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. 2014 Jan;10(1):e1004093.
doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1004093. Epub 2014 Jan 16.

How much is that in dog years? The advent of canine population genomics

Greger Larson  1 , Daniel G Bradley  2
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How much is that in dog years? The advent of canine population genomics

Greger Larson et al. PLoS Genet. 2014 Jan.
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Figure 1
Figure 1. Summary of the demographic model and sampling from Freedman et al. .
Their critical inclusion of data from the Australian Dingo illustrates that high copy number in AMY2B is not a basal trait in dogs. The reciprocal monophyly of wild and domestic suggests that, despite the geographical diversity of sampling, descendants of the wolf population that contributed to dog domestication are not represented and may only be accessible using ancient DNA.
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  • Genome sequencing highlights the dynamic early history of dogs.
    Freedman AH, Gronau I, Schweizer RM, Ortega-Del Vecchyo D, Han E, Silva PM, Galaverni M, Fan Z, Marx P, Lorente-Galdos B, Beale H, Ramirez O, Hormozdiari F, Alkan C, Vilà C, Squire K, Geffen E, Kusak J, Boyko AR, Parker HG, Lee C, Tadigotla V, Wilton A, Siepel A, Bustamante CD, Harkins TT, Nelson SF, Ostrander EA, Marques-Bonet T, Wayne RK, Novembre J. Freedman AH, et al. PLoS Genet. 2014 Jan;10(1):e1004016. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1004016. Epub 2014 Jan 16. PLoS Genet. 2014. PMID: 24453982 Free PMC article.

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