TY  - JOUR
A1  - Fages, Antoine
A1  - Hanghoj, Kristian
A1  - Khan, Naveed
A1  - Gaunitz, Charleen
A1  - Seguin-Orlando, Andaine
A1  - Leonardi, Michela
A1  - Constantz, Christian McCrory
A1  - Gamba, Cristina
A1  - Al-Rasheid, Khaled A. S.
A1  - Albizuri, Silvia
A1  - Alfarhan, Ahmed H.
A1  - Allentoft, Morten
A1  - Alquraishi, Saleh
A1  - Anthony, David
A1  - Baimukhanov, Nurbol
A1  - Barrett, James H.
A1  - Bayarsaikhan, Jamsranjav
A1  - Benecke, Norbert
A1  - Bernaldez-Sanchez, Eloisa
A1  - Berrocal-Rangel, Luis
A1  - Biglari, Fereidoun
A1  - Boessenkool, Sanne
A1  - Boldgiv, Bazartseren
A1  - Brem, Gottfried
A1  - Brown, Dorcas
A1  - Burger, Joachim
A1  - Crubezy, Eric
A1  - Daugnora, Linas
A1  - Davoudi, Hossein
A1  - Damgaard, Peter de Barros
A1  - de Chorro y de Villa-Ceballos, Maria de los Angeles
A1  - Deschler-Erb, Sabine
A1  - Detry, Cleia
A1  - Dill, Nadine
A1  - Oom, Maria do Mar
A1  - Dohr, Anna
A1  - Ellingvag, Sturla
A1  - Erdenebaatar, Diimaajav
A1  - Fathi, Homa
A1  - Felkel, Sabine
A1  - Fernandez-Rodriguez, Carlos
A1  - Garcia-Vinas, Esteban
A1  - Germonpre, Mietje
A1  - Granado, Jose D.
A1  - Hallsson, Jon H.
A1  - Hemmer, Helmut
A1  - Hofreiter, Michael
A1  - Kasparov, Aleksei
A1  - Khasanov, Mutalib
A1  - Khazaeli, Roya
A1  - Kosintsev, Pavel
A1  - Kristiansen, Kristian
A1  - Kubatbek, Tabaldiev
A1  - Kuderna, Lukas
A1  - Kuznetsov, Pavel
A1  - Laleh, Haeedeh
A1  - Leonard, Jennifer A.
A1  - Lhuillier, Johanna
A1  - von Lettow-Vorbeck, Corina Liesau
A1  - Logvin, Andrey
A1  - Lougas, Lembi
A1  - Ludwig, Arne
A1  - Luis, Cristina
A1  - Arruda, Ana Margarida
A1  - Marques-Bonet, Tomas
A1  - Silva, Raquel Matoso
A1  - Merz, Victor
A1  - Mijiddorj, Enkhbayar
A1  - Miller, Bryan K.
A1  - Monchalov, Oleg
A1  - Mohaseb, Fatemeh A.
A1  - Morales, Arturo
A1  - Nieto-Espinet, Ariadna
A1  - Nistelberger, Heidi
A1  - Onar, Vedat
A1  - Palsdottir, Albina H.
A1  - Pitulko, Vladimir
A1  - Pitskhelauri, Konstantin
A1  - Pruvost, Melanie
A1  - Sikanjic, Petra Rajic
A1  - Papesa, Anita Rapan
A1  - Roslyakova, Natalia
A1  - Sardari, Alireza
A1  - Sauer, Eberhard
A1  - Schafberg, Renate
A1  - Scheu, Amelie
A1  - Schibler, Jorg
A1  - Schlumbaum, Angela
A1  - Serrand, Nathalie
A1  - Serres-Armero, Aitor
A1  - Shapiro, Beth
A1  - Seno, Shiva Sheikhi
A1  - Shevnina, Irina
A1  - Shidrang, Sonia
A1  - Southon, John
A1  - Star, Bastiaan
A1  - Sykes, Naomi
A1  - Taheri, Kamal
A1  - Taylor, William
A1  - Teegen, Wolf-Rudiger
A1  - Vukicevic, Tajana Trbojevic
A1  - Trixl, Simon
A1  - Tumen, Dashzeveg
A1  - Undrakhbold, Sainbileg
A1  - Usmanova, Emma
A1  - Vahdati, Ali
A1  - Valenzuela-Lamas, Silvia
A1  - Viegas, Catarina
A1  - Wallner, Barbara
A1  - Weinstock, Jaco
A1  - Zaibert, Victor
A1  - Clavel, Benoit
A1  - Lepetz, Sebastien
A1  - Mashkour, Marjan
A1  - Helgason, Agnar
A1  - Stefansson, Kari
A1  - Barrey, Eric
A1  - Willerslev, Eske
A1  - Outram, Alan K.
