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Özkan M, Gürün K, Yüncü E, Vural KB, Atağ G, Akbaba A, Fidan FR, Sağlıcan E, Altınışık EN, Koptekin D, Pawłowska K, Hodder I, Adcock SE, Arbuckle BS, Steadman SR, McMahon G, Erdal YS, Bilgin CC, Togan İ, Geigl EM, Götherström A, Grange T, Özer F, Somel M. The first complete genome of the extinct European wild ass (Equus hemionus hydruntinus). Mol Ecol 2024; 33:e17440. [PMID: 38946459 DOI: 10.1111/mec.17440] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/11/2023] [Revised: 05/17/2024] [Accepted: 06/14/2024] [Indexed: 07/02/2024]
Abstract
We present palaeogenomes of three morphologically unidentified Anatolian equids dating to the first millennium BCE, sequenced to a coverage of 0.6-6.4×. Mitochondrial DNA haplotypes of the Anatolian individuals clustered with those of Equus hydruntinus (or Equus hemionus hydruntinus), the extinct European wild ass, secular name 'hydruntine'. Further, the Anatolian wild ass whole genome profiles fell outside the genomic diversity of other extant and past Asiatic wild ass (E. hemionus) lineages. These observations suggest that the three Anatolian wild asses represent hydruntines, making them the latest recorded survivors of this lineage, about a millennium later than the latest observations in the zooarchaeological record. Our mitogenomic and genomic analyses indicate that E. h. hydruntinus was a clade belonging to ancient and present-day E. hemionus lineages that radiated possibly between 0.6 and 0.8 Mya. We also find evidence consistent with recent gene flow between hydruntines and Middle Eastern wild asses. Analyses of genome-wide heterozygosity and runs of homozygosity suggest that the Anatolian wild ass population may have lost genetic diversity by the mid-first millennium BCE, a possible sign of its eventual demise.
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- Mustafa Özkan
- Department of Biological Sciences, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey
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- Department of Anthropology, Ankara University, Ankara, Turkey
- Alparslan University, Muş, Turkey
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey
- Cancer Dynamics Laboratory, The Francis Crick Institute, London, UK
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- Department of Health Informatics, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey
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- Department of Anthropology, Human_G Laboratory, Hacettepe University, Ankara, Turkey
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- Department of Health Informatics, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey
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- Department of Palaeoenvironmental Research, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland
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- Department of Anthropology, Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA
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- Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, New York University, New York, New York, USA
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- Department of Anthropology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA
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- Department of Sociology/Anthropology, SUNY Cortland, Cortland, New York, USA
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- Classics, Humanities and Italian Studies Department, University of New Hampshire, Durham, New Hampshire, USA
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- Department of Anthropology, Human_G Laboratory, Hacettepe University, Ankara, Turkey
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey
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- Institut Jacques Monod, CNRS, Université de Paris, Paris, France
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- Department of Archaeology and Classical Studies, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Institut Jacques Monod, CNRS, Université de Paris, Paris, France
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- Department of Health Informatics, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey
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Librado P, Tressières G, Chauvey L, Fages A, Khan N, Schiavinato S, Calvière-Tonasso L, Kusliy MA, Gaunitz C, Liu X, Wagner S, Der Sarkissian C, Seguin-Orlando A, Perdereau A, Aury JM, Southon J, Shapiro B, Bouchez O, Donnadieu C, Collin YRH, Gregersen KM, Jessen MD, Christensen K, Claudi-Hansen L, Pruvost M, Pucher E, Vulic H, Novak M, Rimpf A, Turk P, Reiter S, Brem G, Schwall C, Barrey É, Robert C, Degueurce C, Horwitz LK, Klassen L, Rasmussen U, Kveiborg J, Johannsen NN, Makowiecki D, Makarowicz P, Szeliga M, Ilchyshyn V, Rud V, Romaniszyn J, Mullin VE, Verdugo M, Bradley DG, Cardoso JL, Valente MJ, Telles Antunes M, Ameen C, Thomas R, Ludwig A, Marzullo M, Prato O, Bagnasco Gianni G, Tecchiati U, Granado J, Schlumbaum A, Deschler-Erb S, Mráz MS, Boulbes N, Gardeisen A, Mayer C, Döhle HJ, Vicze M, Kosintsev PA, Kyselý R, Peške L, O'Connor T, Ananyevskaya E, Shevnina I, Logvin A, Kovalev AA, Iderkhangai TO, Sablin MV, Dashkovskiy PK, Graphodatsky AS, Merts I, Merts V, Kasparov AK, Pitulko VV, Onar V, Öztan A, Arbuckle BS, McColl H, Renaud G, Khaskhanov R, Demidenko S, Kadieva A, Atabiev B, Sundqvist M, Lindgren G, López-Cachero FJ, Albizuri S, Trbojević Vukičević T, Rapan Papeša A, Burić M, Rajić Šikanjić P, Weinstock J, Asensio Vilaró D, Codina F, García Dalmau C, Morer de Llorens J, Pou J, de Prado G, Sanmartí J, Kallala N, Torres JR, Maraoui-Telmini B, Belarte Franco MC, Valenzuela-Lamas S, Zazzo A, Lepetz S, Duchesne S, Alexeev A, Bayarsaikhan J, Houle JL, Bayarkhuu N, Turbat T, Crubézy É, Shingiray I, Mashkour M, Berezina NY, Korobov DS, Belinskiy A, Kalmykov A, Demoule JP, Reinhold S, Hansen S, Wallner B, Roslyakova N, Kuznetsov PF, Tishkin AA, Wincker P, Kanne K, Outram A, Orlando L. Widespread horse-based mobility arose around 2200 BCE in Eurasia. Nature 2024; 631:819-825. [PMID: 38843826 PMCID: PMC11269178 DOI: 10.1038/s41586-024-07597-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/17/2023] [Accepted: 05/23/2024] [Indexed: 07/19/2024]
Abstract
Horses revolutionized human history with fast mobility1. However, the timeline between their domestication and their widespread integration as a means of transport remains contentious2-4. Here we assemble a collection of 475 ancient horse genomes to assess the period when these animals were first reshaped by human agency in Eurasia. We find that reproductive control of the modern domestic lineage emerged around 2200 BCE, through close-kin mating and shortened generation times. Reproductive control emerged following a severe domestication bottleneck starting no earlier than approximately 2700 BCE, and coincided with a sudden expansion across Eurasia that ultimately resulted in the replacement of nearly every local horse lineage. This expansion marked the rise of widespread horse-based mobility in human history, which refutes the commonly held narrative of large horse herds accompanying the massive migration of steppe peoples across Europe around 3000 BCE and earlier3,5. Finally, we detect significantly shortened generation times at Botai around 3500 BCE, a settlement from central Asia associated with corrals and a subsistence economy centred on horses6,7. This supports local horse husbandry before the rise of modern domestic bloodlines.
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- Pablo Librado
- Centre d'Anthropobiologie et de Génomique de Toulouse, CNRS UMR 5288, Université Paul Sabatier, Faculté de Médecine Purpan, Toulouse, France.
- Institut de Biologia Evolutiva (CSIC - Universitat Pompeu Fabra), Barcelona, Spain.
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- Centre d'Anthropobiologie et de Génomique de Toulouse, CNRS UMR 5288, Université Paul Sabatier, Faculté de Médecine Purpan, Toulouse, France
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- Centre d'Anthropobiologie et de Génomique de Toulouse, CNRS UMR 5288, Université Paul Sabatier, Faculté de Médecine Purpan, Toulouse, France
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- Centre d'Anthropobiologie et de Génomique de Toulouse, CNRS UMR 5288, Université Paul Sabatier, Faculté de Médecine Purpan, Toulouse, France
- Zoological institute, Department of Environmental Sciences, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland
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- Centre d'Anthropobiologie et de Génomique de Toulouse, CNRS UMR 5288, Université Paul Sabatier, Faculté de Médecine Purpan, Toulouse, France
- Department of Biotechnology, Abdul Wali Khan University, Mardan, Pakistan
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- Centre d'Anthropobiologie et de Génomique de Toulouse, CNRS UMR 5288, Université Paul Sabatier, Faculté de Médecine Purpan, Toulouse, France
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- Centre d'Anthropobiologie et de Génomique de Toulouse, CNRS UMR 5288, Université Paul Sabatier, Faculté de Médecine Purpan, Toulouse, France
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- Centre d'Anthropobiologie et de Génomique de Toulouse, CNRS UMR 5288, Université Paul Sabatier, Faculté de Médecine Purpan, Toulouse, France
- Department of the Diversity and Evolution of Genomes, Institute of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Novosibirsk, Russia
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- Centre d'Anthropobiologie et de Génomique de Toulouse, CNRS UMR 5288, Université Paul Sabatier, Faculté de Médecine Purpan, Toulouse, France
- Lundbeck Foundation GeoGenetics Centre, Globe Institute, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Centre d'Anthropobiologie et de Génomique de Toulouse, CNRS UMR 5288, Université Paul Sabatier, Faculté de Médecine Purpan, Toulouse, France
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- Centre d'Anthropobiologie et de Génomique de Toulouse, CNRS UMR 5288, Université Paul Sabatier, Faculté de Médecine Purpan, Toulouse, France
- INRAE Division Ecology and Biodiversity (ECODIV), Plant Genomic Resources Center (CNRGV), Castanet Tolosan Cedex, France
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- Centre d'Anthropobiologie et de Génomique de Toulouse, CNRS UMR 5288, Université Paul Sabatier, Faculté de Médecine Purpan, Toulouse, France
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- Centre d'Anthropobiologie et de Génomique de Toulouse, CNRS UMR 5288, Université Paul Sabatier, Faculté de Médecine Purpan, Toulouse, France
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- Genoscope, Institut de Biologie François Jacob, CEA, CNRS, Université d'Évry, Université Paris-Saclay, Évry, France
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- Génomique Métabolique, Genoscope, Institut François Jacob, CEA, CNRS, Université d'Évry, Université Paris-Saclay, Évry, France
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- Department of Earth System Science, University of California, Irvine, CA, USA
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, USA
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- Centre d'Anthropobiologie et de Génomique de Toulouse, CNRS UMR 5288, Université Paul Sabatier, Faculté de Médecine Purpan, Toulouse, France
- Taku Skan Skan Wasakliyapi: Global Institute for Traditional Sciences, Rapid City, SD, USA
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- Department for Prehistory Middle Ages and Renaissance, National Museum of Denmark, Copenhagen K, Denmark
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- UMR 5199 De la Préhistoire à l'Actuel: Culture, Environnement et Anthropologie (PACEA), CNRS, Université de Bordeaux, Pessac Cédex, France
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- Centre for Applied Bioanthropology, Institute for Anthropological Research, Zagreb, Croatia
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- Narodni muzej Slovenije, Ljubljana, Slovenia
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- Institute of Animal Breeding and Genetics, Department of Biomedical Sciences, University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna, Vienna, Austria
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- Institute of Animal Breeding and Genetics, Department of Biomedical Sciences, University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna, Vienna, Austria
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- Leibniz-Zentrum für Archäologie (LEIZA), Mainz, Germany
- Department of Prehistory & Western Asian/Northeast African Archaeology, Austrian Archaeological Institute (OeAI), Austrian Academy of Sciences (OeAW), Vienna, Austria
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- Université Paris-Saclay, AgroParisTech, INRAE GABI UMR1313, Jouy-en-Josas, France
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- Université Paris-Saclay, AgroParisTech, INRAE GABI UMR1313, Jouy-en-Josas, France
- Ecole Nationale Vétérinaire d'Alfort, Maisons-Alfort, France
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- National Natural History Collections, Edmond J. Safra Campus, Givat Ram, The Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel
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- Department of Archaeology, Moesgaard Museum, Højbjerg, Denmark
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- Department of Archaeological Science and Conservation, Moesgaard Museum, Højbjerg, Denmark
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- Institute of Archaeology, Faculty of History, Nicolaus Copernicus University, Toruń, Poland
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- Institute of Archaeology, Maria Curie-Skłodowska University, Lublin, Poland
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- Kremenetsko-Pochaivskii Derzhavnyi Istoriko-arkhitekturnyi Zapovidnik, Kremenets, Ukraine
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- Institute of Archaeology, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Kyiv, Ukraine
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- Faculty of Archaeology, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland
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- Smurfit Institute of Genetics, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
