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Herrel A, Locatelli Y, Ortiz K, Theil JC, Cornette R, Cucchi T. Cranial muscle architecture in wild boar: Does captivity drive ontogenetic trajectories? J Morphol 2024; 285:e21676. [PMID: 38361257 DOI: 10.1002/jmor.21676] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/23/2023] [Revised: 01/02/2024] [Accepted: 01/05/2024] [Indexed: 02/17/2024]
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The jaw system in mammals is complex and different muscle morphotypes have been documented. Pigs are an interesting group of animals as they are omnivorous and have a bunodont crushing dentition. Moreover, they have interacted with humans for over 10,000 years and grow nearly two orders of magnitude in size. Despite being a model system for studies on cranial form and function, data on the growth of the jaw adductor muscles are scant. Moreover, whether captivity impacts the growth and architecture of the jaw adductors remains unknown. Based on dissection data of the jaw adductors of 45 animals ranging from less than 1 kg to almost 100 kg, we show that muscle masses, muscle fiber lengths, and cross-sectional areas scale as predicted for geometrically similar systems or with slight negative allometry. Only the fiber length of the lateral pterygoid muscle grew with slight positive allometry. Animals raised in captivity in stalls or in an enclosure were overall very similar to wild animals. However, some muscles were larger in captive animals. Interestingly, variation in bite force in captive animals was well predicted by the variation in the size of the superficial masseter muscle relative to the overall jaw adductor mass.
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- Anthony Herrel
- Mécanismes Adaptatifs et Evolution, UMR 7179, Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle CNRS, Paris, France
- Department of Biology, Evolutionary Morphology of Vertebrates, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium
- Department of Biology, University of Antwerp, Wilrijk, Belgium
- Naturhistorisches Museum Bern, Bern, Switzerland
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- Réserve Zoologique de la Haute Touche, Obterre, Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Paris, France
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- Réserve Zoologique de la Haute Touche, Obterre, Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Paris, France
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- Mécanismes Adaptatifs et Evolution, UMR 7179, Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle CNRS, Paris, France
- Ecole Nationale Vétérinaire Alfort, Maisons-Alfort, France
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- Institut de Systématique Evolution Biodiversité (ISYEB), CNRS, Muséum National D'Histoire Naturelle, Sorbonne Université, Paris, France
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- Archéozoologie, Archéobotanique: Sociétés, Pratiques et Environnements, UMR 7209, Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle CNRS, Paris, France
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Neaux D, Harbers H, Blanc B, Ortiz K, Locatelli Y, Herrel A, Debat V, Cucchi T. The effect of captivity on craniomandibular and calcaneal ontogenetic trajectories in wild boar. J Exp Zool B Mol Dev Evol 2022; 338:575-585. [PMID: 35286754 DOI: 10.1002/jez.b.23130] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/26/2021] [Revised: 02/17/2022] [Accepted: 02/28/2022] [Indexed: 06/14/2023]
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Deciphering the plastic (i.e., nonheritable) changes induced by human control over wild animals in the archeological record is challenging. Previous studies detected morphological markers associated with captivity in the cranium, mandible, and calcaneus of adult wild boar (Sus scrofa) but the developmental trajectories leading up to these changes during ontogeny remain unknown. To assess the impact of growth in a captive environment on morphological structures during postnatal ontogeny, we used an experimental approach focusing on the same three structures and taxon. We investigated the form and size differences of captive-reared and wild-caught wild boar during growth using three-dimensional landmark-based geometric morphometrics. Our results provide evidence of an influence of captivity on the morphology of craniomandibular structures, as wild specimens are smaller than captive individuals at similar ages. The food resources inherent to anthropogenic environments may explain some of the observed differences between captive-reared and wild specimens. The calcaneus presents a different contrasted pattern of plasticity as captive and wild individuals differ in terms of form but not in terms of size. The physically more constrained nature of the calcaneus and the direct influence of mobility reduction on this bone may explain these discrepancies. These results provide new methodological perspectives for bioarchaeological approaches as they imply that the plastic mark of captivity can be observed in juvenile specimens in the same way it has been previously described in adults.
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- Dimitri Neaux
- Archéozoologie, Archéobotanique: Sociétés, Pratiques et Environnements, UMR 7209, Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle CNRS, Paris, France
- Laboratoire Paléontologie Evolution Paléoécosystèmes Paléoprimatologie, UMR 7262, Université de Poitiers CNRS, Poitiers, France
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- Archéozoologie, Archéobotanique: Sociétés, Pratiques et Environnements, UMR 7209, Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle CNRS, Paris, France
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- Réserve Zoologique de la Haute-Touche, Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Obterre, France
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- Réserve Zoologique de la Haute-Touche, Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Obterre, France
- Institut de Systématique, Evolution, Biodiversité, UMR 7205, Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle CNRS UPMC EPHE, UA, Paris, France
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- Réserve Zoologique de la Haute-Touche, Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Obterre, France
- Physiologie de la Reproduction et des Comportements, UMR 7247, INRAE CNRS Université de Tours IFCE, Nouzilly, France
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- Mécanismes Adaptatifs et Evolution, UMR 7179, Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle CNRS, Paris, France
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- Institut de Systématique, Evolution, Biodiversité, UMR 7205, Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle CNRS UPMC EPHE, UA, Paris, France
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- Archéozoologie, Archéobotanique: Sociétés, Pratiques et Environnements, UMR 7209, Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle CNRS, Paris, France
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Cucchi T, Domont A, Harbers H, Evin A, Alcàntara Fors R, Saña M, Leduc C, Guidez A, Bridault A, Hongo H, Price M, Peters J, Briois F, Guilaine J, Vigne JD. Author Correction: Bones geometric morphometrics illustrate 10th millennium cal. BP domestication of autochthonous Cypriot wild boar (Sus scrofa circeus nov. ssp). Sci Rep 2021; 11:19243. [PMID: 34552107 PMCID: PMC8458483 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-021-96921-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022] Open
Affiliation(s)
- Thomas Cucchi
- Archéozoologie, Archéobotanique: Sociétés, Pratiques et Environnements, AASPE UMR 7209, CNRS/Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris, France.
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- Archéozoologie, Archéobotanique: Sociétés, Pratiques et Environnements, AASPE UMR 7209, CNRS/Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris, France
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- Archéozoologie, Archéobotanique: Sociétés, Pratiques et Environnements, AASPE UMR 7209, CNRS/Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris, France
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- ISEM, University of Montpellier, Montpellier, France
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- Autonomous University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
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- Trajectoires, de la Sédentarisation à l'État, UMR 8215, Maison de l'Archéologie et de l'Ethnologie, 21 Allée de l'Université, 92000, Nanterre, France
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- Archimède, Archéologie et Histoire Ancienne: Méditerranée Europe, UMR 7044, Université de Strasboug, Strasboug, France
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- ArScAn, Equipe Archéologies Environnementales, UMR 7041, CNRS, Maison de l'Archéologie et de l'Ethnologie, 21 Allée de l'Université, 92000, Nanterre, France
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- Department of Evolutionary Studies of Biosystems, School of Advanced Sciences, Graduate University for Advanced Studies, Shonan Village, Hayama, Kanagawa, 240‑0193, Japan
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA, 02143, USA
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- ArchaeoBioCenter and Institute of Palaeoanatomy, Domestication Research and the History of Veterinary Medicine, LMU Munich, 80539, Munich, Germany.,SNSB, State Collection of Anthropology and Palaeoanatomy, 80333, Munich, Germany
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- EHESS, UMR 5608, Travaux et Recherches Archéologiques sur les Cultures, les Espaces et les Sociétés (TRACES), Université Jean Jaurès, Toulouse, France
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- Collège de France, 11, Place Marcelin‑Berthelot, 75005, Paris, France
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- Archéozoologie, Archéobotanique: Sociétés, Pratiques et Environnements, AASPE UMR 7209, CNRS/Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris, France
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Affiliation(s)
- Thomas Cucchi
- Département Homme et Environnement, Archéozoologie, Archéobotanique: Sociétés, Pratiques et Environnements, UMR 7209, Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle/CNRS, Paris, France
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- Department of Anthropology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA
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- Ardern Hulme-Beaman
- Department of Archaeology, Classics and Egyptology, University of Liverpool, 12–14 Abercromby Square, Liverpool, L69 7WZ, UK
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- BioArCh, Department of Archaeology, University of York, York YO10 5DD, UK
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- Archaeozoology, Archaeobotany, Societies, Practices, Environments (AASPE-UMR7209), CNRS, National Museum of Natural History (MNHN), Paris, France
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Neaux D, Sansalone G, Lecompte F, Haruda A, Schafberg R, Cucchi T. Corrigendum to: Examining the effect of feralization on craniomandibular morphology in pigs, Sus scrofa (Artiodactyla: Suidae). Biol J Linn Soc Lond 2021. [DOI: 10.1093/biolinnean/blab044] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022]
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- Dimitri Neaux
- Archéozoologie, Archéobotanique: Sociétés, Pratiques et Environnements, UMR 7209, Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle CNRS, rue Cuvier, Paris, France
- Laboratoire Paléontologie Evolution Paléoécosystèmes Paléoprimatologie, UMR 7262, Université de Poitiers CNRS, Bât B35 - 6 rue Michel Brunet, Poitiers, France
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- Function, Evolution & Anatomy Research Laboratory, School of Environmental and Rural Science, University of New England, NSW, Armidale, Australia
- Department of Sciences, Roma Tre University, Largo San Leonardo Murialdo 1, Rome, Italy
- Center for Evolutionary Ecology, Largo San Leonardo Murialdo 1, Rome, Italy
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- Plateforme Chirurgie et Imagerie pour la Recherche et l’Enseignement, INRAE, 37380 Nouzilly, France
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- Central Natural Science Collections, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Adam-Kuckhoff-Strasse, Halle, Germany
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- Central Natural Science Collections, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Adam-Kuckhoff-Strasse, Halle, Germany
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- Archéozoologie, Archéobotanique: Sociétés, Pratiques et Environnements, UMR 7209, Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle CNRS, rue Cuvier, Paris, France
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Neaux D, Blanc B, Ortiz K, Locatelli Y, Schafberg R, Herrel A, Debat V, Cucchi T. Constraints associated with captivity alter craniomandibular integration in wild boar. J Anat 2021; 239:489-497. [PMID: 33713426 PMCID: PMC8273579 DOI: 10.1111/joa.13425] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/14/2020] [Revised: 02/18/2021] [Accepted: 02/22/2021] [Indexed: 01/01/2023] Open
Abstract
The domestication process is associated with substantial phenotypic changes through time. However, although morphological integration between biological structures is purported to have a major influence on the evolution of new morphologies, little attention has been paid to the influence of domestication on the magnitude of integration. Here, we assessed the influence of constraints associated with captivity, considered as one of the crucial first steps in the domestication process, on the integration of cranial and mandibular structures. We investigated the craniomandibular integration in Western European Sus scrofa using three-dimensional (3D) landmark-based geometric morphometrics. Our results suggest that captivity is associated with a lower level of integration between the cranium and the mandible. Plastic responses to captivity can thus affect the magnitude of integration of key functional structures. These findings underline the critical need to develop integration studies in the context of animal domestication to better understand the processes accountable for the set-up of domestic phenotypes through time.