A1  - Librado, Pablo
A1  - Orlando, Ludovic
T1  - Tracking five millennia of horse management with extensive ancient genome time series
JF  - Cell
N2  - Horse domestication revolutionized warfare and accelerated travel, trade, and the geographic expansion of languages. Here, we present the largest DNA time series for a non-human organism to date, including genome-scale data from 149 ancient animals and 129 ancient genomes (>= 1-fold coverage), 87 of which are new. This extensive dataset allows us to assess the modem legacy of past equestrian civilisations. We find that two extinct horse lineages existed during early domestication, one at the far western (Iberia) and the other at the far eastern range (Siberia) of Eurasia. None of these contributed significantly to modern diversity. We show that the influence of Persian-related horse lineages increased following the Islamic conquests in Europe and Asia. Multiple alleles associated with elite-racing, including at the MSTN "speed gene," only rose in popularity within the last millennium. Finally, the development of modem breeding impacted genetic diversity more dramatically than the previous millennia of human management.
Y1  - 2019
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cell.2019.03.049
SN  - 0092-8674
SN  - 1097-4172
VL  - 177
IS  - 6
SP  - 1419
EP  - 1435
PB  - Cell Press
CY  - Cambridge
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Librado, Pablo
A1  - Gamba, Cristina
A1  - Gaunitz, Charleen
A1  - Sarkissian, Clio Der
A1  - Pruvost, Melanie
A1  - Albrechtsen, Anders
A1  - Fages, Antoine
A1  - Khan, Naveed
A1  - Schubert, Mikkel
A1  - Jagannathan, Vidhya
A1  - Serres-Armero, Aitor
A1  - Kuderna, Lukas F. K.
A1  - Povolotskaya, Inna S.
A1  - Seguin-Orlando, Andaine
A1  - Lepetz, Sebastien
A1  - Neuditschko, Markus
A1  - Theves, Catherine
A1  - Alquraishi, Saleh A.
A1  - Alfarhan, Ahmed H.
A1  - Al-Rasheid, Khaled A. S.
A1  - Rieder, Stefan
A1  - Samashev, Zainolla
A1  - Francfort, Henri-Paul
A1  - Benecke, Norbert
A1  - Hofreiter, Michael
A1  - Ludwig, Arne
A1  - Keyser, Christine
A1  - Marques-Bonet, Tomas
A1  - Ludes, Bertrand
A1  - Crubezy, Eric
A1  - Leeb, Tosso
A1  - Willerslev, Eske
A1  - Orlando, Ludovic
T1  - Ancient genomic changes associated with domestication of the horse
JF  - Science
N2  - The genomic changes underlying both early and late stages of horse domestication remain largely unknown. We examined the genomes of 14 early domestic horses from the Bronze and Iron Ages, dating to between similar to 4.1 and 2.3 thousand years before present. We find early domestication selection patterns supporting the neural crest hypothesis, which provides a unified developmental origin for common domestic traits. Within the past 2.3 thousand years, horses lost genetic diversity and archaic DNA tracts introgressed from a now-extinct lineage. They accumulated deleterious mutations later than expected under the cost-of-domestication hypothesis, probably because of breeding from limited numbers of stallions. We also reveal that Iron Age Scythian steppe nomads implemented breeding strategies involving no detectable inbreeding and selection for coat-color variation and robust forelimbs.
Y1  - 2017
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aam5298
SN  - 0036-8075
SN  - 1095-9203
VL  - 356
SP  - 442
EP  - 445
PB  - American Assoc. for the Advancement of Science
CY  - Washington
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Ludwig, Arne
A1  - Reissmann, Monika
A1  - Benecke, Norbert
A1  - Bellone, Rebecca
A1  - Sandoval-Castellanos, Edson
A1  - Cieslak, Michael
A1  - González-Fortes, Gloria M.
A1  - Morales-Muniz, Arturo
A1  - Hofreiter, Michael
A1  - Pruvost, Melanie
T1  - Twenty-five thousand years of fluctuating selection on leopard complex spotting and congenital night blindness in horses
JF  - Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London : B, Biological sciences
N2  - Leopard complex spotting is inherited by the incompletely dominant locus, LP, which also causes congenital stationary night blindness in homozygous horses. We investigated an associated single nucleotide polymorphism in the TRPM1 gene in 96 archaeological bones from 31 localities from Late Pleistocene (approx. 17 000 YBP) to medieval times. The first genetic evidence of LP spotting in Europe dates back to the Pleistocene. We tested for temporal changes in the LP associated allele frequency and estimated coefficients of selection by means of approximate Bayesian computation analyses. Our results show that at least some of the observed frequency changes are congruent with shifts in artificial selection pressure for the leopard complex spotting phenotype. In early domestic horses from Kirklareli-Kanligecit (Turkey) dating to 2700-2200 BC, a remarkably high number of leopard spotted horses (six of 10 individuals) was detected including one adult homozygote. However, LP seems to have largely disappeared during the late Bronze Age, suggesting selection against this phenotype in early domestic horses. During the Iron Age, LP reappeared, probably by reintroduction into the domestic gene pool from wild animals. This picture of alternating selective regimes might explain how genetic diversity was maintained in domestic animals despite selection for specific traits at different times.
KW  - ancient DNA
KW  - coat colour
KW  - domestication
KW  - Equus
KW  - palaeogenetics
KW  - population
Y1  - 2015
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2013.0386
SN  - 0962-8436
SN  - 1471-2970
VL  - 370
IS  - 1660
PB  - Royal Society
CY  - London
ER  -