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Mitochondrial lineages reveal intense gene flow between Iberian wild boars and South Iberian pig breeds.
Animal genetics - 1 Feb 2012
van Asch B, Pereira F, Santos L S, Carneiro J, Santos N, Amorim A
Abstract excerpt
The phylogeography of wild boars (WB) and domestic pigs (Sus scrofa) has contributed important insights into where and when domestication occurred. The geographic distribution of two core haplotypes (E1a and E1c) of the main European phylogenetic clade suggests that Central Europe was an early domestication centre, although the complexity of the pattern does not exclude the possibility that multiple domestication...
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