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Origins and wanderings of the Finnish hunting spitzes
Deducing the evolutionary histories of dog breeds can be challenging due to convergent traits and frequent admixture. In this report, we have explored the relationships of indigenous Finnish hunting spitz breeds among other northern Eurasian hunting breeds using commercially available SNP analysis (...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6025854/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29958296 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0199992 |
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author | Pohjoismäki, Jaakko L. O. Lampi, Sara Donner, Jonas Anderson, Heidi |
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description | Deducing the evolutionary histories of dog breeds can be challenging due to convergent traits and frequent admixture. In this report, we have explored the relationships of indigenous Finnish hunting spitz breeds among other northern Eurasian hunting breeds using commercially available SNP analysis (the MyDogDNA panel test). We find that Nordic hunting breeds Finnish Spitz, Nordic Spitz and the Karelian Bear Dog, as well as the reindeer herding Lapphund and Lapponian herder are all closely related and have common origins with the northeastern Eurasian Laika breeds, rather than with other Scandinavian Spitz breeds, such as Elkhounds and Swedish Vallhund. By tracing admixture events and direction of gene flow, we also elucidate the complex interactions between the breeds and provide new insight into the history of Swedish Elkhound and Russian-European Laika. The findings, together with an analysis of genetic differentiation between the populations, not only help to understand the origins of the breeds but also provide interesting possibilities to revive genetic diversity, lost during the breeding history, by backcrossing breeds to their hypothetical ancestry. |
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spelling | pubmed-60258542018-07-07 Origins and wanderings of the Finnish hunting spitzes Pohjoismäki, Jaakko L. O. Lampi, Sara Donner, Jonas Anderson, Heidi PLoS One Research Article Deducing the evolutionary histories of dog breeds can be challenging due to convergent traits and frequent admixture. In this report, we have explored the relationships of indigenous Finnish hunting spitz breeds among other northern Eurasian hunting breeds using commercially available SNP analysis (the MyDogDNA panel test). We find that Nordic hunting breeds Finnish Spitz, Nordic Spitz and the Karelian Bear Dog, as well as the reindeer herding Lapphund and Lapponian herder are all closely related and have common origins with the northeastern Eurasian Laika breeds, rather than with other Scandinavian Spitz breeds, such as Elkhounds and Swedish Vallhund. By tracing admixture events and direction of gene flow, we also elucidate the complex interactions between the breeds and provide new insight into the history of Swedish Elkhound and Russian-European Laika. The findings, together with an analysis of genetic differentiation between the populations, not only help to understand the origins of the breeds but also provide interesting possibilities to revive genetic diversity, lost during the breeding history, by backcrossing breeds to their hypothetical ancestry. Public Library of Science 2018-06-29 /pmc/articles/PMC6025854/ /pubmed/29958296 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0199992 Text en © 2018 Pohjoismäki et al http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Pohjoismäki, Jaakko L. O. Lampi, Sara Donner, Jonas Anderson, Heidi Origins and wanderings of the Finnish hunting spitzes |
title | Origins and wanderings of the Finnish hunting spitzes |
title_full | Origins and wanderings of the Finnish hunting spitzes |
title_fullStr | Origins and wanderings of the Finnish hunting spitzes |
title_full_unstemmed | Origins and wanderings of the Finnish hunting spitzes |
title_short | Origins and wanderings of the Finnish hunting spitzes |
title_sort | origins and wanderings of the finnish hunting spitzes |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6025854/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29958296 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0199992 |
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