Data from: Complex patterns of sex-biased demography in canines ...

• Main Authors: Phung, Tanya N., Wayne, Robert K., Wilson, Melissa A., Lohmueller, Kirk E.
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: Dryad 2019
• Subjects: Canis lupus
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5061/dryad.jd820r4; https://datadryad.org/stash/dataset/doi:10.5061/dryad.jd820r4

The demographic history of dogs is complex, involving multiple bottlenecks, admixture events and artificial selection. However, existing genetic studies have not explored variance in the number of reproducing males and females, and whether it has changed across evolutionary time. While male-biased mating practices, such as male-biased migration and multiple paternity, have been observed in wolves, recent breeding practices could have led to female-biased mating patterns in breed dogs. For example, breed dogs are thought to have experienced a popular sire effect, where a small number of males father many offspring with a large number of females. Here we use genetic variation data to test how widespread sex-biased mating practices in canines are during different evolutionary time points. Using whole-genome sequence data from 33 dogs and wolves, we show that patterns of diversity on the X chromosome and autosomes are consistent with a higher number of reproducing males than females over ancient evolutionary ... : Filtered VCF filesThis file contains the variants that were genotyped using GATK3. A GATK hard-filter has been applied.6_SV_rmClusterSNP_BiSNP_SV_HardFilter_SV_4GS_5TM_6AW_12BD_6GW_joint_allchr_HighQualSites_processed.vcf.gzPutatively neutral regionsThis zipped directory includes putatively neutral regions for the cutoff values of genetic distance to the nearest gene used in the article (0.0 cM, 0.2 cM, 0.4 cM, 0.6 cM, 0.8 cM, and 1 cM).canFam_putatively_neutral.tar.gz ...