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Genomic history of early dogs in Europe
13 hours ago Nathan Newby, a hero hospital patient who stopped a “lone-wolf terrorist” from detonating a bomb at Leeds hospital’s maternity wing, says the would-be attacker “asked for a cuddle.” Mohammad Farooq was jailed last year for life with a minimum term of 37 years after taking a home-made pressure cooker bomb into St James’s Hospital, intending to “kill as many nurses as possible”. Mr Newby will receive the George Medal, the second-highest civilian gallantry award, for his bravery.
Dogs were widely distributed across western Eurasia during the Palaeolithic
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Abstract Archaeological evidence suggests that dogs diverged from wolves during the Palaeolithic, more than 15,000 years ago1,2,3,4,5,6,7. The earliest unequivocal genetic evidence, however, is associated with dog remains from Mesolithic archaeological contexts approximately 10,900 years ago8,9.
By William Marsh, Lachie Scarsbrook, Eren Yüncü, Lizzie Hodgson, Audrey Lin, Maria De Iorio, Olaf Thalmann, Mark Thomas Verified, Mahaut Goor, Anders Bergström, Angela Noseda, Sarieh Amiri, Fereidoun Biglari, Dušan Borić, Katia Bougiouri, Alberto Carmagnini, Maddalena Giannì, Tom Higham, Ophélie Lebrasseur, Anna Linderholm, Marcello A. Mannino, Caroline Middleton, Gökhan Mustafaoğlu, Angela Perri, Joris Peters, Mike Richards, Özlem Sarıtaş, Pontus Skoglund, Rhiannon Stevens, Chris Stringer, Kristina Tabbada, Helen M. Talbot, Laura G. Van der Sluis, Silvia M. Bello, Vesna Dimitrijevic, Louise Martin, Marjan Mashkour, Simon A. Parfitt, Sonja Vukovic, Selina Brace, Oliver E. Craig, Douglas Baird, Sophy Charlton, Greger Larson, Ian Barnes, Laurent A. F. Frantz
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Genomic history of early dogs in Europe
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Abstract The earliest morphologically identifiable dogs are from Europe and date to at least 14,000 years ago1,2,3,4,5, although early remains are also found in other regions. The origin of early dogs in Europe, and their relationships to other dogs, has remained elusive in the absence of genome-wide data.
By Anders Bergström, Anja Furtwängler, Sarah Johnston, Erika Rosengren, Abagail Breidenstein, Thomas Booth, Jesse McCabe, Jessica Peto, Mia Williams Verified, Monica Kelly, Mónica Kelly, Frankie Tait, Chris Baumann, Rita Radzeviciute, Christopher Barrington, Kyriaki Anastasiadou, Alexandre Gilardet, Isabelle Glocke, Mattias Sherman, Anastasia Brativnyk, Alexander Herbig, Kay Prüfer, Saskia Pfrengle, Joscha Gretzinger, Tatiana Feuerborn, Ella Reiter, Anna Linderholm, Sophy Charlton, Fernando Racimo, Lea Mikkola, Hugo Anderson-Whymark, Douglas Baird, Anne Birgitte Gotfredsen, Hervé Bocherens, Anne Bridault, Rainer Brocke, Dorothée G. Drucker, Andrew Fairbairn, Laurent A. F. Frantz, Boris Gasparyan, Liane Giemsch, Mietje Germonpré, Luc Janssens, Andrew W. Kandel, Kurt H. Kjær, Daniel Loponte, Ola Magnell, Louise Martin, Susanne C. Münzel, Gökhan Mustafaoğlu, Bjørnar Måge, Angela Perri, Franziska Pfenninger, Annelise Roman-Binois, Özlem Sarıtaş, Katharina Schäppi, J. Sheridan, Karl-Göran Sjögren, Jan Storå, Lasse Sørensen, Yvonne Tafelmaier, Florian Ter-Nedden, Olaf Thalmann, Greger Larson, Verena J. Schuenemann, Johannes Krause, Pontus Skoglund
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How European colonisation has created more animal hybrids
Dingoes were translocated to K'gari (Fraser Island) by the Butchulla people before the arrival of Europeans. Photo: CC BY European colonization has accelerated animal hybridization by moving species beyond their native ranges, leading to increased genetic diversity. A study on Australian dingoes reveals that hybridization with European dogs has evolutionary benefits, enhancing genetic diversity and disease resistance.
