Worldwide phylogeography of wild boar reveals multiple centers of pig domestication. Academic Article

abstract

• Mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) sequences from 686 wild and domestic pig specimens place the origin of wild boar in island Southeast Asia (ISEA), where they dispersed across Eurasia. Previous morphological and genetic evidence suggested pig domestication took place in a limited number of locations (principally the Near East and Far East). In contrast, new genetic data reveal multiple centers of domestication across Eurasia and that European, rather than Near Eastern, wild boar are the principal source of modern European domestic pigs.

authors

• Andersson, Leif

published proceedings

• Science

altmetric score

• 35.952

author list (cited authors)

• Larson, G., Dobney, K., Albarella, U., Fang, M., Matisoo-Smith, E., Robins, J., ... Cooper, A.

citation count

• 627

complete list of authors

• Larson, Greger||Dobney, Keith||Albarella, Umberto||Fang, Meiying||Matisoo-Smith, Elizabeth||Robins, Judith||Lowden, Stewart||Finlayson, Heather||Brand, Tina||Willerslev, Eske||Rowley-Conwy, Peter||Andersson, Leif||Cooper, Alan

publication date

• March 2005

publisher

• American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)  Publisher

published in

• Science  Journal

keywords

• Animals
• Animals, Domestic
• Animals, Wild
• Asia
• Australasia
• Bayes Theorem
• DNA, Mitochondrial
• Europe
• Genetics, Population
• Geography
• Haplotypes
• India
• Markov Chains
• Monte Carlo Method
• Phylogeny
• Sequence Analysis, DNA
• Sus Scrofa
• Time

PubMed Central ID

• 15761152

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1126/science.1106927

start page

• 1618

end page

• 1621

volume

• 307

issue

• 5715

URL

• http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.1106927