Ancient American dogs almost completely wiped out by arrival of European breeds
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Published in Science · View the paper (DOI)
Research reveals that ancient American dogs disappeared rapidly following the arrival of Europeans, leaving little genetic signature in modern American dogs. A close relative of these dogs lives on as a transmissible cancer, with its genome mirroring that of the original dog.
Coverage from 4 institutions
- Ancient American dogs almost completely wiped out by arrival of European breeds University of Oxford · Jul 5, 2018 · first to report
- Genetic trails of the New World's oldest dogs and Near East goat domestication American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) · Jul 5, 2018
- Ancient dog cancer still around today after 10,000 years Texas A&M University · Jul 5, 2018
- First dogs in the Americas arrived from Siberia, disappeared after European contact University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, News Bureau · Jul 5, 2018