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AUTHOR
Daniel Helmer
Correction for Frantz et al., Ancient pigs reveal a near-complete genomic turnover following their introduction to Europe
Significance Archaeological evidence indicates that domestic pigs arrived in Europe, alongside farmers from the Near East ∼8,500 y ago, yet mitochondrial genomes of modern European pigs are derived from European wild boars. To address this conundrum, we obtained mitochondrial and nuclear data from modern and ancient Near Eastern and European pigs. Our analyses indicate that, aside from a coat color gene, most Near Eastern ancestry in the genomes of European domestic pigs disappeared over 3,000 y as a result of interbreeding with local wild boars. This implies that pigs were not domesticated independently in Europe, yet the first 2,500 y of human-mediated selection applied by Near Eastern Ne…
Référentiel de bovins de Camargue : Etat d’avancement de l’étude et application aux bovins du site néolithique ancien de Vaihingen-an-der Enz (Bade-Würtemberg)
Référentiel de bovins de Camargue : Etat d’avancement de l’étude et application aux bovins du site néolithique ancien de Vaihingen-an-der Enz (Bade-Würtemberg)
Ancient pigs reveal a near-complete genomic turnover following their introduction to Europe
International audience; Archaeological evidence indicates that pig domestication had begun by ∼10,500 y before the present (BP) in the Near East, and mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) suggests that pigs arrived in Europe alongside farmers ∼8,500 y BP. A few thousand years after the introduction of Near Eastern pigs into Europe, however, their characteristic mtDNA signature disappeared and was replaced by haplotypes associated with European wild boars. This turnover could be accounted for by substantial gene flow from local Euro-pean wild boars, although it is also possible that European wild boars were domesticated independently without any genetic contribution from the Near East. To test these hyp…
Bell Beakers herding and hunting in south-eastern France: technical, historical and social implications
International audience
Néolithique et Bronze ancien en Provence. Données archéozoologiques
Néolithique et Bronze ancien en Provence. Données archéozoologiques
Tirer et porter : l’emploi des bovins au Néolithique. Apport de l’étude des phalanges 1
International audience; Tirer et porter : l’emploi des bovins au Néolithique. Apport de l’étude des phalanges 1
Référentiel de bovins de Camargue : contribution à l’analyse des stratégies d’élevage passé
Référentiel de bovins de Camargue : contribution à l’analyse des stratégies d’élevage passé