Publication Date:
2009-04-25
Description:
The transformation of wild animals into domestic ones available for human nutrition was a key prerequisite for modern human societies. However, no other domestic species has had such a substantial impact on the warfare, transportation, and communication capabilities of human societies as the horse. Here, we show that the analysis of ancient DNA targeting nuclear genes responsible for coat coloration allows us to shed light on the timing and place of horse domestication. We conclude that it is unlikely that horse domestication substantially predates the occurrence of coat color variation, which was found to begin around the third millennium before the common era.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Ludwig, Arne -- Pruvost, Melanie -- Reissmann, Monika -- Benecke, Norbert -- Brockmann, Gudrun A -- Castanos, Pedro -- Cieslak, Michael -- Lippold, Sebastian -- Llorente, Laura -- Malaspinas, Anna-Sapfo -- Slatkin, Montgomery -- Hofreiter, Michael -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 2009 Apr 24;324(5926):485. doi: 10.1126/science.1172750.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research, 10252 Berlin, Germany. ludwig@izw-berlin.de〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19390039" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
Animal Husbandry/*history
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Animals
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Biological Evolution
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Breeding
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Dna
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Europe
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Genetic Variation
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Hair Color/*genetics
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History, Ancient
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Horses/*genetics
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Siberia
Print ISSN:
0036-8075
Electronic ISSN:
1095-9203
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Computer Science
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
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