Nature Communications (Feb 2020)

Genomic regions under selection in the feralization of the dingoes

  • Shao-jie Zhang,
  • Guo-Dong Wang,
  • Pengcheng Ma,
  • Liang-liang Zhang,
  • Ting-Ting Yin,
  • Yan-hu Liu,
  • Newton O. Otecko,
  • Meng Wang,
  • Ya-ping Ma,
  • Lu Wang,
  • Bingyu Mao,
  • Peter Savolainen,
  • Ya-ping Zhang

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-14515-6
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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Dingoes evolved in isolation from both their domesticated and wild ancestors. Here, the authors investigate the genomic basis of the feralization of dingoes and trace their origin to domestic dogs that migrated to Australia approximately 8300 years ago.