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Comment
. 2016 Nov 18;14(1):100.
doi: 10.1186/s12915-016-0329-3.

The Year of the Wisent

Johannes A Lenstra  1 , Jianquan Liu  2
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Comment

The Year of the Wisent

Johannes A Lenstra et al. BMC Biol. .

Abstract

Delving into European prehistory, two recent studies analyze ancient DNA from bison species depicted by our ancestors on the walls of their caves. The DNA tells a story of migrations driven by climate change but leaves some mystery clouding the genetic descent and climate preference of the still-extant wisent, otherwise known as the European bison.See research articles: https://bmcbiol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12915-016-0317-7 http://www.nature.com/articles/ncomms13158.

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Figures

Fig. 1
Fig. 1
Cave paintings in Chauvet-Pont d’Arc, Ardèche, France, supposed to show a wisent (upper painting and a steppe wisent (lower painting), respectively. Both paintings are dated at around 36 kya. Printed with permission of the Centre National de Préhistoire, France. (Copyright: French Ministry of Culture and Communication, archeologie.culture.fr/chauvet; Arnaud Frich, Centre National de Préhistoire/MCC)
Fig. 2
Fig. 2
Alternative scenarios explaining the anomalous mtDNA of wisent
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Comment on

  • Early cave art and ancient DNA record the origin of European bison.
    Soubrier J, Gower G, Chen K, Richards SM, Llamas B, Mitchell KJ, Ho SY, Kosintsev P, Lee MS, Baryshnikov G, Bollongino R, Bover P, Burger J, Chivall D, Crégut-Bonnoure E, Decker JE, Doronichev VB, Douka K, Fordham DA, Fontana F, Fritz C, Glimmerveen J, Golovanova LV, Groves C, Guerreschi A, Haak W, Higham T, Hofman-Kamińska E, Immel A, Julien MA, Krause J, Krotova O, Langbein F, Larson G, Rohrlach A, Scheu A, Schnabel RD, Taylor JF, Tokarska M, Tosello G, van der Plicht J, van Loenen A, Vigne JD, Wooley O, Orlando L, Kowalczyk R, Shapiro B, Cooper A. Soubrier J, et al. Nat Commun. 2016 Oct 18;7:13158. doi: 10.1038/ncomms13158. Nat Commun. 2016. PMID: 27754477 Free PMC article.
  • Past climate changes, population dynamics and the origin of Bison in Europe.
    Massilani D, Guimaraes S, Brugal JP, Bennett EA, Tokarska M, Arbogast RM, Baryshnikov G, Boeskorov G, Castel JC, Davydov S, Madelaine S, Putelat O, Spasskaya NN, Uerpmann HP, Grange T, Geigl EM. Massilani D, et al. BMC Biol. 2016 Oct 21;14(1):93. doi: 10.1186/s12915-016-0317-7. BMC Biol. 2016. PMID: 27769298 Free PMC article.

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