität Rostock, Institut für Biowissenschaften, Allgemeine und Spezielle Zoologie, Universitätsplatz 2, 18055 Rostock, Germany
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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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- Evolutionary Ecology Group, Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge, Downing Street, Cambridge CB2 3EJ, UK
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- Center for Macroecology, Evolution and Climate, University of Copenhagen, Universitetsparken 15, DK-2100 Copenhagen Ø, Denmark
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- Centre for GeoGenetics, Natural History Museum of Denmark, University of Copenhagen, Øster Voldgade 5-7, 1350K Copenhagen, Denmark
- Laboratoire d'Anthropobiologie Moléculaire et d'Imagerie de Synthèse, CNRS UMR 5288, Université de Toulouse, Université Paul Sabatier, 31000 Toulouse, France
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Gaunitz C, Fages A, Hanghøj K, Albrechtsen A, Khan N, Schubert M, Seguin-Orlando A, Owens IJ, Felkel S, Bignon-Lau O, de Barros Damgaard P, Mittnik A, Mohaseb AF, Davoudi H, Alquraishi S, Alfarhan AH, Al-Rasheid KAS, Crubézy E, Benecke N, Olsen S, Brown D, Anthony D, Massy K, Pitulko V, Kasparov A, Brem G, Hofreiter M, Mukhtarova G, Baimukhanov N, Lõugas L, Onar V, Stockhammer PW, Krause J, Boldgiv B, Undrakhbold S, Erdenebaatar D, Lepetz S, Mashkour M, Ludwig A, Wallner B, Merz V, Merz I, Zaibert V, Willerslev E, Librado P, Outram AK, Orlando L. Ancient genomes revisit the ancestry of domestic and Przewalski’s horses. Science 2018; 360:111-114. [DOI: 10.1126/science.aao3297] [Citation(s) in RCA: 176] [Impact Index Per Article: 29.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/10/2017] [Accepted: 01/31/2018] [Indexed: 12/28/2022]
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The Eneolithic Botai culture of the Central Asian steppes provides the earliest archaeological evidence for horse husbandry, ~5500 years ago, but the exact nature of early horse domestication remains controversial. We generated 42 ancient-horse genomes, including 20 from Botai. Compared to 46 published ancient- and modern-horse genomes, our data indicate that Przewalski’s horses are the feral descendants of horses herded at Botai and not truly wild horses. All domestic horses dated from ~4000 years ago to present only show ~2.7% of Botai-related ancestry. This indicates that a massive genomic turnover underpins the expansion of the horse stock that gave rise to modern domesticates, which coincides with large-scale human population expansions during the Early Bronze Age.
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Csizmár N, Mihók S, Jávor A, Kusza S. Genetic analysis of the Hungarian draft horse population using partial mitochondrial DNA D-loop sequencing. PeerJ 2018; 6:e4198. [PMID: 29404201 PMCID: PMC5797449 DOI: 10.7717/peerj.4198] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/24/2017] [Accepted: 12/05/2017] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Background The Hungarian draft is a horse breed with a recent mixed ancestry created in the 1920s by crossing local mares with draught horses imported from France and Belgium. The interest in its conservation and characterization has increased over the last few years. The aim of this work is to contribute to the characterization of the endangered Hungarian heavy draft horse populations in order to obtain useful information to implement conservation strategies for these genetic stocks. Methods To genetically characterize the breed and to set up the basis for a conservation program, in the present study a hypervariable region of the mitochrondial DNA (D-loop) was used to assess genetic diversity in Hungarian draft horses. Two hundred and eighty five sequences obtained in our laboratory and 419 downloaded sequences available from Genbank were analyzed. Results One hundred and sixty-four haplotypes and thirty-six polymorphic sites were observed. High haplotype and nucleotide diversity values (Hd = 0.954 ± 0.004; π = 0.028 ± 0.0004) were identified in Hungarian population, although they were higher within than among the different populations (Hd = 0.972 ± 0.002; π = 0.03097 ± 0.002). Fourteen of the previously observed seventeen haplogroups were detected. Discussion Our samples showed a large intra- and interbreed variation. There was no clear clustering on the median joining network figure. The overall information collected in this work led us to consider that the genetic scenario observed for Hungarian draft breed is more likely the result of contributions from ‘ancestrally’ different genetic backgrounds. This study could contribute to the development of a breeding plan for Hungarian draft horses and help to formulate a genetic conservation plan, avoiding inbreeding while.