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- Smurfit Institute of Genetics, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
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- Smurfit Institute of Genetics, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
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- ICArEHB, Campus de Gambelas, University of Algarve, Faro, Portugal
- Universidade Aberta, Lisbon, Portugal
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- Faculdade de Ciências Humanas e Sociais, Centro de Estudos de Arqueologia, Artes e Ciências do Património, Universidade do Algarve, Faro, Portugal
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- Centre for Research on Science and Geological Engineering, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal
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- Department of Archaeology and History, University of Exeter, Exeter, UK
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- School of Archaeology and Ancient History, University of Leicester, Leicester, UK
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- Department of Evolutionary Genetics, Leibniz-Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research, Berlin, Germany
- Albrecht Daniel Thaer-Institute, Faculty of Life Sciences, Humboldt University Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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- Dipartimento di Beni Culturali e Ambientali, Università degli Studi di Milano, Milan, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Beni Culturali e Ambientali, Università degli Studi di Milano, Milan, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Beni Culturali e Ambientali, Università degli Studi di Milano, Milan, Italy
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- Department of Environmental Sciences, Integrative Prehistory and Archaeological Science, Basel University, Basel, Switzerland
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- Department of Environmental Sciences, Integrative Prehistory and Archaeological Science, Basel University, Basel, Switzerland
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- Department of Environmental Sciences, Integrative Prehistory and Archaeological Science, Basel University, Basel, Switzerland
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- Department of Environmental Sciences, Integrative Prehistory and Archaeological Science, Basel University, Basel, Switzerland
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- Institut de Paléontologie Humaine, Fondation Albert Ier, Paris/UMR 7194 HNHP, MNHN-CNRS-UPVD/EPCC Centre Européen de Recherche Préhistorique, Tautavel, France
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- Archéologie des Sociétés Méditeranéennes, Archimède IA-ANR-11-LABX-0032-01, CNRS UMR 5140, Université Paul Valéry, Montpellier, France
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- Department for Digitalization and Knowledge Transfer, Federal Monuments Authority Austria, Vienna, Austria
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- Landesamt für Denkmalpflege und Archäologie Sachsen-Anhalt - Landesmuseum für Vorgeschichte, Halle (Saale), Germany
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- National Institute of Archaeology, Hungarian National Museum, Budapest, Hungary
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- Paleoecology Laboratory, Institute of Plant and Animal Ecology, Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Ekaterinburg, Russia
- Department of History of the Institute of Humanities, Ural Federal University, Ekaterinburg, Russia
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- Department of Natural Sciences and Archaeometry, Institute of Archaeology of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czechia
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- Department of Archaeology, History Faculty, Vilnius University, Vilnius, Lithuania
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- Laboratory for Archaeological Research, Akhmet Baitursynuly Kostanay Regional University, Kostanay, Kazakhstan
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- Laboratory for Archaeological Research, Akhmet Baitursynuly Kostanay Regional University, Kostanay, Kazakhstan
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- Department of Archaeological Heritage Preservation, Institute of Archaeology of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia
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- Department of Innovation and Technology, Ulaanbaatar Science and Technology Park, National University of Mongolia, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia
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- Zoological Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, St Petersburg, Russia
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- Department of Russian Regional Studies, National and State-confessional Relations, Altai State University, Barnaul, Russia
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- Department of the Diversity and Evolution of Genomes, Institute of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Novosibirsk, Russia
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- Toraighyrov University, Joint Research Center for Archeological Studies, Pavlodar, Kazakhstan
- Department of Archaeology, Ethnography and Museology, Altai State University, Barnaul, Russia
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- Toraighyrov University, Joint Research Center for Archeological Studies, Pavlodar, Kazakhstan
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- Institute of the History of Material Culture, Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg, Russia
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- Institute of the History of Material Culture, Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg, Russia
- Peter the Great Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography (Kunstkamera), Russian Academy of Sciences, St Petersburg, Russia
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- Osteoarchaeology Practice and Research Center and Department of Anatomy, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Istanbul University-Cerrahpaşa, Istanbul, Türkiye
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- Archaeology Department, Ankara University, Ankara, Türkiye
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- Department of Anthropology, Alumni Building, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA
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- Lundbeck Foundation GeoGenetics Centre, Globe Institute, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Centre d'Anthropobiologie et de Génomique de Toulouse, CNRS UMR 5288, Université Paul Sabatier, Faculté de Médecine Purpan, Toulouse, France
- Department of Health Technology, Section for Bioinformatics, Technical University of Denmark (DTU), Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Kh. Ibragimov Complex Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences (CI RAS), Grozny, Russia
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- Institute of Archaeology, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia
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- Department of Archaeological Monuments, State Historical Museum, Moscow, Russian Federation
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- Department of Animal Breeding and Genetics, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Uppsala, Sweden
- Center for Animal Breeding and Genetics, Department of Biosystems, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
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- Institut d'Arqueologia de la Universitat de Barcelona (IAUB), Seminari d'Estudis i Recerques Prehistoriques (SERP-UB), Universitat de Barcelona (UB), Barcelona, Spain
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- Institut d'Arqueologia de la Universitat de Barcelona (IAUB), Seminari d'Estudis i Recerques Prehistoriques (SERP-UB), Universitat de Barcelona (UB), Barcelona, Spain
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- Department of Anatomy, Histology and Embryology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia
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- Department of Archaeology, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia
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- Faculty of Arts and Humanities (Archaeology), University of Southampton, Southampton, UK
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- Secció de Prehistòria i Arqueologia, IAUB Institut d'Arqueologia de la Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
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- C/Major, 20, Norfeu, Arqueologia Art i Patrimoni S.C., La Tallada d'Empordà, Spain
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- Ajuntament de Calafell, Calafell (Tarragona), Spain
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- Museu d'Arqueologia de Catalunya (MAC-Ullastret), Ullastret, Spain
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- IEC-Institut d'Estudis Catalans (Union Académique Internationale), Barcelona, Spain
- Departament d'Història i Arqueologia, Facultat de Geografia i Història, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
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- Ecole Tunisienne d'Histoire et d'Anthropologie, Tunis, Tunisia
- University of Tunis, Institut National du Patrimoine, Tunis, Tunisia
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- IEC-Institut d'Estudis Catalans (Union Académique Internationale), Barcelona, Spain
- ICREA, Catalan Institution for Research and Advanced Studies, Barcelona, Spain
- ICAC (Catalan Institute of Classical Archaeology), Tarragona, Spain
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- Archaeology of Social Dynamics (ASD), Institució Milà i Fontanals, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (IMF-CSIC), Barcelona, Spain
- UNIARQ - Unidade de Arqueologia, Universidade de Lisboa, Alameda da Universidade, Lisboa, Portugal
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- Centre National de Recherche Scientifique, Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Archéozoologie, Archéobotanique (AASPE), CP 56, Paris, France
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- Centre National de Recherche Scientifique, Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Archéozoologie, Archéobotanique (AASPE), CP 56, Paris, France
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- Centre d'Anthropobiologie et de Génomique de Toulouse, CNRS UMR 5288, Université Paul Sabatier, Faculté de Médecine Purpan, Toulouse, France
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- Institute for Humanities Research and Indigenous Studies of the North (IHRISN), Yakutsk, Russia
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- Max Planck Institute of Geoanthropology, Jena, Germany
- Institute of Archaeology, Mongolian Academy of Science, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia
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- Department of Folk Studies and Anthropology, Western Kentucky University, Bowling Green, KY, USA
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- Archaeological Research Center and Department of Anthropology and Archaeology, National University of Mongolia, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia
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- Archaeological Research Center and Department of Anthropology and Archaeology, National University of Mongolia, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia
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- Centre d'Anthropobiologie et de Génomique de Toulouse, CNRS UMR 5288, Université Paul Sabatier, Faculté de Médecine Purpan, Toulouse, France
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- Centre National de Recherche Scientifique, Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Archéozoologie, Archéobotanique (AASPE), CP 56, Paris, France
- Central Laboratory, Bioarchaeology Laboratory, Archaeozoology section, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran
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- Research Institute and Museum of Anthropology, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia
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- Institute of Archaeology, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia
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- UMR du CNRS 8215 Trajectoires, Institut d'Art et Archéologie, Paris, France
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- Eurasia Department of the German Archaeological Institute, Berlin, Germany
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- Eurasia Department of the German Archaeological Institute, Berlin, Germany
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- Institute of Animal Breeding and Genetics, Department of Biomedical Sciences, University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna, Vienna, Austria
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- Department of Russian History and Archaeology, Samara State University of Social Sciences and Education, Samara, Russia
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- Department of Russian History and Archaeology, Samara State University of Social Sciences and Education, Samara, Russia
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- Department of Archaeology, Ethnography and Museology, Altai State University, Barnaul, Russia
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- Génomique Métabolique, Genoscope, Institut François Jacob, CEA, CNRS, Université d'Évry, Université Paris-Saclay, Évry, France
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- Department of Archaeology and History, University of Exeter, Exeter, UK
- School of Archaeology, University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
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- Department of Archaeology and History, University of Exeter, Exeter, UK
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- Centre d'Anthropobiologie et de Génomique de Toulouse, CNRS UMR 5288, Université Paul Sabatier, Faculté de Médecine Purpan, Toulouse, France.
