Authors: Frantz, Laurent A.F.; Haile, James; Lin, Audrey T.; Scheu, Amelie; Geoerg, Christina; Benecke, Norbert; Alexander, Michelle; Linderholm, Anna; Mullin, Victoria E.; Daly, Kevin G.; Battista, Vincent M.; Price, Max; Gron, Kurt J.; Alexandri, Panoraia; Arbogast, Rose-Marie; Arbuckle, Benjamin; Balasescu, Adrian; Barnett, Ross; Bartosiewicz, Laszlo; Baryshnikov, Gennady; Bonsall, Clive; Boric, Dusan; Boroneant, Adina; Bulatovic, Jelena; Cakirlar, Canan; Carretero, Jose-Miguel; Chapman, John; Church, Mike; Crooijmans, Richard; De Cupere, Bea; Detry, Cleia; Dimitrijevic, Vesna; Dumitrascu, Valentin; du Plessis, Louis; Edwards, Ceiridwen J.; Erek, Cevdet Merih; Erim-Ozdogan, Asli; Ervynck, Anton; Fulgione, Domenico; Gligor, Mihai; Gotherstrom, Anders; Gourichon, Lionel; Groenen, Martien A.M.; Helmer, Daniel; Hongo, Hitomi; Horwitz, Liora K.; Irving-Pease, Evan K.; Lebrasseur, Ophelie; Lesur, Josephine; Malone, Caroline; Manaseryan, Ninna; Marciniak, Arkadiusz; Martlew, Holley; Mashkour, Marjan; Matthews, Roger; Matuzeviciute, Giedre Motuzaite; Maziar, Sepideh; Meijaard, Erik; McGovern, Tom; Megens, Hendrik-Jan; Miller, Rebecca; Mohaseb, Azadeh Fatemeh; Orschiedt, Joerg; Orton, David; Papathanasiou, Anastasia; Pearson, Mike Parker; Pinhasi, Ron; Radmanovic, Darko; Ricaut, Francois-Xavier; Richards, Mike; Sabin, Richard; Sarti, Lucia; Schier, Wolfram; Sheikhi, Shiva; Stephan, Elisabeth; Stewart, John R.; Stoddart, Simon; Tagliacozzo, Antonio; Tasic, Nenad; Trantalidou, Katerina; Tresset, Anne; Valdiosera, Cristina; van den Hurk, Youri; Van Poucke, Sophie; Vigne, Jean-Denis; Yanevich, Alexander; Zeeb-Lanz, Andrea; Triantafyllidis, Alexandros; Gilbert, M. Thomas P.; Schibler, Jorg; Rowley-Conwy, Peter; Zeder, Melinda; Peters, Joris; Cucchi, Thomas; Bradley, Daniel G.; Dobney, Keith; Burger, Joachim; Evin, Allowen; Girdland-Flink, Linus; Larson, Greger

Venue: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Type: Publication

Abstract: Archaeological evidence indicates that pig domestication had begun by ∼10,500 y before the present (BP) in the Near East, and mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) suggests that pigs arrived in Europe alongside farmers ∼8,500 y BP. A few thousand years after the introduction of Near Eastern pigs into Europe, however, their characteristic mtDNA signature disappeared and was replaced by haplotypes associated with European wild boars. This turnover could be accounted for by substantial gene flow from local European wild boars, although it is also possible... (read more)

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DOI: 10.17615/rx7v-2t13