How European colonisation has created more animal hybrids Original
Humans have moved plants and animals well beyond their native ranges, across barriers that normally prevent dispersal. As a result, people have increased the rates of hybridisation between populations that were once isolated for thousands, or even millions, of years. Animal hybrids are a controversial issue among scientists, as they often suffer from health issues.
Genomic ancestry, behavior, and the domestication of the dog
It has been exactly 25 years since the first dog genetic maps were published and 20 years since the first dog genome sequence, a boxer, was released. The domestication of dogs was a landmark in human history, and the details of that process are key to understanding fundamental principles of evolution, domestication, and behavior. Dogs also provide the foundation for studies aimed at using canine phenotypes for studies of human health.
Genetics of Canine Domestication, Migration, and Behavior
Genetics of Canine Domestication, Migration, and Behavior The Genetics of Canine Domestication, Migration, and Behavior Special Feature advances our understanding of how dogs evolved from wolves and how their genomes and behaviors reflect domestication.
The genetic diversity of Indonesian cattle has been shaped by multiple introductions and adaptive introgression - Nature Communications
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Abstract Genetic diversity is a crucial resource in livestock, determining their traits and ability to respond to selection. Indonesian cattle are unique due to their history of admixture involving both zebu (Bos indicus) and banteng (B. javanicus), and may therefore contain novel cattle genetic resources. We generated whole genome sequences from 126 Indonesian cattle, 51 domesticated banteng and three captive banteng.
By Xi Wang, Sabhrina Gita Aninta, Genís Garcia-Erill, Laura Bertola, Anubhab Khan, Josiah O Kuja, Kristian Ebbesen Hanghøj, Jonas Meisner, Thomas Bøggild, Dwi Sendi Priyono, Johannes A. Lenstra, Benjamin Rosen, Darren E. Hagen, Michael Heaton, Greger Larson, Mikkel-Holger S. Sinding, Alam Putra Persada, Pita Sudrajad, Cynthia Dewi Gaina
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Ecological restructuring of North Tethyan marine vertebrate communities triggered by the end-Cretaceous extinction
P. M. Hull, S. A. F. Darroch, “Mass extinctions and the structure and function of ecosystems” in The Paleontological Society Papers, (Ecosystem Paleobiology and Geobiology Cambridge University Press, 2013), vol. 19, pp. 115–156. E. C. Sibert, P. M. Hull, R. D. Norris, Resilience of Pelagic fish across the Cretaceous/Paleogene mass extinction. Nat. Geosci. 7, 667–670 (2014). E. C. Sibert, R. D. Norris, New age of Fishes initiated by the Cretaceous-Paleogene mass extinction. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci.
The benefits and dangers of anthropomorphic conversational agents
E. Brynjolfsson, The Turing Trap: The Promise & Peril of Human-Like Artificial Intelligence in Augmented education in the Global Age (Routledge, 2023), pp. 103–116. V. Pitardi, H. R. Marriott, Alexa, she’s not human but. unveiling the drivers of consumers’ trust in voice-based artificial intelligence. Psychol. Mark. 38, 626–642 (2021). K. Seaborn, N. P. Miyake, P. Pennefather, M. Otake-Matsuura, Voice in human-agent interaction: A survey. ACM Comput. Surv. 54, 81:1–81:43 (2021). M. Seymour, K. Riemer, J.
Genetic regulation of gene expression across multiple tissues in chickens - Nature Genetics
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Abstract The chicken is a valuable model for understanding fundamental biology and vertebrate evolution and is a major global source of nutrient-dense and lean protein. Despite being the first non-mammalian amniote to have its genome sequenced, a systematic characterization of functional variation on the chicken genome remains lacking.
By Dailu Guan, Xiaoning Zhu, Conghao Zhong, Yali Hou, Yuelin Yao, Yuzhe Wang, Tianyi Xu, Hongwei Yin, Jinyan Teng, Zhiting Xu, Fabien Degalez, Mingshan Wang, Minsheng Peng, Mathieu Charles, Jacqueline Smith, Albert Johannes Buitenhuis, Goutam Sahana, Wesley C. Warren, Greger Larson, Xin Zhao, Bingjie Li, Ruidong Xiang, Zhe Zhang, Zhang Xuan Zhang, George Liu, Ning Yang, Xiaoxiang Hu, Huaijun Zhou
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The Farm Animal Genotype–Tissue Expression (FarmGTEx) Project - Nature Genetics
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Abstract Genetic mutation and drift, coupled with natural and human-mediated selection and migration, have produced a wide variety of genotypes and phenotypes in farmed animals. We here introduce the Farm Animal Genotype–Tissue Expression (FarmGTEx) Project, which aims to elucidate the genetic determinants of gene expression across 16 terrestrial and aquatic domestic species under diverse biological and environmental contexts.
