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Untangling the hybrid nature of modern pig genomes: a mosaic derived from biogeographically distinct and highly divergent Sus scrofa populations.
Molecular ecology - 1 Aug 2014
Bosse Mirte, Megens Hendrik-Jan, Madsen Ole, Frantz Laurent A F, Paudel Yogesh, Crooijmans Richard P M A, Groenen Martien A M
Abstract excerpt
The merging of populations after an extended period of isolation and divergence is a common phenomenon, in natural settings as well as due to human interference. Individuals with such hybrid origins contain genomes that essentially form a mosaic of different histories and demographies. Pigs are an excellent model species to study hybridization because European and Asian wild boars diverged ~1.2 Mya, and pigs were...
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