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Genome data from a sixteenth century pig illuminate modern breed relationships.
Heredity - 1 Feb 2015
Ramírez O, Burgos-Paz W, Casas E, Ballester M, Bianco E, Olalde I, Santpere G, Novella V, Gut M, Lalueza-Fox C, Saña M, Pérez-Enciso M
Abstract excerpt
Ancient DNA (aDNA) provides direct evidence of historical events that have modeled the genome of modern individuals. In livestock, resolving the differences between the effects of initial domestication and of subsequent modern breeding is not straight forward without aDNA data. Here, we have obtained shotgun genome sequence data from a sixteenth century pig from Northeastern Spain (Montsoriu castle), the ancient...
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