By Lingzhao Fang, Jinyan Teng, Dailu Guan, Bingjie Li, Ying Yu, Jacqueline Smith, Konrad Rawlik, Ruidong Xiang, Amanda Chamberlain, Greger Larson, David E. MacHugh, Goutam Sahana, Zhihua Jiang, Guoqiang Yi, Yuwen Liu, Zhonglin Tang, Xiao Wang, Robert Young, Xia Shen, Charley Xia, Li Ma, John Cole, Cong-Jun Li, Benjamin Rosen, Nayan Bhowmik, Joan K. Lunney, Wansheng Liu, Xin Zhao, Eveline M. Ibeagha-Awemu, Yonglun Luo, Lin Lin, James E. Koltes, Christopher K. Tuggle, Elisabetta Giuffra, Marcel Amills, Alex Clop, Maria Ballester, Gwenola Tosser-Klopp, Ming Fang, Qishan Wang, Zhuocheng Hou, Fuping Zhao, Lin Jiang, Guiping Zhao, Zhengkui Zhou, Rong Zhou, Long Jin, Mingzhou Li, Delin Mo, Shuhong Zhao, Hui-Zeng Sun, Yu Jiang, Dongdong Wu, Kui Li, Ning Yang, Xiaoxiang Hu, Wen Huang, Jian Yang, Claudia Kasper, Xiang Zhou, Wei Li, Edward S. Buckler, Bing Ren, Michael C Schatz, Jingyi Li, Abraham A. Palmer, Laurent A. F. Frantz, Huaijun Zhou, Zhe Zhang, George Liu
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Consider the horse
Get full access to this article View all available purchase options and get full access to this article. Books 1 Hoof Beats: How Horses Shaped Human History William T. Taylor University of California Press, 2024. 360 pp. Information & Authors Information Published In Science Volume 385 | Issue 6710 16 August 2024 Copyright Copyright © 2024 The Authors, some rights reserved; exclusive licensee American Association for the Advancement of Science. No claim to original U.S. Government Works.
Nine lives
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Genomic and archaeological evidence suggest a dual origin of domestic dogs
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A dogged investigation of domestication The history of how wolves became our pampered pooches of today has remained controversial. Frantz et al. …
By Victoria E. Mullin, Maud Pionnier-Capitan, Ophélie Lebrasseur, Morgane Ollivier, Angela Perri, Anna Linderholm, Valeria Mattiangeli, Matthew D. Teasdale, Evangelos A. Dimopoulos, Anne Tresset, Finbar McCormick, László Bartosiewicz, Erika Gál, Mikhail Sablin, Stéphanie Bréhard, Marjan Mashkour, Benjamin Gillet, Sandrine Hughes, Jean-Denis Vigne, Keith Dobney, Daniel Bradley, Greger Larson, Marilyne Duffraisse, Éva A. Nyerges, Olivier Chassaing, Christophe Hitte, Catherine Hänni
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Dual ancestries and ecologies of the Late Glacial Palaeolithic in Britain - Nature Ecology & Evolution
Abstract Genetic investigations of Upper Palaeolithic Europe have revealed a complex and transformative history of human population movements and ancestries, with evidence of several instances of genetic change across the European continent in the period following the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM). Concurrent with these genetic shifts, the post-LGM period is characterized by a series of significant climatic changes, population expansions and cultural diversification.
Grey wolf genomic history reveals a dual ancestry of dogs - Nature
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Sampling, DNA preparation and sequencing Stockholm Samples LOW002, LOW003, LOW006, LOW007, LOW008 and PON012 were processed at the Archaeological Research Laboratory at Stockholm University, Sweden, following methods previously described8.
