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Charleen Gaunitz1, Antoine Fages1,2, Kristian Hanghøj1,2, Anders Albrechtsen3, Naveed Khan1,4, Mikkel Schubert1, Andaine Seguin-Orlando1,2,5, Ivy J Owens6,7, Sabine Felkel8, Olivier Bignon-Lau9, Peter de Barros Damgaard1, Alissa Mittnik10, Azadeh F Mohaseb11,12, Hossein Davoudi12,13,14, Saleh Alquraishi15, Ahmed H Alfarhan15, Khaled A S Al-Rasheid15, Eric Crubézy2, Norbert Benecke16, Sandra Olsen17, Dorcas Brown18, David Anthony18, Ken Massy19, Vladimir Pitulko20, Aleksei Kasparov20, Gottfried Brem8, Michael Hofreiter21, Gulmira Mukhtarova22, Nurbol Baimukhanov23, Lembi Lõugas24, Vedat Onar25, Philipp W Stockhammer10,19, Johannes Krause10, Bazartseren Boldgiv26, Sainbileg Undrakhbold26, Diimaajav Erdenebaatar27, Sébastien Lepetz11, Marjan Mashkour11,12,13, Arne Ludwig28, Barbara Wallner8, Victor Merz29, Ilja Merz29, Viktor Zaibert30, Eske Willerslev1,31,32, Pablo Librado1, Alan K Outram33, Ludovic Orlando34,2.
Abstract
The Eneolithic Botai culture of the Central Asian steppes provides the earliest archaeological evidence for horse husbandry, ~5500 years ago, but the exact nature of early horse domestication remains controversial. We generated 42 ancient-horse genomes, including 20 from Botai. Compared to 46 published ancient- and modern-horse genomes, our data indicate that Przewalski's horses are the feral descendants of horses herded at Botai and not truly wild horses. All domestic horses dated from ~4000 years ago to present only show ~2.7% of Botai-related ancestry. This indicates that a massive genomic turnover underpins the expansion of the horse stock that gave rise to modern domesticates, which coincides with large-scale human population expansions during the Early Bronze Age.Entities:
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Year: 2018 PMID： 29472442 DOI： 10.1126/science.aao3297
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Science ISSN： 0036-8075 Impact factor: 63.714