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- Dimitri Neaux
- Archéozoologie et Archéobotanique : Sociétés, Pratiques et Environnements, UMR 7209, Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle CNRS, Paris, France.,Laboratoire Paléontologie Evolution Paléoécosystèmes Paléoprimatologie, UMR 7262, Université de Poitiers CNRS, Poitiers, France
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- Réserve Zoologique de la Haute Touche, Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Obterre, France
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- Réserve Zoologique de la Haute Touche, Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Obterre, France.,Institut de Systématique, Evolution, Biodiversité, UMR 7205, Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle CNRS UPMC EPHE, Paris, France
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- Réserve Zoologique de la Haute Touche, Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Obterre, France.,Physiologie de la Reproduction et des Comportements, UMR 7247, INRAE CNRS Université de Tours IFCE, Nouzilly, France
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- Central Natural Science Collections, Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg, Halle (Saale), Germany
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- Mécanismes Adaptatifs et Evolution, UMR 7179, Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle CNRS, Paris, France
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- Institut de Systématique, Evolution, Biodiversité, UMR 7205, Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle CNRS UPMC EPHE, Paris, France
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- Archéozoologie et Archéobotanique : Sociétés, Pratiques et Environnements, UMR 7209, Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle CNRS, Paris, France
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Neaux D, Sansalone G, Lecompte F, Haruda A, Schafberg R, Cucchi T. Examining the effect of feralization on craniomandibular morphology in pigs, Sus scrofa (Artiodactyla: Suidae). Biol J Linn Soc Lond 2020. [DOI: 10.1093/biolinnean/blaa156] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/30/2023]
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Feralization is the process by which domestic animals return to the wild and produce self-sustaining populations. It is often considered as a model in understanding the permanence of morphological changes associated with domestication; however, it is still unclear how much the release of anthropogenic selective pressures affects domestic traits. Here, we assessed the influence of feralization on the domestic morphological traits acquired through selective breeding using craniomandibular differences in shape and size between populations of feral pigs, wild boar and domestic pigs, using landmark-based geometric morphometrics. Our results suggest that numerous cranial and mandibular traits associated with domestication still exist in feral specimens, corroborating that domestication-induced changes in the shape of morphological elements are broadly maintained in feral populations. This is not the case for size variations, however, as the cranium is significantly smaller in feral pigs than in domesticated breeds, which could be due to the selective pressures associated with founding events. Our exploratory study, therefore, underlines the complexity of feral population history, the intricate influence of variations in genetic diversity, and novel selection pressures in the morphology of these groups. Future studies will need to expand the sample to take into account the diversity of morphotypes.
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- Dimitri Neaux
- Archéozoologie, Archéobotanique: Sociétés, Pratiques et Environnements, UMR 7209, Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle CNRS, CP, Paris, France
- Laboratoire Paléontologie Evolution Paléoécosystèmes Paléoprimatologie, UMR 7262, Université de Poitiers CNRS, Poitiers, France
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- Function, Evolution & Anatomy Research Laboratory, School of Environmental and Rural Science, University of New England, NSW, Armidale, Australia
- Department of Sciences, Roma Tre University, Rome, Italy
- Center for Evolutionary Ecology, Rome, Italy
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- Plateforme Chirurgie et Imagerie pour la Recherche et l’Enseignement, INRAE, Nouzilly, France
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- Central Natural Science Collections, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Halle, Germany
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- Central Natural Science Collections, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Halle, Germany
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- Archéozoologie, Archéobotanique: Sociétés, Pratiques et Environnements, UMR 7209, Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle CNRS, CP, Paris, France
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Neaux D, Blanc B, Ortiz K, Locatelli Y, Laurens F, Baly I, Callou C, Lecompte F, Cornette R, Sansalone G, Haruda A, Schafberg R, Vigne JD, Debat V, Herrel A, Cucchi T. How Changes in Functional Demands Associated with Captivity Affect the Skull Shape of a Wild Boar (Sus scrofa). Evol Biol 2020. [DOI: 10.1007/s11692-020-09521-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Harbers H, Zanolli C, Cazenave M, Theil JC, Ortiz K, Blanc B, Locatelli Y, Schafberg R, Lecompte F, Baly I, Laurens F, Callou C, Herrel A, Puymerail L, Cucchi T. Investigating the impact of captivity and domestication on limb bone cortical morphology: an experimental approach using a wild boar model. Sci Rep 2020; 10:19070. [PMID: 33149160 PMCID: PMC7643176 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-020-75496-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/06/2020] [Accepted: 10/01/2020] [Indexed: 12/14/2022] Open
Abstract
The lack of bone morphological markers associated with the human control of wild animals has prevented the documentation of incipient animal domestication in archaeology. Here, we assess whether direct environmental changes (i.e. mobility reduction) could immediately affect ontogenetic changes in long bone structure, providing a skeletal marker of early domestication. We relied on a wild boar experimental model, analysing 24 wild-born specimens raised in captivity from 6 months to 2 years old. The shaft cortical thickness of their humerus was measured using a 3D morphometric mapping approach and compared with 23 free-ranging wild boars and 22 pigs from different breeds, taking into account sex, mass and muscle force differences. In wild boars we found that captivity induced an increase in cortical bone volume and muscle force, and a topographic change of cortical thickness associated with muscular expression along a phenotypic trajectory that differed from the divergence induced by selective breeding. These results provide an experimental proof of concept that changes in locomotor behaviour and selective breeding might be inferred from long bones morphology in the fossil and archaeological record. These trends need to be explored in the archaeological record and further studies are required to explore the developmental changes behind these plastic responses.
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- Hugo Harbers
- Archéozoologie, Archéobotanique: Sociétés, Pratiques et Environnements, UMR 7209, Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, CNRS, Paris, France.
