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Article Dans Une Revue Science Année : 2022

The genomic history and global expansion of domestic donkeys

Lucía Pérez Pardal
Laura Patterson Rosa
Harald Ringbauer
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Marta Verdugo
John Southon
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Aude Perdereau
Emmanuelle Vila
Matilde Marzullo
Ornella Prato
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Umberto Tecchiati
Giovanna Bagnasco Gianni
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Antonio Tagliacozzo
Vincenzo Tinè
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Francesca Alhaique
João Luís Cardoso
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Maria João Valente
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Miguel Telles Antunes
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Laurent Frantz
Beth Shapiro
Daniel Bradley
Nicolas Boulbes
Armelle Gardeisen
Liora Kolska Horwitz
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Aliye Öztan
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Benjamin Arbuckle
Vedat Onar
Ali Akbar Vahdati
Hossein Davoudi
Patrick Wincker
Samantha Brooks
Albano Beja-Pereira
Dong-Dong Wu

Résumé

Donkeys transformed human history as essential beasts of burden for long-distance movement, especially across semi-arid and upland environments. They remain insufficiently studied despite globally expanding and providing key support to low- to middle-income communities. To elucidate their domestication history, we constructed a comprehensive genome panel of 207 modern and 31 ancient donkeys, as well as 15 wild equids. We found a strong phylogeographic structure in modern donkeys that supports a single domestication in Africa ~5000 BCE, followed by further expansions in this continent and Eurasia and ultimately returning to Africa. We uncover a previously unknown genetic lineage in the Levant ~200 BCE, which contributed increasing ancestry toward Asia. Donkey management involved inbreeding and the production of giant bloodlines at a time when mules were essential to the Roman economy and military.
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hal-03827857 , version 1 (06-12-2023)

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Evelyn Todd, Laure Tonasso-Calvière, Loreleï Chauvey, Stéphanie Schiavinato, Antoine Fages, et al.. The genomic history and global expansion of domestic donkeys. Science, 2022, 377 (6611), pp.1172-1180. ⟨10.1126/science.abo3503⟩. ⟨hal-03827857⟩
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