10.5061/DRYAD.H55P1Q5
Ollivier, Morgane
Russian Academy of Sciences
Tresset, Anne
French National Centre for Scientific Research
Frantz, Laurent A. F.
Queen Mary University of London
Brehard, Stéphanie
French National Centre for Scientific Research
Bălășescu, Adrian
Romanian Academy
Mashkour, Marjan
French National Centre for Scientific Research
Boroneant, Adina
Romanian Academy
Pionnier-Capitan, Maud
French National Centre for Scientific Research
Lebrasseur, Ophelie
University of Oxford
Arbogast, Rose-Marie
French National Centre for Scientific Research
Bartosiewicz, László
Stockholm University
Debue, Karyne
French National Centre for Scientific Research
Rabinovich, Rivka
Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Sablin, Mikhail V.
Russian Academy of Sciences
Larson, Greger
University of Oxford
Hänni, Catherine
Institute of Genetics and Development of Rennes
Hitte, Christophe
French National Centre for Scientific Research
Vigne, Jean-Denis
French National Centre for Scientific Research
Data from: Dogs accompanied humans during the Neolithic expansion into Europe
Dryad
dataset
2018
Canis familiaris
Holocene
Neolithic
2018-09-26T15:08:39Z
2018-09-26T15:08:39Z
en
https://doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2018.0286
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Near Eastern Neolithic farmers introduced several species of domestic
plants and animals as they dispersed into Europe. Dogs were the only
domestic species present in both Europe and the Near East prior to the
Neolithic. Here, we assessed whether early Near Eastern dogs possessed a
unique mitochondrial lineage that differentiated them from Mesolithic
European populations. We then analysed mitochondrial DNA sequences from 99
ancient European and Near-Eastern dogs spanning the Upper Palaeolithic to
the Bronze Age to assess if incoming farmers brought Near Eastern dogs
with them, or instead primarily adopted indigenous European dogs after
they arrived. Our results show that European pre-Neolithic dogs all
possessed the mitochondrial haplogroup C, and that the Neolithic and
Post-Neolithic dogs associated with farmers from Southeastern Europe
mainly possessed haplogroup D. Thus, the appearance of haplogroup D most
likely resulted from the dissemination of dogs from the Near East into
Europe. In Western and Northern Europe, the turnover is incomplete and C
haplogroup persists well into the Chalcolithic at least. These results
suggest that dogs were an integral component of the Neolithic farming
package and a mitochondrial lineage associated with the Near East was
introduced into Europe alongside pigs, cows, sheep, and goats. It got
diluted into the native dog population when reaching the Western and
Northern margins of Europe.
modern and ancient dog mt sequence (HVR1)all-sequence file.fst
Middle East
Europe