By Anders Bergström, Laurent A. F. Frantz, Mikkel-Holger S. Sinding, Ophélie Lebrasseur, Daniel Fernandes, Morgane Ollivier, Michael Westbury, Jazmín Ramos-Madrigal, Tatiana Feuerborn, Nicholas J. Conard, James Haile, Anna Linderholm, Ian Barnes, Chris Baumann, Hervé Bocherens, Selina Brace, Dorothée G. Drucker, Mietje Germonpré, Richard Jennings, Yaroslav V. Kuzmin, Ludovic Orlando, Alan K. Outram, Angela Perri, Valerii V. Plotnikov, Mikhail Sablin, Philippe Crombé, Anders J. Hansen, Jennifer Leonard, Ron Pinhasi, Beth Shapiro, Greger Larson, Johannes Krause, Love Dalén
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The question of canine origins
The reviewer is at the Palaeogenomics and Bio-Archaeology Research Network, School of Archaeology, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 3TG, UK.
Dog domestication and the dual dispersal of people and dogs into the Americas
Dog domestication and the dual dispersal of people and dogs into the Americas Angela R. Perri, Tatiana R. Feuerborn, Laurent A. F. Frantz, Greger Larson, Ripan S. Malhi, David J. Meltzer, Kelsey E. Witt Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Feb 2021, 118 (6) e2010083118; DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2010083118
Dire wolves were the last of an ancient New World canid lineage - Nature
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Abstract Dire wolves are considered to be one of the most common and widespread large carnivores in Pleistocene America1, yet relatively little is known about their evolution or extinction. Here, to reconstruct the evolutionary history of dire wolves, we sequenced five genomes from sub-fossil remains dating from 13,000 to more than 50,000 years ago.
By Angela Perri, Kieren J. Mitchell, Alice Mouton, Ardern Hulme-Beaman, James Haile, Alexandra Jamieson, Julie A. Meachen, Audrey Lin, Pere Bover, Selina Brace, James C. Chatters, Keith Dobney, Allowen Evin, Graham Gower, Kristofer Helgen, Alexander T. Salis, Dmitry Taranenko, Mary Thompson, Mikhail Sablin, Yaroslav V. Kuzmin, Mikkel-Holger S. Sinding, Anne Stone, Beth Shapiro, Blaire Van Valkenburgh, Greger Larson
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Animal domestication in the era of ancient genomics
Abstract The domestication of animals led to a major shift in human subsistence patterns, from a hunter–gatherer to a sedentary agricultural lifestyle, which ultimately resulted in the development of complex societies. Over the past 15,000 years, the phenotype and genotype of multiple animal species, such as dogs, pigs, sheep, goats, cattle and horses, have been substantially altered during their adaptation to the human niche.
The History of Farm Foxes Undermines the Animal Domestication Syndrome
Highlights The ‘domestication syndrome’ has been a central focus of research into the biological processes underlying domestication. The Russian Farm-Fox Experiment was the first to test whether there is a causal relationship between selection for tameness and the domestication syndrome.
A composite window into human history
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Selection of Appropriate Metagenome Taxonomic Classifiers for Ancient Microbiome Research
INTRODUCTIONAncient microbiome research offers the possibility of tracing the evolution of the complex microbial communities that play an integral role in shaping population health and disease. Paleomicrobiology uses archaeological material to trace the emergence and spread of microorganisms throughout history and prehistory.
A composite window into human history
Over the past decade, the ability to recover whole genomes from ancient remains has emerged as a powerful tool for understanding the human past. From a strictly biological perspective, the sequencing of ancient genomes has resolved the dispute over our evolutionary relationship with Neandertals, revealed the extent of gene flow within and between modern and archaic humans, shed light on genetic and health consequences of this admixture, and uncovered genomic changes in recent human evolution (1).
How Much Is That in Dog Years? The Advent of Canine Population Genomics
Citation: Larson G, Bradley DG (2014) How Much Is That in Dog Years? The Advent of Canine Population Genomics. PLoS Genet 10(1): e1004093. doi:10.1371/journal.pgen.1004093 Copyright: © 2014 Larson, Bradley. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Rulers of the roost
Rulers of the roost Greger Larson Why Did the Chicken Cross the World? The Epic Saga of the Bird That Powers Civilization Andrew Lawler Atria Books, 2014. 335 pp. The reviewer is in the School of Archaeology, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 2JD, UK. E-mail: greger.larson{at}arch.ox.ac.uk Summary There are now more than 20 billion chickens on Earth—more than the combined total of cats, dogs, pigs, cows, and rats. Even so, we perpetually underestimate the chicken's role in human culture and history.
A population genetics view of animal domestication
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