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Ancient DNA Evidence for Old World Origin of New World Dogs
Jennifer A. Leonard,1*Robert K. Wayne,1Jane Wheeler,2Raúl Valadez,3Sonia Guillén,4Carles Vilà5
Mitochondrial DNA sequences isolated from ancient dog
remains from Latin America and Alaska showed that native American dogsoriginated from multiple Old World lineages of dogs that accompaniedlate Pleistocene humans across the Bering Strait. One clade ofdog
sequences was unique to the New World, which is consistentwith a
period of geographic isolation. This unique clade was absentfrom a
large sample of modern dogs, which implies that Europeancolonists
systematically discouraged the breeding of native Americandogs.
1 Department of Organismic Biology, Ecology and
Evolution, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1606, USA.
2 CONOPA, Coordinadora de Investigación y
Desarrollo de Camélidos, Avenida Fernando Reusche, Mz. M, Lote 4, Pachacamac, Lima 19, Peru.
3 Laboratorio de
Paleozoología, Instituto de Investigaciones
Antropológicas de la Universidad Nacional Autónoma de
México, Circuito Exterior, s/n, Ciudad Universitaria,
Delegación Coyoacán, C.P. 04510, México D.F., Mexico.
4 Centro Mallqui, The Bioanthropology Foundation
Peru, Avenida A. Márquez 2014, Jesús María - Lima 11, Peru.
5 Department of Evolutionary Biology, Uppsala
University, Norbyvägen 18D, S-75236 Uppsala, Sweden.
*
To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail:
Leonard.Jennifer{at}NMNH.SI.edu.
Present address: Genetics Program, Department of
Systematic Biology, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian
Institution,3001 Connecticut Avenue N.W., Washington, DC 20008-0551,
USA.
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22, 2541-2551
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