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Questioning the evidence for a Central Asian domestication origin of dogs

Guo-Dong Wang, Min-Sheng Peng, He-Chuan Yang, Peter Savolainen, and Ya-Ping Zhang
PNAS first published April 20, 2016; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1600225113
Guo-Dong Wang
aState Key Laboratory of Genetic Resources and Evolution & Yunnan Laboratory of Molecular Biology of Domestic Animals & Germplasm Bank of Wild Species, Kunming Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming 650223, China;
bPalaeogenomics & Bio-Archaeology Research Network, Department of Archaeology, Research Laboratory for Archaeology and the History of Art, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 3QY, United Kingdom;
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Min-Sheng Peng
aState Key Laboratory of Genetic Resources and Evolution & Yunnan Laboratory of Molecular Biology of Domestic Animals & Germplasm Bank of Wild Species, Kunming Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming 650223, China;
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He-Chuan Yang
aState Key Laboratory of Genetic Resources and Evolution & Yunnan Laboratory of Molecular Biology of Domestic Animals & Germplasm Bank of Wild Species, Kunming Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming 650223, China;
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Peter Savolainen
cDepartment of Gene Technology, KTH-Royal Institute of Technology, Science for Life Laboratory, 17165 Solna, Sweden;
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Ya-Ping Zhang
aState Key Laboratory of Genetic Resources and Evolution & Yunnan Laboratory of Molecular Biology of Domestic Animals & Germplasm Bank of Wild Species, Kunming Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming 650223, China;
dLaboratory for Conservation and Utilization of Bio-Resources & Key Laboratory for Microbial Resources of the Ministry of Education, Yunnan University, Kunming 650091, China
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  • For correspondence: zhangyp@mail.kiz.ac.cn

This Letter has a Reply and related content. Please see:

  • Genetic structure in village dogs reveals a Central Asian domestication origin - October 19, 2015
  • Reply to Wang et al.: Sequencing datasets do not refute Central Asian domestication origin of dogs - April 20, 2016
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201600225
DOI: 
https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1600225113
PubMed: 
27099289

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National Academy of Sciences
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0027-8424
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1091-6490
History: 
  • Published April 20, 2016.

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Author Information

  1. Guo-Dong Wanga,b,
  2. Min-Sheng Penga,
  3. He-Chuan Yanga,
  4. Peter Savolainenc, and
  5. Ya-Ping Zhanga,d,1
  1. aState Key Laboratory of Genetic Resources and Evolution & Yunnan Laboratory of Molecular Biology of Domestic Animals & Germplasm Bank of Wild Species, Kunming Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming 650223, China;
  2. bPalaeogenomics & Bio-Archaeology Research Network, Department of Archaeology, Research Laboratory for Archaeology and the History of Art, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 3QY, United Kingdom;
  3. cDepartment of Gene Technology, KTH-Royal Institute of Technology, Science for Life Laboratory, 17165 Solna, Sweden;
  4. dLaboratory for Conservation and Utilization of Bio-Resources & Key Laboratory for Microbial Resources of the Ministry of Education, Yunnan University, Kunming 650091, China

Footnotes

  • ↵1To whom correspondence should be addressed. Email: zhangyp{at}mail.kiz.ac.cn.
  • Author contributions: G.-D.W. and Y.-P.Z. designed research; M.-S.P. and H.-C.Y. analyzed data; and G.-D.W., M.-S.P., and P.S. wrote the paper.

  • The authors declare no conflict of interest.

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