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Endogenous Retroviral Insertions Indicate a Secondary Introduction of Domestic Sheep Lineages to the Caucasus and Central Asia between the Bronze and Iron Age
Sheep were one of the first livestock species domesticated by humans. After initial domestication in the Middle East they were spread across Eurasia. The modern distribution of endogenous Jaagsiekte sheep retrovirus insertions in domestic sheep breeds suggests that over the course of millennia, succ...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5485529/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28632161 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/genes8060165 |
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author | Schroeder, Oskar Benecke, Norbert Frölich, Kai Peng, Zuogang Kaniuth, Kai Sverchkov, Leonid Reinhold, Sabine Belinskiy, Andrey Ludwig, Arne |
author_facet | Schroeder, Oskar Benecke, Norbert Frölich, Kai Peng, Zuogang Kaniuth, Kai Sverchkov, Leonid Reinhold, Sabine Belinskiy, Andrey Ludwig, Arne |
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description | Sheep were one of the first livestock species domesticated by humans. After initial domestication in the Middle East they were spread across Eurasia. The modern distribution of endogenous Jaagsiekte sheep retrovirus insertions in domestic sheep breeds suggests that over the course of millennia, successive introductions of improved lineages and selection for wool quality occurred in the Mediterranean region and most of Asia. Here we present a novel ancient DNA approach using data of endogenous retroviral insertions in Bronze and Iron Age domestic sheep from the Caucasus and Pamir mountain areas. Our findings support a secondary introduction of wool sheep from the Middle East between the Late Bronze Age and Iron Age into most areas of Eurasia. |
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spelling | pubmed-54855292017-06-29 Endogenous Retroviral Insertions Indicate a Secondary Introduction of Domestic Sheep Lineages to the Caucasus and Central Asia between the Bronze and Iron Age Schroeder, Oskar Benecke, Norbert Frölich, Kai Peng, Zuogang Kaniuth, Kai Sverchkov, Leonid Reinhold, Sabine Belinskiy, Andrey Ludwig, Arne Genes (Basel) Article Sheep were one of the first livestock species domesticated by humans. After initial domestication in the Middle East they were spread across Eurasia. The modern distribution of endogenous Jaagsiekte sheep retrovirus insertions in domestic sheep breeds suggests that over the course of millennia, successive introductions of improved lineages and selection for wool quality occurred in the Mediterranean region and most of Asia. Here we present a novel ancient DNA approach using data of endogenous retroviral insertions in Bronze and Iron Age domestic sheep from the Caucasus and Pamir mountain areas. Our findings support a secondary introduction of wool sheep from the Middle East between the Late Bronze Age and Iron Age into most areas of Eurasia. MDPI 2017-06-20 /pmc/articles/PMC5485529/ /pubmed/28632161 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/genes8060165 Text en © 2017 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Schroeder, Oskar Benecke, Norbert Frölich, Kai Peng, Zuogang Kaniuth, Kai Sverchkov, Leonid Reinhold, Sabine Belinskiy, Andrey Ludwig, Arne Endogenous Retroviral Insertions Indicate a Secondary Introduction of Domestic Sheep Lineages to the Caucasus and Central Asia between the Bronze and Iron Age |
title | Endogenous Retroviral Insertions Indicate a Secondary Introduction of Domestic Sheep Lineages to the Caucasus and Central Asia between the Bronze and Iron Age |
title_full | Endogenous Retroviral Insertions Indicate a Secondary Introduction of Domestic Sheep Lineages to the Caucasus and Central Asia between the Bronze and Iron Age |
title_fullStr | Endogenous Retroviral Insertions Indicate a Secondary Introduction of Domestic Sheep Lineages to the Caucasus and Central Asia between the Bronze and Iron Age |
title_full_unstemmed | Endogenous Retroviral Insertions Indicate a Secondary Introduction of Domestic Sheep Lineages to the Caucasus and Central Asia between the Bronze and Iron Age |
title_short | Endogenous Retroviral Insertions Indicate a Secondary Introduction of Domestic Sheep Lineages to the Caucasus and Central Asia between the Bronze and Iron Age |
title_sort | endogenous retroviral insertions indicate a secondary introduction of domestic sheep lineages to the caucasus and central asia between the bronze and iron age |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5485529/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28632161 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/genes8060165 |
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