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- Nikolett Csizmár
- Institute of Animal Husbandry, Biotechnology and Nature Conservation, University of Debrecen, Debrecen, Hungary
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- Institute of Animal Husbandry, Biotechnology and Nature Conservation, University of Debrecen, Debrecen, Hungary
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- Institute of Animal Husbandry, Biotechnology and Nature Conservation, University of Debrecen, Debrecen, Hungary
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- Institute of Animal Husbandry, Biotechnology and Nature Conservation, University of Debrecen, Debrecen, Hungary
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Othman OE, Mahrous KF, Shafey HI. Mitochondrial DNA genetic variations among four horse populations in Egypt. J Genet Eng Biotechnol 2017; 15:469-474. [PMID: 30647688 PMCID: PMC6296616 DOI: 10.1016/j.jgeb.2017.06.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/09/2017] [Revised: 05/07/2017] [Accepted: 06/10/2017] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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Horses are one of the early domesticated animals in the world that changed societies and civilizations on a continent-wide scale. Due to the rare information about the genetic characterization of different horse populations in Egypt, this study aimed to identify the genetic biodiversity and relationships between four horse populations reared in Egypt. Genomic DNA was extracted and mtDNA region was amplified using polymerase chain reaction (PCR). The alignment of 384-bp amplified fragments showed the presence of 41 polymorphic sites resulting in 29 haplotypes which their sequences were submitted to GenBank under the accession numbers: KX909898-KX909926. The phylogeny tree for tested horses declared the presence of mixing maternal lineages between the four tested populations but still there are some separated lineages especially for Arabian and Thoroughbred horses. The sequences of 72 tested sequences were aligned with 13 published sequences as references, 11 of them for different Equus caballus whereas the other two reference sequences for Equus burchellii and Equus asinus. The results showed that all tested horses from the four populations are grouped with reference sequences of Equus caballus and separated from the other two reference sequences of Equus burchellii and Equus asinus. It is concluded that sequence analysis of mtDNA control region is still the most informative tool for the identification of genetic biodiversity and phylogeny of different horse breeds and populations. The horse populations reared in Egypt possess low genetic diversity and all of them are belonged to Equus caballus breed.
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The Evolutionary Origin and Genetic Makeup of Domestic Horses. Genetics 2017; 204:423-434. [PMID: 27729493 DOI: 10.1534/genetics.116.194860] [Citation(s) in RCA: 46] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/14/2016] [Accepted: 08/17/2016] [Indexed: 12/21/2022] Open
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The horse was domesticated only 5.5 KYA, thousands of years after dogs, cattle, pigs, sheep, and goats. The horse nonetheless represents the domestic animal that most impacted human history; providing us with rapid transportation, which has considerably changed the speed and magnitude of the circulation of goods and people, as well as their cultures and diseases. By revolutionizing warfare and agriculture, horses also deeply influenced the politico-economic trajectory of human societies. Reciprocally, human activities have circled back on the recent evolution of the horse, by creating hundreds of domestic breeds through selective programs, while leading all wild populations to near extinction. Despite being tightly associated with humans, several aspects in the evolution of the domestic horse remain controversial. Here, we review recent advances in comparative genomics and paleogenomics that helped advance our understanding of the genetic foundation of domestic horses.
