Ancient pigs reveal a near-complete genomic turnover following their introduction to Europe

Archaeological evidence indicates that pig domestication had begun by ∼10,500 y before the present (BP) in the Near East, and mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) suggests that pigs arrived in Europe alongside farmers ∼8,500 y BP. A few thousand years after the introduction of Near Eastern pigs into Europe, ho...

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Main Authors: Frantz, LAF, Haile, J, Lin, AT, Scheu, A, Geörg, C, Benecke, N, Alexander, M, Linderholm, A, Mullin, VE, Daly, KG, Battista, VM, Price, M, Gron, KJ, Alexandri, P, Arbogast, R-M, Arbuckle, B, Bӑlӑşescu, A, Barnett, R, Bartosiewicz, L, Baryshnikov, G, Bonsall, C, Borić, D, Boroneanţ, A, Bulatović, J, Çakirlar, C, Carretero, J-M, Chapman, J, Church, M, Crooijmans, R, De Cupere, B, Detry, C, Dimitrijevic, V, Dumitraşcu, V, Du Plessis, L, Edwards, CJ, Erek, CM, Erim-Özdoğan, A, Ervynck, A, Fulgione, D, Gligor, M, Götherström, A, Gourichon, L, Groenen, MAM, Helmer, D, Hongo, H, Horwitz, LK, Irving-Pease, EK, Lebrasseur, O, Lesur, J, Malone, C, Manaseryan, N, Marciniak, A, Martlew, H, Mashkour, M, Matthews, R, Matuzeviciute, GM, Maziar, S, Meijaard, E, McGovern, T, Megens, H-J, Miller, R, Mohaseb, AF, Orschiedt, J, Orton, D, Papathanasiou, A, Pearson, MP, Pinhasi, R, Radmanović, D, Ricaut, F-X, Richards, M, Sabin, R, Sarti, L, Schier, W, Sheikhi, S, Stephan, E, Stewart, JR, Stoddart, S, Tagliacozzo, A, Tasić, N, Trantalidou, K, Tresset, A, Valdiosera, C, Van Den Hurk, Y, Van Poucke, S, Vigne, J-D, Yanevich, A, Zeeb-Lanz, A, Triantafyllidis, A, Gilbert, MTP, Schibler, J, Rowley-Conwy, P, Zeder, M, Peters, J, Cucchi, T, Bradley, DG, Dobney, K, Burger, J, Evin, A, Girdland-Flink, L, Larson, G
Format: Journal article
Language:English
Published: National Academy of Sciences 2019