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- Laboratoire PACEA, UMR 5199, Université de Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France
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- School of Anthropology and Conservation, Skeletal Biology Research Centre, University of Kent, Marlowe Building, Canterbury, Kent, CT2 7NR, UK
- Department of Anatomy and Histology, School of Medicine, Sefako Makgatho Health Sciences University, Pretoria, South Africa
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- Mécanismes Adaptatifs et Evolution, UMR 7109, Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle CNRS, Paris, France
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- Réserve Zoologique de la Haute Touche, Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Obterre, France
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- Réserve Zoologique de la Haute Touche, Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Obterre, France
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- Réserve Zoologique de la Haute Touche, Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Obterre, France
- Physiologie de la Reproduction et des Comportements, UMR 7247, National Research Institute for Agriculture, Food and Environment (INRAE), CNRS Université de Tours IFCE, Nouzilly, France
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- Central Natural Science Collections, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Halle, Germany
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- Plateforme CIRE, National Research Institute for Agriculture, Food and Environment (INRAE), Nouzilly, France
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- Unité Bases de Données sur la Biodiversité, Écologie, Environnement et Sociétés, UMS 3468, Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Paris, France
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- Unité Bases de Données sur la Biodiversité, Écologie, Environnement et Sociétés, UMS 3468, Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Paris, France
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- Unité Bases de Données sur la Biodiversité, Écologie, Environnement et Sociétés, UMS 3468, Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Paris, France
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- Mécanismes Adaptatifs et Evolution, UMR 7109, Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle CNRS, Paris, France
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- Archéozoologie, Archéobotanique: Sociétés, Pratiques et Environnements, UMR 7209, Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, CNRS, Paris, France
- Anthropologie bio-culturelle, droit, éthique et santé (ADES), UMR 7268, Faculté de Médecine Site Nord, Marseille, France
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- Archéozoologie, Archéobotanique: Sociétés, Pratiques et Environnements, UMR 7209, Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, CNRS, Paris, France.
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Cucchi T, Papayianni K, Cersoy S, Aznar-Cormano L, Zazzo A, Debruyne R, Berthon R, Bălășescu A, Simmons A, Valla F, Hamilakis Y, Mavridis F, Mashkour M, Darvish J, Siahsarvi R, Biglari F, Petrie CA, Weeks L, Sardari A, Maziar S, Denys C, Orton D, Jenkins E, Zeder M, Searle JB, Larson G, Bonhomme F, Auffray JC, Vigne JD. Tracking the Near Eastern origins and European dispersal of the western house mouse. Sci Rep 2020; 10:8276. [PMID: 32427845 PMCID: PMC7237409 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-020-64939-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/22/2019] [Accepted: 04/24/2020] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
Abstract
The house mouse (Mus musculus) represents the extreme of globalization of invasive mammals. However, the timing and basis of its origin and early phases of dispersal remain poorly documented. To track its synanthropisation and subsequent invasive spread during the develoment of complex human societies, we analyzed 829 Mus specimens from 43 archaeological contexts in Southwestern Asia and Southeastern Europe, between 40,000 and 3,000 cal. BP, combining geometric morphometrics numerical taxonomy, ancient mitochondrial DNA and direct radiocarbon dating. We found that large late hunter-gatherer sedentary settlements in the Levant, c. 14,500 cal. BP, promoted the commensal behaviour of the house mouse, which probably led the commensal pathway to cat domestication. House mouse invasive spread was then fostered through the emergence of agriculture throughout the Near East 12,000 years ago. Stowaway transport of house mice to Cyprus can be inferred as early as 10,800 years ago. However, the house mouse invasion of Europe did not happen until the development of proto urbanism and exchange networks - 6,500 years ago in Eastern Europe and 4000 years ago in Southern Europe - which in turn may have driven the first human mediated dispersal of cats in Europe.
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- Thomas Cucchi
- Archéozoologie, Archéobotanique: Sociétés, Pratiques et Environnements (AASPE), UMR 7209, CNRS, Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Paris, France.
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- Archéozoologie, Archéobotanique: Sociétés, Pratiques et Environnements (AASPE), UMR 7209, CNRS, Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Paris, France
- Malcolm H. Wiener Laboratory for Archaeological Science, American School of Classical Studies, Souidias 54, 10676, Athens, Greece
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- Centre de Recherche sur la Conservation (CRC), Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, CNRS, Ministère de la Culture, CP 21, 36 rue Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, 75005, Paris, France
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- Centre de recherche en Paléontologie Paris, UMR7207, Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, CNRS, Sorbonne Université, 8 rue Buffon, 75005, Paris, France
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- Archéozoologie, Archéobotanique: Sociétés, Pratiques et Environnements (AASPE), UMR 7209, CNRS, Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Paris, France
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- DGD-REVE, Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, 17 Place du Trocadéro, bureau E205, 75016, Paris, France
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- Archéozoologie, Archéobotanique: Sociétés, Pratiques et Environnements (AASPE), UMR 7209, CNRS, Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Paris, France
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- Vasile Pârvan, Institute of Archaeology, Romanian Academy, 11 Henri Coandă Street, Bucarest, Romania
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- Department of Anthropology, University of Nevada, Las Vegas/Desert Research Institute, Reno, Nevada, USA
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- Archéologies et Sciences de l'Antiquité (Arscan), UMR 7041 CNRS, Université de Paris Nanterre, Paris I, 92023, Nanterre, France
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- Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World, Brown University, Box 1837, 60 George Street, Providence, RI, 02912, USA
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- Ephorate of Palaeoanthropology and Speleology, Hellenic Ministry of Culture and Sports, Ardittou 34B, 11636, Athens, Greece
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- Archéozoologie, Archéobotanique: Sociétés, Pratiques et Environnements (AASPE), UMR 7209, CNRS, Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Paris, France
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- Department of Biology, Faculty of Sciences, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Mashhad, Iran
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- Department of Biology, Faculty of Sciences, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Mashhad, Iran
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- Department of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Cambridge, Downing Street, Cambridge, CB2 3DZ, UK
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- Archaeology, School of HASS, University of New England, Armidale, NSW, 2351, Australia
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- Research Institute of Cultural Heritage and Tourism (RICHT), Iranian Center for Archaeological Research (ICAR), Tehran, Iran
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- Near Eastern Archaeology, Institute für Archäologie Wissenschaften, Johann Wolfgang Goethe Universität, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
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- Institut de Systématique, Evolution, Biodiversité (ISYEB), UMR 7205, Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Sorbonne Université, Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, Université des Antilles, CNRS, Paris, France
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- BioArCh, Department of Archaeology, University of York, York, YO10 5DD, UK
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- Institute for the Modelling of Socio-Environmental Transitions, Bournemouth University, Talbot Campus, Poole, BH12 5BB, UK
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- Department of Anthropology, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, District of Columbia, USA
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Corson Hall, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, 14853-2701, USA
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- Palaeogenomics and Bio-Archaeology Research Network, School of Archaeology, University of Oxford, Oxford, OX1 3TG, UK
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- Institut des Sciences de l'Evolution (ISEM), UMR 4554, CNRS, IRD, EPHE, Université de Montpellier, Montpellier, France
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- Institut des Sciences de l'Evolution (ISEM), UMR 4554, CNRS, IRD, EPHE, Université de Montpellier, Montpellier, France
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- Archéozoologie, Archéobotanique: Sociétés, Pratiques et Environnements (AASPE), UMR 7209, CNRS, Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Paris, France
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Harbers H, Neaux D, Ortiz K, Blanc B, Laurens F, Baly I, Callou C, Schafberg R, Haruda A, Lecompte F, Casabianca F, Studer J, Renaud S, Cornette R, Locatelli Y, Vigne JD, Herrel A, Cucchi T. The mark of captivity: plastic responses in the ankle bone of a wild ungulate ( Sus scrofa). R Soc Open Sci 2020; 7:192039. [PMID: 32269811 PMCID: PMC7137979 DOI: 10.1098/rsos.192039] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/03/2023]
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Deciphering the plastic (non-heritable) changes induced by human control over wild animals in the archaeological record is challenging. We hypothesized that changes in locomotor behaviour in a wild ungulate due to mobility control could be quantified in the bone anatomy. To test this, we experimented with the effect of mobility reduction on the skeleton of wild boar (Sus scrofa), using the calcaneus shape as a possible phenotypic marker. We first assessed differences in shape variation and covariation in captive-reared and wild-caught wild boars, taking into account differences in sex, body mass, available space for movement and muscle force. This plastic signal was then contrasted with the phenotypic changes induced by selective breeding in domestic pigs. We found that mobility reduction induces a plastic response beyond the shape variation of wild boars in their natural habitat, associated with a reduction in the range of locomotor behaviours and muscle loads. This plastic signal of captivity in the calcaneus shape differs from the main changes induced by selective breeding for larger muscle and earlier development that impacted the pigs' calcaneus shape in a much greater extent than the mobility reduction during the domestication process of their wild ancestors.
