Authors: Ameen, Carly, Feuerborn, Tatiana R., Brown, Sarah K., Linderholm, Anna, Ardern Hulme-Beaman, Lebrasseur, Ophélie, Mikkel-Holger S. Sinding, Lounsberry, Zachary T., Lin, Audrey T., Appelt, Martin, Bachmann, Lutz, Betts, Matthew, Britton, Kate, Darwent, John, Dietz, Rune, Fredholm, Merete, Gopalakrishnan, Shyam, Goriunova, Olga I., Grønnow, Bjarne, Haile, James, Hallsson, Jón Hallsteinn, Harrison, Ramona, Heide-Jørgensen, Mads Peter, Knecht, Rick, Losey, Robert J., Masson-MacLean, Edouard, McGovern, Thomas H., McManus-Fry, Ellen, Meldgaard, Morten, Midtdal, Åslaug, Moss, Madonna L., Nikitin, Iurii G., Nomokonova, Tatiana, Pálsdóttir, Albína Hulda, Perri, Angela, Popov, Aleksandr N., Rankin, Lisa, Reuther, Joshua D., Sablin, Mikhail, Schmidt, Anne Lisbeth, Shirar, Scott, Smiarowski, Konrad, Sonne, Christian, Stiner, Mary C., Mitya Vasyukov, West, Catherine F., Ween, Gro Birgit, Wennerberg, Sanne Eline, Wiig, Øystein, Woollett, Dalén, Love, Hansen, Anders J., Gilbert, Tom, Sacks, Benjamin, Frantz, Laurent, Larson, Greger, Dobney, Keith, Christyann M. Darwent, Allowen Evin

Venue: The Royal Society

Type: Dataset

Abstract: Domestic dogs have been central to life in the North American Arctic for millennia. The ancestors of the Inuit were the first to introduce the widespread usage of dog sledge transportation technology to the Americas, but whether the Inuit adopted local Paleo-Inuit dogs or introduced a new dog population to the region remains unknown. To test these hypotheses, we generated mitochondrial DNA and geometric morphometric data of skull and dental elements from a total of 922 North American Arctic dogs and wolves spanning over 4500 years. Our analyses... (read more)

DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.10311437 (Found 2 versions)