The goat domestication process inferred from large-scale mitochondrial DNA analysis of wild and domestic individuals

Download

Date

2008-11-18

Author

Naderi, Saeid
Rezaei, Hamid-Reza
Pompanon, Francois
Blum, Michael G. B.
Negrini, Riccardo
Naghash, Hamid-Reza
Balkiz, Oezge
Mashkour, Marjan
Gaggiotti, Oscar E.
Ajmone-Marsan, Paolo
Kence, Aykut
Vigne, Jean-Denis
Taberlet, Pierre

Metadata

Show full item record

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

Item Usage Stats

210
views

0
downloads

The emergence of farming during the Neolithic transition, including the domestication of livestock, was a critical point in the evolution of human kind. The goat (Capra hircus) was one of the first domesticated ungulates. In this study, we compared the genetic diversity of domestic goats to that of the modern representatives of their wild ancestor, the bezoar, by analyzing 473 samples collected over the whole distribution range of the latter species. This partly confirms and significantly clarifies the goat domestication scenario already proposed by archaeological evidence. All of the mitochondrial DNA haplogroups found in current domestic goats have also been found in the bezoar. The geographic distribution of these haplogroups in the wild ancestor allowed the localization of the main domestication centers. We found no haplotype that could have been domesticated in the eastern half of the Iranian Plateau, nor further to the east. A signature of population expansion in bezoars of the C haplogroup suggests an early domestication center on the Central Iranian Plateau (Yazd and Kerman Provinces) and in the Southern Zagros (Fars Province), possibly corresponding to the management of wild flocks. However, the contribution of this center to the current domestic goat population is rather low (1.4%). We also found a second domestication center covering a large area in Eastern Anatolia, and possibly in Northern and Central Zagros. This last domestication center is the likely origin of almost all domestic goats today. This finding is consistent with archaeological data identifying Eastern Anatolia as an important domestication center.

Subject Keywords

Multidisciplinary

URI

https://hdl.handle.net/11511/52116

Journal

PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

DOI

https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0804782105

Collections

Department of Biology, Article

Suggestions

OpenMETU
Core

Altitude adaptation in Tibetans caused by introgression of Denisovan-like DNA Huerta-Sanchez, Emilia; et. al. (Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2014-08-14) As modern humans migrated out of Africa, they encountered many new environmental conditions, including greater temperature extremes, different pathogens and higher altitudes. These diverse environments are likely to have acted as agents of natural selection and to have led to local adaptations. One of the most celebrated examples in humans is the adaptation of Tibetans to the hypoxic environment of the high-altitude Tibetan plateau(1-3). A hypoxia pathway gene, EPAS1, was previously identified as having the...
The Demographic Development of the First Farmers in Anatolia Kilinc, Gulsah Merve; et. al. (2016-10-10) The archaeological documentation of the development of sedentary farming societies in Anatolia is not yet mirrored by a genetic understanding of the human populations involved, in contrast to the spread of farming in Europe [1-3]. Sedentary farming communities emerged in parts of the Fertile Crescent during the tenth millennium and early ninth millennium calibrated (cal) BC and had appeared in central Anatolia by 8300 cal BC [4]. Farming spread into west Anatolia by the early seventh millennium cal BC and q...
Novel insights on demographic history of tribal and caste groups from West Maharashtra (India) using genome-wide data Debortoli, Guilherme; Abbatangelo, Cristina; Ceballos, Francisco; Fortes-Lima, Cesar; Norton, Heather L.; Ozarkar, Shantanu; Parra, Esteban J.; Jonnalagadda, Manjari (Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2020-6-22) The South Asian subcontinent is characterized by a complex history of human migrations and population interactions. In this study, we used genome-wide data to provide novel insights on the demographic history and population relationships of six Indo-European populations from the Indian State of West Maharashtra. The samples correspond to two castes (Deshastha Brahmins and Kunbi Marathas) and four tribal groups (Kokana, Warli, Bhil and Pawara). We show that tribal groups have had much smaller effective popul...
The impacts of the younger dryas period on plant and animal food resources of the ancient natufian culture and the economy Ferah, Egemen; Pişkin, Evangelia; Department of Settlement Archaeology (2009) This masters thesis investigates the environmental/climatic change that is thought to have brought about the economic shift and transition from Palaeolithic economic system of hunting gathering to Neolithic economic system of agriculture and domestication period around 11.000-10.000 years ago. This study uses the collected animal and plant data of the Natufian culture in the Levant region from the previous zooarchaeological and archaeobotanical literature anlyses. It shows a significant mathematical differe...
Dataset on the Marine Sustainability in the United Arab Emirates Gülseven, Osman (Elsevier BV, 2020-08-01) This data compiles the relevant indicators on measuring the UAE's attainments towards sustaining marine life and coastal ecosystems. Those indicators are compiled from three databases, namely from the United Nations, BertelsmannStiftung (BS) Foundation, and the Ocean Health Index (OHI). While the UN and BS indicators are widely accepted in measuring sustainability, many of the indicators in these databases are ambiguous and incomplete. The data from OHI is complete and offers a better perspective on measuri...

Citation Formats

S. Naderi et al., “The goat domestication process inferred from large-scale mitochondrial DNA analysis of wild and domestic individuals,” PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, pp. 17659–17664, 2008, Accessed: 00, 2020. [Online]. Available: https://hdl.handle.net/11511/52116.