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- Hugo Harbers
- UMR 7209, Archéozoologie, Archéobotanique, Sociétés Pratiques et Environnements (AASPE), CNRS, Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Paris, France
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- UMR 7209, Archéozoologie, Archéobotanique, Sociétés Pratiques et Environnements (AASPE), CNRS, Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Paris, France
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- Réserve Zoologique de la Haute Touche, 36290 Obterre, Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, France
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- Réserve Zoologique de la Haute Touche, 36290 Obterre, Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, France
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- Unité Bases de données sur la Biodiversité, Écologie, Environnement et Sociétés (BBEES), Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Paris, France
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- Unité Bases de données sur la Biodiversité, Écologie, Environnement et Sociétés (BBEES), Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Paris, France
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- Unité Bases de données sur la Biodiversité, Écologie, Environnement et Sociétés (BBEES), Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Paris, France
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- Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg Central Natural Sciences Collections, Museum for domesticated animalsINRA, Nouzilly, France
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- Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg Central Natural Sciences Collections, Museum for domesticated animalsINRA, Nouzilly, France
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- Laboratoire de Biométrie et Biologie Évolutive (LBBE), UMR 5558 CNRS, Université Lyon 1, Villeurbanne, France
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- Institut de Systématique, Evolution, Biodiversité (ISYEB), Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, CNRS, Sorbonne Université, EPHE, Université des Antilles, France
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- Réserve Zoologique de la Haute Touche, 36290 Obterre, Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, France
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- UMR 7209, Archéozoologie, Archéobotanique, Sociétés Pratiques et Environnements (AASPE), CNRS, Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Paris, France
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- UMR 7179, Département Adaptations du Vivant, Bâtiment d'Anatomie Comparée, CNRS, Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Paris, France
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- UMR 7209, Archéozoologie, Archéobotanique, Sociétés Pratiques et Environnements (AASPE), CNRS, Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Paris, France
- Author for correspondence: Thomas Cucchi e-mail:
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Hulme-Beaman A, Cucchi T, Evin A, Searle JB, Dobney K. Exploring Rattus praetor (Rodentia, Muridae) as a possible species complex using geometric morphometrics on dental morphology. Mamm Biol 2018; 92:62-67. [PMID: 30177868 PMCID: PMC6067089 DOI: 10.1016/j.mambio.2018.04.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Taxonomic uncertainties in the Rattus genus persist due to among-species morphological conservatism coupled with within-species environmental variation in morphology. As a result, this genus contains a number of possible cryptic species. One important example can be found in R. praetor, where morphological studies indicate it is a possible species complex. Genetic studies of R. praetor (limited to analysis of mitochondrial DNA) have been inconclusive, but do indicate such subdivision. Here we use geometric morphometrics to explore this possible species complex by analysing the dental traits of 48 specimens from New Guinea and neighbouring regions. We find separate molar morphologies for Bougainsville Island, central New Guinea and west New Guinea which cannot be easily explained by different environmental factors (climate, precipitation and altitude), strongly suggesting the existence of a number of evolutionarily distinct taxa within what is currently called R. praetor thus supporting previous suggestions that R. praetor is a species complex. Our findings demonstrate the potential of advanced morphological analyses in identifying separate species, contrary to the claims of morphological conservatism. Future analyses should combine geometric morphometrics with genetic analyses over the species range and include sub-fossil specimens from the Bismarck archipelago and Solomon Islands to resolve the evolutionary history of R. praetor.
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- Ardern Hulme-Beaman
- Department of Archaeology, Classics and Egyptology, University of Liverpool, 12-14 Abercromby Square, Liverpool L69 7WZ, UK.,Research Centre in Evolutionary Anthropology and Palaeoecology, School of Natural Sciences and Psychology, Liverpool John Moores University, Byrom Street, Liverpool L3 3AF, UK
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- CNRS-Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, UMR 7209, Archéozoologie, Archéobotanique Sociétés, Pratiques et Environnement, 55 Rue Buffon, 75005 Paris, France
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- Institut des Sciences de l'Evolution, Université de Montpellier, UMR CNRS, UM, EPHE, IRD 2 Place Eugène Bataillon, CC065, 34095 Montpellier, Cedex 5, France
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Cornell University, Corson Hall, Ithaca, NY 14853-2701, USA
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- Department of Archaeology, Classics and Egyptology, University of Liverpool, 12-14 Abercromby Square, Liverpool L69 7WZ, UK.,Department of Archaeology, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada
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Evin A, Owen J, Larson G, Debiais-Thibaud M, Cucchi T, Vidarsdottir US, Dobney K. A test for paedomorphism in domestic pig cranial morphology. Biol Lett 2017; 13:rsbl.2017.0321. [PMID: 28794276 PMCID: PMC5582111 DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2017.0321] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/23/2017] [Accepted: 07/13/2017] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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Domestic animals are often described as paedomorphic, meaning that they retain juvenile characteristics into adulthood. Through a three-dimensional landmark-based geometric morphometric analysis of cranial morphology at three growth stages, we demonstrate that wild boar (n = 138) and domestic pigs (n = 106) (Sus scrofa) follow distinct ontogenetic trajectories. With the exception of the size ratio between facial and neurocranial regions, paedomorphism does not appear to be the primary pattern describing the observed differences between wild and domestic pig cranial morphologies. The cranial phenotype of domestic pigs instead involves developmental innovation during domestication. This result questions the long-standing assumption that domestic animal phenotypes are paedomorphic forms of their wild counterparts.
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- Allowen Evin
- Institut des Sciences de l'Evolution, Université de Montpellier, CNRS, IRD, EPHE, 2 Place Eugène Bataillon, 34095 Montpellier cedex 05, France .,Department of Archaeology, University of Aberdeen, St Mary's, Elphinstone Road, Aberdeen AB24 3UF, UK.,Department of Archaeology, Classics and Egyptology, University of Liverpool, 12-14 Abercromby Square, Liverpool L69 7WZ, UK
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- Department of Archaeology, University of Aberdeen, St Mary's, Elphinstone Road, Aberdeen AB24 3UF, UK .,Department of Archaeology, Simon Fraser University, Education Building 9635, 8888 University Dr Burnaby, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada V5A 1S6
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- Palaeogenomics and Bio-Archaeology Research Network, Research Laboratory for Archaeology and the History of Art, University of Oxford, Dyson Perrins Building, South Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3QY, UK
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- Institut des Sciences de l'Evolution, Université de Montpellier, CNRS, IRD, EPHE, 2 Place Eugène Bataillon, 34095 Montpellier cedex 05, France
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- Department of Archaeology, University of Aberdeen, St Mary's, Elphinstone Road, Aberdeen AB24 3UF, UK.,UMR 7209, CNRS-Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Archéozoologie, Archéobotanique: sociétés, pratiques et environnements, 55 rue Buffon, 75005 Paris, France
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- Biomedical Center, University of Iceland, Læknagarði, Vatnsmýrarvegi 16, 101 Reykjavik, Iceland
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- Department of Archaeology, University of Aberdeen, St Mary's, Elphinstone Road, Aberdeen AB24 3UF, UK.,Department of Archaeology, Classics and Egyptology, University of Liverpool, 12-14 Abercromby Square, Liverpool L69 7WZ, UK.,Department of Archaeology, Simon Fraser University, Education Building 9635, 8888 University Dr Burnaby, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada V5A 1S6
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Cucchi T, Mohaseb A, Peigné S, Debue K, Orlando L, Mashkour M. Detecting taxonomic and phylogenetic signals in equid cheek teeth: towards new palaeontological and archaeological proxies. R Soc Open Sci 2017; 4:160997. [PMID: 28484618 PMCID: PMC5414255 DOI: 10.1098/rsos.160997] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/05/2016] [Accepted: 03/07/2017] [Indexed: 05/09/2023]
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The Plio-Pleistocene evolution of Equus and the subsequent domestication of horses and donkeys remains poorly understood, due to the lack of phenotypic markers capable of tracing this evolutionary process in the palaeontological/archaeological record. Using images from 345 specimens, encompassing 15 extant taxa of equids, we quantified the occlusal enamel folding pattern in four mandibular cheek teeth with a single geometric morphometric protocol. We initially investigated the protocol accuracy by assigning each tooth to its correct anatomical position and taxonomic group. We then contrasted the phylogenetic signal present in each tooth shape with an exome-wide phylogeny from 10 extant equine species. We estimated the strength of the phylogenetic signal using a Brownian motion model of evolution with multivariate K statistic, and mapped the dental shape along the molecular phylogeny using an approach based on squared-change parsimony. We found clear evidence for the relevance of dental phenotypes to accurately discriminate all modern members of the genus Equus and capture their phylogenetic relationships. These results are valuable for both palaeontologists and zooarchaeologists exploring the spatial and temporal dynamics of the evolutionary history of the horse family, up to the latest domestication trajectories of horses and donkeys.
