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Demographic reconstruction of the Western sheep expansion from whole-genome sequences
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- Morell Miranda, Pedro (author)
- Uppsala universitet,Människans evolution,Günther Lab
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- Soares, André E. R. (author)
- Uppsala universitet,Människans evolution,Science for Life Laboratory, SciLifeLab,Institutionen för medicinsk biokemi och mikrobiologi,National Bioinformatics Infrastructure Sweden (NBIS)
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- Günther, Torsten (author)
- Uppsala universitet,Människans evolution
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- Oxford University Press, 2023
- 2023
- English.
- In: G3. - : Oxford University Press. - 2160-1836. ; 13:11
- Journal article (peer-reviewed)
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- 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 wild relatives, the Asiatic mouflon (O. gmelini, previously known as O. orientalis), to explore the demographic history of sheep. On the global scale, our analysis revealed geographic structuring among breeds with unidirectional recent gene flow from domestics into Asiatic mouflons. We then selected 4 representative breeds from Spain, Morocco, the United Kingdom, and Iran to build a comprehensive demographic model of the Western sheep expansion. We inferred a single domestication event around 11,000 years ago. The subsequent westward expansion is dated to approximately 7,000 years ago, later than the original Neolithic expansion of sheep and slightly predating the Secondary Product Revolution associated with wooly sheep. We see some signals of recent gene flow from an ancestral population into Southern European breeds which could reflect admixture with feral European mouflon. Furthermore, our results indicate that many breeds experienced a reduction of their effective population size during the last centuries, probably associated with modern breed development. Our study provides insights into the complex demographic history of Western Eurasian sheep, highlighting interactions between breeds and their wild counterparts.
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- NATURVETENSKAP -- Biologi -- Genetik (hsv//swe)
- NATURAL SCIENCES -- Biological Sciences -- Genetics (hsv//eng)
- HUMANIORA -- Historia och arkeologi -- Arkeologi (hsv//swe)
- HUMANITIES -- History and Archaeology -- Archaeology (hsv//eng)
- LANTBRUKSVETENSKAPER -- Husdjursvetenskap (hsv//swe)
- AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES -- Animal and Dairy Sience (hsv//eng)
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- sheep
- demography
- whole-genome sequencing
- gene flow
- Biology with Specialisation in Human Evolution and Genetics
- Biologi med inriktning mot människans evolution och genetik
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