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Seven Millennia of Human Exploitation drove genomic Changes in Iberian Sheep

2026-02-05

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As one of the first domestic livestock species, sheep have played a fundamental role in human societies since the Neolithic. However, their demographic history remains poorly understood. To shed light on the demographic dynamics of sheep at the western edge of the Mediterranean, we sequenced 22 ancient sheep genomes from Iberia (dating from 7, 270 to 1, 615 calBP, sequenced up to 8.74 × coverage) along with one mo...

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Literature Corpus work: 87b4c43b-b6da-5b83-9456-8c91e5a92d1e
DOI: 10.64898/2026.02.03.702761

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