The evolutionary history of dogs in the Americas

Dogs were present in the Americas before the arrival of European colonists, but the origin and fate of these precontact dogs are largely unknown.We sequenced 71 mitochondrial and 7 nuclear genomes fromancient North American and Siberian dogs from time frames spanning ~9000 years. Our analysis indica...

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Main Authors: Leathlobhair, M, Perri, A, Irving-Pease, E, Witt, K, Linderholm, A, Haile, J, Lebrasseur, O, Ameen, C, Blick, J, Boyko, A, Brace, S, Cortes, Y, Crockford, S, Devault, A, Dimopoulos, E, Eldridge, M, Enk, J, Gopalakrishnan, S, Gori, K, Grimes, V, Guiry, E, Hansen, A, Hulme-Beaman, A, Johnson, J, Kitchen, A, Kasparov, A, Kwon, Y, Nikolskiy, P, Peraza Lope, C, Manin, A, Martin, T, Meyer, M, Myers, K, Omura, M, Rouillard, J, Pavlova, E, Sciulli, P, Sinding, M, Strakova, A, Ivanova, V, Widga, C, Willerslev, E, Pitulko, V, Barnes, I, Gilbert, M, Dobney, K, Malhi, R, Murchison, E, Larson, G, Frantz, L
Format: Journal article
Published: American Association for the Advancement of Science 2018