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Coat Color Variation at the Beginning of Horse Domestication

2009; American Association for the Advancement of Science; Volume: 324; Issue: 5926 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1126/science.1172750

1095-9203

Arne Ludwig, Mélanie Pruvost, Monika Reißmann, Norbert Benecke, Gudrun A. Brockmann, Pedro Castaños, Michael Cieslak, Sebastian Lippold, Laura Llorente Rodríguez, Anna‐Sapfo Malaspinas, Montgomery Slatkin, Michael Hofreiter,

Identification and Quantification in Food

The transformation of wild animals into domestic ones available for human nutrition was a key prerequisite for modern human societies. However, no other domestic species has had such a substantial impact on the warfare, transportation, and communication capabilities of human societies as the horse. Here, we show that the analysis of ancient DNA targeting nuclear genes responsible for coat coloration allows us to shed light on the timing and place of horse domestication. We conclude that it is unlikely that horse domestication substantially predates the occurrence of coat color variation, which was found to begin around the third millennium before the common era.