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Parasayan O, Laurelut C, Bôle C, Bonnabel L, Corona A, Domenech-Jaulneau C, Paresys C, Richard I, Grange T, Geigl EM. Late Neolithic collective burial reveals admixture dynamics during the third millennium BCE and the shaping of the European genome. SCIENCE ADVANCES 2024; 10:eadl2468. [PMID: 38896620 PMCID: PMC11186501 DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.adl2468] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/07/2023] [Accepted: 05/16/2024] [Indexed: 06/21/2024]
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The third millennium BCE was a pivotal period of profound cultural and genomic transformations in Europe associated with migrations from the Pontic-Caspian steppe, which shaped the ancestry patterns in the present-day European genome. We performed a high-resolution whole-genome analysis including haplotype phasing of seven individuals of a collective burial from ~2500 cal BCE and of a Bell Beaker individual from ~2300 cal BCE in the Paris Basin in France. The collective burial revealed the arrival in real time of steppe ancestry in France. We reconstructed the genome of an unsampled individual through its relatives' genomes, enabling us to shed light on the early-stage admixture patterns, dynamics, and propagation of steppe ancestry in Late Neolithic Europe. We identified two major Neolithic/steppe-related ancestry admixture pulses around 3000/2900 BCE and 2600 BCE. These pulses suggest different population expansion dynamics with striking links to the Corded Ware and Bell Beaker cultural complexes.
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- Oğuzhan Parasayan
- Université Paris Cité, CNRS, Institut Jacques Monod, F-75013 Paris, France
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- INRAP Grand Est, Châlons-en-Champagne, France
- UMR 8215 Trajectoires (CNRS-University Paris I), Paris, France
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- Genomics Core Facility, Institut Imagine-Structure Fédérative de Recherche Necker, INSERM U1163 et INSERM US24/CNRS UAR3633, Paris Descartes Sorbonne Université Paris Cité, Paris, France
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- Service archéologique interdépartemental, 78180 Montigny-le-Bretonneux, France
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- Service Régional, Direction Régionale des Affaires culturelles d’Île-de-France, UMR 8215 Trajectoires (CNRS-University Paris I), Paris, France
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- INRAP Grand Est, Châlons-en-Champagne, France
- UMR 6472 CEPAM (CNRS-Nice University), Nice, France
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- INRAP Grand Est, Châlons-en-Champagne, France
- UMR 6472 CEPAM (CNRS-Nice University), Nice, France
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- Université Paris Cité, CNRS, Institut Jacques Monod, F-75013 Paris, France
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- Université Paris Cité, CNRS, Institut Jacques Monod, F-75013 Paris, France
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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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Vincelette A. The Characteristics, Distribution, Function, and Origin of Alternative Lateral Horse Gaits. Animals (Basel) 2023; 13:2557. [PMID: 37627349 PMCID: PMC10451235 DOI: 10.3390/ani13162557] [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: 06/15/2023] [Revised: 08/03/2023] [Accepted: 08/04/2023] [Indexed: 08/27/2023] Open
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This article traces the characteristics, origin, distribution, and function of alternative lateral horse gaits, i.e., intermediate speed lateral-sequence gaits. Such alternative lateral gaits (running walk, rack, broken pace, hard pace, and broken trot) are prized by equestrians today for their comfort and have been found in select horse breeds for hundreds of years and even exhibited in fossil equid trackways. After exploring the evolution and development of alternative lateral gaits via fossil equid trackways, human art, and historical writings, the functional and genetic factors that led to the genesis of these gaits are discussed. Such gaited breeds were particularly favored and spread by the Scythians, Celts, Turks, and Spaniards. Fast and low-swinging hard pacing gaits are common in several horse breeds of mountainous areas of East and North Asia; high-stepping rack and running walk gaits are often displayed in European and North and South American breeds; the broken pace is found in breeds of Central Asia, Southeast Asia, West Asia, Western North America, and Brazil in South America; and the broken trot occurs in breeds of North Asia, South Asia, the Southern United States, and Brazil in South America, inhabiting desert or marshy areas.
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- Alan Vincelette
- Department of Pretheology, St. John's Seminary, 5012 Seminary Road, Camarillo, CA 93021, USA
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Bozlak E, Radovic L, Remer V, Rigler D, Allen L, Brem G, Stalder G, Castaneda C, Cothran G, Raudsepp T, Okuda Y, Moe KK, Moe HH, Kounnavongsa B, Keonouchanh S, Van NH, Vu VH, Shah MK, Nishibori M, Kazymbet P, Bakhtin M, Zhunushov A, Paul RC, Dashnyam B, Nozawa K, Almarzook S, Brockmann GA, Reissmann M, Antczak DF, Miller DC, Sadeghi R, von Butler-Wemken I, Kostaras N, Han H, Manglai D, Abdurasulov A, Sukhbaatar B, Ropka-Molik K, Stefaniuk-Szmukier M, Lopes MS, da Câmara Machado A, Kalashnikov VV, Kalinkova L, Zaitev AM, Novoa-Bravo M, Lindgren G, Brooks S, Rosa LP, Orlando L, Juras R, Kunieda T, Wallner B. Refining the evolutionary tree of the horse Y chromosome. Sci Rep 2023; 13:8954. [PMID: 37268661 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-023-35539-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/11/2022] [Accepted: 05/19/2023] [Indexed: 06/04/2023] Open
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The Y chromosome carries information about the demography of paternal lineages, and thus, can prove invaluable for retracing both the evolutionary trajectory of wild animals and the breeding history of domesticates. In horses, the Y chromosome shows a limited, but highly informative, sequence diversity, supporting the increasing breeding influence of Oriental lineages during the last 1500 years. Here, we augment the primary horse Y-phylogeny, which is currently mainly based on modern horse breeds of economic interest, with haplotypes (HT) segregating in remote horse populations around the world. We analyze target enriched sequencing data of 5 Mb of the Y chromosome from 76 domestic males, together with 89 whole genome sequenced domestic males and five Przewalski's horses from previous studies. The resulting phylogeny comprises 153 HTs defined by 2966 variants and offers unprecedented resolution into the history of horse paternal lineages. It reveals the presence of a remarkable number of previously unknown haplogroups in Mongolian horses and insular populations. Phylogenetic placement of HTs retrieved from 163 archaeological specimens further indicates that most of the present-day Y-chromosomal variation evolved after the domestication process that started around 4200 years ago in the Western Eurasian steppes. Our comprehensive phylogeny significantly reduces ascertainment bias and constitutes a robust evolutionary framework for analyzing horse population dynamics and diversity.
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- Elif Bozlak
- Institute of Animal Breeding and Genetics, University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna, 1210, Vienna, Austria
- Vienna Graduate School of Population Genetics, University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna, 1210, Vienna, Austria
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- Institute of Animal Breeding and Genetics, University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna, 1210, Vienna, Austria
- Vienna Graduate School of Population Genetics, University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna, 1210, Vienna, Austria
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- Institute of Animal Breeding and Genetics, University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna, 1210, Vienna, Austria
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- Institute of Animal Breeding and Genetics, University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna, 1210, Vienna, Austria
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- Institute of Animal Breeding and Genetics, University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna, 1210, Vienna, Austria
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- Institute of Animal Breeding and Genetics, University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna, 1210, Vienna, Austria
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- Research Institute of Wildlife Ecology, University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna, 1210, Vienna, Austria
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- School of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, 77843, USA
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- School of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, 77843, USA
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- School of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, 77843, USA
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- Museum of Dinosaur Research, Okayama University of Science, Okayama, Japan
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- Department of Pathology and Microbiology, University of Veterinary Science, Yezin, Nay Pyi Taw, 05282, Myanmar
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- Department of Genetics and Animal Breeding, University of Veterinary Science, Yezin, Nay Pyi Taw, 05282, Myanmar
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- National Agriculture and Forestry Research Institute (Lao) Resources, Livestock Research Center, Xaythany District, Vientiane, Laos
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- Faculty of Animal Science and Veterinary Medicine, University of Agriculture and Forestry, Hue University, Hue, Vietnam
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- Faculty of Animal Science and Veterinary Medicine, University of Agriculture and Forestry, Hue University, Hue, Vietnam
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- Faculty of Animal Science and Veterinary Medicine, University of Agriculture and Forestry, Hue University, Hue, Vietnam
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- Faculty of Animal Science, Veterinary Science and Fisheries, Agriculture and Forestry University, Rampur, 44209, Nepal
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- Graduate School of Integrated Sciences for Life, Hiroshima University, Higashi-Hiroshima, 739-8528, Japan
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- Radiobiological Research Institute, JSC Astana Medical University, Astana, 010000, Republic of Kazakhstan
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- Institute of Biotechnology, National Academy of Sciences of the Kyrgyz Republic, Bishkek, 720071, Kyrgyz Republic
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- Institute of Biotechnology, National Academy of Sciences of the Kyrgyz Republic, Bishkek, 720071, Kyrgyz Republic
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- Graduate School of Environmental and Life Science, Okayama University, Okayama, Japan
- Faculty of Animal Science and Veterinary Medicine, Patuakhali Science and Technology University, Barishal, Bangladesh
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- Institute of Biological Sciences, Mongolian Academy of Sciences, Ulaan Baator, Mongolia
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- Primate Research Institute, Kyoto University, Aichi, Japan
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- Albrecht Daniel Thaer-Institut, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, 10115, Berlin, Germany
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- Albrecht Daniel Thaer-Institut, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, 10115, Berlin, Germany
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- Baker Institute for Animal Health, College of Veterinary Medicine, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, 14853, USA
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- Baker Institute for Animal Health, College of Veterinary Medicine, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, 14853, USA
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- Baker Institute for Animal Health, College of Veterinary Medicine, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, 14853, USA
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- Baker Institute for Animal Health, College of Veterinary Medicine, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, 14853, USA
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- Barb Horse Breeding Organisation VFZB E. V., Verein der Freunde und Züchter Des Berberpferdes E.V., Kirchgasse 11, 67718, Schmalenberg, Germany
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- Inner Mongolia Key Laboratory of Equine Genetics, Breeding and Reproduction, College of Animal Science, Equine Research Center, Inner Mongolia Agricultural University, Hohhot, 010018, China
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- Inner Mongolia Key Laboratory of Equine Genetics, Breeding and Reproduction, College of Animal Science, Equine Research Center, Inner Mongolia Agricultural University, Hohhot, 010018, China
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- Department of Agriculture, Faculty of Natural Sciences and Geography, Osh State University, 723500, Osh, Kyrgyzstan
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- Sector of Surveillance and Diagnosis of Infectious Diseases, State Central Veterinary Laboratory, Ulaanbaatar, 17024, Mongolia
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- National Research Institute of Animal Production, Animal Molecular Biology, 31-047, Cracow, Poland
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- Biotechnology Centre of Azores, University of Azores, 9700-042, Angra do Heroísmo, Portugal
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- All-Russian Research Institute for Horse Breeding, Ryazan, 391105, Russia
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- All-Russian Research Institute for Horse Breeding, Ryazan, 391105, Russia
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- Genética Animal de Colombia SAS., Av. Calle 26 #69-76, 111071, Bogotá, Colombia
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- Department of Animal Breeding and Genetics, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, 75007, Uppsala, Sweden
- Department of Biosystems, Center for Animal Breeding and Genetics, KU Leuven, 3001, Leuven, Belgium
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- Department of Animal Science, UF Genetics Institute, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, 32610, USA
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- Department of Agriculture and Industry, Sul Ross State University, Alpine, TX, 79832, USA
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- Centre d'Anthropobiologie et de Génomique de Toulouse, Université Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, France
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- School of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, 77843, USA.
