Modern Siberian dog ancestry was shaped by several thousand years of Eurasian-wide trade and human dispersal.

ABSTRACT: Dogs have been essential to life in the Siberian Arctic for over 9,500 y, and this tight link between people and dogs continues in Siberian communities. Although Arctic Siberian groups such as the Nenets received limited gene flow from neighboring groups, archaeological evidence suggests that metallurgy and new subsistence strategies emerged in Northwest Siberia around 2,000 y ago. It is unclear if the Siberian Arctic dog population was as continuous as the people of the region or if instead admixture occurred, possibly in relation to the influx of material culture from other parts of Eurasia. To address this question, we sequenced and analyzed the genomes of 20 ancient and historical Siberian and Eurasian Steppe dogs. Our analyses indicate that while Siberian dogs were genetically homogen

SUBMITTER: Feuerborn TR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8488619 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature