Taming the late Quaternary phylogeography of the Eurasiatic wild ass through ancient and modern DNA.

ABSTRACT: Taxonomic over-splitting of extinct or endangered taxa, due to an incomplete knowledge of both skeletal morphological variability and the geographical ranges of past populations, continues to confuse the link between isolated extant populations and their ancestors. This is particularly problematic with the genus Equus. To more reliably determine the evolution and phylogeographic history of the endangered Asiatic wild ass, we studied the genetic diversity and inter-relationships of both extinct and extant populations over the last 100,000 years, including samples throughout its previous range from Western Europe to Southwest and East Asia. Using 229 bp of the mitochondrial hypervariable region, an approach which allowed the inclusion of information from extremely poorly preserved ancient sa

SUBMITTER: Bennett EA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5396879 | biostudies-literature | 2017

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature