Ancient goat genomes reveal mosaic domestication in the Fertile Crescent

Kevin G Daly¹, Pierpaolo Maisano Delser^{1

2}, Victoria E Mullin^{1

3}, Amelie Scheu^{1

4}, Valeria Mattiangeli¹, Matthew D Teasdale^{1

5}, Andrew J Hare¹, Joachim Burger⁴, Marta Pereira Verdugo¹, Matthew J Collins^{5

6}, Ron Kehati⁷, Cevdet Merih Erek⁸, Guy Bar-Oz⁹, François Pompanon¹⁰, Tristan Cumer¹⁰, Canan Çakırlar¹¹, Azadeh Fatemeh Mohaseb^{12

13}, Delphine Decruyenaere¹², Hossein Davoudi^{14

15}, Özlem Çevik¹⁶, Gary Rollefson¹⁷, Jean-Denis Vigne¹², Roya Khazaeli¹³, Homa Fathi¹³, Sanaz Beizaee Doost¹³, Roghayeh Rahimi Sorkhani¹⁸, Ali Akbar Vahdati¹⁹, Eberhard W Sauer²⁰, Hossein Azizi Kharanaghi²¹, Sepideh Maziar²², Boris Gasparian²³, Ron Pinhasi²⁴, Louise Martin²⁵, David Orton⁵, Benjamin S Arbuckle²⁶, Norbert Benecke²⁷, Andrea Manica², Liora Kolska Horwitz⁷, Marjan Mashkour^{12

13

15}, Daniel G Bradley²⁸

Affiliations

¹ Smurfit Institute of Genetics, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin 2, Ireland.
² Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 3EJ, UK.
³ Department of Earth Sciences, Natural History Museum, London SW7 5BD, UK.
⁴ Palaeogenetics Group, Institute of Organismic and Molecular Evolution (iOME), Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, 55099 Mainz, Germany.
⁵ BioArCh, University of York, York YO10 5DD, UK.
⁶ Museum of Natural History, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark.
⁷ National Natural History Collections, Faculty of Life Sciences, The Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel.
⁸ Gazi University, Ankara 06500, Turkey.
⁹ Zinman Institute of Archaeology, University of Haifa, Mount Carmel, Haifa, Israel.
¹⁰ Université Grenoble Alpes, Univ. Savoie Mont Blanc, CNRS, LECA, F-38000 Grenoble, France.
¹¹ Groningen Institute of Archaeology, Groningen University, Groningen, Netherlands.
¹² Archéozoologie, Archéobotanique (UMR 7209), CNRS, MNHN, UPMC, Sorbonne Universités, Paris, France.
¹³ Archaeozoology section, Archaeometry Laboratory, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran.
¹⁴ Department of Archaeology, Faculty of Humanities, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran.
¹⁵ Osteology Department, National Museum of Iran, Tehran, Iran.
¹⁶ Trakya Universitesi, Edebiyat Fakültesi, Arkeoloi Bölümü, Edirne, Turkey.
¹⁷ Department of Anthropology, Whitman College, Walla Walla, WA 99362, USA.
¹⁸ Faculty of Cultural Heritage, Handicrafts and Tourism, University of Mazandaran, Noshahr, Iran.
¹⁹ Provincial Office of the Iranian Center for Cultural Heritage, Handicrafts and Tourism Organisation, North Khorassan, Bojnord, Iran.
²⁰ School of History, Classics and Archaeology, University of Edinburgh, William Robertson Wing, Old Medical School, Edinburgh EH8 9AG, UK.
²¹ Prehistory Department, National Museum of Iran, Tehran, Iran.
²² Institut für Archäologische Wissenschaften, Goethe Universität, Frankfurt am Main, Germany.
²³ Institute of Archaeology and Ethnology, National Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Armenia, Yerevan 0025, Republic of Armenia.
²⁴ Department of Anthropology, University of Vienna, 1090 Vienna, Austria.
²⁵ Institute of Archeology, University College London, London, UK.
²⁶ Department of Anthropology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, USA.
²⁷ Department of Natural Sciences, German Archaeological Institute, 14195 Berlin, Germany.
²⁸ Smurfit Institute of Genetics, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin 2, Ireland. dbradley@tcd.ie.

PMID: 29976826
DOI: 10.1126/science.aas9411

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Ancient goat genomes reveal mosaic domestication in the Fertile Crescent

Kevin G Daly et al. Science. 2018.

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. 2018 Jul 6;361(6397):85-88.

doi: 10.1126/science.aas9411.

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Affiliations

¹ Smurfit Institute of Genetics, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin 2, Ireland.
² Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 3EJ, UK.
³ Department of Earth Sciences, Natural History Museum, London SW7 5BD, UK.
⁴ Palaeogenetics Group, Institute of Organismic and Molecular Evolution (iOME), Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, 55099 Mainz, Germany.
⁵ BioArCh, University of York, York YO10 5DD, UK.
⁶ Museum of Natural History, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark.
⁷ National Natural History Collections, Faculty of Life Sciences, The Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel.
⁸ Gazi University, Ankara 06500, Turkey.
⁹ Zinman Institute of Archaeology, University of Haifa, Mount Carmel, Haifa, Israel.
¹⁰ Université Grenoble Alpes, Univ. Savoie Mont Blanc, CNRS, LECA, F-38000 Grenoble, France.
¹¹ Groningen Institute of Archaeology, Groningen University, Groningen, Netherlands.
¹² Archéozoologie, Archéobotanique (UMR 7209), CNRS, MNHN, UPMC, Sorbonne Universités, Paris, France.
¹³ Archaeozoology section, Archaeometry Laboratory, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran.
¹⁴ Department of Archaeology, Faculty of Humanities, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran.
¹⁵ Osteology Department, National Museum of Iran, Tehran, Iran.
¹⁶ Trakya Universitesi, Edebiyat Fakültesi, Arkeoloi Bölümü, Edirne, Turkey.
¹⁷ Department of Anthropology, Whitman College, Walla Walla, WA 99362, USA.
¹⁸ Faculty of Cultural Heritage, Handicrafts and Tourism, University of Mazandaran, Noshahr, Iran.
¹⁹ Provincial Office of the Iranian Center for Cultural Heritage, Handicrafts and Tourism Organisation, North Khorassan, Bojnord, Iran.
²⁰ School of History, Classics and Archaeology, University of Edinburgh, William Robertson Wing, Old Medical School, Edinburgh EH8 9AG, UK.
²¹ Prehistory Department, National Museum of Iran, Tehran, Iran.
²² Institut für Archäologische Wissenschaften, Goethe Universität, Frankfurt am Main, Germany.
²³ Institute of Archaeology and Ethnology, National Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Armenia, Yerevan 0025, Republic of Armenia.
²⁴ Department of Anthropology, University of Vienna, 1090 Vienna, Austria.
²⁵ Institute of Archeology, University College London, London, UK.
²⁶ Department of Anthropology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, USA.
²⁷ Department of Natural Sciences, German Archaeological Institute, 14195 Berlin, Germany.
²⁸ Smurfit Institute of Genetics, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin 2, Ireland. dbradley@tcd.ie.

PMID: 29976826
DOI: 10.1126/science.aas9411

Abstract

Current genetic data are equivocal as to whether goat domestication occurred multiple times or was a singular process. We generated genomic data from 83 ancient goats (51 with genome-wide coverage) from Paleolithic to Medieval contexts throughout the Near East. Our findings demonstrate that multiple divergent ancient wild goat sources were domesticated in a dispersed process that resulted in genetically and geographically distinct Neolithic goat populations, echoing contemporaneous human divergence across the region. These early goat populations contributed differently to modern goats in Asia, Africa, and Europe. We also detect early selection for pigmentation, stature, reproduction, milking, and response to dietary change, providing 8000-year-old evidence for human agency in molding genome variation within a partner species.

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