Analyses of ancient dog DNA suggest that dogs were likely domesticated from Eurasian wolves around 23,000 years ago, possibly in Siberia.
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Edited by Herbert Levine, Rice University, Houston, TX, and approved May 31, 2018 (received for review March 10, 2018)
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- aDepartment of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 80523;
- bKeck Scholars, School of Biomedical Engineering, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 80523;
- cDepartment of Molecular Physiology and Biophysics, School of Medicine, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN 37232;
- dDepartment of Pharmacology, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, CO 80045;
- eDepartment of Biomedical Engineering, School of Engineering, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN 37232;
- fDepartment of Pharmacology, School of Medicine, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN 37232
Edited by Herbert Levine, Rice University, Houston, TX, and approved May 31, 2018 (received for review March 10, 2018)
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- ↵1To whom correspondence may be addressed. Email: munsky{at}colostate.edu or gregor.neuert{at}vanderbilt.edu.
Author contributions: B.M. and G.N. designed research; B.M., G.L., Z.R.F., D.P.S., and G.N. performed research; B.M., Z.R.F., and G.N. contributed new reagents/analytic tools; B.M. and G.N. analyzed data; and B.M. and G.N. wrote the paper.
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