Mitochondrial DNA data indicate an introduction through Mainland Southeast Asia for Australian dingoes and Polynesian domestic dogs
| Autor: | Mattias Oskarsson, Cornelya F. C. Klütsch, Yuichi Tanabe, Peter Savolainen, Ukadej Boonyaprakob, Alan N. Wilton |
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| Rok vydání: | 2011 |
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Mitochondrial DNA Molecular Sequence Data Archaeological record Zoology Introduced species mitochondrial DNA DNA Mitochondrial Polynesia General Biochemistry Genetics and Molecular Biology Dogs biology.animal Animals Colonization Domestication Asia Southeastern Research Articles General Environmental Science Wolves Base Sequence General Immunology and Microbiology biology Australia dingo Sequence Analysis DNA General Medicine Archaeology humanities Geography Haplotypes dog Biological dispersal Dingo Mainland Introduced Species General Agricultural and Biological Sciences |
| Zdroj: | Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences |
| ISSN: | 1471-2954 0962-8452 |
| Popis: | In the late stages of the global dispersal of dogs, dingoes appear in the Australian archaeological record 3500 years BP, and dogs were one of three domesticates brought with the colonization of Polynesia, but the introduction routes to this region remain unknown. This also relates to questions about human history, such as to what extent the Polynesian culture was introduced with the Austronesian expansion from Taiwan or adopted en route, and whether pre-Neolithic Australia was culturally influenced by the surrounding Neolithic world. We investigate these questions by mapping the distribution of the mtDNA founder haplotypes for dingoes (A29) and ancient Polynesian dogs (Arc1 and Arc2) in samples across Southern East Asia (n= 424) and Island Southeast Asia (n= 219). All three haplotypes were found in South China, Mainland Southeast Asia and Indonesia but absent in Taiwan and the Philippines, and the mtDNA diversity among dingoes indicates an introduction to Australia 4600–18 300 years BP. These results suggest that Australian dingoes and Polynesian dogs originate from dogs introduced to Indonesia via Mainland Southeast Asia before the Neolithic, and not from Taiwan together with the Austronesian expansion. This underscores the complex origins of Polynesian culture and the isolation from Neolithic influence of the pre-Neolithic Australian culture. |
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