Cell.
Publisher:
MIT Press.. Cambridge, Ma : Cell Press
Frequency: Biweekly
Country: United States
Language: English
Author(s):
Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Start Year:1974 -
Identifiers
| ISSN: | 0092-8674 (Print) 1097-4172 (Electronic) 0092-8674 (Linking) |
| NLM ID: | 0413066 |
| (DNLM): | C10680000(s) |
| (OCoLC): | 01792038 |
| Coden: | CELLB5 |
| Classification: | W1 CE126K |
Tracking Five Millennia of Horse Management with Extensive Ancient Genome Time Series. Horse domestication revolutionized warfare and accelerated travel, trade, and the geographic expansion of languages. Here, we present the largest DNA time series for a non-human organism to date, including genome-scale data from 149 ancient animals and 129 ancient genomes (≥1-fold coverage), 87 of which are new. This extensive dataset allows us to assess the modern legacy of past equestrian civilizations. We find that two extinct horse lineages existed during early domestication, one at the far western (Iberia) and the other at the far eastern range (Siberia) of Eurasia. None of these contr...