Article
The goat domestication process inferred from large-scale mitochondrial DNA analysis of wild and domestic individuals.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 18 Nov 2008
Naderi Saeid, Rezaei Hamid-Reza, Pompanon François, Blum Michael G B, Negrini Riccardo, Naghash Hamid-Reza, Balkiz Ozge, Mashkour Marjan, Gaggiotti Oscar E, Ajmone-Marsan Paolo, Kence Aykut, Vigne Jean-Denis, Taberlet Pierre
Abstract excerpt
The emergence of farming during the Neolithic transition, including the domestication of livestock, was a critical point in the evolution of human kind. The goat (Capra hircus) was one of the first domesticated ungulates. In this study, we compared the genetic diversity of domestic goats to that of the modern representatives of their wild ancestor, the bezoar, by analyzing 473 samples collected over the whole...
Topics
- Agriculture
- Animals
- Animals, Domestic
- Animals, Wild
- Bayes Theorem
- DNA, Mitochondrial
- Genetic Variation
- Geography
- Goats
- Haplotypes