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Langqing Liu*, Mirte Bosse, Hendrik-Jan Megens, Laurent A.F. Frantz, Young Lim Lee, Evan K. Irving-Pease, Goutam Narayan, Martien A.M. Groenen, Ole Madsen
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Academic › peer-review
Wild boar (Sus scrofa) drastically colonized mainland Eurasia and North Africa, most likely from East Asia during the Plio-Pleistocene (2–1Mya). In recent studies, based on genome-wide information, it was hypothesized that wild boar did not replace the species it encountered, but instead exchanged genetic materials with them through admixture. The highly endangered pygmy hog (Porcula salvania) is the only suid species in mainland Eurasia known to have outlived this expansion, and therefore provides a unique opportunity to test this hybridization hypothesis. Analyses of pygmy hog genomes indicate that despite large phylogenetic divergence (~2 My), wild boar and pygmy hog did indeed interbreed as the former expanded across Eurasia. In addition, we also assess the taxonomic placement of the donor of another introgression, pertaining to a now-extinct species with a deep phylogenetic placement in the Suidae tree. Altogether, our analyses indicate that the rapid spread of wild boar was facilitated by inter-specific/inter-generic admixtures.
Original language | English |
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Article number | 1992 |
Journal | Nature Communications |
Volume | 10 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 1 Dec 2019 |
Research output: Contribution to journal › Comment/Letter to the editor › Academic
Groenen, M. A. M. (Creator), Megens, H. (Creator), Frantz, L. A. F. (Creator), Bosse, M. (Creator), Crooijmans, R. (Creator), Dibbits, B. (Creator), Madsen, O. (Creator) & Paudel, Y. (Creator), Wageningen University, 10 Oct 2012
http://www.ebi.ac.uk/ena/data/view/PRJEB1683
Dataset
Liu, L. (Creator), Bosse, M. (Creator), Megens, H. (Creator), Frantz, L. A. F. (Creator), Lee, Y. L. (Creator), Irving-Pease, E. K. (Creator), Narayan, G. (Creator), Groenen, M. A. M. (Creator) & Madsen, O. (Creator), Wageningen University & Research, 30 Apr 2019
https://www.ebi.ac.uk/ena/data/view/PRJEB30129
Dataset
1/03/10 → 28/02/15
Project: EU research project