TY - JOUR
T1 - The near eastern origin of cat domestication
AU - Driscoll, Carlos A.
AU - Menotti-Raymond, Marilyn
AU - Roca, Alfred L.
AU - Hupe, Karsten
AU - Johnson, Warren E.
AU - Geffen, Eli
AU - Harley, Eric H.
AU - Delibes, Miguel
AU - Pontier, Dominique
AU - Kitchener, Andrew C.
AU - Yamaguchi, Nobuyuki
AU - O'Brien, Stephen J.
AU - Macdonald, David W.
PY - 2007/7/27
Y1 - 2007/7/27
N2 - The world's domestic cats carry patterns of sequence variation in their genome that reflect a history of domestication and breed development. A genetic assessment of 979 domestic cats and their wild progenitors - Felis silvestris silvestris (European wildcat), F. s. lybica (Near Eastern wildcat), F. s. ornata (central Asian wildcat), F. s. cafra (southern African wildcat), and F. s. bieti (Chinese desert cat) - indicated that each wild group represents a distinctive subspecies of Felis silvestris. Further analysis revealed that cats were domesticated in the Near East, probably coincident with agricultural village development in the Fertile Crescent. Domestic cats derive from at least five founders from across this region, whose descendants were transported across the world by human assistance.
AB - The world's domestic cats carry patterns of sequence variation in their genome that reflect a history of domestication and breed development. A genetic assessment of 979 domestic cats and their wild progenitors - Felis silvestris silvestris (European wildcat), F. s. lybica (Near Eastern wildcat), F. s. ornata (central Asian wildcat), F. s. cafra (southern African wildcat), and F. s. bieti (Chinese desert cat) - indicated that each wild group represents a distinctive subspecies of Felis silvestris. Further analysis revealed that cats were domesticated in the Near East, probably coincident with agricultural village development in the Fertile Crescent. Domestic cats derive from at least five founders from across this region, whose descendants were transported across the world by human assistance.
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U2 - 10.1126/science.1139518
DO - 10.1126/science.1139518
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AN - SCOPUS:34547566897
SN - 0036-8075
VL - 317
SP - 519
EP - 523
JO - Science
JF - Science
IS - 5837
ER -