Ancient genomics and the origin, dispersal, and development of domestic sheep
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Daly, Kevin | Mullin, Victoria | Hare, Andrew | Halpin, Áine | Mattiangeli, Valeria | Teasdale, Matthew | Rossi, Conor | Geiger, Sheila | Krebs, Stefan | Medugorac, Ivica | Sandoval-Castellanos, Edson | Özbaşaran, Mihriban | Duru, Güneş | Gülcür, Sevil | Pöllath, Nadja | Collins, Matthew | Frantz, Laurent | Vila, Emmanuelle | Zidarov, Peter | Stoddart, Simon | Boldgiv, Bazartseren | Orlando, Ludovic | Pearson, Mike Parker | Mullville, Jacqui | Askeyev, Igor | Askeyev, Arthur | Askeyev, Oleg | Shaymuratova, Dilyara | van den Hurk, Youri | Zeeb-Lanz, Andrea | Arbogast, Rose-Marie | Hemmer, Helmut | Davoudi, Hossein | Amiri, Sarieh | Doost, Sanaz Beizaee | Decruyenaere, Delphine | Fathi, Homa | Khazaeli, Roya | Hassanzadeh, Yousef | Sardari, Alireza | Lhuillier, Johanna | Abdolahi, Mostafa | Summers, Geoffrey | Marro, Catherine | Bahshaliyev, Veli | Berthon, Rémi | Çakirlar, Canan | Benecke, Norbert | Scheu, Amelie | Burger, Joachim | Sauer, Eberhard | Horwitz, Liora Kolska | Arbuckle, Benjamin | Buitenhuis, Hijlke | Gourichon, Lionel | Bulatović, Jelena | O’connor, Terry | Orton, David | Jalabadze, Mindia | Rhodes, Stephen | Chazan, Michael | Özkaya, Vecihi | Zeder, Melinda | Atıcı, Levent | Mashkour, Marjan | Peters, Joris | Bradley, Daniel
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The origins and prehistory of domestic sheep ( Ovis aries ) are incompletely understood; to address this, we generated data from 118 ancient genomes spanning 12,000 years sampled from across Eurasia. Genomes from Central Türkiye ~8000 BCE are genetically proximal to the domestic origins of sheep but do not fully explain the ancestry of later populations, suggesting a mosaic of wild ancestries. Genomic signatures indicate selection by ancient herders for pigmentation patterns, hornedness, and growth rate. Although the first European sheep flocks derive from Türkiye, in a notable parallel with ancient human genome discoveries, we detected a major influx of Western steppe–related ancestry in the Bronze Age.