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Hristov P, Yordanov G, Ivanova A, Mitkov I, Sirakova D, Mehandzyiski I, Radoslavov G. Mitochondrial diversity in mountain horse population from the South-Eastern Europe. Mitochondrial DNA A DNA Mapp Seq Anal 2016; 28:787-792. [PMID: 27247184 DOI: 10.1080/24701394.2016.1186667] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/21/2022]
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It is believed that population structure of mountain horse breeds is preserved from any genetic introgression, because of their geographical isolation and specific semi-wild life style of husbandry. Till date there are no molecular data for the Balkan horses. In this study we try to give information about some autochthonous mountain horse breeds from Bulgaria. A total of 121 horses from three different mountain massifs are presented: Stara Planina (the Balkan mountain), the Rhodopes and Rila-Pirin massif were genotyped according to mitochondrial D-loop region. The results showed huge diversity of all known haplogroups with exception of C, F and R. West Eurasian haplogroups B, D, M and L were with the highest frequencies. Haplogroups A, J, I, O'P and Q were also observed with the highest frequencies, but not equally distributed among the three populations. Analyses of the horse breeds reveal preserved genetic profile of the Balkan and the Rhodopes mountains populations. In contrast, a Rila-Pirin breed unexpectedly showed mixed profile - a massive genetic introgression with an Asiatic-type haplogroups. A similar mixed Euro-Asiatic haplotype profile possessed the Carpathian mountain pony, although both populations are separated geographically and historically. The genetic pool of three Bulgarian mountain horse populations is highly heterogenic and because of that these breeds should be preserved.
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- Peter Hristov
- a Institute of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Research, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences , Sofia , Bulgaria
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- a Institute of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Research, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences , Sofia , Bulgaria
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- a Institute of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Research, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences , Sofia , Bulgaria
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- c Agricultural Academy, Agricultural and Stockbreeding Experimental Station , Smolyan , Bulgaria
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- a Institute of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Research, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences , Sofia , Bulgaria
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Yang Y, Zhu Q, Liu S, Zhao C, Wu C. The origin of Chinese domestic horses revealed with novel mtDNA variants. Anim Sci J 2016; 88:19-26. [PMID: 27071843 DOI: 10.1111/asj.12583] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/10/2015] [Revised: 09/29/2015] [Accepted: 11/09/2015] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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The origin of domestic horses in China was a controversial issue and several hypotheses including autochthonous domestication, introduction from other areas, and multiple-origins from both introduction and local wild horse introgression have been proposed, but none of them have been fully supported by DNA data. In the present study, mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) sequences of 714 Chinese indigenous horses were analyzed. The results showed that Chinese domestic horses harbor some novel mtDNA haplogroups and suggested that local domestication events may have occurred, but they are not the dominant haplogroups and the geographical distributions of the novel mtDNA haplogroups were rather restricted. Conclusively, our results support the hypothesis that the domestic horses in China originated from both the introduced horses from outside of China and the local wild horses' introgression into the domestic populations. Results of genetic diversity analysis suggested a possibility that the introduced horses entered China through northern regions from the Eurasian steppe.
