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  • The genomic history of Iberian horses since the last Ice Age
    Publication . Garrido, Jaime Lira; Tressières, Gaétan; Chauvey, Lorelei; Schiavinato, Stéphanie; Calvière-Tonasso, Laure; Seguin-Orlando, Andaine; Southon, John; Shapiro, Beth; Bataille, Clément; Birgel, Julie; Wagner, Stefanie; Khan, Naveed; Liu, Xuexue; Rodanés, José María; Millán, Jesús V. Picazo; Giralt, Josep; Alonso, Natàlia; Aguilera, Isidro; Orsingher, Adriano; Trentacoste, Angela; Payà, Xavier; Morán, Marta; Eres, María Pilar Iborra; Albizuri, Silvia; Lamas, Silvia Valenzuela; Santandreu, Imma Mestres; Caixal, Montserrat Duran; Principal, Jordi; Huguet, Jordi Farré; Esteve, Xavier; Pasqual, Mireia Pedro; Sala, Nohemi; Pablos, Adrián; Martín, Patricia; Vergès, Josep Maria; Portero, Rodrigo; Arias, Pablo; Peredo, Roberto Ontañón; Detry, Cleia; Luís, Cristina; Cardoso, João Luis; Maeir, Aren M.; Valente, Maria J.; Grau, Elena; Poles, Vicent Estall i; Llorens, Joaquín Alfonso; González, Ana Miguélez; Gardeisen, Armelle; Cupitò, Michele; Tecchiati, Umberto; Bradley, Daniel G.; Horwitz, Liora Kolska; González, Esther Rodríguez; Espinet, Ariadna Nieto; Bover, Pere; Entrecanales, Rosa Ruiz; Estallo, Ignasi Garcés; Fragoso, Joaquín Jiménez; Celestino, Sebastián; Orlando, Ludovic
    Horses have inhabited Iberia (present-day Spain and Portugal) since the Middle Pleistocene, shaping a complex history in the region. Iberia has been proposed as a potential domestication centre and is renowned for producing world-class bloodlines. Here, we generate genome-wide sequence data from 87 ancient horse specimens (median coverage = 0.97X) from Iberia and the broader Mediterranean to reconstruct their genetic history over the last ~26,000 years. Here, we report that wild horses of the divergent IBE lineage inhabited Iberia from the Late Pleistocene, while domesticated DOM2 horses, native from the Pontic-Caspian steppes, already arrived ~1850 BCE. Admixture dating suggests breeding practices involving continued wild restocking until at least ~350 BCE, with IBE disappearing shortly after. Patterns of genetic affinity highlight the far-reaching influence of Iberian bloodlines across Europe and north Africa during the Iron Age and Antiquity, with continued impact extending thereafter, particularly during the colonization of the Americas.
    2025-08-02Journal article Open access Show more
  • The genomic history and global expansion of domestic donkeys
    Publication . Todd, Evelyn T.; Tonasso-Calvière, Laure; Chauvey, Lorelei; Schiavinato, Stéphanie; Fages, Antoine; Seguin-Orlando, Andaine; Clavel, Pierre; Khan, Naveed; Pérez Pardal, Lucía; Rosa, Laura Patterson; Librado, Pablo; Ringbauer, Harald; Verdugo, Marta Pereira; Southon, John; AURY, Jean-Marc; Perdereau, Aude; Vila, Emmanuelle; Marzullo, Matilde; Prato, Ornella; Tecchiati, Umberto; Gianni, Giovanna Bagnasco; Tagliacozzo, Antonio; Tinè, Vincenzo; Alhaique, Francesca; Cardoso, João Luís; Valente, Maria João; Antunes, Miguel Telles; Frantz, Laurent; Shapiro, Beth; Bradley, Daniel G; Boulbes, Nicolas; Gardeisen, Armelle; Horwitz, Liora Kolska; Öztan, Aliye; Arbuckle, Benjamin S.; Onar, Vedat; Clavel, Benoît; Lepetz, Sébastien; Vahdati, Ali Akbar; Davoudi, Hossein; Mohaseb, Azadeh; Mashkour, Marjan; Bouchez, Olivier; Cécile, Donnadieu; Wincker, Patrick; Brooks, Samantha A.; Pereira, Albano Beja; Wu, Dong-Dong; Orlando, Ludovic
    Donkeys transformed human history as essential beasts of burden for long-distance movement, especially across semi-arid and upland environments. They remain insufficiently studied despite globally expanding and providing key support to low- to middle-income communities. To elucidate their domestication history, we constructed a comprehensive genome panel of 207 modern and 31 ancient donkeys, as well as 15 wild equids. We found a strong phylogeographic structure in modern donkeys that supports a single domestication in Africa ~5000 BCE, followed by further expansions in this continent and Eurasia and ultimately returning to Africa. We uncover a previously unknown genetic lineage in the Levant ~200 BCE, which contributed increasing ancestry toward Asia. Donkey management involved inbreeding and the production of giant bloodlines at a time when mules were essential to the Roman economy and military.
