Publication Date:
2009-04-25
Description:
The domestication of livestock represented a crucial step in human history. By using endogenous retroviruses as genetic markers, we found that sheep differentiated on the basis of their "retrotype" and morphological traits dispersed across Eurasia and Africa via separate migratory episodes. Relicts of the first migrations include the Mouflon, as well as breeds previously recognized as "primitive" on the basis of their morphology, such as the Orkney, Soay, and the Nordic short-tailed sheep now confined to the periphery of northwest Europe. A later migratory episode, involving sheep with improved production traits, shaped the great majority of present-day breeds. The ability to differentiate genetically primitive sheep from more modern breeds provides valuable insights into the history of sheep domestication.〈br /〉〈br /〉〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3145132/" target="_blank"〉〈img src="https://static.pubmed.gov/portal/portal3rc.fcgi/4089621/img/3977009" border="0"〉〈/a〉 〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3145132/" target="_blank"〉This paper as free author manuscript - peer-reviewed and accepted for publication〈/a〉〈br /〉〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Chessa, Bernardo -- Pereira, Filipe -- Arnaud, Frederick -- Amorim, Antonio -- Goyache, Felix -- Mainland, Ingrid -- Kao, Rowland R -- Pemberton, Josephine M -- Beraldi, Dario -- Stear, Michael J -- Alberti, Alberto -- Pittau, Marco -- Iannuzzi, Leopoldo -- Banabazi, Mohammad H -- Kazwala, Rudovick R -- Zhang, Ya-Ping -- Arranz, Juan J -- Ali, Bahy A -- Wang, Zhiliang -- Uzun, Metehan -- Dione, Michel M -- Olsaker, Ingrid -- Holm, Lars-Erik -- Saarma, Urmas -- Ahmad, Sohail -- Marzanov, Nurbiy -- Eythorsdottir, Emma -- Holland, Martin J -- Ajmone-Marsan, Paolo -- Bruford, Michael W -- Kantanen, Juha -- Spencer, Thomas E -- Palmarini, Massimo -- 076522/Wellcome Trust/United Kingdom -- 081696/Wellcome Trust/United Kingdom -- BB/F014643/1/Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council/United Kingdom -- HD05274/HD/NICHD NIH HHS/ -- R01 HD052745/HD/NICHD NIH HHS/ -- Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council/United Kingdom -- Wellcome Trust/United Kingdom -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 2009 Apr 24;324(5926):532-6. doi: 10.1126/science.1170587.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Institute of Comparative Medicine, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Glasgow, Glasgow G61 1QH, UK.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19390051" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
Animal Husbandry/*history
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Animals
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Dna
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Endogenous Retroviruses/*genetics
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Genetic Markers
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History, Ancient
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Molecular Sequence Data
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Polymorphism, Genetic
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Population Dynamics
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Retroviridae/genetics
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*Sheep/classification/genetics/virology
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*Sheep, Domestic/classification/genetics/virology
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Virus Integration
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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