title: The Year of the Wisent.
abstract: Delving into European prehistory, two recent studies analyze ancient DNA from bison species depicted by our ancestors on the walls of their caves. The DNA tells a story of migrations driven by climate change but leaves some mystery clouding the genetic descent and climate preference of the still-extant wisent, otherwise known as the European bison.See research articles: https://bmcbiol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12915-016-0317-7 http://www.nature.com/articles/ncomms13158.
authors.affiliation: Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Utrecht University, Yalelaan 104, 3584 CM, Utrecht, The Netherlands. j.a.lenstra@uu.nl.
authors.forename: Johannes A
authors.initials: JA
authors.lastname: Lenstra
authors.affiliation: Laboratory of Grassland Agro-Ecosystem, College of Life Science, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, 730000, China.
authors.forename: Jianquan
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Liu
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D016164:Bison / Q000235:genetics*; D059552:Caves; D057231:Climate Change