Origin and history of mitochondrial DNA lineages in domestic horses.

• Published in: PLoS ONE
• Main Authors: Michael Cieslak, Melanie Pruvost, Norbert Benecke, Michael Hofreiter, Arturo Morales, Monika Reissmann, Arne Ludwig
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2010
• Subjects: Medicine; R; Science; Q; The ''Y''; Alaska; Siberia
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0015311; https://doaj.org/article/6d2a21ef55fc44008d5972bdf0a9fb6d

Domestic horses represent a genetic paradox: although they have the greatest number of maternal lineages (mtDNA) of all domestic species, their paternal lineages are extremely homogeneous on the Y-chromosome. In order to address their huge mtDNA variation and the origin and history of maternal linea...