Revealing the History of Sheep Domestication Using Retrovirus Integrations

• DOI: 10.1126/science.1170587
• Publication Date: 2009-04-23T22:36:57Z
• Authors: Bernardo Chessa; Filipe Pereira; Frederick Arnaud; Antonio Amorim; Félix Goyache; Ingrid Mainland; Rowland R. Kao; Josephine M. Pemb...; Dario Beraldi; Michael J. Stear; Alberto Alberti; Marco Pittau; Leopoldo Iannuzzi; Mohammad H. Banabazi; Rudovick R. Kazwala; Ya-ping Zhang; Juan J. Arranz; Bahy A. Ali; Zhiliang Wang; Metehan Uzun; Michel M. Dione; Ingrid Olsaker; Lars-Erik Holm; Urmas Saarma; Sohail Ahmad; Nurbiy Marzanov; Emma Eythorsdottir; Martin J. Holland; Paolo Ajmone-Marsan; Michael W. Bruford; Juha Kantanen; Thomas E. Spencer; Massimo Palmarini
• Keywords: Genetic Markers; 0301 basic medicine; sheep; mouton; [SDV]Life Sciences [q-bio]; Virus Integration; Molecular Sequence Data; Population Dynamics; Ko; historia; NEAR-EAST, MITOCHONDRIAL, LINEAGES, ORIGIN, WILD; NEAR-EAST; MITOCHONDRIAL; LINEAGES; ORIGIN; WILD; domestication; 03 medical and health sciences; /dk/atira/pure/subjectarea/asjc/1000; Animals; Animal Husbandry; General; History, Ancient; Sheep, Domestic; wether hoggs; Polymorphism, Genetic; Sheep; Endogenous Retroviruses; merkkigeenit; DNA; domestication animale; kotieläimet; livestock; retrovirus; Retroviridae; rétrovirus endogène; domestikaatio; genetic markers; history; lammas

Sheep retroviruses can be used to map the selective preferences of early farmers and trace livestock movements across Europe.