Ancient genomes revisit the ancestry of domestic and Przewalski’s horses

Gaunitz, Charleen; Fages, Antoine; Hanghøj, Kristian; Albrechtsen, Anders; Khan, Naveed; Schubert, Mikkel; Seguin‐Orlando, Andaine; J. Owens, Ivy; Felkel, Sabine; Bignon‐Lau, Olivier; de Barros Damgaard, Peter; Mittnik, Alissa; Fatemeh Mohaseb, Azadeh; Davoudi, Hossein; A. Alquraishi, Saleh; Alfarhan, Ahmed; A. S. Al‐Rasheid, Khaled; Crubézy, Éric; Benecke, Norbert; L. Olsen, Sandra; Brown, Dorcas; W. Anthony, David; Massy, Ken; V. Pitulko, Vladimir; Kasparov, Aleksei; Брем, Г.; Hofreiter, Michael; Mukhtarova, Gulmira; Baimukhanov, Nurbol; Lõugas, Lembi; Onar, Vedat; W. Stockhammer, Philipp; Krause, Johannes; Boldgiv, Bazartseren; Undrakhbold, Sainbileg; Erdenebaatar, Diimaajav; Lepetz, Sébastien; Mashkour, Marjan; Ludwig, Arne; Wallner, Barbara; Merz, Victor; Merz, Ilja; Zaibert, Viktor; Willerslev, Eske; Librado, Pablo; K. Outram, Alan; Orlando, Ludovic

doi:10.1126/science.aao3297

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Ancient genomes revisit the ancestry of domestic and Przewalski’s horses

Published in Science • Feb 22, 2018

Authors:

Charleen Gaunitz

Antoine Fages

Kristian Hanghøj

Abstract

The Eneolithic Botai culture of the Central Asian steppes provides the earliest archaeological evidence for horse husbandry, ~5500 years ago, but the exact nature of early horse domestication remains controversial. We generated 42 ancient-horse genomes, including 20 from Botai. Compared to 46 publis...

Subject

Domestication

Horse

Ancient DNA

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