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- T. Cucchi
- CNRS, Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Sorbonne Universités, UMR 7209, Archéozoologie, Archéobotanique: Sociétés, Pratiques et Environnements, 75005 Paris, France
- Department of Archaeology, University of Aberdeen, St Mary's, Aberdeen, UK
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- CNRS, Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Sorbonne Universités, UMR 7209, Archéozoologie, Archéobotanique: Sociétés, Pratiques et Environnements, 75005 Paris, France
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- UMR 7207 Centre de recherche sur la paléobiodiversité et les paléoenvironnements (CR2P), MNHN/CNRS/Univ. Paris 06, CP/38, 8 rue Buffon, 75005 Paris, France
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- CNRS, Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Sorbonne Universités, UMR 7209, Archéozoologie, Archéobotanique: Sociétés, Pratiques et Environnements, 75005 Paris, France
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- Centre for GeoGenetics, Natural History Museum of Denmark, University of Copenhagen, Øster Voldgade 5-7, 1350 K Copenhagen, Denmark
- Laboratoire d'Anthropobiologie Moléculaire et d'Imagerie de Synthèse, Université de Toulouse, University Paul Sabatier, CNRS UMR 5288, 31000 Toulouse, France
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- CNRS, Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Sorbonne Universités, UMR 7209, Archéozoologie, Archéobotanique: Sociétés, Pratiques et Environnements, 75005 Paris, France
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Hulme-Beaman A, Dobney K, Cucchi T, Searle JB. An Ecological and Evolutionary Framework for Commensalism in Anthropogenic Environments. Trends Ecol Evol 2016; 31:633-645. [PMID: 27297117 DOI: 10.1016/j.tree.2016.05.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 78] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/30/2015] [Revised: 05/01/2016] [Accepted: 05/03/2016] [Indexed: 10/21/2022]
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Commensalism within anthropogenic environments has not been extensively discussed, despite its impact on humans, and there is no formal framework for assessing this ecological relationship in its varied forms. Here, we examine commensalism in anthropogenic environments in detail, considering both ecological and evolutionary drivers. The many assumptions about commensalism and the nature of anthropogenic environments are discussed and we highlight dependency as a key attribute of anthropogenic commensals (anthrodependent taxa). We primarily focus on mammalian species in the anthropogenic-commensal niche, but the traits described and selective pressures presented are likely fundamental to many species engaged in intense commensal relationships with humans. Furthermore, we demonstrate that this largely understudied interaction represents an important opportunity to investigate evolutionary processes in rapidly changing environments.
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- Ardern Hulme-Beaman
- Department of Archaeology, School of Geosciences, University of Aberdeen, St Mary's Building, Aberdeen, AB24 3UF, UK; Department of Archaeology, Classics and Egyptology, University of Liverpool, 12-14 Abercromby Square, Liverpool, L69 7WZ, UK.
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- Department of Archaeology, School of Geosciences, University of Aberdeen, St Mary's Building, Aberdeen, AB24 3UF, UK; Department of Archaeology, Classics and Egyptology, University of Liverpool, 12-14 Abercromby Square, Liverpool, L69 7WZ, UK
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- Department of Archaeology, School of Geosciences, University of Aberdeen, St Mary's Building, Aberdeen, AB24 3UF, UK; Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, CNRS UMR7209, Paris, France
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Cornell University, Corson Hall, Ithaca, NY14853-2701, USA
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Vigne JD, Evin A, Cucchi T, Dai L, Yu C, Hu S, Soulages N, Wang W, Sun Z, Gao J, Dobney K, Yuan J. Earliest "Domestic" Cats in China Identified as Leopard Cat (Prionailurus bengalensis). PLoS One 2016; 11:e0147295. [PMID: 26799955 PMCID: PMC4723238 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0147295] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/06/2015] [Accepted: 01/01/2016] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
Abstract
The ancestor of all modern domestic cats is the wildcat, Felis silvestris lybica, with archaeological evidence indicating it was domesticated as early as 10,000 years ago in South-West Asia. A recent study, however, claims that cat domestication also occurred in China some 5,000 years ago and involved the same wildcat ancestor (F. silvestris). The application of geometric morphometric analyses to ancient small felid bones from China dating between 5,500 to 4,900 BP, instead reveal these and other remains to be that of the leopard cat (Prionailurus bengalensis). These data clearly indicate that the origins of a human-cat 'domestic' relationship in Neolithic China began independently from South-West Asia and involved a different wild felid species altogether. The leopard cat's 'domestic' status, however, appears to have been short-lived--its apparent subsequent replacement shown by the fact that today all domestic cats in China are genetically related to F. silvestris.
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- Jean-Denis Vigne
- Unité Mixte de Recherche (UMR) 7209, Archéozoologie, Archéobotanique: Sociétés, Pratiques et Environnements, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle, Sorbonne Universités, CP 56, Paris, France
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- Unité Mixte de Recherche (UMR) 7209, Archéozoologie, Archéobotanique: Sociétés, Pratiques et Environnements, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle, Sorbonne Universités, CP 56, Paris, France
- Department of Archaeology, University of Aberdeen, St Mary's, Aberdeen, United Kingdom
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- Unité Mixte de Recherche (UMR) 7209, Archéozoologie, Archéobotanique: Sociétés, Pratiques et Environnements, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle, Sorbonne Universités, CP 56, Paris, France
- Department of Archaeology, University of Aberdeen, St Mary's, Aberdeen, United Kingdom
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- Unité Mixte de Recherche (UMR) 7209, Archéozoologie, Archéobotanique: Sociétés, Pratiques et Environnements, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle, Sorbonne Universités, CP 56, Paris, France
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
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- Unité Mixte de Recherche (UMR) 7209, Archéozoologie, Archéobotanique: Sociétés, Pratiques et Environnements, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle, Sorbonne Universités, CP 56, Paris, France
- Department of Archaeology, University of Aberdeen, St Mary's, Aberdeen, United Kingdom
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- Shaanxi Provincial Institute of Archaeology, Xi’an, China
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- Unité Mixte de Recherche (UMR) 7209, Archéozoologie, Archéobotanique: Sociétés, Pratiques et Environnements, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle, Sorbonne Universités, CP 56, Paris, France
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- Shaanxi Provincial Institute of Archaeology, Xi’an, China
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- Shaanxi Provincial Institute of Archaeology, Xi’an, China
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- Institute of Archaeology, Chinese Academy of Social Science, Beijing, China
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- Department of Archaeology, University of Aberdeen, St Mary's, Aberdeen, United Kingdom
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- Institute of Archaeology, Chinese Academy of Social Science, Beijing, China
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Evin A, Flink LG, Bălăşescu A, Popovici D, Andreescu R, Bailey D, Mirea P, Lazăr C, Boroneanţ A, Bonsall C, Vidarsdottir US, Brehard S, Tresset A, Cucchi T, Larson G, Dobney K. Unravelling the complexity of domestication: a case study using morphometrics and ancient DNA analyses of archaeological pigs from Romania. Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci 2015; 370:20130616. [PMID: 25487340 PMCID: PMC4275896 DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2013.0616] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/25/2022] Open
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Current evidence suggests that pigs were first domesticated in Eastern Anatolia during the ninth millennium cal BC before dispersing into Europe with Early Neolithic farmers from the beginning of the seventh millennium. Recent ancient DNA (aDNA) research also indicates the incorporation of European wild boar into domestic stock during the Neolithization process. In order to establish the timing of the arrival of domestic pigs into Europe, and to test hypotheses regarding the role European wild boar played in the domestication process, we combined a geometric morphometric analysis (allowing us to combine tooth size and shape) of 449 Romanian ancient teeth with aDNA analysis. Our results firstly substantiate claims that the first domestic pigs in Romania possessed the same mtDNA signatures found in Neolithic pigs in west and central Anatolia. Second, we identified a significant proportion of individuals with large molars whose tooth shape matched that of archaeological (likely) domestic pigs. These large ‘domestic shape’ specimens were present from the outset of the Romanian Neolithic (6100–5500 cal BC) through to later prehistory, suggesting a long history of admixture between introduced domestic pigs and local wild boar. Finally, we confirmed a turnover in mitochondrial lineages found in domestic pigs, possibly coincident with human migration into Anatolia and the Levant that occurred in later prehistory.