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- Graduate School of Environmental and Life Science, Okayama University, Okayama, Japan.
- Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Okayama University of Science, Imabari, Japan.
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- Institute of Animal Breeding and Genetics, University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna, 1210, Vienna, Austria.
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Trautmann M, Frînculeasa A, Preda-Bălănică B, Petruneac M, Focşǎneanu M, Alexandrov S, Atanassova N, Włodarczak P, Podsiadło M, Dani J, Bereczki Z, Hajdu T, Băjenaru R, Ioniță A, Măgureanu A, Măgureanu D, Popescu AD, Sârbu D, Vasile G, Anthony D, Heyd V. First bioanthropological evidence for Yamnaya horsemanship. SCIENCE ADVANCES 2023; 9:eade2451. [PMID: 36867690 PMCID: PMC10954216 DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.ade2451] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/03/2022] [Accepted: 01/30/2023] [Indexed: 06/18/2023]
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The origins of horseback riding remain elusive. Scientific studies show that horses were kept for their milk ~3500 to 3000 BCE, widely accepted as indicating domestication. However, this does not confirm them to be ridden. Equipment used by early riders is rarely preserved, and the reliability of equine dental and mandibular pathologies remains contested. However, horsemanship has two interacting components: the horse as mount and the human as rider. Alterations associated with riding in human skeletons therefore possibly provide the best source of information. Here, we report five Yamnaya individuals well-dated to 3021 to 2501 calibrated BCE from kurgans in Romania, Bulgaria, and Hungary, displaying changes in bone morphology and distinct pathologies associated with horseback riding. These are the oldest humans identified as riders so far.
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- Martin Trautmann
- Martin Trautmann, Bianca Preda-Bălănică, Volker Heyd Department of Cultures/Archaeology, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
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- Alin Frînculeasa Prahova County Museum of History and Archaeology, Ploieşti, Romania
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- Martin Trautmann, Bianca Preda-Bălănică, Volker Heyd Department of Cultures/Archaeology, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
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- Marta Petruneac, Marin Focşǎneanu ‘Horia Hulubei’ National Institute for R&D in Physics and Nuclear Engineering (IFIN-HH), Măgurele, Romania
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- Marta Petruneac, Marin Focşǎneanu ‘Horia Hulubei’ National Institute for R&D in Physics and Nuclear Engineering (IFIN-HH), Măgurele, Romania
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- Stefan Alexandrov National Archaeological Institute with Museum (NAIM-BAS), Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia, Bulgaria
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- Nadezhda Atanassova Institute of Experimental Morphology, Pathology and Anthropology with Museum (IEMPAM), Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia, Bulgaria
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- Piotr Włodarczak Institute of Archaeology and Ethnology, Polish Academy of Sciences, Kraków, Poland
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- János Dani Déri Museum, Debrecen, Hungary
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- Zsolt Bereczki Department of Biological Anthropology, Szeged University, Szeged, Hungary
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- Tamás Hajdu Department of Biological Anthropology, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary
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- Radu Băjenaru, Adrian Ioniţă, Andrei Măgureanu, Despina Măgureanu, Anca-Diana Popescu, Dorin Sârbu, Gabriel Vasile Vasile Pârvan Institute of Archaeology, Romanian Academy, Bucharest, Romania
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- Radu Băjenaru, Adrian Ioniţă, Andrei Măgureanu, Despina Măgureanu, Anca-Diana Popescu, Dorin Sârbu, Gabriel Vasile Vasile Pârvan Institute of Archaeology, Romanian Academy, Bucharest, Romania
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- Radu Băjenaru, Adrian Ioniţă, Andrei Măgureanu, Despina Măgureanu, Anca-Diana Popescu, Dorin Sârbu, Gabriel Vasile Vasile Pârvan Institute of Archaeology, Romanian Academy, Bucharest, Romania
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- Radu Băjenaru, Adrian Ioniţă, Andrei Măgureanu, Despina Măgureanu, Anca-Diana Popescu, Dorin Sârbu, Gabriel Vasile Vasile Pârvan Institute of Archaeology, Romanian Academy, Bucharest, Romania
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- Radu Băjenaru, Adrian Ioniţă, Andrei Măgureanu, Despina Măgureanu, Anca-Diana Popescu, Dorin Sârbu, Gabriel Vasile Vasile Pârvan Institute of Archaeology, Romanian Academy, Bucharest, Romania
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- Radu Băjenaru, Adrian Ioniţă, Andrei Măgureanu, Despina Măgureanu, Anca-Diana Popescu, Dorin Sârbu, Gabriel Vasile Vasile Pârvan Institute of Archaeology, Romanian Academy, Bucharest, Romania
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- Radu Băjenaru, Adrian Ioniţă, Andrei Măgureanu, Despina Măgureanu, Anca-Diana Popescu, Dorin Sârbu, Gabriel Vasile Vasile Pârvan Institute of Archaeology, Romanian Academy, Bucharest, Romania
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- Hartwick College, Oneonta, NY 13820, USA
- Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
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- Martin Trautmann, Bianca Preda-Bălănică, Volker Heyd Department of Cultures/Archaeology, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
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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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Salek Ardestani S, Zandi MB, Vahedi SM, Janssens S. Population structure and genomic footprints of selection in five major Iranian horse breeds. Anim Genet 2022; 53:627-639. [PMID: 35919961 DOI: 10.1111/age.13243] [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: 03/03/2022] [Revised: 06/08/2022] [Accepted: 07/04/2022] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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The genetic structure and characteristics of Iranian native breeds are yet to be comprehensibly investigated and studied. Therefore, we employed genomic information of 364 Iranian native horses representing the Asil (n = 109), Caspian (n = 40), Dareshuri (n = 44), Kurdish (n = 95), and Turkoman (n = 76) breeds to reveal the genetic structure and characteristics. For these and 19 other horse breeds, principal component analysis, Bayesian model-based, Neighbor-Net, and bootstrap-based TreeMix approaches were applied to investigate and compare their genetic structure. Additionally, three haplotype-based methods including haplotype homozygosity pooled, integrated haplotype score, and number of segregating sites by length were applied to trace genomic footprints of selection of Asil, Caspian, Dareshuri, Kurdish, and Turkoman groups. Then, the Mahalanobis distance based on the negative-log10 rank-based P-values was estimated based on the haplotype homozygosity pooled, integrated haplotype score, and number of segregating sites by length values. Asil, Caspian, Dareshuri, Kurdish, and Turkoman can be categorized into five different genetic clusters. Based on the top 1% of Mahalanobis distance based on the negative-log10 rank-based P-values of SNPs, we identified 24 SNPs formerly reported to be associated with different traits and >100 genes undergoing selection pressures in Asil, Caspian, Dareshuri, Kurdish, and Turkoman. The detected QTL undergoing selection pressures were associated with withers height, equine metabolic syndrome, overall body size, insect bite hypersensitivity, guttural pouch tympany, white markings, Rhodococcus equi infection, jumping test score, alternate gaits, and body weight traits. Our findings will aid to have a better perspective of the genetic characteristics and population structure of Asil, Caspian, Dareshuri, Kurdish, and Turkoman horses as Iranian native horse breeds.
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- Department of Animal Science and Aquaculture, Dalhousie University, Truro, Nova Scotia, Canada
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- Department Biosystems, Center Animal Breeding and Genetics, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
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Scott A, Reinhold S, Hermes T, Kalmykov AA, Belinskiy A, Buzhilova A, Berezina N, Kantorovich AR, Maslov VE, Guliyev F, Lyonnet B, Gasimov P, Jalilov B, Eminli J, Iskandarov E, Hammer E, Nugent SE, Hagan R, Majander K, Onkamo P, Nordqvist K, Shishlina N, Kaverzneva E, Korolev AI, Khokhlov AA, Smolyaninov RV, Sharapova SV, Krause R, Karapetian M, Stolarczyk E, Krause J, Hansen S, Haak W, Warinner C. Emergence and intensification of dairying in the Caucasus and Eurasian steppes. Nat Ecol Evol 2022; 6:813-822. [PMID: 35393601 PMCID: PMC9177415 DOI: 10.1038/s41559-022-01701-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/17/2021] [Accepted: 02/07/2022] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Archaeological and archaeogenetic evidence points to the Pontic–Caspian steppe zone between the Caucasus and the Black Sea as the crucible from which the earliest steppe pastoralist societies arose and spread, ultimately influencing populations from Europe to Inner Asia. However, little is known about their economic foundations and the factors that may have contributed to their extensive mobility. Here, we investigate dietary proteins within the dental calculus proteomes of 45 individuals spanning the Neolithic to Greco-Roman periods in the Pontic–Caspian Steppe and neighbouring South Caucasus, Oka–Volga–Don and East Urals regions. We find that sheep dairying accompanies the earliest forms of Eneolithic pastoralism in the North Caucasus. During the fourth millennium bc, Maykop and early Yamnaya populations also focused dairying exclusively on sheep while reserving cattle for traction and other purposes. We observe a breakdown in livestock specialization and an economic diversification of dairy herds coinciding with aridification during the subsequent late Yamnaya and North Caucasus Culture phases, followed by severe climate deterioration during the Catacomb and Lola periods. The need for additional pastures to support these herds may have driven the heightened mobility of the Middle and Late Bronze Age periods. Following a hiatus of more than 500 years, the North Caucasian steppe was repopulated by Early Iron Age societies with a broad mobile dairy economy, including a new focus on horse milking. Milk proteins from the North Caucasus and Eurasian steppe support the initial development of sheep dairying during the Eneolithic, followed by subsequent intensification and husbandry of different dairy animals during the Middle Bronze Age and later periods.
