New ancient DNA data on the origins and spread of sheep and cattle in northern China around 4000 BP

Zhang, Naifan; Shao, Xinyue; Sun, Weilu; Zhu, Siqi; Yang, Dongya

doi:10.1007/s41826-018-0018-z

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“…Studies of ancient and historical DNA from domestic animals can shed new light on the process of domestication [ 18 ] as well as on the history of local animal husbandry [ 23 , 24 , 25 ]. So far, most studies of historical and ancient DNA of livestock species including cattle targeted mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) [ 70 , 71 , 72 , 73 , 74 ], which has limited power in characterising the relationships between modern and ancient livestock populations, especially when the history of the populations has been affected by human-driven migrations, admixture, and intensive sex-specific breeding practices [ 75 ]. During the 18th–19th century in Russia, the most widely used breeding praxis in cattle husbandry was the exchange of bulls between landlords and bull import from abroad [ 76 ].…”

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Genetic Diversity of Historical and Modern Populations of Russian Cattle Breeds Revealed by Microsatellite Analysis

Abdelmanova

Харзинова

Volkova

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Analysis of ancient and historical DNA has great potential to trace the genetic diversity of local cattle populations during their centuries-long development. Forty-nine specimens representing five cattle breeds (Kholmogor, Yaroslavl, Great Russian, Novgorod, and Holland), dated from the end of the 19th century to the first half of the 20th century, were genotyped for nine polymorphic microsatellite loci. Using a multiple-tube approach, we determined the consensus genotypes of all samples/loci analysed. Amplification errors, including allelic drop-out (ADO) and false alleles (FA), occurred with an average frequency of 2.35% and 0.79%, respectively. A significant effect of allelic length on ADO rate (r2 = 0.620, p = 0.05) was shown. We did not observe significant differences in genetic diversity among historical samples and modern representatives of Kholmogor and Yaroslavl breeds. The unbiased expected heterozygosity values were 0.726–0.774 and 0.708–0.739; the allelic richness values were 2.716–2.893 and 2.661–2.758 for the historical and modern samples, respectively. Analyses of FST and Jost’s D genetic distances, and the results of STRUCTURE clustering, showed the maintenance of a part of historical components in the modern populations of Kholmogor and Yaroslavl cattle. Our study contributes to the conservation of biodiversity in the local Russian genetic resources of cattle.

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Genetic Diversity of Historical and Modern Populations of Russian Cattle Breeds Revealed by Microsatellite Analysis

Abdelmanova

Харзинова

Volkova

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“…Similarly, Asian and European sheep tend to carry higher proportions of mitochondrial DNA haplogroups A and B, respectively 17 – 19 (Supplementary Note 1 ). Recent ancient DNA work suggests that this pattern may have been established in Asia already by the 7th millennium BCE 20 , and by the 2nd millennium BCE 21 , 22 in Europe.…”

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Archaeogenetic analysis of Neolithic sheep from Anatolia suggests a complex demographic history since domestication

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Sheep were among the first domesticated animals, but their demographic history is little understood. Here we analyzed nuclear polymorphism and mitochondrial data (mtDNA) from ancient central and west Anatolian sheep dating from Epipaleolithic to late Neolithic, comparatively with modern-day breeds and central Asian Neolithic/Bronze Age sheep (OBI). Analyzing ancient nuclear data, we found that Anatolian Neolithic sheep (ANS) are genetically closest to present-day European breeds relative to Asian breeds, a conclusion supported by mtDNA haplogroup frequencies. In contrast, OBI showed higher genetic affinity to present-day Asian breeds. These results suggest that the east-west genetic structure observed in present-day breeds had already emerged by 6000 BCE, hinting at multiple sheep domestication episodes or early wild introgression in southwest Asia. Furthermore, we found that ANS are genetically distinct from all modern breeds. Our results suggest that European and Anatolian domestic sheep gene pools have been strongly remolded since the Neolithic.

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“…However, they are too degraded for species identification using morphological approaches (14). Ancient DNA (aDNA) is a powerful tool for identifying bovid remains from archaeological sites in northern China, including domestic cattle (Bos taurus), wild water buffalo (Bubalus mephistopheles), and aurochs (Bos primigenius) (17)(18)(19)(20). Although bovid remains have been frequently identified in many prehistoric sites on the Tibetan Plateau (7,9,12,21), the species-level identification of bovid species on the Tibetan Plateau has not been reported.…”

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Ancient genomes reveal tropical bovid species in the Tibetan Plateau contributed to the prevalence of hunting game until the late Neolithic

Chen

Ren

et al. 2020

Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A.

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Local wild bovids have been determined to be important prey on the northeastern Tibetan Plateau (NETP), where hunting game was a major subsistence strategy until the late Neolithic, when farming lifestyles dominated in the neighboring Loess Plateau. However, the species affiliation and population ecology of these prehistoric wild bovids in the prehistoric NETP remain unknown. Ancient DNA (aDNA) analysis is highly informative in decoding this puzzle. Here, we applied aDNA analysis to fragmented bovid and rhinoceros specimens dating ∼5,200 y B.P. from the Neolithic site of Shannashuzha located in the marginal area of the NETP. Utilizing both whole genomes and mitochondrial DNA, our results demonstrate that the range of the present-day tropical gaur (Bos gaurus) extended as far north as the margins of the NETP during the late Neolithic from ∼29°N to ∼34°N. Furthermore, comparative analysis with zooarchaeological and paleoclimatic evidence indicated that a high summer temperature in the late Neolithic might have facilitated the northward expansion of tropical animals (at least gaur and Sumatran-like rhinoceros) to the NETP. This enriched the diversity of wildlife, thus providing abundant hunting resources for humans and facilitating the exploration of the Tibetan Plateau as one of the last habitats for hunting game in East Asia.

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New ancient DNA data on the origins and spread of sheep and cattle in northern China around 4000 BP

Cited by 12 publications

References 17 publications

Genetic Diversity of Historical and Modern Populations of Russian Cattle Breeds Revealed by Microsatellite Analysis

Genetic Diversity of Historical and Modern Populations of Russian Cattle Breeds Revealed by Microsatellite Analysis

Archaeogenetic analysis of Neolithic sheep from Anatolia suggests a complex demographic history since domestication

Ancient genomes reveal tropical bovid species in the Tibetan Plateau contributed to the prevalence of hunting game until the late Neolithic

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