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- Yunzhou Yang
- College of Animal Science and Technology, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China.,Institute of Animal Husbandry and Veterinary Science, Shanghai Academy of Agricultural Science, Shanghai, China
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- Department of Genomic Medicine, J. Craig Venter Institute, La Jolla, CA, USA
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- College of Animal Science and Technology, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China
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- College of Animal Science and Technology, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China.,Equine Center, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China.,Key laboratory of Animal Breeding and Genetics of Ministry of Agriculture, P.R. China
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- College of Animal Science and Technology, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China.,Equine Center, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China.,Key laboratory of Animal Breeding and Genetics of Ministry of Agriculture, P.R. China
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Major transitions in human evolution revisited: a tribute to ancient DNA. J Hum Evol 2014; 79:4-20. [PMID: 25532800 DOI: 10.1016/j.jhevol.2014.06.015] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/14/2014] [Revised: 06/06/2014] [Accepted: 06/19/2014] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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The origin and diversification of modern humans have been characterized by major evolutionary transitions and demographic changes. Patterns of genetic variation within modern populations can help with reconstructing this ∼200 thousand year-long population history. However, by combining this information with genomic data from ancient remains, one can now directly access our evolutionary past and reveal our population history in much greater detail. This review outlines the main recent achievements in ancient DNA research and illustrates how the field recently moved from the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) amplification of short mitochondrial fragments to whole-genome sequencing and thereby revisited our own history. Ancient DNA research has revealed the routes that our ancestors took when colonizing the planet, whom they admixed with, how they domesticated plant and animal species, how they genetically responded to changes in lifestyle, and also, which pathogens decimated their populations. These approaches promise to soon solve many pending controversies about our own origins that are indecipherable from modern patterns of genetic variation alone, and therefore provide an extremely powerful toolkit for a new generation of molecular anthropologists.
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Sverrisdóttir OÓ, Timpson A, Toombs J, Lecoeur C, Froguel P, Carretero JM, Arsuaga Ferreras JL, Götherström A, Thomas MG. Direct estimates of natural selection in Iberia indicate calcium absorption was not the only driver of lactase persistence in Europe. Mol Biol Evol 2014; 31:975-83. [PMID: 24448642 DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msu049] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/24/2022] Open
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Lactase persistence (LP) is a genetically determined trait whereby the enzyme lactase is expressed throughout adult life. Lactase is necessary for the digestion of lactose--the main carbohydrate in milk--and its production is downregulated after the weaning period in most humans and all other mammals studied. Several sources of evidence indicate that LP has evolved independently, in different parts of the world over the last 10,000 years, and has been subject to strong natural selection in dairying populations. In Europeans, LP is strongly associated with, and probably caused by, a single C to T mutation 13,910 bp upstream of the lactase (LCT) gene (-13,910*T). Despite a considerable body of research, the reasons why LP should provide such a strong selective advantage remain poorly understood. In this study, we examine one of the most widely cited hypotheses for selection on LP--that fresh milk consumption supplemented the poor vitamin D and calcium status of northern Europe's early farmers (the calcium assimilation hypothesis). We do this by testing for natural selection on -13,910*T using ancient DNA data from the skeletal remains of eight late Neolithic Iberian individuals, whom we would not expect to have poor vitamin D and calcium status because of relatively high incident UVB light levels. None of the eight samples successfully typed in the study had the derived T-allele. In addition, we reanalyze published data from French Neolithic remains to both test for population continuity and further examine the evolution of LP in the region. Using simulations that accommodate genetic drift, natural selection, uncertainty in calibrated radiocarbon dates, and sampling error, we find that natural selection is still required to explain the observed increase in allele frequency. We conclude that the calcium assimilation hypothesis is insufficient to explain the spread of LP in Europe.
