Arctic-adapted dogs emerged at the Pleistocene-Holocene transition
The results indicate that the major ancestry of modern sled dogs traces back to Sibiria, where sled-dog-specific haplotypes of genes that potentially relate to Arctic adaptation were established by 9500 years ago.
Forfatter:Mikkel-Holger S. Sinding; Shyam Gopalakrishnan; Jazmín Ramos-Madrigal; Marc de Manut; Vladimir V. Pitulko; Lukas Kuderna; Tatiana R. Feuerborn; Laurent A. F. Frantz; Filipe G. Vieira; Jonas Niemann; Jose A. Samaniego Castruita; Christian Carøe; Emilie U. Andersen-Ranberg; Peter D. Jordan; Elena Y. Pavlova; Pavel A. Nikolskiy; Aleksei K. Kasparov; Varvara V. Ivanova; Eske Willerslev; Pontus Skoglund; Merete Fredholm; Sanne Eline Wennerberg; Mads Peter Heide-Jørgensen; Rune Dietz; Christian Sonne; Morten Meldgaard; Love Dalén; Greger Larson; Bent Petersen; Thomas Sicheritz-Pontén; Lutz Bachmann; Øystein Wiig; Tomas Marques-Bonet; Anders J. Hansen; M. Thomas P. Gilbert
Årstal:2020Emner:Sled dog; ArcticTitel på tidsskrift:SCIENCEVolumen af tidsskriftet:368Tidsskriftsnummer:6498Udgiver:AAASPublikationssted:USAPublikationsland:USADOI nummer:10.1126/science.aaz8599