Arctic-adapted dogs emerged at the Pleistocene–Holocene transition
Year: 2020
Type: article
Abstract: Although sled dogs are one of the most specialized groups of dogs, their origin and evolution has received much less attention than many other dog groups. We applied a genomic approach to investigate their spatiotemporal emergence by sequencing the genomes of 10 modern Greenland sled dogs, an ~9500-year-old Siberian dog associated with archaeological evidence for sled technology, and an ~33,000-year-old Siberian wolf. We found noteworthy genetic similarity between the ancient dog and modern sled dogs. We detected gene flow from Pleistocene Siberian wolves, but not modern American wolves, to present-day sled dogs. The results indicate that the major ancestry of modern sled dogs traces back to Siberia, where sled dog-specific haplotypes of genes that potentially relate to Arctic adaptation were established by 9500 years ago.
Source: Science
Authors: Mikkel-Holger S. Sinding, Shyam Gopalakrishnan, Jazmín Ramos-Madrigal, Marc de Manuel, Vladimir V. Pitulko, Lukas Kuderna, Tatiana R. Feuerborn, Laurent A. F. Frantz, Filipe G. Vieira, Jonas Niemann, Jose A. Samaniego Castruita, Christian Carøe, Emilie U. Andersen-Ranberg, Peter D. Jordan, Elena Y. Pavlova, Pavel A. Nikolskiy, Aleksei K. Kasparov, Varvara V. Ivanova, Eske Willerslev, Pontus Skoglund, Merete Fredholm, Sanne Eline Wennerberg, Mads Peter Heide-Jørgensen, Rune Dietz, Christian Sonne, Morten Meldgaard, Love Dalén, Greger Larson, Bent Petersen, Thomas Sicheritz-Pontén, Lutz Bachmann, Øystein Wiig, Tomas Marques-Bonet, Anders J. Hansen, M. Thomas P. Gilbert
Institutions: University of Copenhagen, Ilisimatusarfik, University of Oslo, Trinity College Dublin, Grønlands Naturinstitut, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Institut de Biologia Evolutiva, Russian Academy of Sciences, Institute of History of Material Culture, Stockholm University, Swedish Museum of Natural History, Queen Mary University of London, University of Oxford, University of York, University of Groningen, Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute, Geological Institute, All Russian Research Institute of Geology and Mineral Resources of the World Ocean, University of Southern Denmark, University of Cambridge, Wellcome Sanger Institute, Harvard University, The Francis Crick Institute, Greenland Government, Aarhus University, Henan Agricultural University, Centre for Palaeogenetics, AIMST University, Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology, Centre for Genomic Regulation, Institut Català de Paleontologia Miquel Crusafont, Universitat de Barcelona, Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Language: English
Subfield: Animal Science and Zoology
Domain: Life Sciences
Open Access status: green
Funders: European Molecular Biology Organization, Velux Fonden, Wellcome Trust, Francis Crick Institute, Centres de Recerca de Catalunya, Cancer Research UK, European Commission, Carlsbergfondet, Generalitat de Catalunya, Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad, Lundbeckfonden, Russian Science Foundation, Aage og Johanne Louis-Hansens Fond, Horizon 2020 Framework Programme, Natural Environment Research Council, European Research Council, Horizon 2020, Institut Nacional d'Educacio Fisica de Catalunya, Generalitat de Catalunya, H2020 Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions, HORIZON EUROPE Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions
Awards: G117510758, G1318605567, G1632892187, G1778941429, G2161742756, G2189472788, Deciphering dog domestication through a combined ancient DNA and geometric morphometric approach, G2557806223, G2558956044, The history of wolves, and their contribution to adaptation and phenotypic diversity in dogs, Deciphering dog domestication through a combined ancient DNA and geometric morphometric approach, G2897698288, G3055245877, G3155284640, G3288897321, G3780634669, G3790607131, Deciphering dog domestication through a combined ancient DNA and geometric morphometric approach, G434337789, G4796227176, G4937468798, G4968681203, G5002791945, G5082397326, The Consequences of Gene Flow between Wild and Domestic Populations during Livestock Evolution, G5357818735, G5751438450, Archaeology on the Edge: Northern Europe and the Circumpolar World, G5828014321, G6006195771, G6562359081, G6625641902, The history of wolves, and their contribution to adaptation and phenotypic diversity in dogs, Archaeology on the Edge: Northern Europe and the Circumpolar World, G7071794370, G7358480839, Domestic animals as a model to understand the relationship between deleterious mutations, demography and disease, G7668957551, G7869178757, G79883420, G856784970, G8820042458, G8920851351, G8939501823
OpenAlex ID: W3037423625