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- Ashley Scott
- Department of Archaeogenetics, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany.,Department of Archaeogenetics, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, Jena, Germany.,Institute for Pre- and Protohistoric Archaeology and Archaeology of the Roman Provinces, Ludwig Maximilian University Munich, Munich, Germany
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- Eurasia Department, German Archaeological Institute, Berlin, Germany
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- Department of Archaeogenetics, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany.,Department of Archaeogenetics, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, Jena, Germany
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- Research Institute and Museum of Anthropology, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia
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- Research Institute and Museum of Anthropology, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia
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- Department of Archaeology, Faculty of History, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia
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- Department of Humanitarian and Social Sciences, Institute of Archaeology, Ethnography and Anthropology, Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences, Baku, Azerbaijan
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- PROCLAC/UMR 7192 Laboratory, French National Centre for Scientific Research, Paris, France
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- Department of Humanitarian and Social Sciences, Institute of Archaeology, Ethnography and Anthropology, Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences, Baku, Azerbaijan
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- Department of Humanitarian and Social Sciences, Institute of Archaeology, Ethnography and Anthropology, Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences, Baku, Azerbaijan
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- Department of Humanitarian and Social Sciences, Institute of Archaeology, Ethnography and Anthropology, Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences, Baku, Azerbaijan
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- Department of Humanitarian and Social Sciences, Institute of Archaeology, Ethnography and Anthropology, Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences, Baku, Azerbaijan
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- Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations and Price Lab for the Digital Humanities, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- Faculty of Technology, Design & Environment, Oxford Brookes University, Oxford, UK
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- Department of Archaeogenetics, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany.,Department of Archaeology, University of York, York, UK
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- Department of Archaeogenetics, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany.,Institute of Evolutionary Medicine, University of Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland
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- Department of Biology, University of Turku, Turku, Finland.,Department of Biosciences, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
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- Department of Cultures, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
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- State Historical Museum, Moscow, Russia.,Peter the Great Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography (the Kunstkamera), Saint Petersburg, Russia
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- Department of History and Archaeology, Samara State University of Social Sciences and Education, Samara, Russia
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- Department of History and Archaeology, Samara State University of Social Sciences and Education, Samara, Russia
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- Institute of History and Archaeology, Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Science, Ekaterinburg, Russia
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- Department of Archaeological Sciences, Johann Wolfgang Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
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- Research Institute and Museum of Anthropology, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia
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- Department of Archaeological Sciences, Johann Wolfgang Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
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- Department of Archaeogenetics, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany.,Department of Archaeogenetics, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, Jena, Germany
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- Institute for Pre- and Protohistoric Archaeology and Archaeology of the Roman Provinces, Ludwig Maximilian University Munich, Munich, Germany.
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- Department of Archaeogenetics, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany. .,Department of Archaeogenetics, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, Jena, Germany.
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- Department of Archaeogenetics, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany. .,Department of Archaeogenetics, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, Jena, Germany. .,Department of Anthropology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA.
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Liu LH, Yuan T, Zhang JY, Tang GX, Lü H, Zhao HM, Li H, Li YW, Mo CH, Tan ZY, Cai QY. Diversity of endophytic bacteria in wild rice (Oryza meridionalis) and potential for promoting plant growth and degrading phthalates. THE SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT 2022; 806:150310. [PMID: 34583082 DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.150310] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/27/2021] [Revised: 09/08/2021] [Accepted: 09/09/2021] [Indexed: 06/13/2023]
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Phthalates (PAEs) accumulated in agricultural soils and rice have increased human exposure risks. Microbial degradation could efficiently reduce the residue of organic pollutants in soil and crop plants. Here, we hypothesized that endophytic bacteria from wild rice have the potential for degradation of PAEs and plant growth promoting. The endophytic bacterial community and functional diversity in wild rice (Oryza meridionalis) were analyzed for the first time, and the potential for PAE degradation and plant growth promoting by endophytes were investigated. The results of Illumina high-throughput sequencing revealed that abundant endophytes inhabited in wild rice with Proteobacteria, Bacteroidetes, Firmicutes and Actinobacteria being the dominant phyla. Endophytic bacterial diversity and complexity were confirmed by isolation and clustering of isolates. Kyoto Encyclopedia of Genes and Genomes (KEGG) analysis demonstrated that endophytes exerted diverse functions such as plant growth promoting, xenobiotics biodegradation, pollution remediation and bacterial chemotaxis. Pure culture experiment showed that 30 isolated endophytic strains exhibited in vitro plant growth promoting activities, and rice plants inoculated with these strains confirmed their growth promoting abilities. Some endophytic strains were capable of efficiently degrading PAEs, with the highest removal percentage of di-n-butyl phthalate (DBP) up to 96.1% by Bacillus amyloliquefaciens strain L381 within 5 days. Synthetic community F and strain L381 rapidly removed DBP from soil (removing 91.0%-99.2% within 10 d and from rice plant slurry (removing 93.4%-99.2% within 5 d). These results confirmed the hypothesis and demonstrated the diversity of endophytic bacteria in wild rice with diverse functions, especially for plant growth promoting and removing PAEs. These multifunctional endophytic bacteria provided good alternatives to reduce PAE accumulation in crops and increase yield.
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- Li-Hui Liu
- Guangdong Provincial Research Center for Environment Pollution Control and Remediation Materials, College of Life Science and Technology, Jinan University, Guangzhou 510632, China; Provincial Key Laboratory of Plant Molecular Breeding, College of Agriculture, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou 510642, China
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- Provincial Key Laboratory of Plant Molecular Breeding, College of Agriculture, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou 510642, China; State Key Laboratory of Nuclear Resources and Environment, East China University of Technology, Nanchang 330013, China
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- Guangdong Provincial Research Center for Environment Pollution Control and Remediation Materials, College of Life Science and Technology, Jinan University, Guangzhou 510632, China
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- College of Natural Resources and Environment, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou 510642, China
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- College of Natural Resources and Environment, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou 510642, China
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- Guangdong Provincial Research Center for Environment Pollution Control and Remediation Materials, College of Life Science and Technology, Jinan University, Guangzhou 510632, China
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- Guangdong Provincial Research Center for Environment Pollution Control and Remediation Materials, College of Life Science and Technology, Jinan University, Guangzhou 510632, China
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- Guangdong Provincial Research Center for Environment Pollution Control and Remediation Materials, College of Life Science and Technology, Jinan University, Guangzhou 510632, China
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- Guangdong Provincial Research Center for Environment Pollution Control and Remediation Materials, College of Life Science and Technology, Jinan University, Guangzhou 510632, China
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- Provincial Key Laboratory of Plant Molecular Breeding, College of Agriculture, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou 510642, China.
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- Guangdong Provincial Research Center for Environment Pollution Control and Remediation Materials, College of Life Science and Technology, Jinan University, Guangzhou 510632, China.
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Bennett EA, Weber J, Bendhafer W, Champlot S, Peters J, Schwartz GM, Grange T, Geigl EM. The genetic identity of the earliest human-made hybrid animals, the kungas of Syro-Mesopotamia. SCIENCE ADVANCES 2022; 8:eabm0218. [PMID: 35030024 PMCID: PMC8759742 DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.abm0218] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/20/2021] [Accepted: 11/22/2021] [Indexed: 06/14/2023]
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Before the introduction of domestic horses in Mesopotamia in the late third millennium BCE, contemporary cuneiform tablets and seals document intentional breeding of highly valued equids called kungas for use in diplomacy, ceremony, and warfare. Their precise zoological classification, however, has never been conclusively determined. Morphometric analysis of equids uncovered in rich Early Bronze Age burials at Umm el-Marra, Syria, placed them beyond the ranges reported for other known equid species. We sequenced the genomes of one of these ~4500-year-old equids, together with an ~11,000-year-old Syrian wild ass (hemippe) from Göbekli Tepe and two of the last surviving hemippes. We conclude that kungas were F1 hybrids between female domestic donkeys and male hemippes, thus documenting the earliest evidence of hybrid animal breeding.
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- E. Andrew Bennett
- Institut Jacques Monod, Université de Paris, CNRS, 75013 Paris, France
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- Near East Section, The University Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Philadelphia, PA 19103, USA
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- Institut Jacques Monod, Université de Paris, CNRS, 75013 Paris, France
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- Institut Jacques Monod, Université de Paris, CNRS, 75013 Paris, France
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- ArchaeoBioCenter, Institute of Palaeoanatomy, Domestication Research and the History of Veterinary Medicine, LMU Munich, 80539 Munich, Germany
- SNSB, Bavarian State Collection of Palaeoanatomy, 80333 Munich, Germany
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- Department of Near Eastern Studies, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21218, USA
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- Institut Jacques Monod, Université de Paris, CNRS, 75013 Paris, France
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- Institut Jacques Monod, Université de Paris, CNRS, 75013 Paris, France
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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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Lovász L, Fages A, Amrhein V. Konik, Tarpan, European wild horse: An origin story with conservation implications. Glob Ecol Conserv 2021. [DOI: 10.1016/j.gecco.2021.e01911] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022] Open
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Landscape genetics and the genetic legacy of Upper Paleolithic and Mesolithic hunter-gatherers in the modern Caucasus. Sci Rep 2021; 11:17985. [PMID: 34504229 PMCID: PMC8429691 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-021-97519-6] [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: 02/14/2021] [Accepted: 08/26/2021] [Indexed: 11/24/2022] Open
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This study clarifies the role of refugia and landscape permeability in the formation of the current genetic structure of peoples of the Caucasus. We report novel genome-wide data for modern individuals from the Caucasus, and analyze them together with available Paleolithic and Mesolithic individuals from Eurasia and Africa in order (1) to link the current and ancient genetic structures via landscape permeability, and (2) thus to identify movement paths between the ancient refugial populations and the Caucasus. The ancient genetic ancestry is best explained by landscape permeability implying that human movement is impeded by terrain ruggedness, swamps, glaciers and desert. Major refugial source populations for the modern Caucasus are those of the Caucasus, Anatolia, the Balkans and Siberia. In Rugged areas new genetic signatures take a long time to form, but once they do so, they remain for a long time. These areas act as time capsules harboring genetic signatures of ancient source populations and making it possible to help reconstruct human history based on patterns of variation today.
