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Early cave art and ancient DNA record the origin of European bison
Frauke LangbeinJoachim BurgerPere BoverPere BoverVladimir B. DoronichevGilles ToselloDamien A. FordhamAdam Ben RohrlachJeremy F. TaylorKefei ChenGraham GowerRuth BollonginoAlexander ImmelFederica FontanaJared E. DeckerKaterina DoukaMaågorzata TokarskaDavid ChivallBastien LlamasJohannes KrauseMichael S. Y. LeeMichael S. Y. LeeThomas HighamSimon Y. W. HoJan GlimmerveenMarie-anne JulienMarie-anne JulienColin P. GrovesAntonio GuerreschiStephen M. RichardsRobert D. SchnabelAmelie ScheuOleksandra KrotovaLiubov V. GolovanovaJohannes Van Der PlichtGennady F. BaryshnikovEvelyne Crégut-bonnourePavel A. KosintsevGreger LarsonRafa KowalczykAyla L. Van LoenenLudovic OrlandoLudovic OrlandoEmilia Hofman-kamińskaBeth ShapiroAlan CooperJulien SoubrierKieren J. MitchellCarole FritzJean-denis VigneWolfgang HaakOliver Wooleysubject
0301 basic medicineGeneral Physics and AstronomymegafaunaBison priscusMegafaunahybridizationBison bonasusComputingMilieux_MISCELLANEOUSHolocenePhylogenyMultidisciplinarygeography.geographical_feature_categoryGenomebiologyBisonFossilsQAmerican Bisonfossil recordMitochondrialPleistoceneEuropeCavesvisual_artSequence Analysis[SHS.ARCHEO]Humanities and Social Sciences/Archaeology and PrehistoryPleistoceneEvolutionLife on LandScienceBison Pleistocene fossil record mitochondrial genome hybridizationSocio-culturaleZoologySteppe bisonDNA MitochondrialArticleGeneral Biochemistry Genetics and Molecular BiologyAncientEvolution Molecular03 medical and health sciencesPaleontologyCaveGeneticsPleistocene extinctionsAnimalsDNA Ancientvisual_art.artworkCell NucleusgeographyHuman GenomeMolecularSequence Analysis DNAGeneral ChemistryDNAAurochsbiology.organism_classificationEurpoean BisonBos primigenius030104 developmental biologyAncient DNAmitochondrial genomeAmerican bisonGenome MitochondrialCommentaryCattlePaintingsdescription
The two living species of bison (European and American) are among the few terrestrial megafauna to have survived the late Pleistocene extinctions. Despite the extensive bovid fossil record in Eurasia, the evolutionary history of the European bison (or wisent, Bison bonasus) before the Holocene (<11.7 thousand years ago (kya)) remains a mystery. We use complete ancient mitochondrial genomes and genome-wide nuclear DNA surveys to reveal that the wisent is the product of hybridization between the extinct steppe bison (Bison priscus) and ancestors of modern cattle (aurochs, Bos primigenius) before 120 kya, and contains up to 10% aurochs genomic ancestry. Although undetected within the fossil record, ancestors of the wisent have alternated ecological dominance with steppe bison in association with major environmental shifts since at least 55 kya. Early cave artists recorded distinct morphological forms consistent with these replacement events, around the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM ∼1/421-18 kya).
| year | journal | country | edition | language |
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| 2016-10-18 |