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- Allowen Evin
- Department of Archaeology, University of Aberdeen, St Mary's Building, Elphinstone Road, Aberdeen AB24 3FX, UK CNRS-Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, UMR 7209, Archéozoologie, archéobotanique, 55 rue Buffon, 75005 Paris, France
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- Department of Archaeology, University of Aberdeen, St Mary's Building, Elphinstone Road, Aberdeen AB24 3FX, UK Durham Evolution and Ancient DNA, Department of Archaeology, University of Durham, South Road, Durham DH1 3LE, UK
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- National History Museum of Romania, Calea Victoriei no. 12, District 3, 030026 Bucharest, Romania
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- National History Museum of Romania, Calea Victoriei no. 12, District 3, 030026 Bucharest, Romania
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- National History Museum of Romania, Calea Victoriei no. 12, District 3, 030026 Bucharest, Romania
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- Department of Anthropology, College of Liberal and Creative Arts, San Francisco State University, 1600 Holloway Avenue, Science 377, San Francisco, CA 94132, USA
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- Teleorman County Museum, str. 1848, no. 1, 140033 Alexandria, Romania
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- National History Museum of Romania, Calea Victoriei no. 12, District 3, 030026 Bucharest, Romania
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- Institute of Archaeology 'Vasile Pârvan' of the Romanian Academy, 11 Henri Coandă St., Bucharest, Romania
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- School of History, Classics and Archaeology, University of Edinburgh, William Robertson Wing, Old Medical School, Teviot Place, Edinburgh EH8 9AG, UK
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- CNRS-Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, UMR 7209, Archéozoologie, archéobotanique, 55 rue Buffon, 75005 Paris, France
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- CNRS-Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, UMR 7209, Archéozoologie, archéobotanique, 55 rue Buffon, 75005 Paris, France
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- Department of Archaeology, University of Aberdeen, St Mary's Building, Elphinstone Road, Aberdeen AB24 3FX, UK CNRS-Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, UMR 7209, Archéozoologie, archéobotanique, 55 rue Buffon, 75005 Paris, France
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- Durham Evolution and Ancient DNA, Department of Archaeology, University of Durham, South Road, Durham DH1 3LE, UK
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- Department of Archaeology, University of Aberdeen, St Mary's Building, Elphinstone Road, Aberdeen AB24 3FX, UK
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Evin A, Flink LG, Bălăşescu A, Popovici D, Andreescu R, Bailey D, Mirea P, Lazăr C, Boroneanţ A, Bonsall C, Strand Vidarsdottir U, Brehard S, Tresset A, Cucchi T, Larson G, Dobney K. Correction to 'Unravelling the complexity of domestication: a case study using morphometrics and ancient DNA analyses of archaeological pigs from Romania'. Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci 2015; 370:20150018. [PMID: 25646523 DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2015.0018] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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Evin A, Dobney K, Schafberg R, Owen J, Vidarsdottir US, Larson G, Cucchi T. Phenotype and animal domestication: A study of dental variation between domestic, wild, captive, hybrid and insular Sus scrofa. BMC Evol Biol 2015; 15:6. [PMID: 25648385 PMCID: PMC4328033 DOI: 10.1186/s12862-014-0269-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 51] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/09/2014] [Accepted: 12/11/2014] [Indexed: 11/24/2022] Open
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Background Identifying the phenotypic responses to domestication remains a long-standing and important question for researchers studying its early history. The great diversity in domestic animals and plants that exists today bears testament to the profound changes that domestication has induced in their ancestral wild forms over the last millennia. Domestication is a complex evolutionary process in which wild organisms are moved to new anthropogenic environments. Although modern genetics are significantly improving our understanding of domestication and breed formation, little is still known about the associated morphological changes linked to the process itself. In order to explore phenotypic variation induced by different levels of human control, we analysed the diversity of dental size, shape and allometry in modern free-living and captive wild, wild x domestic hybrid, domestic and insular Sus scrofa populations. Results We show that domestication has created completely new dental phenotypes not found in wild boar (although the amount of variation amongst domestic pigs does not exceed that found in the wild). Wild boar tooth shape also appears to be biogeographically structured, likely the result of post-glacial recolonisation history. Furthermore, distinct dental phenotypes were also observed among domestic breeds, probably the result of differing types and intensity of past and present husbandry practices. Captivity also appears to impact tooth shape. Wild x domestic hybrids possess second molars that are strictly intermediate in shape between wild boar and domestic pigs (third molars, however, showing greater shape similarity with wild boar) while their size is more similar to domestic pigs. The dental phenotypes of insular Sus scrofa populations found on Corsica and Sardinia today (originally introduced by Neolithic settlers to the islands) can be explained either by feralization of the original introduced domestic swine or that the founding population maintained a wild boar phenotype through time. Conclusions Domestication has driven significant phenotypic diversification in Sus scrofa. Captivity (environmental control), hybridization (genome admixture), and introduction to islands all correspond to differing levels of human control and may be considered different stages of the domestication process. The relatively well-known genetic evolutionary history of pigs shows a similar complexity at the phenotypic level. Electronic supplementary material The online version of this article (doi:10.1186/s12862-014-0269-x) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.
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- Allowen Evin
- Department of Archaeology, University of Aberdeen, St. Mary's Building, Elphinstone Road, Aberdeen, UK. .,CNRS-Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, UMR 7209, Archéozoologie, Archéobotanique : Sociétés, Pratiques et Environnement, 55 rue Buffon, 75005, Paris, France.
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- Department of Archaeology, University of Aberdeen, St. Mary's Building, Elphinstone Road, Aberdeen, UK.
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- Group Animal Breeding, Institute of Agricultural and Nutritional Sciences (IANS), Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg, Theodor-Lieser-Str, 11 D-06120, Halle/Saale, Germany.
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- Department of Archaeology, University of Aberdeen, St. Mary's Building, Elphinstone Road, Aberdeen, UK. .,Department of Archaeology, Simon Fraser University, Education Bulding 9635, 8888 University Dr, Burnaby, BC, V5A, Canada. .,Department of Anthropology, Durham University, South Road, Durham, DH1 3LE, UK.
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- Durham Evolution and Ancient DNA, Department of Archaeology, Durham University, South Road, Durham, DH1 3LE, UK.
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- Department of Archaeology, University of Aberdeen, St. Mary's Building, Elphinstone Road, Aberdeen, UK. .,CNRS-Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, UMR 7209, Archéozoologie, Archéobotanique : Sociétés, Pratiques et Environnement, 55 rue Buffon, 75005, Paris, France.
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Cucchi T, Barnett R, Martínková N, Renaud S, Renvoisé E, Evin A, Sheridan A, Mainland I, Wickham-Jones C, Tougard C, Quéré JP, Pascal M, Pascal M, Heckel G, O'Higgins P, Searle JB, Dobney KM. The changing pace of insular life: 5000 years of microevolution in the Orkney vole (Microtus arvalis orcadensis). Evolution 2014; 68:2804-20. [PMID: 24957579 PMCID: PMC5366975 DOI: 10.1111/evo.12476] [Citation(s) in RCA: 47] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/01/2012] [Accepted: 06/09/2014] [Indexed: 12/21/2022]
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Island evolution may be expected to involve fast initial morphological divergence followed by stasis. We tested this model using the dental phenotype of modern and ancient common voles (Microtus arvalis), introduced onto the Orkney archipelago (Scotland) from continental Europe some 5000 years ago. First, we investigated phenotypic divergence of Orkney and continental European populations and assessed climatic influences. Second, phenotypic differentiation among Orkney populations was tested against geography, time, and neutral genetic patterns. Finally, we examined evolutionary change along a time series for the Orkney Mainland. Molar gigantism and anterior-lobe hypertrophy evolved rapidly in Orkney voles following introduction, without any transitional forms detected. Founder events and adaptation appear to explain this initial rapid evolution. Idiosyncrasy in dental features among different island populations of Orkney voles is also likely the result of local founder events following Neolithic translocation around the archipelago. However, against our initial expectations, a second marked phenotypic shift occurred between the 4th and 12th centuries AD, associated with increased pastoral farming and introduction of competitors (mice and rats) and terrestrial predators (foxes and cats). These results indicate that human agency can generate a more complex pattern of morphological evolution than might be expected in island rodents.
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- Thomas Cucchi
- CNRS-Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, UMR 7209, Archéoozoologie, histoire des sociétés humaines et de peuplements animaux, 55 rue Buffon, 75005, Paris, France; Department of Archaeology, University of Aberdeen, St. Mary's, Elphinstone Road, Aberdeen, United Kingdom.