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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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Gacem S, Valverde A, Catalán J, Yánez Ortiz I, Soler C, Miró J. A New Approach of Sperm Motility Subpopulation Structure in Donkey and Horse. Front Vet Sci 2021; 8:651477. [PMID: 34113670 PMCID: PMC8186528 DOI: 10.3389/fvets.2021.651477] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/09/2021] [Accepted: 04/07/2021] [Indexed: 12/16/2022] Open
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This study aimed to characterize the sperm kinematic values with high frames per second, to define the subpopulation structure of a horse and a donkey and compare them. A total of 57 fresh semen ejaculates (26 Spanish and 16 Arabian horse breeds and 10 donkeys) were collected and subsequently analyzed for kinematic parameters using the Computer-aided sperm motility analysis ISAS®v1.2 system and using a Spermtrack® 10-μm depth counting chamber. Sequences were recorded at 250 frames per second, and eight kinematic parameters were automatically evaluated. All kinematic parameters showed significant differences between a donkey and a horse and between horse breeds. All ejaculates evaluated showed excellent semen motility characteristics, with significantly higher values for all kinematic parameters for donkeys compared with horses except for beat-cross frequency. Donkey sperm was faster and linear than the horse. Regarding horse breeds differences, the Spanish horse had higher average path velocity, curvilinear velocity, and beat-cross frequency compared with the Arabian horse. Spanish horse sperm was rapid, but Arab horse was more linear. The principal component analysis showed three sperm subpopulations in the ejaculate of donkeys and horses with a significantly different motility characteristic between them. The dominant subpopulation for both donkey and horse was for rapid, straight, and linear with a high beat sperm (38.2 and 41.7%, respectively), whereas the lowest subpopulation was for the slowest and non-linear sperms. This, plus slight differences in the distribution of these subpopulations between Arabian and Spanish horses, were found. In conclusion, higher frames permitted to have a new interpretation of motile subpopulations with species and breed differences. More so, future works on donkey and horse breed spermatozoa should take into account differences between breeds that may interfere and alter the real analysis performed.
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- Sabrina Gacem
- Equine Reproduction Service, Autonomous University of Barcelona, Department of Animal Medicine and Surgery Veterinary Faculty, Catalonia, Spain
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- Costa Rica Institute of Technology, School of Agronomy, Alajuela, Costa Rica
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- Equine Reproduction Service, Autonomous University of Barcelona, Department of Animal Medicine and Surgery Veterinary Faculty, Catalonia, Spain
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- Equine Reproduction Service, Autonomous University of Barcelona, Department of Animal Medicine and Surgery Veterinary Faculty, Catalonia, Spain
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- Universitat de València, Departamento de Biología Celular, Biología Funcional y Antropología Física, Burjassot, Valencia, Spain
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- Equine Reproduction Service, Autonomous University of Barcelona, Department of Animal Medicine and Surgery Veterinary Faculty, Catalonia, Spain
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Taylor WTT, Barrón-Ortiz CI. Rethinking the evidence for early horse domestication at Botai. Sci Rep 2021; 11:7440. [PMID: 33811228 PMCID: PMC8018961 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-021-86832-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/15/2021] [Accepted: 03/19/2021] [Indexed: 11/08/2022] Open
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Despite its transformative impact on human history, the early domestication of the horse (Equus caballus) remains exceedingly difficult to trace in the archaeological record. In recent years, a scientific consensus emerged linking the Botai culture of northern Kazakhstan with the first domestication of horses, based on compelling but largely indirect archaeological evidence. A cornerstone of the archaeological case for domestication at Botai is damage to the dentition commonly linked with the use of bridle mouthpieces, or "bit wear." Recent archaeogenetic analyses reveal, however, that horse remains from Botai are not modern domesticates but instead the Przewalski's horse, E. przewalskii-warranting reevaluation of evidence for domestication. Here, we compare osteological traits hypothesized to have been caused by horse transport at Botai with wild Pleistocene equids in North America. Our results suggest that damage observed in Botai horse teeth is likely generated by natural disturbances in dental development and wear, rather than through contact with bridle equipment. In light of a careful reconsideration of the mid-Holocene archaeological record of northern Eurasia, we suggest that archaeological materials from Botai are most effectively explained through the regularized mass harvesting of wild Przewalski's' horses-meaning that the origins of horse domestication may lie elsewhere.
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Librado P, Khan N, Fages A, Kusliy MA, Suchan T, Tonasso-Calvière L, Schiavinato S, Alioglu D, Fromentier A, Perdereau A, Aury JM, Gaunitz C, Chauvey L, Seguin-Orlando A, Der Sarkissian C, Southon J, Shapiro B, Tishkin AA, Kovalev AA, Alquraishi S, Alfarhan AH, Al-Rasheid KAS, Seregély T, Klassen L, Iversen R, Bignon-Lau O, Bodu P, Olive M, Castel JC, Boudadi-Maligne M, Alvarez N, Germonpré M, Moskal-del Hoyo M, Wilczyński J, Pospuła S, Lasota-Kuś A, Tunia K, Nowak M, Rannamäe E, Saarma U, Boeskorov G, Lōugas L, Kyselý R, Peške L, Bălășescu A, Dumitrașcu V, Dobrescu R, Gerber D, Kiss V, Szécsényi-Nagy A, Mende BG, Gallina Z, Somogyi K, Kulcsár G, Gál E, Bendrey R, Allentoft ME, Sirbu G, Dergachev V, Shephard H, Tomadini N, Grouard S, Kasparov A, Basilyan AE, Anisimov MA, Nikolskiy PA, Pavlova EY, Pitulko V, Brem G, Wallner B, Schwall C, Keller M, Kitagawa K, Bessudnov AN, Bessudnov A, Taylor W, Magail J, Gantulga JO, Bayarsaikhan J, Erdenebaatar D, Tabaldiev K, Mijiddorj E, Boldgiv B, Tsagaan T, Pruvost M, Olsen S, Makarewicz CA, Valenzuela Lamas S, Albizuri Canadell S, Nieto Espinet A, Iborra MP, Lira Garrido J, Rodríguez González E, Celestino S, Olària C, Arsuaga JL, Kotova N, Pryor A, Crabtree P, Zhumatayev R, Toleubaev A, Morgunova NL, Kuznetsova T, Lordkipanize D, Marzullo M, Prato O, Bagnasco Gianni G, Tecchiati U, Clavel B, Lepetz S, Davoudi H, Mashkour M, Berezina NY, Stockhammer PW, Krause J, Haak W, Morales-Muñiz A, Benecke N, Hofreiter M, Ludwig A, Graphodatsky AS, Peters J, Kiryushin KY, Iderkhangai TO, Bokovenko NA, Vasiliev SK, Seregin NN, Chugunov KV, Plasteeva NA, Baryshnikov GF, Petrova E, Sablin M, Ananyevskaya E, Logvin A, Shevnina I, Logvin V, Kalieva S, Loman V, Kukushkin I, Merz I, Merz V, Sakenov S, Varfolomeyev V, Usmanova E, Zaibert V, Arbuckle B, Belinskiy AB, Kalmykov A, Reinhold S, Hansen S, Yudin AI, Vybornov AA, Epimakhov A, Berezina NS, Roslyakova N, Kosintsev PA, Kuznetsov PF, Anthony D, Kroonen GJ, Kristiansen K, Wincker P, Outram A, Orlando L. The origins and spread of domestic horses from the Western Eurasian steppes. Nature 2021; 598:634-640. [PMID: 34671162 PMCID: PMC8550961 DOI: 10.1038/s41586-021-04018-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 74] [Impact Index Per Article: 24.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/04/2021] [Accepted: 09/10/2021] [Indexed: 01/13/2023]
Abstract
Domestication of horses fundamentally transformed long-range mobility and warfare1. However, modern domesticated breeds do not descend from the earliest domestic horse lineage associated with archaeological evidence of bridling, milking and corralling2-4 at Botai, Central Asia around 3500 BC3. Other longstanding candidate regions for horse domestication, such as Iberia5 and Anatolia6, have also recently been challenged. Thus, the genetic, geographic and temporal origins of modern domestic horses have remained unknown. Here we pinpoint the Western Eurasian steppes, especially the lower Volga-Don region, as the homeland of modern domestic horses. Furthermore, we map the population changes accompanying domestication from 273 ancient horse genomes. This reveals that modern domestic horses ultimately replaced almost all other local populations as they expanded rapidly across Eurasia from about 2000 BC, synchronously with equestrian material culture, including Sintashta spoke-wheeled chariots. We find that equestrianism involved strong selection for critical locomotor and behavioural adaptations at the GSDMC and ZFPM1 genes. Our results reject the commonly held association7 between horseback riding and the massive expansion of Yamnaya steppe pastoralists into Europe around 3000 BC8,9 driving the spread of Indo-European languages10. This contrasts with the scenario in Asia where Indo-Iranian languages, chariots and horses spread together, following the early second millennium BC Sintashta culture11,12.
