volume 607 issue 7918 pages 313-320

Grey wolf genomic history reveals a dual ancestry of dogs

David W. G. Stanton 2, 3, 4
Ulrike H Taron 5
Mikkel-Holger S. Sinding 7, 8, 9, 10
Erik Ersmark 2, 3
Saskia Pfrengle 11, 12
Molly Cassatt Johnstone 13
Linus Girdland Flink 15, 16
Joana M Fernandes 17, 18
Leo Speidel 1, 20
Shyam Gopalakrishnan 7
M. V. Westbury 5, 7
Tatiana R Feuerborn 7, 9, 11
Ella Reiter 11
Joscha Gretzinger 11, 21
Susanne C Münzel 11
Pooja Swali 1
Nicholas J. Conard 22, 23
Christian Carøe 7
J. M. Haile 14
Anna Linderholm 3, 14, 24, 25
Semyon Androsov 26
Ian Barnes 27
Chris Baumann 23, 28
Norbert Benecke 29
Hervé Bocherens 23, 30
S Brace 27
Ruth F Carden 31
Sergey Fedorov 32
Mihály Gasparik 33
Semyon Grigoriev 32
Pam Groves 35
Stefan T. Hertwig 36, 37
Varvara V Ivanova 38
Luc Janssens 39
Aleksei K Kasparov 40
Irina V Kirillova 41
Islam Kurmaniyazov 42
Yaroslav V Kuzmin 43
Pavel A Kosintsev 44
Martina Lázničková Galetová 45
Charlotte Leduc 46
Pavel Nikolskiy 47
Marc Nussbaumer 36
Cóilín Odrisceoil 48
Elena Y Pavlova 51
Angela M. Perri 52, 53
Małgorzata Pilot 54
Vladimir V Pitulko 40
Albert V Protopopov 55
André Rehazek 36
Andaine Seguin-Orlando 49
Jan Storå 57
Christian Verjux 58
Victor F Zaibert 59
Grant Zazula 60, 61
Eske Willerslev 7, 63
Anders Götherström 3, 57
Ron Pinhasi 17, 65
Verena J. Schuenemann 11, 12, 17
Michael Hofreiter 5
M. Thomas. P. Gilbert 7, 66
Beth Shapiro 13, 67
Greger Larson 14
Love Dalén 2, 3
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Centre for Palaeogenetics, Stockholm, Sweden
26
 
Museum ‘Severnyi Mir’, Yakutsk, Russian Federation
27
 
Department of Earth Sciences, Natural History Museum, London, UK
29
 
German Archaeological Institute, Berlin, Germany
33
 
Hungarian Natural History Museum, Budapest, Hungary
34
 
Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences, Brussels, Belgium
36
 
Naturhistorisches Museum Bern, Bern, Switzerland
38
 
VNIIOkeangeologiya, St Petersburg, Russian Federation
41
 
Ice Age Museum, Shidlovskiy National Alliance ‘Ice Age’, Moscow, Russian Federation
45
 
Moravian Museum, Brno, Czech Republic
46
 
INRAP, Metz, France
48
 
National Monuments Service, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, Dublin, Ireland
52
 
PaleoWest, Henderson, USA
55
 
Academy of Sciences of Sakha Republic, Yakutsk, Russian Federation
58
 
Service Régional de l’Archéologie, Orléans, France
60
 
Yukon Palaeontology Program, Whitehorse, Canada
61
 
Collections and Research, Canadian Museum of Nature, Ottawa, Canada
Publication typeJournal Article
Publication date2022-06-29
scimago Q1
wos Q1
SJR18.288
CiteScore78.1
Impact factor48.5
ISSN00280836, 14764687
Multidisciplinary
Abstract

The grey wolf (Canis lupus) was the first species to give rise to a domestic population, and they remained widespread throughout the last Ice Age when many other large mammal species went extinct. Little is known, however, about the history and possible extinction of past wolf populations or when and where the wolf progenitors of the present-day dog lineage (Canis familiaris) lived1–8. Here we analysed 72 ancient wolf genomes spanning the last 100,000 years from Europe, Siberia and North America. We found that wolf populations were highly connected throughout the Late Pleistocene, with levels of differentiation an order of magnitude lower than they are today. This population connectivity allowed us to detect natural selection across the time series, including rapid fixation of mutations in the gene IFT88 40,000–30,000 years ago. We show that dogs are overall more closely related to ancient wolves from eastern Eurasia than to those from western Eurasia, suggesting a domestication process in the east. However, we also found that dogs in the Near East and Africa derive up to half of their ancestry from a distinct population related to modern southwest Eurasian wolves, reflecting either an independent domestication process or admixture from local wolves. None of the analysed ancient wolf genomes is a direct match for either of these dog ancestries, meaning that the exact progenitor populations remain to be located.

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@article{2022_Bergström,
author = {Anders Bergström and David W. G. Stanton and Ulrike H Taron and Laurent A. F. Frantz and Mikkel-Holger S. Sinding and Erik Ersmark and Saskia Pfrengle and Molly Cassatt Johnstone and Ophélie Lebrasseur and Linus Girdland Flink and Joana M Fernandes and Morgane Ollivier and Leo Speidel and Shyam Gopalakrishnan and M. V. Westbury and Ramos-Madrigal J and Tatiana R Feuerborn and Ella Reiter and Joscha Gretzinger and Susanne C Münzel and Pooja Swali and Nicholas J. Conard and Christian Carøe and J. M. Haile and Anna Linderholm and Semyon Androsov and Ian Barnes and Chris Baumann and Norbert Benecke and Hervé Bocherens and S Brace and Ruth F Carden and Dorothée G. Drucker and Sergey Fedorov and Mihály Gasparik and Mietje Germonpré and Semyon Grigoriev and Pam Groves and Stefan T. Hertwig and Varvara V Ivanova and Luc Janssens and RICHARD T. JENNINGS and Aleksei K Kasparov and Irina V Kirillova and Islam Kurmaniyazov and Yaroslav V Kuzmin and Pavel A Kosintsev and Martina Lázničková Galetová and Charlotte Leduc and Pavel Nikolskiy and others},
title = {Grey wolf genomic history reveals a dual ancestry of dogs},
journal = {Nature},
year = {2022},
volume = {607},
publisher = {Springer Nature},
month = {jun},
url = {https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-022-04824-9},
number = {7918},
pages = {313--320},
doi = {10.1038/s41586-022-04824-9}
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Bergström, Anders, et al. “Grey wolf genomic history reveals a dual ancestry of dogs.” Nature, vol. 607, no. 7918, Jun. 2022, pp. 313-320. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-022-04824-9.