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 - INPR A1 - Hagelberg, Erika A1 - Hofreiter, Michael A1 - Keyser, Christine T1 - Ancient DNA: the first three decades T2 - Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London : B, Biological sciences KW - ancient DNA KW - human evolutionary genetics KW - palaeogenomics Y1 - 2015 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2013.0371 SN - 0962-8436 SN - 1471-2970 VL - 370 IS - 1660 PB - Royal Society CY - London ER -