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- Pablo Librado
- grid.15781.3a0000 0001 0723 035XCentre d’Anthropobiologie et de Génomique de Toulouse, Université Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, France
| | - Naveed Khan
- grid.15781.3a0000 0001 0723 035XCentre d’Anthropobiologie et de Génomique de Toulouse, Université Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, France ,grid.440522.50000 0004 0478 6450Department of Biotechnology, Abdul Wali Khan University, Mardan, Pakistan
| | - Antoine Fages
- grid.15781.3a0000 0001 0723 035XCentre d’Anthropobiologie et de Génomique de Toulouse, Université Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, France
| | - Mariya A. Kusliy
- grid.15781.3a0000 0001 0723 035XCentre d’Anthropobiologie et de Génomique de Toulouse, Université Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, France ,grid.415877.80000 0001 2254 1834Department of the Diversity and Evolution of Genomes, Institute of Molecular and Cellular Biology SB RAS, Novosibirsk, Russia
| | - Tomasz Suchan
- grid.15781.3a0000 0001 0723 035XCentre d’Anthropobiologie et de Génomique de Toulouse, Université Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, France ,grid.413454.30000 0001 1958 0162W. Szafer Institute of Botany, Polish Academy of Sciences, Kraków, Poland
| | - Laure Tonasso-Calvière
- grid.15781.3a0000 0001 0723 035XCentre d’Anthropobiologie et de Génomique de Toulouse, Université Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, France
| | - Stéphanie Schiavinato
- grid.15781.3a0000 0001 0723 035XCentre d’Anthropobiologie et de Génomique de Toulouse, Université Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, France
| | - Duha Alioglu
- grid.15781.3a0000 0001 0723 035XCentre d’Anthropobiologie et de Génomique de Toulouse, Université Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, France
| | - Aurore Fromentier
- grid.15781.3a0000 0001 0723 035XCentre d’Anthropobiologie et de Génomique de Toulouse, Université Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, France
| | - Aude Perdereau
- grid.460789.40000 0004 4910 6535Genoscope, Institut de biologie François-Jacob, Commissariat à l’Energie Atomique (CEA), Université Paris-Saclay, Evry, France
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- grid.8390.20000 0001 2180 5818Génomique Métabolique, Genoscope, Institut de biologie François Jacob, CEA, CNRS, Université d’Evry, Université Paris-Saclay, Evry, France
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- grid.15781.3a0000 0001 0723 035XCentre d’Anthropobiologie et de Génomique de Toulouse, Université Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, France
| | - Lorelei Chauvey
- grid.15781.3a0000 0001 0723 035XCentre d’Anthropobiologie et de Génomique de Toulouse, Université Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, France
| | - Andaine Seguin-Orlando
- grid.15781.3a0000 0001 0723 035XCentre d’Anthropobiologie et de Génomique de Toulouse, Université Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, France
| | - Clio Der Sarkissian
- grid.15781.3a0000 0001 0723 035XCentre d’Anthropobiologie et de Génomique de Toulouse, Université Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, France
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- grid.266093.80000 0001 0668 7243Earth System Science Department, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA USA
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- grid.205975.c0000 0001 0740 6917Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA USA ,grid.205975.c0000 0001 0740 6917Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of California, Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA USA
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- grid.77225.350000000112611077Department of Archaeology, Ethnography and Museology, Altai State University, Barnaul, Russia
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- grid.465449.e0000 0001 1214 1108Department of Archaeological Heritage Preservation, Institute of Archaeology of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia
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- grid.56302.320000 0004 1773 5396Zoology Department, College of Science, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
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- grid.56302.320000 0004 1773 5396Zoology Department, College of Science, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
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- grid.56302.320000 0004 1773 5396Zoology Department, College of Science, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
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- grid.7359.80000 0001 2325 4853Institute for Archaeology, Heritage Conservation Studies and Art History, University of Bamberg, Bamberg, Germany
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- grid.5254.60000 0001 0674 042XSaxo Institute, section of Archaeology, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- grid.4444.00000 0001 2112 9282ArScAn-UMR 7041, Equipe Ethnologie préhistorique, CNRS, MSH-Mondes, Nanterre Cedex, France
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- grid.4444.00000 0001 2112 9282ArScAn-UMR 7041, Equipe Ethnologie préhistorique, CNRS, MSH-Mondes, Nanterre Cedex, France
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- grid.4444.00000 0001 2112 9282ArScAn-UMR 7041, Equipe Ethnologie préhistorique, CNRS, MSH-Mondes, Nanterre Cedex, France
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- grid.412041.20000 0001 2106 639XUMR 5199 De la Préhistoire à l’Actuel : Culture, Environnement et Anthropologie (PACEA), CNRS, Université de Bordeaux, Pessac Cedex, France
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- grid.466902.f0000 0001 2248 6951Geneva Natural History Museum, Geneva, Switzerland ,grid.8591.50000 0001 2322 4988Department of Genetics and Evolution, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
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- grid.20478.390000 0001 2171 9581OD Earth & History of Life, Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences, Brussels, Belgium
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- grid.413454.30000 0001 1958 0162W. Szafer Institute of Botany, Polish Academy of Sciences, Kraków, Poland
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- grid.413454.30000 0001 1958 0162Institute of Systematics and Evolution of Animals, Polish Academy of Sciences, Kraków, Poland
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- grid.413454.30000 0001 1958 0162Institute of Systematics and Evolution of Animals, Polish Academy of Sciences, Kraków, Poland
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- grid.413454.30000 0001 1958 0162Institute of Archaeology and Ethnology Polish Academy of Sciences, Kraków, Poland
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- grid.413454.30000 0001 1958 0162Institute of Archaeology and Ethnology Polish Academy of Sciences, Kraków, Poland
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- grid.5522.00000 0001 2162 9631Institute of Archaeology, Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland
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- Department of Archaeology, Institute of History and Archaeology, Tartu, Estonia
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- grid.10939.320000 0001 0943 7661Department of Zoology, Institute of Ecology and Earth Sciences, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia
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- Diamond and Precious Metals Geology Institute, SB RAS, Yakutsk, Russia
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- grid.8207.d0000 0000 9774 6466Archaeological Research Collection, Tallinn University, Tallinn, Estonia
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- grid.447879.10000 0001 0792 540XDepartment of Natural Sciences and Archaeometry, Institute of Archaeology of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czechia
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- grid.418333.e0000 0004 1937 1389Vasile Pârvan Institute of Archaeology, Department of Bioarchaeology, Romanian Academy, Bucharest, Romania
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- grid.418333.e0000 0004 1937 1389Vasile Pârvan Institute of Archaeology, Department of Bioarchaeology, Romanian Academy, Bucharest, Romania
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- grid.418333.e0000 0004 1937 1389Vasile Pârvan Institute of Archaeology, Department of Bioarchaeology, Romanian Academy, Bucharest, Romania
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- grid.481823.4Institute of Archaeogenomics, Research Centre for the Humanities, Eötvös Loránd Research Network, Budapest, Hungary ,grid.5591.80000 0001 2294 6276Department of Genetics, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary
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- grid.481830.60000 0001 2238 5843Institute of Archaeology, Research Centre for the Humanities, Eötvös Loránd Research Network, Budapest, Hungary
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- grid.481823.4Institute of Archaeogenomics, Research Centre for the Humanities, Eötvös Loránd Research Network, Budapest, Hungary
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- grid.481823.4Institute of Archaeogenomics, Research Centre for the Humanities, Eötvös Loránd Research Network, Budapest, Hungary
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- grid.481830.60000 0001 2238 5843Institute of Archaeology, Research Centre for the Humanities, Eötvös Loránd Research Network, Budapest, Hungary
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- grid.481830.60000 0001 2238 5843Institute of Archaeology, Research Centre for the Humanities, Eötvös Loránd Research Network, Budapest, Hungary
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- grid.4305.20000 0004 1936 7988School of History, Classics and Archaeology, University of Edinburgh, Old Medical School, Edinburgh, UK
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- grid.1032.00000 0004 0375 4078Trace and Environmental DNA (TrEnD) Lab, School of Molecular and Life Sciences, Curtin University, Perth, Western Australia Australia ,grid.5254.60000 0001 0674 042XLundbeck Foundation GeoGenetics Centre, GLOBE Institute, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- grid.435140.7Department of Academic Management, Academy of Science of Moldova, Chișinău, Republic of Moldova
| | - Valentin Dergachev
- grid.435140.7Center of Archaeology, Institute of Cultural Heritage, Academy of Science of Moldova, Chișinău, Republic of Moldova
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- grid.446391.d0000 0001 2190 3450Archaeological Institute of America, Boston, MA USA
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- Centre National de Recherche Scientifique, Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle, Archéozoologie, Archéobotanique (AASPE), CP 56, Paris, France
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- Centre National de Recherche Scientifique, Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle, Archéozoologie, Archéobotanique (AASPE), CP 56, Paris, France
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- grid.473277.20000 0001 2291 1890Institute for the History of Material Culture, Russian Academy of Sciences (IHMC RAS), St Petersburg, Russia
| | | | - Mikhail A. Anisimov
- grid.424187.c0000 0001 1942 9788Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute, St Petersburg, Russia
| | - Pavel A. Nikolskiy
- grid.465388.4Geological Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia
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- grid.424187.c0000 0001 1942 9788Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute, St Petersburg, Russia
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- grid.473277.20000 0001 2291 1890Institute for the History of Material Culture, Russian Academy of Sciences (IHMC RAS), St Petersburg, Russia
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- grid.6583.80000 0000 9686 6466Institute of Animal Breeding and Genetics, University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna, Vienna, Austria
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- grid.6583.80000 0000 9686 6466Institute of Animal Breeding and Genetics, University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna, Vienna, Austria
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- grid.466489.10000 0001 2151 4674Department of Prehistory and Western Asian/Northeast African Archaeology, Austrian Archaeological Institute, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna, Austria
| | - Marcel Keller
- grid.10939.320000 0001 0943 7661Estonian Biocentre, Institute of Genomics, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia ,grid.469873.70000 0004 4914 1197Department of Archaeogenetics, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, Jena, Germany
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- grid.10392.390000 0001 2190 1447SFB 1070 Resource Cultures, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany ,grid.10392.390000 0001 2190 1447Department of Early Prehistory and Quaternary Ecology, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany ,grid.4444.00000 0001 2112 9282UMR 7194 Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle, CNRS, UPVD, Paris, France
| | - Alexander N. Bessudnov
- grid.459698.f0000 0000 8989 8101Semenov-Tyan-Shanskii Lipetsk State Pedagogical University, Lipetsk, Russia
| | - Alexander Bessudnov
- grid.473277.20000 0001 2291 1890Institute for the History of Material Culture, Russian Academy of Sciences (IHMC RAS), St Petersburg, Russia
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- grid.266190.a0000000096214564Museum of Natural History, University of Colorado-Boulder, Boulder, CO USA
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- Musée d’Anthropologie préhistorique de Monaco, Monaco, Monaco
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- grid.425564.40000 0004 0587 3863Institute of Archaeology, Mongolian Academy of Sciences, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia
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- grid.469873.70000 0004 4914 1197Department of Archaeology, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, Jena, Germany ,Chinggis Khaan Museum, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia
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- grid.444269.90000 0004 0387 4627Department of History, Kyrgyz-Turkish Manas University, Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan
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- Department of Archaeology, Ulaanbaatar State University, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia
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- grid.260731.10000 0001 2324 0259Department of Biology, National University of Mongolia, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia
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- grid.425564.40000 0004 0587 3863Institute of Archaeology, Mongolian Academy of Sciences, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia
