Article
DNA analysis of ancient dogs of the Americas: identifying possible founding haplotypes and reconstructing population histories.
Journal of human evolution - 1 Feb 2015
Witt Kelsey E, Judd Kathleen, Kitchen Andrew, Grier Colin, Kohler Timothy A, Ortman Scott G, Kemp Brian M, Malhi Ripan S
Abstract excerpt
As dogs have traveled with humans to every continent, they can potentially serve as an excellent proxy when studying human migration history. Past genetic studies into the origins of Native American dogs have used portions of the hypervariable region (HVR) of mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) to indicate that prior to European contact the dogs of Native Americans originated in Eurasia. In this study, we summarize past...
Topics
- Americas
- Animals
- DNA, Mitochondrial
- Databases, Genetic
- Dogs
- Evolution, Molecular
- Female
- Genetic Variation
- Haplotypes
- Humans