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Local origin or external input: modern horse origin in East Asia.
BMC evolutionary biology - 27 Nov 2019
Ning Tiao, Ling Yinghui, Hu Shaoji, Ardalan Arman, Li Jing, Mitra Bikash, Chaudhuri Tapas Kumar, Guan Weijun, Zhao Qianjun, Ma Yuehui, Savolainen Peter, Zhang Yaping
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BACKGROUND: Despite decades of research, the horse domestication scenario in East Asia remains poorly understood. RESULTS: The study identified 16 haplogroups with fine-scale phylogenetic resolution using mitochondrial genomes of 317 horse samples. The time to the most recent common ancestor of the 16 haplogroups ranges from [0.8-3.1] thousand years ago (KYA) to [7.9-27.1] KYA. With combined analyses of the...
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