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Weissbrod L, Malkinson D, Cucchi T, Gadot Y, Finkelstein I, Bar-Oz G. Ancient urban ecology reconstructed from archaeozoological remains of small mammals in the Near East. PLoS One 2014; 9:e91795. [PMID: 24622726 PMCID: PMC3951428 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0091795] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/24/2014] [Accepted: 02/13/2014] [Indexed: 12/03/2022] Open
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Modern rapidly expanding cities generate intricate patterns of species diversity owing to immense complexity in urban spatial structure and current growth trajectories. We propose to identify and uncouple the drivers that give rise to these patterns by looking at the effect of urbanism on species diversity over a previously unexplored long temporal frame that covers early developments in urbanism. To provide this historical perspective we analyzed archaeozoological remains of small mammals from ancient urban and rural sites in the Near East from the 2nd to the 1st millennium BCE, and compared them to observations from modern urban areas. Our data show that ancient urban assemblages consistently comprised two main taxa (Mus musculus domesticus and Crocidura sp.), whereas assemblages of contemporaneous rural sites were significantly richer. Low species diversity also characterizes high-density core areas of modern cities, suggesting that similar ecological drivers have continued to operate in urban areas despite the vast growth in their size and population densities, as well as in the complexity of their technologies and social organization. Research in urban ecology has tended to emphasize the relatively high species diversity observed in low-density areas located on the outskirts of cities, where open and vegetated patches are abundant. The fact that over several millennia urban evolution did not significantly alter species diversity suggests that low diversity is an attribute of densely-populated settlements. The possibility that high diversity in peripheral urban areas arose only recently as a short-term phenomenon in urban ecology merits further research based on long-term data.
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- Lior Weissbrod
- Zinman Institute of Archaeology, University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel
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- Department of Geography, University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel; The Golan Research Institute, University of Haifa, Katzrin, Israel
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- UMR 7209 "Archéozoologie, Archéobotanique: Sociétés, Pratiques et Environnements," Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique/ Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris, France; Department of Archaeology, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, United Kingdom
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- The Jacob M. Alkow Department of Archaeology and Ancient Near Eastern Civilizations, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel
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- The Jacob M. Alkow Department of Archaeology and Ancient Near Eastern Civilizations, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel
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- Zinman Institute of Archaeology, University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel
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Martínková N, Barnett R, Cucchi T, Struchen R, Pascal M, Pascal M, Fischer MC, Higham T, Brace S, Ho SYW, Quéré JP, O'Higgins P, Excoffier L, Heckel G, Hoelzel AR, Dobney KM, Searle JB. Divergent evolutionary processes associated with colonization of offshore islands. Mol Ecol 2013; 22:5205-20. [PMID: 23998800 PMCID: PMC4159590 DOI: 10.1111/mec.12462] [Citation(s) in RCA: 64] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/05/2013] [Revised: 07/02/2013] [Accepted: 07/09/2013] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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Oceanic islands have been a test ground for evolutionary theory, but here, we focus on the possibilities for evolutionary study created by offshore islands. These can be colonized through various means and by a wide range of species, including those with low dispersal capabilities. We use morphology, modern and ancient sequences of cytochrome b (cytb) and microsatellite genotypes to examine colonization history and evolutionary change associated with occupation of the Orkney archipelago by the common vole (Microtus arvalis), a species found in continental Europe but not in Britain. Among possible colonization scenarios, our results are most consistent with human introduction at least 5100 bp (confirmed by radiocarbon dating). We used approximate Bayesian computation of population history to infer the coast of Belgium as the possible source and estimated the evolutionary timescale using a Bayesian coalescent approach. We showed substantial morphological divergence of the island populations, including a size increase presumably driven by selection and reduced microsatellite variation likely reflecting founder events and genetic drift. More surprisingly, our results suggest that a recent and widespread cytb replacement event in the continental source area purged cytb variation there, whereas the ancestral diversity is largely retained in the colonized islands as a genetic ‘ark’. The replacement event in the continental M. arvalis was probably triggered by anthropogenic causes (land‐use change). Our studies illustrate that small offshore islands can act as field laboratories for studying various evolutionary processes over relatively short timescales, informing about the mainland source area as well as the island.
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- Natália Martínková
- Department of Biology, University of York, Wentworth Way, York, YO10 5DD, UK; Institute of Vertebrate Biology, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Květná 8, Brno, 603 65, Czech Republic
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Cucchi T, Kovács ZE, Berthon R, Orth A, Bonhomme F, Evin A, Siahsarvie R, Darvish J, Bakhshaliyev V, Marro C. On the trail of Neolithic mice and men towards Transcaucasia: zooarchaeological clues from Nakhchivan (Azerbaijan). Biol J Linn Soc Lond 2013. [DOI: 10.1111/bij.12004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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- Hungarian National Museum; National Heritage Protection Centre; Budapest; Hungary
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- CNRS UMR5554; Institut des Sciences de l'Evolution; Université Montpellier 2; Montpellier; France
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- CNRS UMR5554; Institut des Sciences de l'Evolution; Université Montpellier 2; Montpellier; France
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- Archaeology Department; University of Aberdeen; Elphinstone Road, Aberdeen, AB24 3UF; Scotland; UK
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- Department of Archaeology; National Academy of Science of Azerbaijan; Nakhchivan; Azerbaijan
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- UMR 5133, Archéorient, Environnements et Sociétés de l'Orient Ancien; Maison de l'Orient et de la Méditerranée; CNRS, Université Lyon 2; Lyon; France
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Ottoni C, Flink LG, Evin A, Geörg C, De Cupere B, Van Neer W, Bartosiewicz L, Linderholm A, Barnett R, Peters J, Decorte R, Waelkens M, Vanderheyden N, Ricaut FX, Cakirlar C, Cevik O, Hoelzel AR, Mashkour M, Karimlu AFM, Seno SS, Daujat J, Brock F, Pinhasi R, Hongo H, Perez-Enciso M, Rasmussen M, Frantz L, Megens HJ, Crooijmans R, Groenen M, Arbuckle B, Benecke N, Vidarsdottir US, Burger J, Cucchi T, Dobney K, Larson G. Pig domestication and human-mediated dispersal in western Eurasia revealed through ancient DNA and geometric morphometrics. Mol Biol Evol 2012. [PMID: 23180578 PMCID: PMC3603306 DOI: 10.1093/molbev/mss261] [Citation(s) in RCA: 164] [Impact Index Per Article: 13.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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Zooarcheological evidence suggests that pigs were domesticated in Southwest Asia ∼8,500 BC. They then spread across the Middle and Near East and westward into Europe alongside early agriculturalists. European pigs were either domesticated independently or more likely appeared so as a result of admixture between introduced pigs and European wild boar. As a result, European wild boar mtDNA lineages replaced Near Eastern/Anatolian mtDNA signatures in Europe and subsequently replaced indigenous domestic pig lineages in Anatolia. The specific details of these processes, however, remain unknown. To address questions related to early pig domestication, dispersal, and turnover in the Near East, we analyzed ancient mitochondrial DNA and dental geometric morphometric variation in 393 ancient pig specimens representing 48 archeological sites (from the Pre-Pottery Neolithic to the Medieval period) from Armenia, Cyprus, Georgia, Iran, Syria, and Turkey. Our results reveal the first genetic signatures of early domestic pigs in the Near Eastern Neolithic core zone. We also demonstrate that these early pigs differed genetically from those in western Anatolia that were introduced to Europe during the Neolithic expansion. In addition, we present a significantly more refined chronology for the introduction of European domestic pigs into Asia Minor that took place during the Bronze Age, at least 900 years earlier than previously detected. By the 5th century AD, European signatures completely replaced the endemic lineages possibly coinciding with the widespread demographic and societal changes that occurred during the Anatolian Bronze and Iron Ages.
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- Claudio Ottoni
- Center for Archaeological Sciences, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
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Hughes S, Fernández H, Cucchi T, Duffraisse M, Casabianca F, Istria D, Pompanon F, Vigne JD, Hänni C, Taberlet P. A dig into the past mitochondrial diversity of Corsican goats reveals the influence of secular herding practices. PLoS One 2012; 7:e30272. [PMID: 22299033 PMCID: PMC3267719 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0030272] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/08/2011] [Accepted: 12/14/2011] [Indexed: 12/02/2022] Open
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The goat (Capra hircus) is one of the earliest domesticated species ca. 10,500 years ago in the Middle-East where its wild ancestor, the bezoar (Capra aegagrus), still occurs. During the Neolithic dispersal, the domestic goat was then introduced in Europe, including the main Mediterranean islands. Islands are interesting models as they maintain traces of ancient colonization, historical exchanges or of peculiar systems of husbandry. Here, we compare the mitochondrial genetic diversity of both medieval and extant goats in the Island of Corsica that presents an original and ancient model of breeding with free-ranging animals. We amplified a fragment of the Control Region for 21 medieval and 28 current goats. Most of them belonged to the A haplogroup, the most worldwide spread and frequent today, but the C haplogroup is also detected at low frequency in the current population. Present Corsican goats appeared more similar to medieval goats than to other European goat populations. Moreover, 16 out of the 26 haplotypes observed were endemic to Corsica and the inferred demographic history suggests that the population has remained constant since the Middle Ages. Implications of these results on management and conservation of endangered Corsican goats currently decimated by a disease are addressed.