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- grid.412041.20000 0001 2106 639XUMR 5199 De la Préhistoire à l’Actuel : Culture, Environnement et Anthropologie (PACEA), CNRS, Université de Bordeaux, Pessac Cedex, France
| | - Sandra Olsen
- grid.266515.30000 0001 2106 0692Division of Archaeology, Biodiversity Institute, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS USA
| | - Cheryl A. Makarewicz
- grid.9764.c0000 0001 2153 9986Institute for Prehistoric and Protohistoric Archaeology, Kiel University, Kiel, Germany ,grid.9764.c0000 0001 2153 9986ROOTS Excellence Cluster, Kiel University, Kiel, Germany
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- grid.4711.30000 0001 2183 4846Archaeology of Social Dynamics, Institució Milà i Fontanals d’Humanitats, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (IMF-CSIC), Barcelona, Spain
| | - Silvia Albizuri Canadell
- grid.5841.80000 0004 1937 0247Departament d’Història i Arqueologia–SERP, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
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- grid.15043.330000 0001 2163 1432Grup d’Investigació Prehistòrica, Universitat de Lleida, PID2019-110022GB-I00, Lleida, Spain
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- grid.8393.10000000119412521Departamento de Medicina Animal, Facultad de Veterinaria, Universidad de Extremadura, Cáceres, Spain ,Centro Mixto UCM-ISCIII de Evolución y Comportamiento Humanos, Madrid, Spain
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- grid.454770.50000 0001 1945 3489Instituto de Arqueología (CSIC–Junta de Extremadura), Mérida, Spain
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- grid.9612.c0000 0001 1957 9153Laboratori d’Arqueologia Prehistòrica, Universitat Jaume I, Castelló de la Plana, Spain
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- Centro Mixto UCM-ISCIII de Evolución y Comportamiento Humanos, Madrid, Spain ,grid.4795.f0000 0001 2157 7667Departamento de Geodinámica, Estratigrafía y Paleontología, Facultad de Ciencias Geológicas, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, Spain
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- grid.418751.e0000 0004 0385 8977Department of Eneolithic and Bronze Age, Institute of Archaeology National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Kyiv, Ukraine
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- grid.8391.30000 0004 1936 8024Department of Archaeology, University of Exeter, Exeter, UK
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- grid.137628.90000 0004 1936 8753Center for the Study of Human Origins, Anthropology Department, New York University, New York, NY USA
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- grid.77184.3d0000 0000 8887 5266Department of Archaeology, Ethnology and Museology, Al Farabi Kazakh National University, Almaty, Kazakhstan
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- grid.77184.3d0000 0000 8887 5266Department of Archaeology, Ethnology and Museology, Al Farabi Kazakh National University, Almaty, Kazakhstan
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- grid.445474.20000 0001 1092 7131Scientific Research Department, Orenburg State Pedagogical University, Orenburg, Russia
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- grid.14476.300000 0001 2342 9668Department of paleontology, Faculty of Geology, Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia ,grid.77268.3c0000 0004 0543 9688Institute of Geology and Petroleum Technologies, Kazan Federal University, Kazan, Russia
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- grid.452450.20000 0001 0739 408XGeorgian National Museum, Tbilisi, Georgia ,grid.26193.3f0000 0001 2034 6082Tbilisi State University, Tbilisi, Georgia
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- grid.4708.b0000 0004 1757 2822Università degli Studi di Milano, Dipartimento di Beni Culturali e Ambientali, Milan, Italy
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- grid.4708.b0000 0004 1757 2822Università degli Studi di Milano, Dipartimento di Beni Culturali e Ambientali, Milan, Italy
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- grid.4708.b0000 0004 1757 2822Università degli Studi di Milano, Dipartimento di Beni Culturali e Ambientali, Milan, Italy
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- grid.4708.b0000 0004 1757 2822Università degli Studi di Milano, Dipartimento di Beni Culturali e Ambientali, Milan, Italy
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- Centre National de Recherche Scientifique, Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle, Archéozoologie, Archéobotanique (AASPE), CP 56, Paris, France
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- Centre National de Recherche Scientifique, Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle, Archéozoologie, Archéobotanique (AASPE), CP 56, Paris, France
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- grid.46072.370000 0004 0612 7950University of Tehran, Central Laboratory, Bioarchaeology Laboratory, Archaeozoology Section, Tehran, Iran
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- Centre National de Recherche Scientifique, Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle, Archéozoologie, Archéobotanique (AASPE), CP 56, Paris, France ,grid.46072.370000 0004 0612 7950University of Tehran, Central Laboratory, Bioarchaeology Laboratory, Archaeozoology Section, Tehran, Iran
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- grid.14476.300000 0001 2342 9668Research Institute and Museum of Anthropology, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia
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- grid.419518.00000 0001 2159 1813Department of Archaeogenetics, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany ,grid.5252.00000 0004 1936 973XInstitute for Pre- and Protohistoric Archaeology and Archaeology of the Roman Provinces, Ludwig Maximilian University, Munich, Munich, Germany
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- grid.469873.70000 0004 4914 1197Department of Archaeogenetics, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, Jena, Germany ,grid.419518.00000 0001 2159 1813Department of Archaeogenetics, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany
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- grid.469873.70000 0004 4914 1197Department of Archaeogenetics, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, Jena, Germany ,grid.419518.00000 0001 2159 1813Department of Archaeogenetics, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany ,grid.1010.00000 0004 1936 7304School of Biological Sciences, The University of Adelaide, Adelaide, South Australia Australia
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- grid.5515.40000000119578126Department of Biology, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Madrid, Spain
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- grid.424195.f0000 0001 2106 6832Eurasia Department of the German Archaeological Institute, Berlin, Germany
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- grid.11348.3f0000 0001 0942 1117Evolutionary Adaptive Genomics, Institute of Biochemistry and Biology, Faculty of Mathematics and Science, University of Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany
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- grid.418779.40000 0001 0708 0355Department of Evolutionary Genetics, Leibniz-Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research, Berlin, Germany ,grid.7468.d0000 0001 2248 7639Albrecht Daniel Thaer-Institute, Faculty of Life Sciences, Humboldt University Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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- grid.415877.80000 0001 2254 1834Department of the Diversity and Evolution of Genomes, Institute of Molecular and Cellular Biology SB RAS, Novosibirsk, Russia
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- grid.5252.00000 0004 1936 973XArchaeoBioCenter and Institute of Palaeoanatomy, Domestication Research and the History of Veterinary Medicine, LMU Munich, Munich, Germany ,grid.452781.d0000 0001 2203 6205SNSB, State Collection of Anthropology and Palaeoanatomy, Munich, Germany
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- grid.77225.350000000112611077Department of Archaeology, Ethnography and Museology, Altai State University, Barnaul, Russia
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- grid.473277.20000 0001 2291 1890Institute for the History of Material Culture, Russian Academy of Sciences (IHMC RAS), St Petersburg, Russia
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- grid.415877.80000 0001 2254 1834ArchaeoZOOlogy in Siberia and Central Asia—ZooSCAn International Research Laboratory, Institute of Archeology and Ethnography of the Siberian Branch of the RAS, Novosibirsk, Russia
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- grid.77225.350000000112611077Department of Archaeology, Ethnography and Museology, Altai State University, Barnaul, Russia
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- grid.426493.e0000 0004 1800 742XDepartment of Eastern European and Siberian Archaeology, State Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg, Russia
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- grid.482778.60000 0001 2197 0186Paleoecology Laboratory, Institute of Plant and Animal Ecology, Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Ekaterinburg, Russia
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- grid.439287.30000 0001 2314 7601Zoological Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, St Petersburg, Russia
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- grid.6441.70000 0001 2243 2806Department of Archaeology, History Faculty, Vilnius University, Vilnius, Lithuania
| | - Mikhail Sablin
- grid.439287.30000 0001 2314 7601Zoological Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, St Petersburg, Russia
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- grid.6441.70000 0001 2243 2806Department of Archaeology, History Faculty, Vilnius University, Vilnius, Lithuania
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- grid.443586.8Laboratory for Archaeological Research, Faculty of History and Law, Kostanay State University, Kostanay, Kazakhstan
| | - Irina Shevnina
- grid.443586.8Laboratory for Archaeological Research, Faculty of History and Law, Kostanay State University, Kostanay, Kazakhstan
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- Department of History and Archaeology, Surgut Governmental University, Surgut, Russia
| | - Saule Kalieva
- Department of History and Archaeology, Surgut Governmental University, Surgut, Russia
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- Saryarka Archaeological Institute, Buketov Karaganda University, Karaganda, Kazakhstan
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- Saryarka Archaeological Institute, Buketov Karaganda University, Karaganda, Kazakhstan
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- Toraighyrov University, Joint Research Center for Archeological Studies, Pavlodar, Kazakhstan
| | - Victor Merz
- Toraighyrov University, Joint Research Center for Archeological Studies, Pavlodar, Kazakhstan
| | - Sergazy Sakenov
- grid.55380.3b0000 0004 0398 5415Faculty of History, L. N. Gumilev Eurasian National University, Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan
| | - Victor Varfolomeyev
- Saryarka Archaeological Institute, Buketov Karaganda University, Karaganda, Kazakhstan
| | - Emma Usmanova
- Saryarka Archaeological Institute, Buketov Karaganda University, Karaganda, Kazakhstan
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- grid.77184.3d0000 0000 8887 5266Institute of Archaeology and Steppe Civilizations, Al-Farabi Kazakh National University, Almaty, Kazakhstan
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- grid.10698.360000000122483208Department of Anthropology, Alumni Building, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC USA
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- grid.424195.f0000 0001 2106 6832Eurasia Department of the German Archaeological Institute, Berlin, Germany
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- grid.424195.f0000 0001 2106 6832Eurasia Department of the German Archaeological Institute, Berlin, Germany
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- Research Center for the Preservation of Cultural Heritage, Saratov, Russia
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- grid.445790.b0000 0001 2218 2982Department of Russian History and Archaeology, Samara State University of Social Sciences and Education, Samara, Russia
| | - Andrey Epimakhov
- grid.440724.10000 0000 9958 5862Russian and Foreign History Department, South Ural State University, Chelyabinsk, Russia ,grid.465317.20000 0001 2224 8785South Ural Department, Institute of History and Archaeology, Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Ekaterinburg, Russia
| | - Natalia S. Berezina
- Archaeological School, Chuvash State Institute of Humanities, Cheboksary, Russia
| | - Natalia Roslyakova
- grid.445790.b0000 0001 2218 2982Department of Russian History and Archaeology, Samara State University of Social Sciences and Education, Samara, Russia
| | - Pavel A. Kosintsev
- grid.482778.60000 0001 2197 0186Paleoecology Laboratory, Institute of Plant and Animal Ecology, Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Ekaterinburg, Russia ,grid.412761.70000 0004 0645 736XDepartment of History of the Institute of Humanities, Ural Federal University, Ekaterinburg, Russia
| | - Pavel F. Kuznetsov
- grid.445790.b0000 0001 2218 2982Department of Russian History and Archaeology, Samara State University of Social Sciences and Education, Samara, Russia
| | - David Anthony
- grid.38142.3c000000041936754XDepartment of Human Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA USA ,grid.418410.80000 0001 0115 6427Anthropology Faculty, Hartwick College, Oneonta NY, USA
| | - Guus J. Kroonen
- grid.5254.60000 0001 0674 042XDepartment of Nordic Studies and Linguistics, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark ,grid.5132.50000 0001 2312 1970Leiden University Center for Linguistics, Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands
| | - Kristian Kristiansen
- grid.8761.80000 0000 9919 9582Department of Historical Studies, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden ,grid.452548.a0000 0000 9817 5300Present Address: Lundbeck Foundation GeoGenetics Centre, Copenhagen, Denmark
| | - Patrick Wincker
- grid.8390.20000 0001 2180 5818Génomique Métabolique, Genoscope, Institut de biologie François Jacob, CEA, CNRS, Université d’Evry, Université Paris-Saclay, Evry, France
| | - Alan Outram
- grid.8391.30000 0004 1936 8024Department of Archaeology, University of Exeter, Exeter, UK
| | - Ludovic Orlando
- grid.15781.3a0000 0001 0723 035XCentre d’Anthropobiologie et de Génomique de Toulouse, Université Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, France
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Abstract
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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Affiliation(s)
- 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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