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- Oddny Ósk Sverrisdóttir
- Department of Evolutionary Biology, Evolutionary Biology Centre, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden
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Petersen JL, Mickelson JR, Cothran EG, Andersson LS, Axelsson J, Bailey E, Bannasch D, Binns MM, Borges AS, Brama P, da Câmara Machado A, Distl O, Felicetti M, Fox-Clipsham L, Graves KT, Guérin G, Haase B, Hasegawa T, Hemmann K, Hill EW, Leeb T, Lindgren G, Lohi H, Lopes MS, McGivney BA, Mikko S, Orr N, Penedo MCT, Piercy RJ, Raekallio M, Rieder S, Røed KH, Silvestrelli M, Swinburne J, Tozaki T, Vaudin M, M Wade C, McCue ME. Genetic diversity in the modern horse illustrated from genome-wide SNP data. PLoS One 2013; 8:e54997. [PMID: 23383025 PMCID: PMC3559798 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0054997] [Citation(s) in RCA: 168] [Impact Index Per Article: 15.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/03/2012] [Accepted: 12/20/2012] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Horses were domesticated from the Eurasian steppes 5,000-6,000 years ago. Since then, the use of horses for transportation, warfare, and agriculture, as well as selection for desired traits and fitness, has resulted in diverse populations distributed across the world, many of which have become or are in the process of becoming formally organized into closed, breeding populations (breeds). This report describes the use of a genome-wide set of autosomal SNPs and 814 horses from 36 breeds to provide the first detailed description of equine breed diversity. F(ST) calculations, parsimony, and distance analysis demonstrated relationships among the breeds that largely reflect geographic origins and known breed histories. Low levels of population divergence were observed between breeds that are relatively early on in the process of breed development, and between those with high levels of within-breed diversity, whether due to large population size, ongoing outcrossing, or large within-breed phenotypic diversity. Populations with low within-breed diversity included those which have experienced population bottlenecks, have been under intense selective pressure, or are closed populations with long breed histories. These results provide new insights into the relationships among and the diversity within breeds of horses. In addition these results will facilitate future genome-wide association studies and investigations into genomic targets of selection.
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- Jessica L Petersen
- University of Minnesota, College of Veterinary Medicine, St Paul, MN, USA.
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Moridi M, Masoudi AA, Vaez Torshizi R, Hill EW. Mitochondrial DNA D-loop sequence variation in maternal lineages of Iranian native horses. Anim Genet 2012; 44:209-13. [DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2052.2012.02389.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 04/23/2012] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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- M. Moridi
- Department of Animal Science; Faculty of Agriculture; Tarbiat Modares University; Tehran Iran
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- Department of Animal Science; Faculty of Agriculture; Tarbiat Modares University; Tehran Iran
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- Department of Animal Science; Faculty of Agriculture; Tarbiat Modares University; Tehran Iran
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- Animal Genomics Laboratory; School of Agriculture; Food Science and Veterinary Medicine; College of Life Sciences; University College Dublin; Belfield Dublin Ireland
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Mitochondrial genomes from modern horses reveal the major haplogroups that underwent domestication. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2012; 109:2449-54. [PMID: 22308342 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1111637109] [Citation(s) in RCA: 148] [Impact Index Per Article: 12.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Archaeological and genetic evidence concerning the time and mode of wild horse (Equus ferus) domestication is still debated. High levels of genetic diversity in horse mtDNA have been detected when analyzing the control region; recurrent mutations, however, tend to blur the structure of the phylogenetic tree. Here, we brought the horse mtDNA phylogeny to the highest level of molecular resolution by analyzing 83 mitochondrial genomes from modern horses across Asia, Europe, the Middle East, and the Americas. Our data reveal 18 major haplogroups (A-R) with radiation times that are mostly confined to the Neolithic and later periods and place the root of the phylogeny corresponding to the Ancestral Mare Mitogenome at ~130-160 thousand years ago. All haplogroups were detected in modern horses from Asia, but F was only found in E. przewalskii--the only remaining wild horse. Therefore, a wide range of matrilineal lineages from the extinct E. ferus underwent domestication in the Eurasian steppes during the Eneolithic period and were transmitted to modern E. caballus breeds. Importantly, now that the major horse haplogroups have been defined, each with diagnostic mutational motifs (in both the coding and control regions), these haplotypes could be easily used to (i) classify well-preserved ancient remains, (ii) (re)assess the haplogroup variation of modern breeds, including Thoroughbreds, and (iii) evaluate the possible role of mtDNA backgrounds in racehorse performance.