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- Sandrine Hughes
- Paléogénomique et Evolution Moléculaire, Institut de Génomique Fonctionnelle de Lyon, Université de Lyon, Université Lyon 1, CNRS UMR 5242, INRA, Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon, 46 allée d'Italie, 69364 Lyon Cedex 07, France.
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Bonhomme F, Orth A, Cucchi T, Rajabi-Maham H, Catalan J, Boursot P, Auffray JC, Britton-Davidian J. Genetic differentiation of the house mouse around the Mediterranean basin: matrilineal footprints of early and late colonization. Proc Biol Sci 2010; 278:1034-43. [PMID: 20880891 DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2010.1228] [Citation(s) in RCA: 63] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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The molecular signatures of the recent expansion of the western house mouse, Mus musculus domesticus, around the Mediterranean basin are investigated through the study of mitochondrial D-loop polymorphism on a 1313 individual dataset. When reducing the complexity of the matrilineal network to a series of haplogroups (HGs), our main results indicate that: (i) several HGs are recognized which seem to have almost simultaneously diverged from each other, confirming a recent expansion for the whole subspecies; (ii) some HGs are geographically delimited while others are widespread, indicative of multiple introductions or secondary exchanges; (iii) mice from the western and the eastern coasts of Africa harbour largely different sets of HGs; and (iv) HGs from the two shores of the Mediterranean are more similar in the west than in the east. This pattern is in keeping with the two-step westward expansion proposed by zooarchaeological data, an early one coincident with the Neolithic progression and limited to the eastern Mediterranean and a later one, particularly evident in the western Mediterranean, related to the generalization of maritime trade during the first millennium BC and onwards. The dispersal of mice along with humans, which continues until today, has for instance left complex footprints on the long ago colonized Cyprus or more simple ones on the much more recently populated Canary Islands.
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- François Bonhomme
- Institut des Sciences de l'Evolution, Université Montpellier 2, CNRS UMR5554, Montpellier, France.
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Larson G, Cucchi T, Fujita M, Matisoo-Smith E, Robins J, Anderson A, Rolett B, Spriggs M, Dolman G, Kim TH, Thuy NTD, Randi E, Doherty M, Due RA, Bollt R, Djubiantono T, Griffin B, Intoh M, Keane E, Kirch P, Li KT, Morwood M, Pedriña LM, Piper PJ, Rabett RJ, Shooter P, Van den Bergh G, West E, Wickler S, Yuan J, Cooper A, Dobney K. Phylogeny and ancient DNA of Sus provides insights into neolithic expansion in Island Southeast Asia and Oceania. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2007; 104:4834-9. [PMID: 17360400 PMCID: PMC1829225 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0607753104] [Citation(s) in RCA: 234] [Impact Index Per Article: 13.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Human settlement of Oceania marked the culmination of a global colonization process that began when humans first left Africa at least 90,000 years ago. The precise origins and dispersal routes of the Austronesian peoples and the associated Lapita culture remain contentious, and numerous disparate models of dispersal (based primarily on linguistic, genetic, and archeological data) have been proposed. Here, through the use of mtDNA from 781 modern and ancient Sus specimens, we provide evidence for an early human-mediated translocation of the Sulawesi warty pig (Sus celebensis) to Flores and Timor and two later separate human-mediated dispersals of domestic pig (Sus scrofa) through Island Southeast Asia into Oceania. Of the later dispersal routes, one is unequivocally associated with the Neolithic (Lapita) and later Polynesian migrations and links modern and archeological Javan, Sumatran, Wallacean, and Oceanic pigs with mainland Southeast Asian S. scrofa. Archeological and genetic evidence shows these pigs were certainly introduced to islands east of the Wallace Line, including New Guinea, and that so-called "wild" pigs within this region are most likely feral descendants of domestic pigs introduced by early agriculturalists. The other later pig dispersal links mainland East Asian pigs to western Micronesia, Taiwan, and the Philippines. These results provide important data with which to test current models for human dispersal in the region.
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- Greger Larson
- Department of Medical Biochemistry and Microbiology, Uppsala University Biomedical Center, Box 597, 751 24 Uppsala, Sweden
- Henry Wellcome Ancient Biomolecules Centre, Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, South Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3PS, United Kingdom
- To whom correspondence may be addressed. E-mail: or
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- Department of Archaeology, University of Durham, South Road, Durham DH1 3L, United Kingdom
- Département Ecologie et Gestion de la Biodiversité, Unité Mixte de Recherche 5197, Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, 55 Rue Buffon, 75231 Paris Cedex 5, France; and
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- Department of Archaeology, University of Durham, South Road, Durham DH1 3L, United Kingdom
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- Department of Anthropology and Allan Wilson Centre for Molecular Ecology and Evolution, University of Auckland, P.O. Box 92019, Auckland, New Zealand
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- Department of Anthropology and Allan Wilson Centre for Molecular Ecology and Evolution, University of Auckland, P.O. Box 92019, Auckland, New Zealand
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- Department of Archaeology and Natural History, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, and
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- Department of Anthropology, University of Hawaii, 2424 Maile Way, Honolulu, HI 96822
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- School of Archaeology and Anthropology, Faculty of Arts, The Australian National University, Canberra ACT 0200, Australia
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- Australian Centre for Ancient DNA, Earth, and Environmental Sciences, University of Adelaide, South Australia 5005, Australia
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- Animal Genomics Laboratory, Animal Genomics and Bioinformatics Division, National Livestock Research Institute Rural Development Administration, 564 Omockchun-Dong, Gwonseon-Gu, Suwon 441-706, Korea
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- Institute of Biotechnology Vietnamese Academy of Science and Technology, 18 Hoang Quoc Viet Road, Cau Giay, Ha Noi, Vietnam
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- Laboratorio di Genetica, Istituto Nazionale per la Fauna Selvatica, Via Cà Fornacetta, 9, 40064 Ozzano Emilia Bologna, Italy
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- Department of Anthropology and Allan Wilson Centre for Molecular Ecology and Evolution, University of Auckland, P.O. Box 92019, Auckland, New Zealand
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- Indonesian Centre for Archaeology, Jl. Raya Condet Pejaten 4, Jakarta 12001, Indonesia
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- Department of Anthropology, University of Hawaii, 2424 Maile Way, Honolulu, HI 96822
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- Indonesian Centre for Archaeology, Jl. Raya Condet Pejaten 4, Jakarta 12001, Indonesia
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- Department of Anthropology, University of Hawaii, 2424 Maile Way, Honolulu, HI 96822
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- Department of Social Research, National Museum of Ethnology, Osaka 565-8511, Japan
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- Department of Archaeology, University of Durham, South Road, Durham DH1 3L, United Kingdom
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- Department of Anthropology, University of California, 232 Kroeber Hall, Berkeley, CA 94720
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- Institute of History and Philology, Academia Sinica, Nankang, Taipei 11529, Taiwan
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- Department of Archaeology and Palaeoanthropology, School of Human and Environmental Studies, University of New England, Armidale, New South Wales 2351, Australia
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- Centre for Palaeoecology and Evolution, Department of Archaeology, University of York, The King's Manor, York YO1 7EP, United Kingdom
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- The McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, University of Cambridge, Downing Street, Cambridge CB2 3ER, United Kingdom
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- 107 Dunbar Street, Mount Gravatt East, Brisbane Q4122, Australia
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- Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research, NL-1790 AB Den Burg, Texel, The Netherlands
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- Naval Facilities Engineering Command Pacific, 258 Makalapa Drive, Pearl Harbor, HI 96860
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- Department of Archaeology, Tromsø University Museum, N-9037 Tromsø, Norway
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- Research Centre for Archaeological Science, Institute of Archaeology, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Beijing 100710, China
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- Australian Centre for Ancient DNA, Earth, and Environmental Sciences, University of Adelaide, South Australia 5005, Australia
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- Department of Archaeology, University of Durham, South Road, Durham DH1 3L, United Kingdom
- To whom correspondence may be addressed. E-mail: or
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A mitochondrial and nuclear gene analysis allowed us to precise the taxonomical position of the two sympatric species of mice known to be present on Cyprus. One of them is the commensal house mouse M. m. domesticus, and the other revealed to be a new taxon that is a sister species of M. spicilegus and M. macedonicus. The new species is equidistant from each of these, the divergence dating around 0.5-1 Myr. Its origin either results from an ancient accidental colonisation of the island or from a recent transportation by the first epipalaeolithic settlers. In this last eventuality, the new species would also exist somewhere else in Asia Minor.
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- François Bonhomme
- "Genome, Populations, Interactions, Adaptation", UMR 5171 CNRS -Ifremer-UM2, CC 063, université Montpellier-2, 34095 Montpellier 05, France.
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