    2022-09-09Journal article Restricted access Show more
  • Widespread horse-based mobility arose around 2,200 BCE in Eurasia
    Publication . Librado, Pablo; Tressières, Gaetan; Chauvey, Lorelei; Fages, Antoine; Khan, Naveed; Schiavinato, Stéphanie; Calvière-Tonasso, Laure; Kusliy, Mariya A.; Gaunitz, Charleen; Liu, Xuexue; Wagner, Stefanie; Burić, Marcel; Šikanjić, Petra Rajić; Weinstock, Jaco; Vilaró, David Asensio; Codina, Ferran; Dalmau, Cristina García; Llorens, Jordi Morer de; Pou, Josep; Prado, Gabriel de; Sanmartí, Joan; Sarkissian, Clio Der; Kallala, Nabil; Torres, Joan Ramon; Maraoui-Telmini, Bouthéina; Franco, Maria-Carme Belarte; Valenzuela-Lamas, Silvia; Zazzo, Antoine; Lepetz, Sébastien; Duchesne, Sylvie; Alexeev, Anatoly; Bayarsaikhan, Jamsranjav; Seguin-Orlando, Andaine; Houle, Jean-Luc; Bayarkhuu, Noost; Turbat, Tsagaan; Crubézy, Éric; Shingiray, Irina; Mashkour, Marjan; Berezina, Natalia Ya.; Korobov, Dmitriy S.; Belinskiy, Andrey; Kalmykov, Alexey; Perdereau, Aude; Demoule, Jean-Paul; Reinhold, Sabine; Hansen, Svend; Wallner, Barbara; Roslyakova, Natalia; Kuznetsov, Pavel F.; Tishkin, Alexey A.; Wincker, Patrick; Kanne, Katherine; Outram, Alan; Aury, Jean-Marc; Orlando, Ludovic; Southon, John; Shapiro, Beth; Bouchez, Olivier; Donnadieu, Cécile; Collin, Yvette Running Horse; Gregersen, Kristian M.; Jessen, Mads Dengsø; Christensen, Kirsten; Claudi-Hansen, Lone; Pruvost, Mélanie; Pucher, Erich; Vulic, Hrvoje; Novak, Mario; Rimpf, Andrea; Turk, Peter; Reiter, Simone; Brem, Gottfried; Schwall, Christoph; Barrey, Éric; Robert, Céline; Degueurce, Christophe; Horwitz, Liora Kolska; Klassen, Lutz; Rasmussen, Uffe; Kveiborg, Jacob; Johannsen, Niels Nørkjær; Makowiecki, Daniel; Makarowicz, Przemysław; Szeliga, Marcin; Ilchyshyn, Vasyl; Rud, Vitalii; Romaniszyn, Jan; Mullin, Victoria E.; Verdugo, Marta; Bradley, Daniel G.; Cardoso, João Luís; Valente, Maria J.; Antunes, Miguel Telles; Ameen, Carly; Thomas, Richard; Ludwig, Arne; Marzullo, Matilde; Prato, Ornella; Gianni, Giovanna Bagnasco; Tecchiati, Umberto; Granado, José; Schlumbaum, Angela; Deschler-Erb, Sabine; Mráz, Monika Schernig; Boulbes, Nicolas; Gardeisen, Armelle; Mayer, Christian; Döhle, Hans-Jürgen; Vicze, Magdolna; Kosintsev, Pavel A.; Kyselý, René; Peške, Lubomír; O’Connor, Terry; Ananyevskaya, Elina; Shevnina, Irina; Logvin, Andrey; Kovalev, Alexey A.; Iderkhangai, Tumur-Ochir; Sablin, Mikhail V.; Dashkovskiy, Petr K.; Graphodatsky, Alexander S.; Merts, Ilia; Merts, Viktor; Kasparov, Aleksei K.; Pitulko, Vladimir V.; Onar, Vedat; Öztan, Aliye; Arbuckle, Benjamin S.; McColl, Hugh; Renaud, Gabriel; Khaskhanov, Ruslan; Demidenko, Sergey; Kadieva, Anna; Atabiev, Biyaslan; Sundqvist, Marie; Lindgren, Gabriella; López-Cachero, F. Javier; Albizuri, Silvia; Vukičević, Tajana Trbojević; Papeša, Anita Rapan
    Horses revolutionized human history with fast mobility. However, the timeline between their domestication and widespread integration as a means of transportation remains contentious. Here we assemble a large collection of 475 ancient horse genomes to assess the period when these animals were first reshaped by human agency in Eurasia. We find that reproductive control of the modern domestic lineage emerged ~2,200 BCE (Before Common Era), through close kin mating and shortened generation times. Reproductive control emerged following a severe domestication bottleneck starting no earlier than ~2,700 BCE, and coincided with a sudden expansion across Eurasia that ultimately resulted in the replacement of nearly every local horse lineage. This expansion marked the rise of widespread horse-based mobility in human history, which refutes the commonly-held narrative of large horse herds accompanying the massive migration of steppe peoples across Europe ~3,000 BCE and earlier. Finally, we detect significantly shortened generation times at Botai ~3,500 BCE, a settlement from Central Asia associated with corrals and a subsistence economy centered on horses. This supports local horse husbandry before the rise of modern domestic bloodlines.
    2024-06Journal article Open access Show more