Article
High mitochondrial diversity of domesticated goats persisted among Bronze and Iron Age pastoralists in the Inner Asian Mountain Corridor.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2020
Hermes Taylor R, Frachetti Michael D, Voyakin Dmitriy, Yerlomaeva Antonina S, Beisenov Arman Z, Doumani Dupuy Paula N, Papin Dmitry V, Motuzaite Matuzeviciute Giedre, Bayarsaikhan Jamsranjav, Houle Jean-Luc, Tishkin Alexey A, Nebel Almut, Krause-Kyora Ben, Makarewicz Cheryl A
Abstract excerpt
Goats were initially managed in the Near East approximately 10,000 years ago and spread across Eurasia as economically productive and environmentally resilient herd animals. While the geographic origins of domesticated goats (Capra hircus) in the Near East have been long-established in the zooarchaeological record and, more recently, further revealed in ancient genomes, the precise pathways by which goats spread...
Topics
- Agriculture
- Animals
- Animals, Domestic
- Animals, Wild
- Asia
- Cytochromes b
- DNA, Mitochondrial
- Domestication
- Ecosystem
- Genetic Variation