Data from: The evolutionary history of dogs in the Americas

  • M Ní Leathlobhair (Creator)
  • Angela Perri (Creator)
  • Evan K Irving-Pease (Creator)
  • Kelsey E. Witt (Creator)
  • Anna Linderholm (Creator)
  • James Haile (Creator)
  • Ophelie Lebrasseur (Creator)
  • Carly Ameen (Creator)
  • J Blick (Creator)
  • A R Boyko (Creator)
  • Selina Brace (Creator)
  • Y N Cortes (Creator)
  • S J Crockford (Creator)
  • A Devault (Creator)
  • E A Dimopoulos (Creator)
  • M Eldridge (Creator)
  • J Enk (Creator)
  • Shyam Gopalakrishnan (Creator)
  • K Gori (Creator)
  • Vaughan Grimes (Creator)
  • Eric Guiry (Creator)
  • Anders J. Hansen (Creator)
  • Ardern Hulme-Beaman (Creator)
  • John E. Johnson (Creator)
  • A Kitchen (Creator)
  • A K Kasparov (Creator)
  • Y M Kwon (Creator)
  • Pavel A. Nikolskiy (Creator)
  • C P Lope (Creator)
  • Aurelie Manin (Creator)
  • T Martin (Creator)
  • Michael T. Meyer (Creator)
  • K N Myers (Creator)
  • M Omura (Creator)
  • J M Rouillard (Creator)
  • Elena Y. Pavlova (Creator)
  • P Sciulli (Creator)
  • Sinding S. Mikkel-Holger (Creator)
  • A Strakova (Creator)
  • V V Ivanova (Creator)
  • C Widga (Creator)
  • Eske Willerslev (Creator)
  • Vladimir Pitulko (Creator)
  • Ian Barnes (Creator)
  • M. Thomas P. Gilbert (Creator)
  • Keith Dobney (Creator)
  • Ripan S. Malhi (Creator)
  • E P Murchison (Creator)
  • Greger Larson (Creator)
  • Laurent Frantz (Creator)

Dataset

Description

Dogs were present in the Americas prior to the arrival of European colonists, but the origin and fate of these pre-contact dogs are largely unknown. We sequenced 71 mitochondrial and seven nuclear genomes from ancient North American and Siberian dogs spanning ~9,000 years. Our analysis indicates that American dogs were not domesticated from North American wolves. Instead, American dogs form a monophyletic lineage that likely originated in Siberia and dispersed into the Americas alongside people. After the arrival of Europeans, native American dogs almost completely disappeared, leaving a minimal genetic legacy in modern dog populations. Remarkably, the closest detectable extant lineage to pre-contact American dogs is the canine transmissible venereal tumor, a contagious cancer clone derived from an individual dog that lived up to 8,000 years ago.

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Date made available7 May 2019
PublisherDryad
Geographical coverageUnited Kingdom

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  • The evolutionary history of dogs in the Americas

    Ní Leathlobhair, M., Perri, A. R., Irving-Pease, E. K., Witt, K. E., Linderholm, A., Haile, J., Lebrasseur, O., Ameen, C., Blick, J., Boyko, A. R., Brace, S., Cortes, Y. N., Crockford, S. J., Devault, A., Dimopoulos, E. A., Eldridge, M., Enk, J., Gopalakrishnan, S., Gori, K., Grimes, V., & 30 othersGuiry, E., Hansen, A. J., Hulme-Beaman, A., Johnson, J., Kitchen, A., Kasparov, A. K., Kwon, Y. M., Nikolskiy, P. A., Lope, C. P., Manin, A. O., Martin, T., Meyer, M., Myers, K. N., Omura, M., Rouillard, J. M., Pavlova, E. Y., Sciulli, P., Sinding, M. S., Strakova, A., Ivanova, V. V., Widga, C., Willerslev, E., Pitulko, V. V., Barnes, I., Gilbert, MTP., Dobney, K. M., Malhi, R. S., Murchison, E. P., Larson, G. & Frantz, L., 6 Jul 2018, In: Science. 361, 6397, p. 81-85 5 p.

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