Questioning the evidence for a Central Asian domestication origin of dogs.
State Key Laboratory of Genetic Resources and Evolution & Yunnan Laboratory of Molecular Biology of Domestic Animals & Germplasm Bank of Wild Species, Kunming Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming 650223, China; Palaeogenomics & Bio-Archaeology Research Network, Department of Archaeology, Research Laboratory for Archaeology and the History of Art, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 3QY, United Kingdom;
Guo-Dong
GD
Wang
State Key Laboratory of Genetic Resources and Evolution & Yunnan Laboratory of Molecular Biology of Domestic Animals & Germplasm Bank of Wild Species, Kunming Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming 650223, China;
Min-Sheng
MS
Peng
State Key Laboratory of Genetic Resources and Evolution & Yunnan Laboratory of Molecular Biology of Domestic Animals & Germplasm Bank of Wild Species, Kunming Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming 650223, China;
He-Chuan
HC
Yang
Department of Gene Technology, KTH-Royal Institute of Technology, Science for Life Laboratory, 17165 Solna, Sweden;
Peter
P
Savolainen
State Key Laboratory of Genetic Resources and Evolution & Yunnan Laboratory of Molecular Biology of Domestic Animals & Germplasm Bank of Wild Species, Kunming Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming 650223, China; Laboratory for Conservation and Utilization of Bio-Resources & Key Laboratory for Microbial Resources of the Ministry of Education, Yunnan University, Kunming 650091, China zhangyp@mail.kiz.ac.cn.
Ya-Ping
YP
Zhang
D000818:Animals; D000829:Animals, Domestic; D004285:Dogs; D014644:Genetic Variation; D010802:Phylogeny; D019596:Wolves