Phylogenetic Distinctiveness of Middle Eastern and Southeast Asian Village Dog Y Chromosomes Illuminates Dog Origins

• Published in: PLoS ONE
• Main Authors: Brown, Sarah K., Pedersen, Niels C., Jafarishorijeh, Sardar, Bannasch, Danika L., Ahrens, Kristen D., Wu, Jui-Te, Okon, Michaella, Sacks, Benjamin N.
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Public Library of Science 2011
• Subjects: Research Article; The ''Y''; Canis lupus
• Online Access: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3237445; http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22194840; https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0028496

Modern genetic samples are commonly used to trace dog origins, which entails untested assumptions that village dogs reflect indigenous ancestry or that breed origins can be reliably traced to particular regions. We used high-resolution Y chromosome markers (SNP and STR) and mitochondrial DNA to anal...