Pre-Columbian origins of Native American dog breeds, with only limited replacement by European dogs, confirmed by mtDNA analysis

• Published in: Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
• Main Authors: van Asch, Barbara, Zhang, Ai-bing, Oskarsson, Mattias C. R., Klütsch, Cornelya F. C., Amorim, António, Savolainen, Peter
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: The Royal Society 2013
• Subjects: Research Articles; Arctic; Greenland; Perro; eskimo*; inuit
• Online Access: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3730590; http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23843389; https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2013.1142

Dogs were present in pre-Columbian America, presumably brought by early human migrants from Asia. Studies of free-ranging village/street dogs have indicated almost total replacement of these original dogs by European dogs, but the extent to which Arctic, North and South American breeds are descendan...