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  • Sequencing ancient DNA from archaeological samples reveals both how maize was transported through North America, and the shifting genomic patterns in response to selection for drought tolerance and sugar content.

    • Greger Larson
    News & Views
    Nature Plants
    Volume: 1, P: 1-2

  • An analysis of 38 ancient genomes from the aurochs, the extinct ancestor of modern cattle, provides insight into the population ancestry and domestication of this species.

    • Conor Rossi
    • Mikkel-Holger S. Sinding
    • Daniel G. Bradley
    Research
    Nature
    Volume: 635, P: 136-141

  • ‘Archaeogenetic analysis of black rat remains reveals that this species was introduced into temperate Europe twice, in the Roman and medieval periods. This population turnover was likely associated with multiple historical and environmental factors.’

    • He Yu
    • Alexandra Jamieson
    • David Orton
    ResearchOpen Access
    Nature Communications
    Volume: 13, P: 1-13

  • It is still not clear when the introduction of animal domestication in northwestern Europe occurred. Here the authors provide evidence that Mesolithic hunter-gatherers in Northern Germany already possessed domestic pigs, and pigs were present in the region ~500 years earlier than previously thought.

    • Ben Krause-Kyora
    • Cheryl Makarewicz
    • Almut Nebel
    ResearchOpen Access
    Nature Communications
    Volume: 4, P: 1-7

  • DNA from ancient wolves spanning 100,000 years sheds light on wolves’ evolutionary history and the genomic origin of dogs.

    • Anders Bergström
    • David W. G. Stanton
    • Pontus Skoglund
    ResearchOpen Access
    Nature
    Volume: 607, P: 313-320

  • The FarmGTEx Project aims to understand genetic control of gene activity under diverse biological and environmental contexts in domestic animals, providing a foundation for improving animal precision breeding, adaptation and human health.

    • Lingzhao Fang
    • Jinyan Teng
    • Curtis P. Van Tassell
    Reviews
    Nature Genetics
    Volume: 57, P: 786-796

  • With the generation of large pan-cancer whole-exome and whole-genome sequencing projects, a question remains about how comparable these datasets are. Here, using The Cancer Genome Atlas samples analysed as part of the Pan-Cancer Analysis of Whole Genomes project, the authors explore the concordance of mutations called by whole exome sequencing and whole genome sequencing techniques.

    • Matthew H. Bailey
    • William U. Meyerson
    • Christian von Mering
    ResearchOpen Access
    Nature Communications
    Volume: 11, P: 1-27

  • The authors report genetic, archaeological and stable isotopic data from two late Palaeolithic individuals in Britain, from Gough's Cave and Kendrick's Cave. The individuals differ not only in their ancestry but also their diets, ecologies and mortuary practices, revealing diverse origins and lifeways among inhabitants of late Pleistocene Britain.

    • Sophy Charlton
    • Selina Brace
    • Rhiannon E. Stevens
    ResearchOpen Access
    Nature Ecology & Evolution
    Volume: 6, P: 1658-1668

  • Dire wolves split from living canids around 5.7 million years ago and originated in the New World isolated from the ancestors of grey wolves and coyotes, which evolved in Eurasia and colonized North America only relatively recently.

    • Angela R. Perri
    • Kieren J. Mitchell
    • Laurent A. F. Frantz
    Research
    Nature
    Volume: 591, P: 87-91

  • Domestication of wild boar populations has led to phenotypically distinct European and Asian pig breeds. Here, the authors show that Asian haplotypes that have introgressed into European pig breeds harbour genes that control economically important traits such as meat quality, development and fertility.

    • Mirte Bosse
    • Hendrik-Jan Megens
    • Martien A. M. Groenen
    ResearchOpen Access
    Nature Communications
    Volume: 5, P: 1-8

  • The ancestry of the European bison (wisent) remains a mystery. Here, Cooper and colleagues examine ancient DNA from fossil remains of extinct bison, and reveal the wisent originated through the hybridization of the extinct Steppe bison and ancestors of modern cattle.

    • Julien Soubrier
    • Graham Gower
    • Alan Cooper
    ResearchOpen Access
    Nature Communications
    Volume: 7, P: 1-7

  • This study presents the assembly and analysis of the genome sequence of a female domestic Duroc pig and a comparison with the genomes of wild and domestic pigs from Europe and Asia; the results shed light on the evolutionary relationship between European and Asian wild boars.

    • Martien A. M. Groenen
    • Alan L. Archibald
    • Lawrence B. Schook
    ResearchOpen Access
    Nature
    Volume: 491, P: 393-398

  • Laurent Frantz and colleagues report an analysis of 103 whole genomes from European and Asian wild boars and domestic pigs. They find evidence in support of a complex domestication model with gene flow from wild populations counteracted by recurrent artificial selection for traits important for domestication.

    • Laurent A F Frantz
    • Joshua G Schraiber
    • Martien A M Groenen
    Research
    Nature Genetics
    Volume: 47, P: 1141-1148

  • Improvements in DNA extraction methods and sequencing technologies have led to the successful sequencing of numerous whole ancient genomes. In this Review, the authors provide an overview of how ancient DNA has informed our understanding of the domestication of various animal species, including dogs, pigs, cattle, goats and chickens.

    • Laurent A. F. Frantz
    • Daniel G. Bradley
    • Ludovic Orlando
    Reviews
    Nature Reviews Genetics
    Volume: 21, P: 449-460