Genetic Evidence for an East Asian Origin of Domestic Dogs
@article{Savolainen2002GeneticEF, title={Genetic Evidence for an East Asian Origin of Domestic Dogs}, author={P. Savolainen and Y. Zhang and J. Luo and J. Lundeberg and T. Leitner}, journal={Science}, year={2002}, volume={298}, pages={1610 - 1613} }
The origin of the domestic dog from wolves has been established, but the number of founding events, as well as where and when these occurred, is not known. To address these questions, we examined the mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) sequence variation among 654 domestic dogs representing all major dog populations worldwide. Although our data indicate several maternal origins from wolf, >95% of all sequences belonged to three phylogenetic groups universally represented at similar frequencies… CONTINUE READING
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