BioEssays : news and reviews in molecular, cellular and developmental biology.
Publisher:
Published for the ICSU Press by Cambridge University Press,. Hoboken, N.J. : Wiley (2005)
Frequency: Twelve no. a year
Country: United States
Language: English
Author(s):
International Council of Scientific Unions., Company of Biologists.
Start Year:1984 -
Identifiers
| ISSN: | 0265-9247 (Print) 1521-1878 (Electronic) 0265-9247 (Linking) |
| NLM ID: | 8510851 |
| (DNLM): | SR0051782(s) |
| (OCoLC): | 11195715 |
| Coden: | BIOEEJ |
| LCCN: | 98641457 |
| Classification: | W1 BI663P |
Ancient Genomes Reveal Unexpected Horse Domestication and Management Dynamics. The horse was essential to past human societies but became a recreational animal during the twentieth century as the world became increasingly mechanized. As the author reviews here, recent studies of ancient genomes have revisited the understanding of horse domestication, from the very early stages to the most modern developments. They have uncovered several extinct lineages roaming the far ends of Eurasia some 4000 years ago. They have shown that the domestic horse has been significantly reshaped during the last millennium and experienced a sharp decline in genetic diversity within the last...
The new framework for understanding placental mammal evolution. An unprecedented level of confidence has recently crystallized around a new hypothesis of how living placental mammals share a pattern of common descent. The major groups are afrotheres (e.g., aardvarks, elephants), xenarthrans (e.g., anteaters, sloths), laurasiatheres (e.g., horses, shrews), and euarchontoglires (e.g., humans, rodents). Compared with previous hypotheses this tree is remarkably stable; however, some uncertainty persists about the location of the placental root, and (for example) the position of bats within laurasiatheres, of sea cows and aardvarks within afrotheres, and of der...