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SUBMITTER: Chessa B
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3145132 | biostudies-literature | 2009 Apr
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Chessa Bernardo B Pereira Filipe F Arnaud Frederick F Amorim Antonio A Goyache Félix F Mainland Ingrid I Kao Rowland R RR Pemberton Josephine M JM Beraldi Dario D Stear Michael J MJ Alberti Alberto A Pittau Marco M Iannuzzi Leopoldo L Banabazi Mohammad H MH Kazwala Rudovick R RR Zhang Ya-Ping YP Arranz Juan J JJ Ali Bahy A BA Wang Zhiliang Z Uzun Metehan M Dione Michel M MM Olsaker Ingrid I Holm Lars-Erik LE Saarma Urmas U Ahmad Sohail S Marzanov Nurbiy N Eythorsdottir Emma E Holland Martin J MJ Ajmone-Marsan Paolo P Bruford Michael W MW Kantanen Juha J Spencer Thomas E TE Palmarini Massimo M
Science (New York, N.Y.) 20090401 5926
The domestication of livestock represented a crucial step in human history. By using endogenous retroviruses as genetic markers, we found that sheep differentiated on the basis of their "retrotype" and morphological traits dispersed across Eurasia and Africa via separate migratory episodes. Relicts of the first migrations include the Mouflon, as well as breeds previously recognized as "primitive" on the basis of their morphology, such as the Orkney, Soay, and the Nordic short-tailed sheep now co ...[more]