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SUBMITTER: Greig K
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4596854 | biostudies-literature | 2015
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Greig Karen K Boocock James J Prost Stefan S Horsburgh K Ann KA Jacomb Chris C Walter Richard R Matisoo-Smith Elizabeth E
PloS one 20151007 10
Dogs accompanied people in their migrations across the Pacific Ocean and ultimately reached New Zealand, which is the southern-most point of their oceanic distribution, around the beginning of the fourteenth century AD. Previous ancient DNA analyses of mitochondrial control region sequences indicated the New Zealand dog population included two lineages. We sequenced complete mitochondrial genomes of fourteen dogs from the colonisation era archaeological site of Wairau Bar and found five closely- ...[more]