Prehistoric genomes reveal the genetic foundation and cost of horse domestication

  • Mikkel Schubert
    Centre for GeoGenetics, Natural History Museum of Denmark, University of Copenhagen, 1350K Copenhagen, Denmark;
  • Hákon Jónsson
    Centre for GeoGenetics, Natural History Museum of Denmark, University of Copenhagen, 1350K Copenhagen, Denmark;
  • Dan Chang
    Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Santa Cruz, CA 95064;
  • Clio Der Sarkissian
    Centre for GeoGenetics, Natural History Museum of Denmark, University of Copenhagen, 1350K Copenhagen, Denmark;
  • Luca Ermini
    Centre for GeoGenetics, Natural History Museum of Denmark, University of Copenhagen, 1350K Copenhagen, Denmark;
  • Aurélien Ginolhac
    Centre for GeoGenetics, Natural History Museum of Denmark, University of Copenhagen, 1350K Copenhagen, Denmark;
  • Anders Albrechtsen
    The Bioinformatics Centre, Department of Biology, University of Copenhagen, 2200N Copenhagen, Denmark;
  • Isabelle Dupanloup
    Institute of Ecology and Evolution, University of Berne, 3012 Berne, Switzerland;
  • Adrien Foucal
    Institute of Ecology and Evolution, University of Berne, 3012 Berne, Switzerland;
  • Bent Petersen
    Center for Biological Sequence Analysis, Department of Systems Biology, Technical University of Denmark, 2800 Lyngby, Denmark;
  • Matteo Fumagalli
    UCL Genetics Institute, Department of Genetics, Evolution, and Environment, University College London, London WC1E 6BT, United Kingdom;
  • Maanasa Raghavan
    Centre for GeoGenetics, Natural History Museum of Denmark, University of Copenhagen, 1350K Copenhagen, Denmark;
  • Andaine Seguin-Orlando
    Centre for GeoGenetics, Natural History Museum of Denmark, University of Copenhagen, 1350K Copenhagen, Denmark;
  • Thorfinn S. Korneliussen
    Centre for GeoGenetics, Natural History Museum of Denmark, University of Copenhagen, 1350K Copenhagen, Denmark;
  • Amhed M. V. Velazquez
    Centre for GeoGenetics, Natural History Museum of Denmark, University of Copenhagen, 1350K Copenhagen, Denmark;
  • Jesper Stenderup
    Centre for GeoGenetics, Natural History Museum of Denmark, University of Copenhagen, 1350K Copenhagen, Denmark;
  • Cindi A. Hoover
    Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, Walnut Creek, CA 94598;
  • Carl-Johan Rubin
    Science for Life Laboratory, Department of Medical Biochemistry and Microbiology, Uppsala University, SE-751 23 Uppsala, Sweden;
  • Ahmed H. Alfarhan
    Zoology Department, College of Science, King Saud University, Riyadh 11451, Saudi Arabia;
  • Saleh A. Alquraishi
    Zoology Department, College of Science, King Saud University, Riyadh 11451, Saudi Arabia;
  • Khaled A. S. Al-Rasheid
    Zoology Department, College of Science, King Saud University, Riyadh 11451, Saudi Arabia;
  • David E. MacHugh
    Animal Genomics Laboratory, UCD School of Agriculture and Food Science, University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin 4, Ireland;
  • Ted Kalbfleisch
    Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, School of Medicine, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY 40292;
  • James N. MacLeod
    Department of Veterinary Science, Gluck Equine Research Center, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40546;
  • Edward M. Rubin
    Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, Walnut Creek, CA 94598;
  • Thomas Sicheritz-Ponten
    Center for Biological Sequence Analysis, Department of Systems Biology, Technical University of Denmark, 2800 Lyngby, Denmark;
  • Leif Andersson
    Science for Life Laboratory, Department of Medical Biochemistry and Microbiology, Uppsala University, SE-751 23 Uppsala, Sweden;
  • Michael Hofreiter
    Institute for Biochemistry and Biology, Faculty for Mathematics and Natural Sciences, University of Potsdam, 14476 Potsdam, Germany;
  • Tomas Marques-Bonet
    Instituticó Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats, Institut de Biologia Evolutiva (Universitat Pompeu Fabra/Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas), 08003 Barcelona, Spain;
  • M. Thomas P. Gilbert
    Centre for GeoGenetics, Natural History Museum of Denmark, University of Copenhagen, 1350K Copenhagen, Denmark;
  • Rasmus Nielsen
    Departments of Integrative Biology and Statistics, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720
  • Laurent Excoffier
    Institute of Ecology and Evolution, University of Berne, 3012 Berne, Switzerland;
  • Eske Willerslev
    Centre for GeoGenetics, Natural History Museum of Denmark, University of Copenhagen, 1350K Copenhagen, Denmark;
  • Beth Shapiro
    Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Santa Cruz, CA 95064;
  • Ludovic Orlando
    Centre for GeoGenetics, Natural History Museum of Denmark, University of Copenhagen, 1350K Copenhagen, Denmark;

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公開日
2014-12-15
DOI
  • 10.1073/pnas.1416991111
公開者
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

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<jats:title>Significance</jats:title> <jats:p>The domestication of the horse revolutionized warfare, trade, and the exchange of people and ideas. This at least 5,500-y-long process, which ultimately transformed wild horses into the hundreds of breeds living today, is difficult to reconstruct from archeological data and modern genetics alone. We therefore sequenced two complete horse genomes, predating domestication by thousands of years, to characterize the genetic footprint of domestication. These ancient genomes reveal predomestic population structure and a significant fraction of genetic variation shared with the domestic breeds but absent from Przewalski’s horses. We find positive selection on genes involved in various aspects of locomotion, physiology, and cognition. Finally, we show that modern horse genomes contain an excess of deleterious mutations, likely representing the genetic cost of domestication.</jats:p>

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