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Svensson EM, Telldahl Y, Sjöling E, Sundkvist A, Hulth H, Sjøvold T, Götherström A. Coat colour and sex identification in horses from Iron Age Sweden. Ann Anat 2012; 194:82-7. [PMID: 22154005 DOI: 10.1016/j.aanat.2011.11.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/17/2011] [Revised: 11/04/2011] [Accepted: 11/04/2011] [Indexed: 10/15/2022]
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Domestication of animals and plants marked a turning point in human prehistory. To date archaeology, archaeozoology and genetics have shed light on when and where all of our major livestock species were domesticated. Phenotypic changes associated with domestication have occurred in all farm animals. Coat colour is one of the traits that have been subjected to the strongest human selection throughout history. Here we use genotyping of coat colour SNPs in horses to investigate whether there were any regional differences or preferences for specific colours associated with specific cultural traditions in Iron Age Sweden. We do this by identifying the sex and coat colour of horses sacrificed at Skedemosse, Öland (Sweden) during the Iron Age, as well as in horses from two sites in Uppland, Ultuna and Valsgärde (dated to late Iron Age). We show that bay, black and chestnut colours were all common and two horses with tobiano spotting were found. We also show how the combination of sex identification with genotyping of just a few SNPs underlying the basic coat colours can be used to identify the minimum number of individuals at a site on a higher level than morphological methods alone. Although separated by 500 km and from significantly different archaeological contexts the horses at Skedemosse and Ultuna are quite homogenous when it comes to coat colour phenotypes, indicating that there were no clear geographical variation in coat colouration in Sweden during the late Iron Age and early Viking Age.
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- Emma M Svensson
- Department of Evolutionary Biology, EBC, Uppsala University, Sweden.
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Lippold S, Matzke NJ, Reissmann M, Hofreiter M. Whole mitochondrial genome sequencing of domestic horses reveals incorporation of extensive wild horse diversity during domestication. BMC Evol Biol 2011; 11:328. [PMID: 22082251 PMCID: PMC3247663 DOI: 10.1186/1471-2148-11-328] [Citation(s) in RCA: 80] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/18/2011] [Accepted: 11/14/2011] [Indexed: 11/10/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND DNA target enrichment by micro-array capture combined with high throughput sequencing technologies provides the possibility to obtain large amounts of sequence data (e.g. whole mitochondrial DNA genomes) from multiple individuals at relatively low costs. Previously, whole mitochondrial genome data for domestic horses (Equus caballus) were limited to only a few specimens and only short parts of the mtDNA genome (especially the hypervariable region) were investigated for larger sample sets. RESULTS In this study we investigated whole mitochondrial genomes of 59 domestic horses from 44 breeds and a single Przewalski horse (Equus przewalski) using a recently described multiplex micro-array capture approach. We found 473 variable positions within the domestic horses, 292 of which are parsimony-informative, providing a well resolved phylogenetic tree. Our divergence time estimate suggests that the mitochondrial genomes of modern horse breeds shared a common ancestor around 93,000 years ago and no later than 38,000 years ago. A Bayesian skyline plot (BSP) reveals a significant population expansion beginning 6,000-8,000 years ago with an ongoing exponential growth until the present, similar to other domestic animal species. Our data further suggest that a large sample of wild horse diversity was incorporated into the domestic population; specifically, at least 46 of the mtDNA lineages observed in domestic horses (73%) already existed before the beginning of domestication about 5,000 years ago. CONCLUSIONS Our study provides a window into the maternal origins of extant domestic horses and confirms that modern domestic breeds present a wide sample of the mtDNA diversity found in ancestral, now extinct, wild horse populations. The data obtained allow us to detect a population expansion event coinciding with the beginning of domestication and to estimate both the minimum number of female horses incorporated into the domestic gene pool and the time depth of the domestic horse mtDNA gene pool.
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- Sebastian Lippold
- Department of Evolutionary Genetics, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Deutscher Platz 6, 04103 Leipzig, Germany.
