The evolutionary history of dogs in the Americas

Ní Leathlobhair, Máire; Perri, Angela R.; Irving-Pease, Evan K.; Witt, Kelsey E.; Linderholm, Anna; Haile, James; Lebrasseur, Ophelie; Ameen, Carly; Blick, Jeffrey; Boyko, Adam R.; Brace, Selina; Cortes, Yahaira Nunes; Crockford, Susan J.; Devault, Alison; Dimopoulos, Evangelos A.; Eldridge, Morley; Enk, Jacob; Gopalakrishnan, Shyam; Gori, Kevin; Grimes, Vaughan; Guiry, Eric; Hansen, Anders J.; Hulme-Beaman, Ardern; Johnson, John; Kitchen, Andrew; Kasparov, Aleksei K.; Kwon, Young-Mi; Nikolskiy, Pavel A.; Lope, Carlos Peraza; Manin, Aurélie; Martin, Terrance; Meyer, Michael; Myers, Kelsey Noack; Omura, Mark; Rouillard, Jean-Marie; Pavlova, Elena Y.; Sciulli, Paul; Sinding, Mikkel-Holger S.; Strakova, Andrea; Ivanova, Varvara V.; Widga, Christopher; Willerslev, Eske; Pitulko, Vladimir V.; Barnes, Ian; Gilbert, M. Thomas P.; Dobney, Keith M.; Malhi, Ripan S.; Murchison, Elizabeth P.; Larson, Greger; Frantz, Laurent A.F.

doi:10.1126/science.aao4776

The evolutionary history of dogs in the Americas

Ní Leathlobhair, Máire; Perri, Angela R.; Irving-Pease, Evan K.; Witt, Kelsey E.; Linderholm, Anna; Haile, James; Lebrasseur, Ophelie; Ameen, Carly; Blick, Jeffrey; Boyko, Adam R.; Brace, Selina; Cortes, Yahaira Nunes; Crockford, Susan J.; Devault, Alison; Dimopoulos, Evangelos A.; Eldridge, Morley; Enk, Jacob; Gopalakrishnan, Shyam; Gori, Kevin; Grimes, Vaughan; Guiry, Eric; Hansen, Anders J.; Hulme-Beaman, Ardern; Johnson, John; Kitchen, Andrew; Kasparov, Aleksei K.; Kwon, Young-Mi; Nikolskiy, Pavel A.; Lope, Carlos Peraza; Manin, Aurélie; Martin, Terrance; Meyer, Michael; Myers, Kelsey Noack; Omura, Mark; Rouillard, Jean-Marie; Pavlova, Elena Y.; Sciulli, Paul; Sinding, Mikkel-Holger S.; Strakova, Andrea; Ivanova, Varvara V.; Widga, Christopher; Willerslev, Eske; Pitulko, Vladimir V.; Barnes, Ian; Gilbert, M. Thomas P.; Dobney, Keith M.; Malhi, Ripan S.; Murchison, Elizabeth P.; Larson, Greger; Frantz, Laurent A.F.

Authors

Máire Ní Leathlobhair

Angela R. Perri

Evan K. Irving-Pease

Kelsey E. Witt

Anna Linderholm

James Haile

Ophelie Lebrasseur

Carly Ameen

Jeffrey Blick

Adam R. Boyko

Selina Brace

Yahaira Nunes Cortes

Susan J. Crockford

Alison Devault

Evangelos A. Dimopoulos

Morley Eldridge

Jacob Enk

Shyam Gopalakrishnan

Kevin Gori

Vaughan Grimes

Eric Guiry

Anders J. Hansen

Ardern Hulme-Beaman

John Johnson

Andrew Kitchen

Aleksei K. Kasparov

Young-Mi Kwon

Pavel A. Nikolskiy

Carlos Peraza Lope

Aurélie Manin

Terrance Martin

Michael Meyer

Kelsey Noack Myers

Mark Omura

Jean-Marie Rouillard

Elena Y. Pavlova

Paul Sciulli

Mikkel-Holger S. Sinding

Andrea Strakova

Varvara V. Ivanova

Christopher Widga

Eske Willerslev

Vladimir V. Pitulko

Ian Barnes

M. Thomas P. Gilbert

Keith M. Dobney

Ripan S. Malhi

Elizabeth P. Murchison

Greger Larson

Laurent A.F. Frantz

Abstract

Dogs have been present in North America for at least 9000 years. To better understand how present-day breeds and populations reflect their introduction to the New World, Ní Leathlobhair et al. sequenced the mitochondrial and nuclear genomes of ancient dogs (see the Perspective by Goodman and Karlsson). The earliest New World dogs were not domesticated from North American wolves but likely originated from a Siberian ancestor. Furthermore, these lineages date back to a common ancestor that coincides with the first human migrations across Beringia. This lineage appears to have been mostly replaced by dogs introduced by Europeans, with the primary extant lineage remaining as a canine transmissible venereal tumor.

Citation

Ní Leathlobhair, M., Perri, A. R., Irving-Pease, E. K., Witt, K. E., Linderholm, A., Haile, J., …Frantz, L. A. (2018). The evolutionary history of dogs in the Americas. Science, 361(6397), 81-85. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aao4776

Journal Article Type	Article
Acceptance Date	May 10, 2018
Online Publication Date	Jul 6, 2018
Publication Date	Jul 6, 2018
Deposit Date	Jul 24, 2018
Publicly Available Date	Jul 24, 2018
Journal	Science
Print ISSN	0036-8075
Electronic ISSN	1095-9203
Publisher	American Association for the Advancement of Science
Peer Reviewed	Peer Reviewed
Volume	361
Issue	6397
Pages	81-85
DOI	https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aao4776

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use, not for redistribution. The definitive version was published in Science 361(6397) on 6 July 2018, DOI: 10.1126/science.aao4776