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Demographic reconstruction of the Western sheep expansion from whole-genome sequences.
G3 (Bethesda, Md.) - 1 Nov 2023
Morell Miranda Pedro, Soares André E R, Günther Torsten
Abstract excerpt
As one of the earliest livestock, sheep (Ovis aries) were domesticated in the Fertile Crescent about 12,000-10,000 years ago and have a nearly worldwide distribution today. Most of our knowledge about the timing of their expansions stems from archaeological data but it is unclear how the genetic diversity of modern sheep fits with these dates. We used whole-genome sequencing data of 63 domestic breeds and their...
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