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Rendo F, Iriondo M, Manzano C, Estonba A. Effects of a 10-year conservation programme on the genetic diversity of the Pottoka pony--new clues regarding their origin. J Anim Breed Genet 2011; 129:234-43. [PMID: 22583328 DOI: 10.1111/j.1439-0388.2011.00955.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Here, we present the results of a genetic analysis of 463 Pottoka ponies corresponding to four generations, using 17 microsatellite markers. Ten years after the beginning of the Pottoka conservation programme, the values for the genetic diversity of the breed are still high and stable, indicating the success of the programme. We found null alleles in Pottoka for the ASB23, HMS3 and HTG10 microsatellites. Together with information obtained from other pony breeds from the Iberian Peninsula, this finding indicates that these microsatellites should not be used for phylogenetic analyses or parentage tests, at least for these breeds. The high heterozygosity exhibited by this breed in comparison to other ponies, together with its genetic proximity to the centroid of the allele frequencies, suggest that Pottoka allele frequencies are close to those initially exhibited by the ancestors of current European ponies. The results obtained in the current work, together with results from previous studies of ponies and horses from the Iberian Peninsula, corroborate the idea of a unique origin of all ponies from the European Atlantic Area. In contrast, our results do not corroborate the idea that these are derived from a domestication event in the Iberian Peninsula, nor that they have incorporated ancient Iberian horse genes into their genetic pool to a larger extent than other horse breeds.
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- F Rendo
- Department of Genetics, Physical Anthropology and Animal Physiology, Faculty of Science and Technology, University of the Basque Country, Bilbao, Spain
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Lippold S, Knapp M, Kuznetsova T, Leonard JA, Benecke N, Ludwig A, Rasmussen M, Cooper A, Weinstock J, Willerslev E, Shapiro B, Hofreiter M. Discovery of lost diversity of paternal horse lineages using ancient DNA. Nat Commun 2011; 2:450. [PMID: 21863017 DOI: 10.1038/ncomms1447] [Citation(s) in RCA: 66] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/14/2011] [Accepted: 07/20/2011] [Indexed: 11/09/2022] Open
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Modern domestic horses display abundant genetic diversity within female-inherited mitochondrial DNA, but practically no sequence diversity on the male-inherited Y chromosome. Several hypotheses have been proposed to explain this discrepancy, but can only be tested through knowledge of the diversity in both the ancestral (pre-domestication) maternal and paternal lineages. As wild horses are practically extinct, ancient DNA studies offer the only means to assess this ancestral diversity. Here we show considerable ancestral diversity in ancient male horses by sequencing 4 kb of Y chromosomal DNA from eight ancient wild horses and one 2,800-year-old domesticated horse. Both ancient and modern domestic horses form a separate branch from the ancient wild horses, with the Przewalski horse at its base. Our methodology establishes the feasibility of re-sequencing long ancient nuclear DNA fragments and demonstrates the power of ancient Y chromosome DNA sequence data to provide insights into the evolutionary history of populations.
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- Sebastian Lippold
- Research Group Molecular Ecology, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, D-04103 Leipzig, Germany.
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Baron EE, Lopes MS, Mendonça D, da Câmara Machado A. SNP identification and polymorphism analysis in exon 2 of the horse myostatin gene. Anim Genet 2011; 43:229-32. [PMID: 22404361 DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2052.2011.02229.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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The myostatin gene (MSTN) belongs to the TGF-β superfamily of secreted growth and differentiation factors and is responsible for embryonic and adult skeletal muscle development. In this study, exon 2 of the MSTN gene, which encodes part of the TGF-β pro-peptide, was sequenced in 332 horses of 20 different breeds and compared with the horse MSTN gene sequence deposited in GenBank. The sequences obtained revealed the presence of 11 haplotypes represented by 10 variable nucleotide mutations, eight of them corresponding to amino acid sequence changes. This gene shows a high variability when compared with other genes. This might be an indication that some breeds have the same ancestry but different pressures of selection.
