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Endogenous Retroviral Insertions Indicate a Secondary Introduction of Domestic Sheep Lineages to the Caucasus and Central Asia between the Bronze and Iron Age.

Oskar Schroeder, Norbert Benecke, Kai Frölich, Zuogang Peng, Kai Kaniuth, Leonid Sverchkov, Sabine Reinhold, Andrey Belinskiy, Arne Ludwig

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Article in Genes, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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9 authors.

Oskar SchroederLeibniz-Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research, Department of Evolutionary Genetics, Alfred-Kowalke-Straße 17, 10315 Berlin, Germany. oschroeder@izw-berlin.de.
Norbert BeneckeGerman Archaeological Institute, Im Dol 2-6, 14195 Berlin, Germany. norbert.benecke@dainst.de.
Kai FrölichTierpark Arche Warder e.V., Langwedeler Weg 11, 24646 Warder, Germany. kfroelich@arche-warder.de.
Zuogang PengSouthwest University School of Life Sciences, Key Laboratory of Freshwater Fish Reproduction and Development (Ministry of Education), Chongqing 400715, China. pzg@swu.edu.cn.
Kai KaniuthInstitut für Vorderasiatische Archäologie, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Geschwister-Scholl-Platz 1, 80539 Munich, Germany. kaniuth@vaa.fak12.uni-muenchen.de.
Leonid SverchkovInstitute of Fine Arts, Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Uzbekistan, Afrosiab Street 5/19, Tashkent 100029, Uzbekistan. lsverchkov@mail.ru.
Sabine ReinholdGerman Archaeological Institute, Im Dol 2-6, 14195 Berlin, Germany. sabine.reinhold@dainst.de.
Andrey BelinskiyNasledie Ltd., Prospekt Karla Marksa 56, 355017 Stavropol, Russia. nasledie@nasledie.org.
Arne LudwigLeibniz-Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research, Department of Evolutionary Genetics, Alfred-Kowalke-Straße 17, 10315 Berlin, Germany. ludwig@izw-berlin.de.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Sheep were one of the first livestock species domesticated by humans. After initial domestication in the Middle East they were spread across Eurasia. The modern distribution of endogenous Jaagsiekte sheep retrovirus insertions in domestic sheep breeds suggests that over the course of millennia, successive introductions of improved lineages and selection for wool quality occurred in the Mediterranean region and most of Asia. Here we present a novel ancient DNA approach using data of endogenous retroviral insertions in Bronze and Iron Age domestic sheep from the Caucasus and Pamir mountain areas. Our findings support a secondary introduction of wool sheep from the Middle East between the Late Bronze Age and Iron Age into most areas of Eurasia.

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ancient DNAarchaeozoologyendogenous retrovirusmitochondrial haplotyperetrotype

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PMID28632161
PMCPMC5485529

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