Specialized sledge dogs accompanied Inuit dispersal across the North American Arctic. Issue 1916 (4th December 2019)
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- Journal Article
- Title:
- Specialized sledge dogs accompanied Inuit dispersal across the North American Arctic. Issue 1916 (4th December 2019)
- Main Title:
- Specialized sledge dogs accompanied Inuit dispersal across the North American Arctic
- Authors:
- Ameen, Carly
Feuerborn, Tatiana R.
Brown, Sarah K.
Linderholm, Anna
Hulme-Beaman, Ardern
Lebrasseur, Ophélie
Sinding, Mikkel-Holger S.
Lounsberry, Zachary T.
Lin, Audrey T.
Appelt, Martin
Bachmann, Lutz
Betts, Matthew
Britton, Kate
Darwent, John
Dietz, Rune
Fredholm, Merete
Gopalakrishnan, Shyam
Goriunova, Olga I.
Grønnow, Bjarne
Haile, James
Hallsson, Jón Hallsteinn
Harrison, Ramona
Heide-Jørgensen, Mads Peter
Knecht, Rick
Losey, Robert J.
Masson-MacLean, Edouard
McGovern, Thomas H.
McManus-Fry, Ellen
Meldgaard, Morten
Midtdal, Åslaug
Moss, Madonna L.
Nikitin, Iurii G.
Nomokonova, Tatiana
Pálsdóttir, Albína Hulda
Perri, Angela
Popov, Aleksandr N.
Rankin, Lisa
Reuther, Joshua D.
Sablin, Mikhail
Schmidt, Anne Lisbeth
Shirar, Scott
Smiarowski, Konrad
Sonne, Christian
Stiner, Mary C.
Vasyukov, Mitya
West, Catherine F.
Ween, Gro Birgit
Wennerberg, Sanne Eline
Wiig, Øystein
Woollett, James
Dalén, Love
Hansen, Anders J.
P. Gilbert, M. Thomas
Sacks, Benjamin N.
Frantz, Laurent
Larson, Greger
Dobney, Keith
Darwent, Christyann M.
Evin, Allowen
… (more) - Abstract:
- Abstract : Domestic dogs have been central to life in the North American Arctic for millennia. The ancestors of the Inuit were the first to introduce the widespread usage of dog sledge transportation technology to the Americas, but whether the Inuit adopted local Palaeo-Inuit dogs or introduced a new dog population to the region remains unknown. To test these hypotheses, we generated mitochondrial DNA and geometric morphometric data of skull and dental elements from a total of 922 North American Arctic dogs and wolves spanning over 4500 years. Our analyses revealed that dogs from Inuit sites dating from 2000 BP possess morphological and genetic signatures that distinguish them from earlier Palaeo-Inuit dogs, and identified a novel mitochondrial clade in eastern Siberia and Alaska. The genetic legacy of these Inuit dogs survives today in modern Arctic sledge dogs despite phenotypic differences between archaeological and modern Arctic dogs. Together, our data reveal that Inuit dogs derive from a secondary pre-contact migration of dogs distinct from Palaeo-Inuit dogs, and probably aided the Inuit expansion across the North American Arctic beginning around 1000 BP.
- Is Part Of:
- Proceedings. Volume 286:Issue 1916(2019)
- Journal:
- Proceedings
- Issue:
- Volume 286:Issue 1916(2019)
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- Volume 286, Issue 1916 (2019)
- Year:
- 2019
- Volume:
- 286
- Issue:
- 1916
- Issue Sort Value:
- 2019-0286-1916-0000
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- Publication Date:
- 2019-12-04
- Subjects:
- archaeology -- geometric morphometrics -- ancient DNA -- migration -- Canis lupus familiaris -- circumpolar
Biology -- Periodicals
570.5 - Journal URLs:
- https://royalsocietypublishing.org/journal/rspb ↗
- DOI:
- 10.1098/rspb.2019.1929 ↗
- Languages:
- English
- ISSNs:
- 0962-8452
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