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- E E Baron
- Biotechnology Centre of Azores, Department of Agriculture, University of Azores, Rua Capitão João D'Ávila, São Pedro, Angra do Heroísmo, Portugal
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European domestic horses originated in two holocene refugia. PLoS One 2011; 6:e18194. [PMID: 21479181 PMCID: PMC3068172 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0018194] [Citation(s) in RCA: 54] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/27/2010] [Accepted: 02/28/2011] [Indexed: 12/01/2022] Open
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The role of European wild horses in horse domestication is poorly understood. While the fossil record for wild horses in Europe prior to horse domestication is scarce, there have been suggestions that wild populations from various European regions might have contributed to the gene pool of domestic horses. To distinguish between regions where domestic populations are mainly descended from local wild stock and those where horses were largely imported, we investigated patterns of genetic diversity in 24 European horse breeds typed at 12 microsatellite loci. The distribution of high levels of genetic diversity in Europe coincides with the distribution of predominantly open landscapes prior to domestication, as suggested by simulation-based vegetation reconstructions, with breeds from Iberia and the Caspian Sea region having significantly higher genetic diversity than breeds from central Europe and the UK, which were largely forested at the time the first domestic horses appear there. Our results suggest that not only the Eastern steppes, but also the Iberian Peninsula provided refugia for wild horses in the Holocene, and that the genetic contribution of these wild populations to local domestic stock may have been considerable. In contrast, the consistently low levels of diversity in central Europe and the UK suggest that domestic horses in these regions largely derive from horses that were imported from the Eastern refugium, the Iberian refugium, or both.
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Vigne JD. The origins of animal domestication and husbandry: A major change in the history of humanity and the biosphere. C R Biol 2011; 334:171-81. [PMID: 21377611 DOI: 10.1016/j.crvi.2010.12.009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 130] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/18/2022]
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Cieslak M, Pruvost M, Benecke N, Hofreiter M, Morales A, Reissmann M, Ludwig A. Origin and history of mitochondrial DNA lineages in domestic horses. PLoS One 2010; 5:e15311. [PMID: 21187961 PMCID: PMC3004868 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0015311] [Citation(s) in RCA: 101] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/18/2010] [Accepted: 11/08/2010] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Domestic horses represent a genetic paradox: although they have the greatest number of maternal lineages (mtDNA) of all domestic species, their paternal lineages are extremely homogeneous on the Y-chromosome. In order to address their huge mtDNA variation and the origin and history of maternal lineages in domestic horses, we analyzed 1961 partial d-loop sequences from 207 ancient remains and 1754 modern horses. The sample set ranged from Alaska and North East Siberia to the Iberian Peninsula and from the Late Pleistocene to modern times. We found a panmictic Late Pleistocene horse population ranging from Alaska to the Pyrenees. Later, during the Early Holocene and the Copper Age, more or less separated sub-populations are indicated for the Eurasian steppe region and Iberia. Our data suggest multiple domestications and introgressions of females especially during the Iron Age. Although all Eurasian regions contributed to the genetic pedigree of modern breeds, most haplotypes had their roots in Eastern Europe and Siberia. We found 87 ancient haplotypes (Pleistocene to Mediaeval Times); 56 of these haplotypes were also observed in domestic horses, although thus far only 39 haplotypes have been confirmed to survive in modern breeds. Thus, at least seventeen haplotypes of early domestic horses have become extinct during the last 5,500 years. It is concluded that the large diversity of mtDNA lineages is not a product of animal breeding but, in fact, represents ancestral variability.
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- Michael Cieslak
- Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research, Evolutionary Genetics, Berlin, Germany
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- Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research, Evolutionary Genetics, Berlin, Germany
- German Archaeological Institute, Berlin, Germany
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- Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany
- Department of Biology, The University of York, Heslington, York, United Kingdom
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- Laboratory of Archaeozoology, Universidad Autonoma Madrid, Madrid, Spain
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- Department of Breeding Biology and Molecular Genetics, Humboldt University Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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- Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research, Evolutionary Genetics, Berlin, Germany
- * E-mail: (AL); (MP)
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